The European Union has lost virtually all of its credibility amongst large swaths of the European population.

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

The real problem is the total capitulation of German social democracy to capitalism, reflected and symbolized by actual extreme center coalition governments in Germany, which have been in power for a long time and still are even as we speak. That is the real problem: that there is no serious opposition in Germany at all. And the Left party is divided.

The judgement makes no sense at all. It exposes the country, Turkey, to ridicule. It would have been so much better if Ahmet Davotgulu had behaved like a medieval jester, but no such luck for poor Turkey. Its Prime Minister is not taken seriously by too many people.

One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands.

There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in.

There are different versions of Islam... it is meaningless to claim to speak in the name of a ‘real’ Islam.