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- HOW TO WRITE ABOUT FASCIST TURKEY...
- BAD TURKISH MOON ARISING
- Eavesdropping on the Planet (in particular on Turkey) (3/29/2014)
- Seymour M. Hersh’in 4 Nisan 2014 tarihli “The Red Line and The Rat Line” isimli yazısının Türkçe Çevirisi
- Seymour M. Hersh on Obama, Erdoğan and the Syrian rebels (9 April 2014)
- UNITED NATIONS AND NEW YORK TIMES CARPET BOMBED (20 September 2016)
- THE FAKE MILITARY COUP
- BLOOD MOON, BLOODY HANDS (15 April 2014)
- SOMA
- THE FATAL STATE OF LABOUR IN TURKEY (20 May 2014)
- KILLER KOAL (14 May 2014)
- CİHAN, TEK AT
- CHEMICAL TAYYIP: SEYMOUR HERSH VIDEO INTERVIEW (9 April 2014)
- A LESSON FROM NAZI GERMANY TO FASCIST TURKEY (29 March 2014)
- TURKISH OFFICIALS PLAN FALSE-FLAG ATTACK TO CREATE PRETEXT FOR WAR WITH SYRIA (3/29/2014)
- ANNE/MOM (MOTHERS OF THE MURDERED)
- TODAY, ERDOĞAN SAID “GODDAMN THE GEZI PARK MOVEMENT" (26 March 2014)
- ELECTION DAY: TURKEY’S RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH (25 March 2014)
- HEY TWITS, THIS TWEET’S FOR YOU (21 March 2014)
- PEA-BRAINS ON PARADE (17 March 2014)
- RECEP DECEIT ERDOĞAN 15 March 2014
- TAYYIP
- NO JUSTICE FOR BERKIN ELVAN
- Başbakan’a mektup! (Mustafa Mutlu) 13 Mart 2014
- GİT LAN! 13 Mart 2014
- HEY YOU! HEY ERDOĞAN! (11 March 2014)
- HEY SEN! HEY ERDOĞAN! (11 Mart 2014)
- TOILET TALK FROM A FEW FASCISTS
- THE SICK JOKE (8 March 2014)
- OPERATION BULB BUSTER: COMBAT OPERATION ORDER (28 February 2014)
- ERDOĞAN’S DIRTY MONTAGE (26 February 2014)
- TURKEY'S CRIME MINISTER (25 February 2014)
- THE SEWER (24 February 2014)
- Erdoğan’ın 20 yıllık çıkını (23 Şubat 2014)
- FASCISTS, THIS ONE'S FOR YOU! (21 February 2014)
- Bipartisan Letter to President Obama on Turkey
- INSIDE THE TIGER (13 February 2014)
- KAPLANIN İÇİNDE (13 February 2014)
- SNOW JOB (11 February 2014)
- RÜŞVET DİALOGLARI
- TURKISH SWISS "CHEESE" AND OTHER CORRUPTIONS (7/02/14)
- TAYYIP'S TRILLIONS (4 February 2014)
- FIGHT TURKISH AND AMERICAN FASCISM
- Turkey's Gold-Smuggling Ring (29 January 2014) BLOOMBERG
- BAD TURKISH MOON RISING (29 January 2014)
- TERRORIST TURKS, DOUBLE-FACED ARABS, MURDEROUS AMERICANS, HYPOCRITES EVERYWHERE, OPENING STATEMENT, GENEVA: Walid al-Moallem - SyriaN Foreign Minister (23 January 2014
- RECEP TAYYİP ERDOĞAN BURNS HIS REICHSTAG (16 January 2014)
- DEVLETTİ KAYBETTİK (15 Ocak 2014)
- "Today, our nation is in crisis." Letter to President Gül (10 January 2014)
- Gazi Recep’in İstiklal Mücadelesi... (Bekir Coşkun) (1/8/14)
- LIARS (4 January 2014)
- KİMDEN YANA OLMALI? (Türker Ertürk) 4 Ocak 2014
- YÜCE ATATÜRK (8/12/2013)
- TREASON TIME WITH TRAVIS (25 December 2013)
