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Turkey

October 8 - Trump Declares There is a War on Men; The Mysterious Disappearance of a Saudi Dissident; The Global Struggle Between the Forces of Decivilization and Recivilization

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September 19 - The Kavanaugh-Ford Standoff; Will the FBI Director and the DNI Have to Resign?; Is the Putin-Erdogan Plan for a Buffer Zone on the Syria-Turkey Border Workable?

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August 15 - Trump, with Erdogan's Help, is Driving Turkey into Chaos; America Under the Vulgarian Trump Resembles Italy Under the Scandal-Plagued Berlusconi; An Assessment of the Status of America's Longest War

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August 12 - A Former White Supremacist on the "Unite the Right" Rally; Using the US Treasury as a Weapon Will Eventually Backfire; Canada Stands Up for Human Rights While Trump Remains Silent

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August 8 - New US Sanctions on Russia for the Use of a WMD; The Growing Similarity Between Putin's Kleptocracy and Trump's America; Turkey and the US on a Collision Course

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June 25 - The Supreme Court Enables Suppression of Minority Votes; Trump Calls for Even Harsher Treatment of Immigrants; Trump Deliberately Stokes Polarization to Trap Democrats into Lowering the Rhetoric to His Level

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June 24 - Critical Elections in Turkey; Conditions in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico Are the Source of Our Border Crisis; An Independent Russian Journalist on the World Cup

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June 24 - Critical Elections in Turkey; Conditions in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico Are the Source of Our Border Crisis; An Independent Russian Journalist on the World Cup

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June 6 - The Democrats Squeak by with a Low Turn-Out in California; A Mexican Court Demands a REAL Investigation into the 43 Missing Students; Trump Sells out the Kurds and Us National Security

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April 1 - Trump is Poised to Sell Out the Kurds and Reward Iran While Handing Syria to Putin; A Former Turkish Counterterrorism Police Chief Questions Whether Erdogan is Still a NATO Ally; Trump Threatens to Rip Up NAFTA and End DACA to Get His Wall

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