Obama's Cosmetic Changes For NSA surveillance

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Obama's Cosmetic Changes For NSA surveillance
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali

http://www.countercurrents.org/ghazali190114.htm

President Obama's Friday speech on NSA surveillance was a calculated endeavor to calm a furor at home and abroad over the US dragnet surveillance. However, the proposed changes do not provide any fundamental changes in the intelligence gathering activities


Washington’s Terrorism Or Counterterrorism In Somalia
By Ismail Salami

http://www.countercurrents.org/salami190114.htm

Somalia has become a breeding ground for Washington’s black operations since 2001, with the African country suffering human losses due to US hegemonic policies


Honored Carlos Santana Herbie Hancock Martina Arroyo!
Honor King’s Condemnation of US Wars!
By Jay Janson

http://www.countercurrents.org/janson190114.htm

Black celebrities, have cooperated by their silence with America’s total blackout of King’s condemnation of US wars for predatory investments, while brothers kill innocent non-whites abroad. Needed: a great artist and composer like Herbie Hancock or Carlos Santana write a floor-under-your-feet-moving smash hit recording with lines from Martin Luther King Jr.‘ awesomely important sermon Beyond Vietnam - a Time to Break Silence


John Ball Was Right!
By John Spritzler

http://www.countercurrents.org/spritzler190114.htm

John Ball preached that: "things cannot go right in England...until goods are held in common and there are no more villeins and gentlefolk, but we are all one and the same." John Ball was indeed right


State And Revolution: Chapter One "Class Society And The State"
By Thomas Riggins

http://www.countercurrents.org/riggins190114.htm

"The State-- A Product of the Irreconcilability of Class Antagonisms"


Good Governance In Bangladesh: A Quest For Democracy
By M Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury190114.htm

The quest for democracy in Bangladesh is moving in circles. The country gained its independence through both the democratic process and through war. During the four decades of its existence as a nation-state it has endured spells of military and non-military rules. Of the latter all were not elected and the elected governments themselves seemed to betray a superficial and perfunctory commitment to the norms and practices of democracy


Confession Of The Indian Voter
By Braj Ranjan Mani

http://www.countercurrents.org/mani190114.htm

Punish them all, God!… And please enable me to distrust appearances so that I can separate right from wrong, and the rascal from the righteous.Let only those come to power who sincerely believe that ‘whoever degrades another degrades the country and humanity.' And send the rest—the corporate crooks and rascals in power, whether in India or elsewhere—to jail, hell, or whatever you call it


Knowledge And Power: A Discourse for Transformation Book Review
By Cynthia Stephen

http://www.countercurrents.org/stephen190114.htm

"Reinventing Humanity: A Discourse for Justice and Transformation" in India By Braj Ranjan Mani


Open Letter To Arvind Kejriwal
By Concerned Citizens

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc190114.htm

Condemnation of Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti and his supporter's alleged racist slur and humiliation of African women in Delhi


Caste Rules, Whether You See It Or Not
By Devika Mittal

http://www.countercurrents.org/mittal190114.htm

Caste is still a reality of the today, whether the urban, upper-caste people can 'see' it or not. The reason why the urban, upper-caste youth cannot see it is not because it does not exist, but because they are not affected by it. Ask a Dalit, what caste is. As about this constant debate of going 'beyond caste', as Social Scientist Surinder Jodka had rightly pointed out, the beyond framework seems to be a conspiracy of the upper-caste. We cannot go beyond the caste because caste still exists and determines the life of a large section of population"