- THE FETO SHOW (22 December 2013)
- Naci Eriş: A Hero For These Times (15 November 2013)
- Hello America, Obama's Best Friend Has Done It Again (25 October 2013)
- FINAL CURTAIN (16 November 2013)
- DIVINE WRONGS (8 November 2013)
- PIMP (14 November 2013)
- VERY LITTLE WOMEN (1 November 2013)
- THE FIRE THIS TIME (29 October 2013)
- Our Invisible Revolution (Chris Hedges) 28 October 2013
- NOWHERE MAN (27 October 2013)
- KILIÇDAROĞLU THE COLLABORATOR: Shaking Hands With Darkness (8 October 2013)
- HALK TV'DE YILIN RÖPORTAJI: ESAD'IN ERDOĞAN HAKKINDA HİÇ ANLATMADIKLARI (10/05/2013)
- ERDOĞAN MEANS "CATASTROPHE" IN ANY LANGUAGE (4 October 2013)
- IN ANOTHER COUNTRY, IN ANOTHER WORLD (A Gezi Symphony-Prelude) 01-10-2013
- FOR GOD’S SAKE STOP SAYING “INSHALLAH” (28 September 2013)
- Din Hanesini Sildirdi (Kimlik): "BAŞBAKAN MÜSLÜMANSA BEN DEĞİLİM" 21.09.2013
- The Ergenekon Verdicts: Chronicle of an Injustice Foretold (Gareth Jenkins)
- TURKEY’S POOR PLAYER (23 August 2013)
- DEMOCRATIC DEMONS (17 August 2013)
- HAPPY DAY (3 August 2013)
- UNDER OCCUPATION: A MANIFESTO (11 August 2013)
- LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (28 July 2013)
- “DEAR ERDOĞAN”— Letters from the World (26 July 2013)
- IN OUR STARS (12 July 2013)
- MY APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE by Admiral Türker Ertürk (Ret.)
- The American Ambassador (20 June 2013
- TURKEY’S DEAD MAN TALKING (1 July 2013)
- Alain Badiou--Türkiye: Gerçek Bir Tarihi İsyan Mı? (19 Haziran 2013)
- Alain Badiou--Turkey: A Genuine Historical Riot? (19 June 2013)
- ERDOĞAN ON THE HORNS (18 June 2013)
- GASSING WHILE BEING GASSED--A CONVERSATION
- Ataturk Youth Earthquake Not A Turkish Spring (14 June 2013)
- If They Are Not Turkish, What Are They (11 June 2013)
- Fighting Words (11 June 2013)
- A Montage: Taksim-Gezi Parkı Direnmiş (Resistance)
- Barricade Defense
- Taksim-Gezi Parkı Direnmiş (Resistance)
- What happens to a dream deferred? Ertelenmiş bir düş ne olur? 8 June 2013
- Turkish Youth Cross Their Rubicon - 6 June 2013
- ERDOĞAN: TURKEYS “MARGINAL” MAN (4 June 2013)
- Ayranı Fazla Çekince (Bekir Coşkun-30 Mayıs 2013)
- ÜMİT UMUTU VERİR 24 Mart 2013
- Killer Democracy, a portrait
- Letter to The Honorable Abdullah Gül, president of Republic of Turkey
- İYİ ŞEKER BAYRAMLAR!!!! AKP'DEN (19/8/2012)
- KILLERS! My last letter to Obama. (20 December 2013)
- UCUBE (11/8/2012)
- Olympic Women (11/8/2012)
- OBAMABALL: an open letter to the President of the United States (2 August 2012)
- Sinatra Dedicates One to Ataturk (17 May 2012)
- As He Lay Dying (14 May 2012)
- Viva 19 Mayis! Haydi gel! Bizimle ol!
