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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)
Naci Eriş: A Hero For These Times (15 November 2013)
MY APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE by Admiral Türker Ertürk (Ret.)
The American Ambassador (20 June 2013
Alain Badiou--Türkiye: Gerçek Bir Tarihi İsyan Mı? (19 Haziran 2013)
Alain Badiou--Turkey: A Genuine Historical Riot? (19 June 2013)
Barricade Defense
Ayranı Fazla Çekince (Bekir Coşkun-30 Mayıs 2013)
ÜMİT UMUTU VERİR 24 Mart 2013
İYİ ŞEKER BAYRAMLAR!!!! AKP'DEN (19/8/2012)
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)
I'm as mad as hell... (2 April 2012)
ARAB SPRING=AMERICAN NIGHTMARE
Happy World Women's Day in Turkey (8 March 2012)
My e-mail note from Barack Obama (12/19/11) and my response
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
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
Follow-up Letter to Ambassador Francis J. Ricciardone: 12 March 2011
Letter to US Senator Mark Udall: 12 Feb. 2011
Islam, Secularism and the Battle for Turkey’s Future
WHAT PERCENTAGE OF US ARE STUPID? 5 October 2009
Portrait of Ataturk-29 November 2006
Cool Turkey-7 December 2004
Making Hash of Turkish Democracy-16 September 2005
Kidnapped (17/8/2012)
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
Benediction
ORIENTA
Wellspring-"Stealing Apples"
INTENSIVE CARE
Music
GYPSY- All I Need Is the Girl (1989)
American Pie (Don Mclean)
BACH
Jazz
Dave Brubeck-In Memoriam
Bix Beiderbecke
Poetry in Music: The Lyrics of Lorenz Hart
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A Ship Without A Sail
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
I Could Write A Book
I Didn't Know What Time It Was
It Never Entered My Mind
I Wish I Were In Love Again
Mountain Greenery
My Romance
Spring Is Here
Ten Cents A Dance
Wait Till You See Her
Where Or When
You're Nearer
SINATRA
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Only the Lonely
Sinatra's Greatest Hits
GET HAPPY, WRAP YOUR TROUBLES IN DREAMS
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
Like Kerim
Pandemonium
Pines
Starry Night
Senseless, Remembering
That Russian Woman in the Caffé Taci
The Cliffhouse on San Francisco Bay
Traitor
World Series Obsequies
On Sports
A SENSE OF WHERE YOU ARE by John McFee
Baseball poetry by Lynn Rigney Schott about her father
Brownsville Bum
Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu
Miracle of Coogan's Bluff
Muhammad Ali: "Eclipse of the Sonny"
The Four Horsemen
The Green Fields of the MInd
The Death of a Racehorse
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
Toxic Legacy of US Assault on Fallujah ‘Worse than Hiroshima’ 15 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
On West Point
West Point Slimed By Trump Visit
OBAMA VISITS WEST POINT THEN LIES, CHEATS AND STEALS (6 June 2014)
West Point Graduates Organize Against The War - 21 April 2006
Good Neighbor Senator Sessions Walls Out Mexico . . . and Robert Frost - 19 May 2006
Now Is The Time - 12 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
WEST POINT TO HONOR DISHONORABLE GEORGE W. BUSH
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On West Point, War and Pizza - 6 May 2006
On America
George Floyd opens the floodgates
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
MY LETTER TO GOVERNOR CUOMO
Service Academy Graduates Against the War
U.S. Service Academy Graduates Oppose Bombing Syria (5 September 2013)
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
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Prologue
4. Teaching Bloody Instructions
8. The Doctrine of Discovery
11. Crazed from the Cradle
15. The Necessary Ending of the American Indian
JFK
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JFK Files: Cover-Up Continues of President’s Assassination
JFK: Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association (12 September 1960)
JFK: American University Commencement Address (10 June 1963)
JFK HEALTH CARE SPEECH (May 20, 1962)
The CIA and the Media
The End Of Democracy As We Knew It (Bernd Hamm)
Literary Criticism
Mrs. Ramsay's Wedge: A View of Woolf's "To the Lighthouse"
Paintings
"Genuine Fake"--"Gerçik Taklit"
"Progress"--"İlerleme"
"Her Şey Ortada"
Resimler (7/8/2012)
Presentations-Papers
Boğaziçi University-Symposium
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
On Living
"Art, Truth & Politics" by Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
The Power of Imagination (Chris Hedges-13 May 2014)
WE ARE ALL ONE
The Story of Stuff-What Needs To Be Done (10 May 2012)
An Arab Springtime? by Samir Amin
From Resistance to Revolution
Photographs
Istanbul
Tarlabaşı, Istanbul 2013
Kidnapped (17/8/2012)
JFK HEALTH CARE SPEECH
Madison Square Garden
May 20, 1962
"We're all going to be in a hospital before we pass away"
"It's twenty-five years since FDR passed the Social Security Act"
"What if you die before you're sixty-five?"
"The business of the government is the business of the people!"
"What we are now talking about in our children's day
will seem to be the ordinary business of government."
OVER A HALF CENTURY AGO AND...
NOTHING!
ISN'T IT TIME?