from NYT: “Transcript: Donald Trump on NATO, Turkey’s Coup Attempt and the World” and a roundup…

  Transcript: Donald Trump on NATO, Turkey’s Coup Attempt and the World nytimes.com – The New York Times – Jul 21, 1:39 AM SANGER: Or to take on the burden themselves. TRUMP: Or, if we cannot make the right deal, to take on the burden themselves. You said it wrong because you said or — … Read more

Middle East Forum report: 2015-16 Islamist Money List

Hillary Clinton Tops 2015-16 Islamist Money List Philadelphia – October 20, 2016 – The Middle East Forum’s “Islamist Money in Politics” (IMIP) project is releasing the top-ten recipients of 2015-16 campaign contributions from individuals who subscribe to the same Islamic supremacism as Khomeini, Bin Laden, and ISIS. Hillary Clinton tops the list, raking in $41,165 … Read more

“Open Anthropology” presents: “An Anthropological Perspective on Elections and Politics”

  To the list of reasons why the 2016 presidential contest in the United States has been especially notable and newsworthy, we might add the number of superlatives surrounding it. Headlines refer to the two leading contenders—Hillary Rodham Clinton and Donald J. Trump—as the “least trusted” and “most unfavorable candidates ever.” Despite the unpopularity of the … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “Turkey Submits Highest Volume of Removal Requests to Twitter…”The Growing Problem of Bots That Fight Online…

TWITTER TRANSPARENCY REPORT: Turkey Submits Highest Volume of Removal Requests to Twitter  Bianet :: English Turkey has been listed as the country with the greatest number of removal requests in Twitter’s first biannual Transparency Report of 2016. The Growing Problem of Bots That Fight Online  MIT Technology Review The way software agents interact on the Web is … Read more

Eurosphere agenda: Merkel faces more failures at home…

Merkel faces home truths Brussels Blog by Alex Barker To receive the Brussels Briefing in your inbox every morning, sign up here. It is Angela Merkel’s home state. There aren’t even many refugees there (23,000 in 2015 to be precise). But on Sunday rural Mecklenburg-Vorpommern earned a small footnote in post-war history, becoming the first state … Read more

NYT asks: “Is Istanbul Safe? What Travelers Should Know… Istanbul news roundup…

Is Istanbul Safe? What Travelers Should Know. New York Times A suicide attack Tuesday night at Istanbul Ataturk Airport killed dozens of people and wounded more than 200. Here’s what travelers should know … Brussels to Istanbul: Two airports, two bloody attacks – CNN Jihad in Istanbul – Wall Street Journal CBS News: Istanbul Suicide Bombers … Read more

New Turkey: Main opposition leader threatened with bullet… MPs’ immunity lifted…

Kılıçdaroğlu Threatened with Bullet  Bianet :: English One person threw bullet at CHP Leader Kılıçdaroğlu at the funeral of the two police officers who lost their lives in the bomb attack launched in Vezneciler. Main opposition head Kılıçdaroğlu faces protests at police officers’ funeral in Istanbul Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu was protested … Read more

#PanamaPapers roundup: Iceland’s Prime Minister; the First Casualty

Panama Papers: Pirates Prepare to Takeover Iceland (Update) TorrentFreak by Andy From August 2015, an anonymous source began leaking around 11.5 million secret documents created by the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca to German news outlet Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). Chinese Censors Erase #PanamaPapers Evidence From Web Global Voices Online by Oiwan Lam Relatives of current top leader … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “A Worldwide Survey of Encryption Products…

A Worldwide Survey of Encryption Products Berkman Center Newsfeed Teaser In this paper, which is modeled on a similar effort in 1999 by researchers from George Washington University, Berkman Fellow Bruce Schneier and collaborator Kathleen Seidel together with Harvard College student Saranya Vijayakuma identify and survey 865 encryption products from 55 different countries, 546 of them … Read more

Check out tens of state of journalism reviews from Nieman Journalism Lab… Journalism agenda…

Top 10 Media Publishers for Nov. 2015: Billboard Dominates Twitter Engagement All Facebook In November, U.S. media publishers accounted for 1.4 billion total social actions (likes, comments, shares, retweets, dislikes), with 687 million from Instagram, 632 million actions from Facebook, 51 million from Twitter, and 13 million from YouTube (excluding views). The media publishing industry represents … Read more

Eurosphere agenda: ” beautiful sketches that celebrate life in Paris…

French cartoonist shares beautiful sketches that celebrate life in Paris Mashable! by Sam Haysom LONDON — In the wake of last Friday’s Paris attacks, a French cartoonist has been sketching scenes that celebrate life in France’s capital city. Resettling Syrian Refugees: An Alternative Slate Articles by Reihan Salam In the wake of the Paris attacks, a number … Read more

A Kurdish town, Silvan, under curfew for 9 days…

Six people were killed during a curfew that has been in place in Diyarbakır’s Silvan district since Nov. 2. (Photo: Cihan) Constant gunshots heard from Silvan, where 6 killed under … Today’s Zaman–16 hours ago Gunshots are being heard constantly from Silvan, Diyarbakır province, due to ongoing clashes between the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party … Silvan, … Read more

While Fears of government seizure spill over to Turkey’s universities, “Turkish PM hires top PR firm in EU capital…

Fears of government seizure spill over to Turkey’s universities – Al-Monitor the Pulse of the Middle East – Nov 6, 1:14 AM Author: Tulay Cetingulec November 6, 2015 A week before Turkey’s Nov. 1 elections, Koza Ipek Holding, whose 22 companies include a media group, were handed over to trustees under a judicial ruling requested … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “Surveillance, the British and US debates compared…

Surveillance, the British and US debates compared open Democracy News Analysis – by Anthony Barnett In Britain, allegedly, no one cares that the state is collecting vast data on all of us. In the US things are clearly very different. Oliver Huitson. All rights reserved. The E.U.’s Antitrust Battle with Google Could Last for Years and Years … Read more

With more confidence after the election, attacks on Kurdish targets, journalist and opposition members arrests and denial of election promises…

Aerial Operation by TSK on Qandil  Bianet :: English General Staff has announced it hit Qandil and its surrounding area Turkish magazine critical of Erdoğan confiscated, editors detained 2 An Istanbul court has ordered the confiscation of the latest issue of Nokta magazine on the grounds that it “incites crime” due its cover and headline showing President … Read more