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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)
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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)
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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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- 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
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- That Russian Woman in the Caffé Taci
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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
- 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
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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 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
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- The CIA and the Media
- The End Of Democracy As We Knew It (Bernd Hamm)
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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
- On Living
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- Kidnapped (17/8/2012)
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