New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said, “The dominant symbol of the Cold War era was the Berlin Wall, and its counterpart today is the World Wide Web.” According to Friedman, our world is considered as being closely connected by the modern telecommunications, such as smart phones, twitter, Facebook, Face Time, and as being interdependent economically, socially, and politically.
South East Asia is going to be a strategic war checkerboard for the next great game. The tensions have increased in recent weeks over North Korea that has threatened a nuclear strike against South Korea and the United States and has caused the US to move missiles to its east coast.... Continue reading
The conflict in Southeastern Turkey between the government of the Republic of Turkey and the Kurdish rebel group (specifically the PKK) has been going on for more than three decades. Continue reading
President Obama had another apology tour in his Middle East circuit. This time on his visit to the Middle East, President Obama helped broker the Israeli apology to Turkey. Continue reading
As we all know, leaders of the Roman Catholic Church made history last week, electing the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere. In electing the 76-year-old Cardinal Jorge Maria Bergoglio of Argentina, the first non- European pope in 1,300 years - now Pope Francis, finally the Church recognized not only an economic and military shift but also a shift in the focus of the Church from the West to the East.
The Syrian government does not need the permission of any country to deal with its internal political issues. Continue reading
Let me be clear. I am for peace, and I support any step toward the peace process, because innocent people are paying the price. Therefore, I salute the BDP (Kurdish Peace Democratic Party), the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party), and even the Turkish government for their courage in trying to end violence and bloodshed, but let’s be honest and not delude ourselves.
Third Way: Can Islam Be an Alternative New World Order?
We are living in a global village, but can a global village live without its leadership? Now the world is seriously seeking to replace the old order, which was dominated by the West and America for over two centuries, with a new global world. According to Kishore Mahbubabi, Dean and Professor at the Lee Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, throughout history the most important geopolitical relationship has been between the world’s greatest power, currently the US, and the world’s greatest emerging power, currently China. Continue reading
The concept of a clash of civilizations became more popular, as well as more controversial, after 9/11. Samuel Huntington introduced the phrase “clash of civilizations” in 1993 in an article in the Journal of Foreign Affairs. Since then many scholars have spoken about the war on terror as a sign of a possible conflict between the West and the Islamic world. Others would argue that 9/11 was a sign that this clash of civilizations has already begun. Continue reading
In May 2010 media outlets and blogs spots across the Internet discussed Bill Gates’ Ten million dollar donation to the Gulen Movement’s publically funded charter schools in Texas whose agenda is to spread his version of Islam. Did the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation not do their homework? Did they know about Gulen’s revolution? Continue reading
