Author: Omer Kayaci

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…

In early 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, it was nearly impossible to find a building across European capitals that did not in some shape or form have on its façade the blue and yellow colors of the Ukrainian flag. In London, virtually every bookshop had in their front displays books describing how inherently evil and maniacal Russian President Vladimir Putin was and how the invasion of Ukraine was entirely due to his imperial ambitions. It was almost the complete reversal of the 1940s when, as George Orwell wrote in his proposed preface to “Animal Farm,” “what (was) demanded by the…

Last week, the International Criminal Court (ICC) finally issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for “the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare” and “the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.” The accusations are doubtless shocking, yet perhaps not as shocking as the fact that the reactions of world leaders to them can still diverge after more than a year of genocide in Gaza. Some remain firmly committed to following a pragmatic path, as when a spokesperson for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz expressed his…

In the Oval Office at the White House, a reporter asked U.S. President Joe Biden if he thought he could cut a “hostage deal” by the end of his term, to which he replied: “Do you think you can get hit in the head by the camera behind you?” This happened on the day when Biden met Israeli President Isaac Herzog, as we learn from the former’s recent video statement where he reaffirms, once again, his “ironclad” commitment to Israel. His party’s election loss, which eliminates any fear of political risk he might have previously had, seems not to bother…