Opinion piece from the National Interest that explains why the recent International Court ruling about the South China Sea isn't as sweeping as it might first seem.
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[Counter Punch] Engaged in his dirty spate of housecleaning under the auspices of protecting the constitution and the Turkish state, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues to insist on one vital scalp in his enterprise.
Thus far, the cleric Fethullah Gulen has eluded Ankara from his abode in Pennsylvania. From his base, something of a global network has been constructed, one discernable through foundations and an assortment of endeavours pursued under the guise of a faith movement. These do not attest to the spirit of a pacifist warrior, averse to revolution. They suggest influence, and the markings of power.
For the cleric’s enemies, there is much to be said that he has profited from the land of the free, seething about an individual he once desired to share power with. Notions of democracy are distant here; more significant is a distinct appraisal of power padded by such notions as "liberal" and "moderate". These are the necessary marketing tools for a political figure in exile.
The cleric’s movement, Hizmet, prides itself on sponsoring education and running programs heavy with the anti-radicalization agenda. His opponents, such as attorney Robert Amsterdam, retained by Ankara to investigate alleged financial misconduct in the United States, suggest that the movement’s leader "is a money-laundering criminal" (Foreign Policy, Jul 18).
Politics can be a dirty thing indeed, and in the case of Hizmet, education via some hundreds of charter schools in the United States has become an enterprise of channelling and re-directing to the Gulenistas.
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Gulan doesn't seem to be financed by the Saudis or Iran or Soros or any of the usual suspects.
It is closer to the model of a personally run empire of multiple mini enterprises and mini initiatives with the ability to skim funds from any and all. It is somewhat like a cross between Scientology, the Clinton Global Foundation and the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Gulan doesn't seem to be financed by the Saudis or Iran or Soros or any of the usual suspects.
Correct! As an 'Islamic Moderate'...who does that leave ?
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Speaking at Kanal D TV”s Arena program, PM Erdogan commented on the term “moderate Islam”, often used in the West to describe AKP and said, “These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”
[Wash Times] Just as his second term is winding down, President Obama says he really has hit his stride in office.
In an interview broadcast Sunday, the president painted an optimistic picture about the state of the country, saying his team is "operating at peak level."
"I feel as if I’m a better president than I’ve ever been," Mr. Obama said on CBS's "Face the Nation." "That the experience has made me sharper, clearer about how to get stuff done."
He also said the recent terrorist attacks -- such as the one Friday in Munich, Germany, in which nine were killed and 27 injured -- does not confirm the bleak outlook painted by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Mr. Obama said the American people are "more safe" now than before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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He also said the recent terrorist attacks -- such as the one Friday in Munich, Germany, in which nine were killed and 27 injured -- does not confirm the bleak outlook painted by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Judging by his joking during the news conference, he doesn't take it seriously anyway.
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Has anyone clued him in that there's a little more to being President than playing golf and cracking jokes during press conferences about massacres?
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This wizard of whine? He's an artist!
At fomenting ferment, the smartest!
His standards are stellar:
When out of the cellar,
Of grapes he'll use only the tartest.
[Hizmet Movement News Portal - 17 June 2016] I am shocked and deeply saddened by the horrific attack that took place in Orlando, the deadliest mass shooting in United States history. I unequivocally condemn this hate-driven terrorist attack and I share my revolt and disgust with billions of people around the world.
Media reports stated that the attacker pledged allegiance to ISIS on the night of the attack. The totalitarian mentality that characterizes terrorist groups like ISIS should be treated like a cancer within our societies and countered through political, social and religious efforts.
To the family and friends of the deceased, I send my sincerest condolences and pray that in the collective consciousness of humanity, the values of mutual respect and commitment to the dignity of every human life triumph over fear and hate.
Very interesting web site. Little wonder Erdogan wants him extradited.
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"...The totalitarian mentality that characterizes terrorist groups like ISIS should be treated like a cancer within our societies and countered through political, social and religious efforts...."
so maybe he doesn't think we should try to kill the terrorists?
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The totalitarian mentality that characterizes terrorist groups like ISIS should be treated like a cancer within our societies and countered through political, social and religious efforts..
[DAWN] THE death of Qandeel Baloch has brought to the forefront the debate about the status of women in this country. Since the news of the social media star’s murder, allegedly at the hands of her brother, we have learned many uncomfortable facts about our society, its leaders, and its attitudes towards women. We have been made to realise that the progress women have been making in this country remains useless if their basic safety cannot be guaranteed by the state.
In Pakistain, women are being encouraged to study, to think of careers, to think of themselves as entrepreneurs. Taking up an unconventional career, such as a fighter pilot or the CEO of a multinational company, is presented as a valid option for our lives, beyond the traditional roles of marriage and motherhood. Our government promises to do everything it can to support us. Foreign countries pour aid into programmes that promote women’s empowerment. ’When women do well, Pakistain looks good’ is the mantra we desperately want to believe.
Yet these are all false promises. Our physical safety is still compromised: we can be beaten, abused, molested, assaulted and even murdered, and the perpetrators of those crimes will get off lightly, if they even see the insides of a courtroom or jail cell. There is still no law that clearly and unequivocally criminalises abuse, domestic violence, or sexual harassment against us. If the law is there, mechanisms to enforce it do not exist. There is still no amendment to honour killing laws labelling this kind of murder a crime against the state each time it happens.
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[DAWN] WELL, there he is, back at work. Reading a report he’d rather not read. Chairing a meeting he’d rather not chair. Talking about stuff he’d rather not talk about.
An agenda long derailed.
Nawaz is still interested in foreign policy, for reasons political and strategic. Politically because he knows the world needs to know he’s not some anti-US/anti-West loon -- the shelf life of civilians tainted as such being pretty short.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Wash Times] Just as his second term is winding down, President Obama says he really has hit his stride in office.
[DAWN] THE death of Qandeel Baloch has brought to the forefront the debate about the status of women in this country. Since the news of the social media star’s murder, allegedly at the hands of her brother, we have learned many uncomfortable facts about our society, its leaders, and its attitudes towards women. We have been made to realise that the progress women have been making in this country remains useless if their basic safety cannot be guaranteed by the state.
