Author: Omer Kayaci

Those who cannot even comprehend, let alone accept with ease, a reality in which they personally experience what the people of Gaza have been experiencing over the course of a genocide ought to remain eternally silent, unless they have chosen to oppose it with all their strength. That it is natural not to be able to comprehend such a reality is largely due to the particular form in which it is widely presented. This form involves a strong advertising strategy that reshapes the content, ultimately making it more “digestible” for the consumer – a goal that every aspiring advertising strategist…

In their meticulously documented and highly influential book “Slave Nation” (2006), Alfred and Ruth Blumrosen argue with quite considerable force that the United States was essentially founded on the promise of maintaining the legality of slavery in the face of the growing political climate in Britain where there had been a clear indication of abolishing the despicable practice as early as 1772 (although slave ownership would retain its legal status in Britain until 1833). In other words, the War of Independence against Britain was fought primarily to prevent a potential imposition of a ban on slavery, according to the authors.…

In a recent interview, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek referred to U.S. Vice President JD Vance as “a robot creature made by Peter Thiel.” Perhaps he had in mind the immense support that Vance has received throughout his entire life from the founder of Palantir. Although Thiel’s circle’s close ties with Vance are rarely mentioned anywhere mainstream, those who actually pay attention ought to know at least this much, that, of course, a future president of the empire would be groomed to assume the role by the oligarchy of the day – in this case, by a consortium of techno oligarchs.…

Not long after Benjamin Netanyahu assumed office as prime minister of Israel for the first time in 1996, he was presented with a policy recommendation by a highly influential neoconservative think tank specializing in U.S.-Israeli relations. Titled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,” the report stated that previous Israeli governments, especially Yitzhak Rabin’s, had been naive to believe in the notion of “peace for land,” and that “early adoption of a bold, new perspective on peace and security” was “imperative for the new prime minister.” Crucially, this new perspective would include “promoting Western values and traditions,”…

In his address to the United States Congress last year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referred to the university students who had been protesting against Israel’s genocide in Gaza as “Iran’s useful idiots.” The accusation received a standing ovation from the members, as anyone would have expected at that point. Back then, opposing Israel’s barbarism meant this: That one would have been aiding Iran, presumably by simply caring about justice and accountability. Today, if one were to care about justice and accountability and express this sentiment by publishing a piece in a university paper calling for the implementation of international…

Since the end of World War II, the U.S. has been adamant in spreading “democracy” across the globe and championing “human rights” where they were allegedly lacking. Any state ostensibly in violation of human rights would face severe repercussions, ranging from crippling sanctions to outright military invasions, spearheaded by the global hegemon and its satrapies around the world. Amid this dark reality, critics raised a simple but very reasonable question: Who was to decide whether human rights were violated in a given case? It was certainly not any international body, for they were apparently fallible in their judgments, as the…

Last week, the metamorphosis of Elon Musk from the poster boy of the Green Revolution to the frontman of the far-right politics of a particularly Islamophobic strain was finalized. His staunch support for Tommy Robinson, who co-founded the English Defence League (EDL) with Paul Ray – an equally unpleasant man who reportedly worked for Israeli intelligence against the Palestinian resistance – has been incredibly resolute. As a result, he had to break his newly founded alliance with Reform U.K.’s leader Nigel Farage over that petty provocateur, stating that the party needed a new leader because Farage did not have “what…

Anyone who is even remotely familiar with the contemporary academic culture in the West will know that, until very recently, the departments of social sciences and humanities in the most prestigious universities in Europe and North America had been filled with people who seemed to be obsessed with studying the discomforting reality of colonialism. In fact, the obsession was bordering on a peculiar type of intellectual fixation when nominally serious scholars began talking extensively about “decolonizing” pretty much everything you could think of, so much so that, as Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang pointed out in their seminal paper,…

U.S. Congressman Lloyd Smucker reposted on X a Newsweek article penned by Enes Kanter, a sociopathic cult member, who alleged a new set of human rights violations about Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ) investigations in Türkiye. Of course, the article was carefully curated for those who did not and could not have any local perspective on Turkish society and politics, as these have evolved over the last few decades. From the outside, the situation could easily be made to look like as though Kanter and his affiliates in FETÖ were completely innocent victims, wrongly accused and convicted by a handful of…

With Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s (HTS) march on Damascus, there has been a strong difference in opinion among the supporters of Palestine’s resistance against Israeli barbarism. Some view the developments as foreshadowing the complete “liberation” of Syria from the oppressive Baath rule, others regard them as simply serving the interests of the empire and Israel, taking advantage of the difficulties that the chief allies of Syrian regime leader Bashar Assad, namely Russia and Iran, have recently been facing elsewhere. Both perspectives enjoy some evidential support. Syria under the Baath rule has certainly not been a country where everyone could live in…