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All Views Articles for 2016-07-17

Sunday, July 17, 2016
	Jim Naureckas A Mass Murderer Becomes a ‘Terrorist’–Based on Ethnicity, Not Evidence The New York Times ( 7/15/16 ), writing about the man who reportedly killed 84 people in a truck attack in Nice, France, provided no evidence that Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was motivated by either... Read more
	Ayşe Kadıoğlu Coup d'état Attempt: Turkey's Reichstag Fire? We are witnessing the consolidation of a new form of authoritarianism with a populist streak. Read more
	Kristen Breitweiser The Long-Hidden Saudi-9/11 Trail The U.S. government and mainstream media are playing down the long-hidden 9/11 chapter on official Saudi connections to Al Qaeda’s hijackers, hoping most Americans won’t read it themselves, as 9/11 widow Kristen Breitweiser observes. Read more
	Darryl Lorenzo Wellington Police Already Have Broad Powers to Detain Us; and the Supreme Court Gave Them Even More I don't want to end up like Alton Sterling. Or Philando Castile. Or Eric Garner. Or Freddie Gray. Or Amadou Diallo. I don’t want to end up dead after a police stop, probably based on wrongful... Read more
	César Chelala Military Regimes Shouldn't Be Recognized The military upheaval in Turkey, whose final consequences are yet to be seen, highlights a major weakness in worldwide efforts to promote democracy. This event underscores the need to establish... Read more
	Gwynne Dyer Turkey's Attempted Coup Turkey's democracy is dead. It was dying anyway, as President Recep Tayyib Erdogan took over media outlets, arrested political opponents and journalists, and even re-started a war with the Kurds last... Read more