- It's 19 May...Know Your Enemy! (11 May 2012)
- America,Turkey--Natural Born Killers
- I'm as mad as hell... (2 April 2012)
- ARAB SPRING=AMERICAN NIGHTMARE
- General Asymmetrica (12 March 2012)
- Happy World Women's Day in Turkey (8 March 2012)
- Holy Terror 6 March 2012
- Kusura Bakma Patron (Bekir Coşkun) 1 Mart 2012
- The Second Coming of Mustafa Kemal
- My e-mail note from Barack Obama (12/19/11) and my response
- High Ground
- Women's Volleyball Team-the only winners
- MEDIA ALERT: ATATURK SOCIETIES OF THE USA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (6 June 2011)
- BASIN BILDIRISI: AMERİKA VE İNGİLTERE ATATÜRK DERNEKLERİ (6 Haziran 2011)
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fascist Moustache
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fascist
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (Wallace Stevens)
- Epitaph on a Tyrant (W.H. Auden)
- Ryan Interview: Kanal B, Bilmek Gerek, 28 March 2011
- Ergenekon Headquarters (karargâh)
- When the Nazis Came: 8 March 2011
- Letter to President Obama: 20 Jan. 2009
- (Türkçe) Letter to President Obama: 20 Jan. 2009
- Letter to President Obama: 20 Oct. 2009
- Letter to President Obama: 3 Jan. 2010
- Letter to President Obama: 20 July 2010
- (Türkçe) Letter to President Obama: 3 Jan. 2010
- (Türkçe) Letter to President Obama: 20 Temmuz 2010
- Letter to US Ambassador Francis J. Ricciardone: 18 Feb. 2011
- Follow-up Letter to Ambassador Francis J. Ricciardone: 12 March 2011
- Letter to US Senator Mark Udall: 12 Feb. 2011
- Silivri Concentration Camp--Monkeys in Wonderland: 18 August 2010
- Islam, Secularism and the Battle for Turkey’s Future
- Turkey-Slouching in Democracy- 25 March 2009
- WHAT PERCENTAGE OF US ARE STUPID? 5 October 2009
- The Bloody Streets of Populous Istanbul-17 December 2008
- Headscarves, Turbans: The Ocular Proof-5 February 2008
- Portrait of Ataturk-29 November 2006
- Cool Turkey-7 December 2004
- Making Hash of Turkish Democracy-16 September 2005
- Today's Men-10 March 2003
- Just Keep Saying No, Turkey-9 January 2003
- Kidnapped (17/8/2012)
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The Dead
- AND SO PASSES A WOMAN’S LIFE IN TURKEY (21 October 2014)
- Bury My Heart At Heartbreak
- "Adil" means "just" in Arabic (18 July 2012)
- THERE WILL BE NO ICE CREAM IN DAMASCUS THIS LOVELY EVENING (14 June 2013)
- IN ISTANBUL A DOORMAN DIES (31 January 2014)
- İSTANBUL'DA BİR APARTMAN GÖREVLİSİ ÖLÜR (31 Ocak 2014)
- "Terrorist Pietá"
- NOTHING BUT MARGARET (9 May 2014)
- August 6, 1945 (6 August 2012)
- BREATHLESS IN AMERICA (5 December 2013)
- JFK DIES FOR THESE SINS (27 December 2013)
- Short Fiction
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Music
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Poetry
- TO THE IRANIAN KIDS BUSTED ON EXCESSIVE HAPPINESS CHARGE BY TEHRAN’S KORANIC KOPS (22 May 2014)
- AMERICA
- Joe the Biden Eats the Bison (21/01/2013)
- A poem by Etheridge Knight
- Apprehension in the Bronx Botanical Garden
- A Shine on the Quay at Üsküdar
- Atget Dans La Rue De Bac
- Ballgame
- Like Kerim
- Pandemonium
- Pines
- Starry Night
- Senseless, Remembering
- Six Life Sentences
- That Russian Woman in the Caffé Taci
- The Cliffhouse on San Francisco Bay
- Traitor
- World Series Obsequies
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On Peace
- A WAR ON WARMONGERS, A “JEFFERSONIAN” REBELLION (April 4, 2016)
- WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A SOCIALIST by Chris Hedges (21 September 2015)
- THE YOUNG EURO CLASSIC PEACE ORCHESTRA
- MY PLEA FOR JUSTICE TO THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (14 January 2015)
- Toxic Legacy of US Assault on Fallujah ‘Worse than Hiroshima’ 15 October 2014
- PRESS RELEASE: WAR CRIMES CHARGES FILED (8 October 2014)
- Criminal Complaint: International Criminal Court, 6 October 2014
- What I'd Like to See on Front Pages of Newspapers (By Noam Chomsky)
- THE NOBEL OBAMA (2 September 2013)
- My Vote For President: 2012
- American Democracy
- Democratic Socialism
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On America
- BRONX GIRL OUSTS 10-TERM DEMOCRAT POLITICAL BOSS!
- The United States of America: Land of internment camps
- THIS IS AMERICA!
- MY DISGUST AND DESPAIR ABOUT TRUMP'S SCHEME TO DESTROY THE V.A.
- MY LETTER TO SENATOR CHARLES SCHUMER , 3 February 2017
- DONALD DEMENTIA
- Service Academy Graduates Against the War
- U.S. Service Academy Graduates Oppose Bombing Syria (5 September 2013)
- SLAUGHTER IN SYRIA: War Crimes Charges against Turkey and America
- SLAUGHTER IN SYRIA: APPENDICES TO CRIMINAL COMPLAINT TO I.C.C.
- NO WAY OUT YOU NO GOOD PSEUDO-AMERICAN NEOCON NUDNIK APPARATCHIKS! CATCH ME IF YOU DARE!
