Erdogan’s decision to withdraw Turkey from the 2011 Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combatting Violence Against Women is despicable
South Sudan’s Fragile Peace
The peace accord to end the civil war in South Sudan remains fragile and needs international support.
Why Was I Ever Born? Yemen — A Poem Article
While tens of thousands of Yemeni men, women and children are dying from starvation and disease, the world is shamelessly watching with deafening silence.
I Want My American Dream Back
Never has it occurred that one man, in four short years, would nearly shatter everything that the US stood for.
US Prisons: Outrageously Unjust
The time is overdue to reform the US prison system. It reflects very poorly on the country‘s moral values.
J’Accuse Erdogan
The weaker Recep Tayyip Erdogan is at home politically, the longer the list of the Turkish President’s transgressions gets.
The Saudis’ War in Yemen Is a Crime Against Humanity
For Saudi Arabia, which leads the Sunni Muslim world, to act as brutally as it has in Yemen is a gross violation of Islam and constitutes crimes against humanity.
I Am Proud To Be a Socialist
If valuing human rights and dignity is “socialist,” then sign me up.
U.S.-Iran: The Soleimani Killing and Global Order
What sort of global order will we have left if the leaders of one country eliminate the leaders of another? Nothing but global chaos would ensue.
Middle East: Ever More Unstable
A review of seven Mideast conflicts, each one ever more intractable.
























