Monthly Review September 2019

Europe France: militarizing space On September 3, French Defense Minister Florence Parley signed an order to establish and organize a “Space Command” (Commandement de l’Espace – CDE) to work in tandem with the French Air Force. France plans to transform the new Space Command into joint Aerospace Forces. Paris does not exclude the possibility of mobilizing weapons for use in ...

Is there any chance Trump will actually be impeached?

US President Donald Trump described the House Democrats’ last attempt to remove him from office as an erosion of the US’ values and called it a coup attempt… as the Dems gear up to try the same again, the president’s words look even more relevant. As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that ...

CHP’den iktidara Suriye önerileri

CHP Genel Başkanı Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, partisinin TBMM Grup toplantısı’nda yaptığı konuşmasına, Geçen hafta İstanbul’da muhalefet partisi olarak Uluslararası Suriye Konferansı düzenlediklerini vurgulayarak başladı. Kılıçdaroğlu, Orta Doğu’nun alev alev yandığını, Suriye, Yemen ve Irak’ın ateş içinde olduğunu dile getirdi. İKTİDAR PARTİSİ YAPMASI GEREKİRKEN BİZ YAPTIK İ Türkiye’de iktidarın yapması gereken bu toplantıyı, sorumluluklarının bilinciyle CHP’nin gerçekleştirdiğini kaydeden Kılıçdaroğlu, böyle bir konferansı, 2013’te iktidardan ...

Gretacalypse now: Environmentalists destroy families and sell children into slavery

How a teenage girl from Sweden became a pawn of George Soros and the left (part 2) As I discussed in the first part of this article, all the chatter around Swedish eco-activist Greta Thunberg is the result of a well-organized PR campaign with financial rather than environmental concerns. What is the political background of this complex situation and what ...

CESEDİN AKİBEDİ KASITLI MI GİZLENİYOR?

Gazeteci Cemal Kaşıkçı’nın Suudi Arabistan’ın İstanbul Başkonsolosluğu’nda hunharca öldürülmesinin üzerinden tam bir yıl geçti. Ancak halen cesedinin akıbeti belli değil. Washington Post yazarı Suudi gazeteci Cemal Kaşıkçı, evlilik işlemleri için 2 Ekim 2018’de girdiği Suudi Arabistan’ın İstanbul Başkonsolosluğu’ndan bir daha çıkamadı. Kaşıkçı’nın başkonsoloslukta öldürülüp cesedinin ortadan kaldırılması olayı, Türkiye ve dünya gündemine oturdu. Olayın ardından Türk makamları geniş çaplı bir ...

A year has now passed, and Jamal Khashoggi is still waiting for justice

Those who brutally assassinated Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul likely never imagined that they would be cursed indefinitely by their victim. They most likely thought that the support of Mohammad Bin Salman, the Saudi Arabian crown prince, and his allies in the United States’ government would be enough to assure that no one would dare question the ...

Terrorism in Africa: endless war and its alternative

Since the early 2000s, international terrorism has been the number one threat to global security. Radical groups operate throughout the vast expanse of the Islamic world: from Morocco to Indonesia. Residents of countries where Muslims do not make up the majority of the population have also become victims of the attacks, such as during the 9/11 attacks in the United States, the terrorist ...

Another attempt to impeach Trump, Greta Thunberg’s UN speech, Syria vs. Turkey

President Donald Trump has been threatened with impeachment as a result of his talk with the president of Ukraine. In a phone conversation on July 25 with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, Trump suggested that his counterpart reveal information regarding Joe Biden’s family engaging in corrupt deals with the country. Former Vice President Joe Biden is currently the front-runner in the ...

In Washington’s Web: Turkey’s role in countering America’s attack on China

Washington has begun to spin its web of influence in the areas where China meets the West, particularly in Hong Kong, the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region and Kashmir. The US is looming over these troubled regions like a spider, waiting for its victim to be rendered helpless. Although the US has begun to pivot heavily toward China, it has not ...

Erdoğan’dan ABD’ye F-35 eleştirisi

Son dönemde ABD ile yaşanan F-35 krizini üstü kapalı eleştiren Cumhurbaşkanı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, “Hedefimiz 2023 yılında savunma sanayinde dışa bağımlılığımızı tamamen ortadan kaldırmaktır.  Yaşananlar kararlılığımızı artırdı. Nasıl helikopterimizi yaptıysak, savaş uçağımızı da yapacağız” dedi. İstanbul Tersane Komutanlığında MİLGEM Projesi 4. Gemisinin hizmete giriş töreninde konuşan Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan, “Bugün dünyanın en büyük 100 savunma şirketi arasına giren beş firmamız bulunuyor. ...