- WILLIE MAYS FOR PRESIDENT! (SEPTEMBER 24, 2016)
- COUNT ME OUT, BERNIE! NO MORE $3 CONTRIBUTIONS! March 2, 2016
- The atrocities of ISIS and the US wars of sociocide (26 August 2015)
- WHAT I'VE LEARNED ABOUT U.S. FOREIGN POLICY (25 August 2015)
- KILLING RAGHEADS FOR JESUS (By Chris Hedges) (26 January 2015)
- The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro by Frederick Douglass
- THOMAS PAINE, OUR CONTEMPORARY (27 May 2014)
- JAMES SALTER
- BEFORE A SUMMER SUN >
- JFK >
- The CIA and the Media
- The End Of Democracy As We Knew It (Bernd Hamm)
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On War
- DON’T CRY TOO MUCH FOR BELGIUM 29 March 2016
- “COUNTERPRODUCTIVE?" Russia and the Warring in Syria (by Gary Leupp) (23 September 2015)
- DEBATE: THE REFUGEE CRISIS IN EUROPE (Press TV) James Ryan and Richard Millett (8 September 2015)
- IT IS TIME TO ARREST THE WAR CRIMINALS, OBAMA AND ERDOGAN. NOW! (28 August 2015)
- Neither Truth Nor Consequence - 21 Nov 2006
- MACHIAVELLI VOMITS: Obama and Erdogan Wallow In It (6 August 2015)
- DRESSED TO KILL SYRIANS AND TRUTH AND US (25 July 2015)
- Preparing the Battlefield by Seymour M. Hersh (July 7, 2008) The New Yorker
- THE CHILDREN OF GAZA (2 August 2014)
- PINK FLOYD: “Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves” (13 July 2014)
- THE RHETORIC OF VIOLENCE by Chris Hedges (22 April 2014)
- THE WORLD AS SEEN FROM THE TOP OF A BARRICADE (22 February 2014)
- Can It Get Any Worse? (9 September 2013)
- WAR TALK by West Point Graduates Against the War (November 2006, a radio interview) posted 27 August 2013
- GOOD MOURNING AMERICA (26 August 2013)
- TURKISH DECEIT: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Allah's Boys
- HIROSHIMA (6 August 2012)
- AMERICA’S WAR WHORES' REWARD (30 July 2012)
- AMERICA’S WAR-HORSE HARLOTS (29 June 2012)
- Hillary the Hypocrite
- "Hope" a speech by Chris Hedges
- Epitaph for the Unknown Soldier (W.H. Auden)
- Speaking French-1 April 2003
- PALESTINIANS: "HUMAN DUST" (30 June 2003)
- More Foul Play-27 March 2003
- A Day in the Life-25 March 2003
- The Return of the Has-Beens and the Never-Was-3 March 2003
- The True Enemy-23 January 2003
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On West Point
- GREETING IKE
- GRAY DAY SASHAY
- WHO IS MY FATHER IN THIS WORLD?
- WEST POINT TO HONOR DISHONORABLE GEORGE W. BUSH
- OBAMA VISITS WEST POINT THEN LIES, CHEATS AND STEALS (6 June 2014)
- West Point Graduates Organize Against The War - 21 April 2006
- On West Point, War and Pizza - 6 May 2006
- Now Is The Time - 12 May 2006
- Good Neighbor Senator Sessions Walls Out Mexico . . . and Robert Frost - 19 May 2006
- Cadet Bush at West Point: Screw that chin in, beanhead! - 1 June 2006
- Guantánamo: The Subject Was Linens- 15 June 2006
- Impeach the President of the United States - 7 October 2006
- Election Eve Daze--Hanging in There Together - 6 November 2006
- Peace Award Remarks - 12 November 2006 - Syracuse, New York
- George W. MacBush–Serial Murderer - 15 December 2006
- Abolish It! - 9 Feb 2007
- Literary Criticism
- Paintings
- Presentations-Papers
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For Reasons Unknown
- THE ISRAELI-AMERICAN KILLING MACHINE (19 July 2014)
- I-THE FRAME-UP (Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on Trial) 8 January 2009
- II-THE ARRAIGNMENT (Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on Trial) 9 January 2009
- III-ATATÜRK APPEARS (Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on Trial) 26 January 2009
- How Old Are You? 4 May 2009
- İŞTE!!! Kurmay Albay Dursun Çiçek!!! (28 October 2009)
- A. K. P-NESS: The Condition of Being A.K.P. (27 October 2009)
- On Living
- Photographs
- Kidnapped (17/8/2012)
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