J.B. MacKinnon The 21st century has brought a critical dilemma into sharp relief: we must stop shopping, and yet we can’t stop shopping. At the turn of this new millennium,…
Levent Gürses Two important figures were announced; one was the third quarter growth figure: 3.7 per cent annually. The other was November’s inflation: according to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK),…
Can Baydarol Last weekend, starting on Friday and lasting three days, we witnessed the 39th Congress of the CHP. While we thought we would be watching a clash between the…
Noam Chomsky As the year 2013 drew to an end, the BBC reported on the results of the WIN/Gallup International poll on the question: “Which country do you think is…
Thelma Young Lutunatabua There is no doubt that January 2020 was a foreboding and intense start to the decade. From the catastrophic bushfires in Australia, to the U.S. and Iran…
Osman Şenkul For much of human history, work was largely comprised of hunting and gathering, agriculture, and manual labour (such as shoemaking, blacksmithing, and similar trades), with working hours dependent…
Osman Şenkul During his visit to Turkey at the end of October (2025), German Chancellor Friedrich Merz responded to a journalist’s question at a press conference following his meeting with…
Rebecca Solnit A young white woman in yoga clothes berating masked ICE agents in a parking lot this spring. A pope speaking up again and again for immigrants. Furious judges…
Can Baydarol My wife said, ‘Come on, stop being lazy, we’re going.’ Before I could ask, ‘Where to?’, I found myself on a coach heading to Thessaloniki with a tour…
Noam Chomsky “It’s official: The U.S. is the world’s leading terrorist state, and proud of it.” That should have been the headline for the lead story in the New York…
What would happen if the world stopped shopping?
J.B. MacKinnon The 21st century has brought a critical dilemma into sharp relief: we must stop shopping, and yet we can’t stop shopping. At the turn of this new millennium,…
The economy of those who rejoice in weak growth and inflation stubbornly holding at 30%
Levent Gürses Two important figures were announced; one was the third quarter growth figure: 3.7 per cent annually. The other was November’s inflation: according to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK),…
Has the CHP changed?
Can Baydarol Last weekend, starting on Friday and lasting three days, we witnessed the 39th Congress of the CHP. While we thought we would be watching a clash between the…
The greatest threat to “World Peace”
Noam Chomsky As the year 2013 drew to an end, the BBC reported on the results of the WIN/Gallup International poll on the question: “Which country do you think is…
This decade doesn’t have to be terrifying
Thelma Young Lutunatabua There is no doubt that January 2020 was a foreboding and intense start to the decade. From the catastrophic bushfires in Australia, to the U.S. and Iran…
The solution to AI-driven job losses lies in a four-day working week
Osman Şenkul For much of human history, work was largely comprised of hunting and gathering, agriculture, and manual labour (such as shoemaking, blacksmithing, and similar trades), with working hours dependent…
Go to the IMF and promise to spend, go to the EU and promise to implement
Osman Şenkul During his visit to Turkey at the end of October (2025), German Chancellor Friedrich Merz responded to a journalist’s question at a press conference following his meeting with…
A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere
Rebecca Solnit A young white woman in yoga clothes berating masked ICE agents in a parking lot this spring. A pope speaking up again and again for immigrants. Furious judges…
Thessaloniki
Can Baydarol My wife said, ‘Come on, stop being lazy, we’re going.’ Before I could ask, ‘Where to?’, I found myself on a coach heading to Thessaloniki with a tour…
Chomsky – The long, shameful history of American terrorism
Noam Chomsky “It’s official: The U.S. is the world’s leading terrorist state, and proud of it.” That should have been the headline for the lead story in the New York…