Dr. Can Erimtan | As the country continues its radical transformation from secular state to a religious one, Erdogan uses symbolic, fundamental themes to sculpt the New Turkey identity.
Bernard Lewis, a British-American historian of the Middle East, has been formidably influential in America – his policy ideas have towered over Presidents, policy-makers and think-tanks, and they still do. Though he died last year, his baleful views still shape America’s thinking about Iran. Mike Pompeo, for example, has written: “I met him only once, but read much of what he wrote.
By As`ad AbuKhalil | Consortium News | June 29, 2018 There is no question that Bernard Lewis was one of the most politically—not academically—influential Orientalists in modern times. Lewis’ career can be roughly divided into two phases: the British phase, when he was a professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, […]
Bernard Lewis, seen by some in the West as a giant of Arab and Muslim scholarship, left behind a legacy of falsehoods and politically-motivated distortions, as As’ad AbuKhalil explains. By As`ad AbuKhalil Special to Consortium News There is no question…Read more →
By Alexander KUZNETSOV – Strategic Culture Foundation – 16.03.2016 An article titled It’s Time to Seriously Consider Partitioning Syria published recently by Foreign Policy raises serious concerns. The author writes that the war in Syria has devastated entire cities, the death toll is 470 thousand (there are no reliable statistics to confirm the figure) and 6 million people have […]
Michael Ledeen was also behind the fake documents of supposed Iraqi purchase of yellow cake uranium powder from Niger. His lie was crucial in Tony Blair and Bush’s decision to invade Iraq resulting in the death of hundreds of thousands of human life. In addition, he was one of several Zionist neoconservatives – suspected of spying for Israel and had long been association with Israeli think tanks – who infiltrated the dens of the Pentagon advocating the “creative destruction” theorem to remake the “New Middle East.”
