Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan is turning Turkey into a police state, by granting powers to the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) and banning independent journalism and activism in the country. Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP), under Erdogan’s leadership, is transforming Turkey into an authoritarian police state where the MIT act as Erdogan’s “Praetorian Guards”, notes independent scholar Dr. Can Erimtan.
As the U.S. government fights its endless wars around the globe, some Americans are moving beyond despair and confusion to challenge the military machine, people like Mary Anne Grady Flores, who was sentenced to six months in jail for photographing an anti-drone protest, writes Bill Moyers. By Bill Moyers Mary Anne Grady Flores is in…
This meme has been going around in my networks since the Anglican Communion put the Episcopal Church on a three-year suspension for its liberal policies on homosexuality.
The punitive measures and conservative statement came after four days of “painful” talks in Canterbury aimed at moving the world’s 85 million-strong Anglican fellowship beyond deep divisions over homosexuality between liberals and conservatives.
Gross: Davos fiddles while global markets burn. Monetary policy increasingly ineffective. Fiscal stimulation non-existent.
— Janus Capital (@JanusCapital) January 20, 2016