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By Rauf Naqishbendi: Just like individuals, governments are to be judged for their virtues and vices, for governments are a consortium of people. To this end, decent individuals are in the company of good societies, while corrupted individuals are settled in the company of perverted societies. In a sense, one can judge an individual by…
By Dr. Jan Best de Vries: The wars in Syria and Iraq are in reality just being waged for oil and gas. In 2011 Sunni Turkey and Qatar had agreed to build a gas pipeline which would bring natural gas from Qatar through Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Turkey to Europe. However, Shiite Iran and the Alawite…
Press Release: Rally in Los Angeles: International Solidarity Day with Kobani We members of the Kurdish American Education Society, Human Rights Advocacy Group, and Kurdish Community in Los Angeles join[ed] hundreds of thousands of people, United Nations agencies and prominent intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky and Archbishop Desmond Tutu in observing the International Day of…
By Dr. M. Koohzad: This article was first published by CounterPunch American Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s Remote Reporting About the Mideast From South America American Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is flying between few South American Capital cities. He gave a lecture about climate change. Since being followed by the mainstream media, he was asked two…
By Zwan Mahmod: The advance of the Islamic State (IS) in the past year across, first in Syria and then Iraq, both surprised and worried players in the region. Its incursions into northern and western Iraq led to the fall of prime Nouri-Al Maliki as Iraqi Prime Minister and it forced Kurdish involvement. Ground fighting…
By Dr Amir Sharifi: Los Angeles: Hundreds of pro-Kobani activists marched on in Westwood, Los Angeles to condemn the Islamic State (IS) and their murderous onslaught against Kurds, saying that they will continue their protest against IS terrorism in Kobani. Improvised signs were being made by women activists as more protesters joined the demonstration. The…
Press Release: Sunday Oct 12, Westwood Federal Building, 4pm-6pm A demonstration will be held in Los Angeles on Oct 12 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM in front of the Federal Building in Westwood against the Islamic State’s ongoing vicious assault on the Kurdish city of Kobani and to urge the US to support for the…
By Arian Mufid: I don’t need to tell you about the brutality of the IS group over the last several months. I don’t want to give you the background to this tribe, drawn from the most backward families and tribes of the Middle East and the world. But shame on you who proclaim democracy while…
By Rick Trujillo: Companeras y Companeros (Sisters and Brothers), Please accept our greetings, (Hola), from southern California. Our organization, LCLAA, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, San Diego & Imperial Counties, consider the Kurdish family of peoples – your land (tierra) Kurdistan, your fighters and, most especially, your magnificent culture – a blessing to humanity. Your example, over…
By Evin Cheikosman: The war in Syria officially began in 2011 but the elements that incited public discontent were long brewing at the stove. From 2011 onward we have seen the evil in humanity and the self gratifying proxy wars manufactured by the herculeanesque powers “up above;” these proxy wars range from Iran vs. Saudi,…
By Dr Amir Sharifi: As a concerned American, I am writing to you to urge you to stand with the people and defenders of Kobani in the Kurdish region of Syria in the face of the ISIS brutal battle for the capture and control of the city. As you know the U. S. action against…
By Glenn M Stewart B.A. M.A. Oxon: The approval given by the Turkish parliament to allow Turkish troops to conduct military operations against the Islamic State should be seen as a complex and disingenuous policy. Several political considerations will pull Turkey in different directions. Their support of the US led coalition will not be straightforward…
By Tilman Zülch: Urgent appeal to US Secretary of State, John Kerry Dear Secretary Kerry, In the last few days, IS-Islamists have been attacking the small Kurdish enclave Kobani in northern Syria with heavy artillery and modern tanks, while fighter planes of the US and its allies werecircling the region. According to reports, the Islamists have…
KT News: Salih Muslim, leader of the PYD (Democratic Union Party) has called on the USA, NATO, the UN and EU to act immediately to prevent a genocide against Kurdish people in Kobanê. “It seems that all international forces are decided on the fall of Kobanê”, Muslim said. The air strikes of the US-led coalition have…
Press Release: Fri 26 Sept, 10am-1pm Turkish General Consulate, Los Angeles A demonstration will be held by the Kurdish community in Los Angeles on Friday Sept 26 in front of the Turkish General Consul in Los Angeles from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM to denounce and protest the ethnic cleansing of Kurds in Syria by…
