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- 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)
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- 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
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- Letter to President Obama: 20 July 2010
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- 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
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- Kidnapped (17/8/2012)
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The Dead
- AND SO PASSES A WOMAN’S LIFE IN TURKEY (21 October 2014)
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- "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)
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- TO THE IRANIAN KIDS BUSTED ON EXCESSIVE HAPPINESS CHARGE BY TEHRAN’S KORANIC KOPS (22 May 2014)
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- A poem by Etheridge Knight
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- 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
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On West Point
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- 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
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On America
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- The United States of America: Land of internment camps
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- DONALD DEMENTIA
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- 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)
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- 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
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POETRY IN MUSIC
MY ROMANCE
My romance
doesn’t have to have a moon
in the sky.
My romance
doesn’t need a blue lagoon
standing by.
No month of May,
no twinkling stars,
no hideaway,
no soft guitars.
My romance
doesn’t need a castle
rising in Spain,
Nor a dance
to a constantly surprising refrain.
Wide awake
I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.
My romance doesn’t need a thing but you.
doesn’t have to have a moon
in the sky.
My romance
doesn’t need a blue lagoon
standing by.
No month of May,
no twinkling stars,
no hideaway,
no soft guitars.
My romance
doesn’t need a castle
rising in Spain,
Nor a dance
to a constantly surprising refrain.
Wide awake
I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.
My romance doesn’t need a thing but you.
My Romance
Lyrics: Lorenz Hart
Music: Richard Rodgers
From the Broadway musical comedy, JUMBO.
Opened at the Hippodrome Theater, New York City on November 17, 1935
Directors: George Abbott, John Murray Anderson
Music: Richard Rodgers
From the Broadway musical comedy, JUMBO.
Opened at the Hippodrome Theater, New York City on November 17, 1935
Directors: George Abbott, John Murray Anderson
OH, ONE MORE THING…
LIKE GOOD MUSIC? MAD ABOUT GOOD BOOKS?
THEN SUPPORT AN ARTIST (me).
AND BUY A GOOD BOOK (mine).
MY ROMANCE DOESN'T NEED A THING BUT YOU...
CLICK BELOW!
YOU WON’T BELIEVE YOUR EYES.
LIKE GOOD MUSIC? MAD ABOUT GOOD BOOKS?
THEN SUPPORT AN ARTIST (me).
AND BUY A GOOD BOOK (mine).
MY ROMANCE DOESN'T NEED A THING BUT YOU...
CLICK BELOW!
YOU WON’T BELIEVE YOUR EYES.
