The Contrarian Progressive

In my previous post I said that I did not expect a military confrontation between Russia and Turkey over the downed Russian aircraft. Sinc...

I was preparing a post on the growing animosity between Putin and Erdogan when the news of Turkey downing a Russian bomber aircraft broke. ...

This is a question that seems to preoccupy many people these days. With ISIS gleefully sharing its horrific exploits in high definition cl...

I am sure you remember the Patriot Act which was passed after 9/11. The acronym (or backronym as Wikipedia puts it) stands for "Pro...

In my 11 years as a resident and forty something years as a visitor of Paris, I never thought such a horrible event could take place here. ...

A couple of months ago, I confessed to be puzzled by what is know as Erdogan's gamble , a strategy to polarize the country and to attack...

On 1 November, that is this coming Sunday, Turkey will be holding a re-run of the June elections. Opinion polls generally indicate that th...