Not able to locate the Great Senator's quote, it's important to remember that we have become a nation brainwashed by MSM, Hate Media and the prattle of Big Corporations, censoring our news and information.
Only by reading that with which we disagree can we focus our opinions with FACTS and maybe actually THINKING for ourselves.
Rather than turning on each other, making those 'OTHERS' the enemy, maybe it's just not so.
Please continue to read things with which you don't agree.
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America’s Secret War In 134 Countries
By Nick Turse
http://www.countercurrents.org/turse180114.htm
They operate in the green glow of night vision in Southwest Asia and stalk through the jungles of South America. They snatch men from their homes in the Maghreb and shoot it out with heavily armed militants in the Horn of Africa. They feel the salty spray while skimming over the tops of waves from the turquoise Caribbean to the deep blue Pacific. They conduct missions in the oppressive heat of Middle Eastern deserts and the deep freeze of Scandinavia. All over the planet, the Obama administration is waging a secret war whose full extent has never been fully revealed -- until now
The Siege Of Yarmouk
By Franklin Lamb
http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb180114.htm
At the Palestine Embassy in Beirut recently, a young lady showed this observer a video of a gentleman in Yarmouk camp in Damascus. The video showed the man killing and eating a cat. Food ran out in Yarmouk weeks ago, and nearly 18,000 refugees are facing death from starvation and other conflict-related causes. This siege has been ongoing since July 2013, and it has become viciously lethal
Marvelous Victories: Enduring Lessons From Howard Zinn
By Mickey Z.
http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz180114.htm
“Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” - Howard Zinn
Deception And Double-Standards At Mandela Funeral
By Nizar Visram
http://www.countercurrents.org/visram180114.htm
What is hardly mentioned is that while Mandela and his comrades succeeded in toppling the political apartheid, they have hardly managed to dismantle the South African apartheid economy that has left millions of people in grinding poverty. Thus the most uncomplimentary part of Mandela’s legacy is the economic apartheid that still exists in South Africa today. As Prof Issa Shivji aptly put it, Mandela’s ‘long walk' walked into the neo-liberal tunnel, the light at the end of which we still have to see
Iran Is Not Yet Off The Hook
By Dr. Ludwig Watzal
http://www.countercurrents.org/watzal180114.htm
Neoconservative extremists, Zionist lobbyists from the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and their willing executioners on Capitol Hill driven by the right-wing Israeli government are trying everything to sabotage the agreement between Iran and the five UN Security Council members plus their German annex. This unholy alliance tries to drag the Obama administration into another Middle Eastern war
The case Of Muhammad Haidar Zammar(PDF)
By Elias Davidsson
http://www.countercurrents.org/davidsson180114.pdf
How German leaders conspired with the U.S. and Syria in covering-up a secret operation
Far From The Israeli Personal Insults To The US state Secretary Kerry!
By Dr Salim Nazzal
http://www.countercurrents.org/nazzal180114.htm
This week the relationship between the state of Israel has witnessed some strain, over what the US has described as the (offensive) and (inappropriate) words of the Israeli defense minister Moshe Yaalon, about the state of secretary John Kerry peace proposals. Yaalon was quoted to have described Kerry diplomatic efforts as being (misplaced obsession and Messianic fervor!)
Cultural Organizations or Trojan Horses?
By George Abraham
http://www.countercurrents.org/abraham180114.htm
In ordinary times, a U.S. House resolution ( 417) that calls for ‘reaffirming the need to protect the rights and freedom of the religious minorities while praising India’s rich religious diversity and commitment to tolerance and equality’, may not have ruffled any feathers let alone garnered some media attention. However, in a surprising twist, emotions were flying high over the move by the US lawmakers with some of the national and local Indian organizations that are quite active on the Capitol Hill in lobbying for various causes back in India
World Class Facilities For The Rich, Death And Injury For The Poor
By Vidyadhar Date
http://www.countercurrents.org/date180114.htm
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is known for speaking little. But he was gushing in his praise for the new terminal of the Mumbai international airport on January 10 and repeatedly used the word world class while inaugurating it. No problem. Let the rich have world class facilities. But then why is there such callous neglect of facilities for ordinary, working people ? On the very day the Prime Minister launched this fancy project, a journalist Ullas Abraham, formerly of Mid-Day, fell from an overcrowded suburban train in Kurla in this very city and was killed
Bangladesh Election Without Mandate
By NJ Thakuria
http://www.countercurrents.org/thakuria180114.htm
With a predictable election outcome Sheikh Hasina has taken the oath as the Bangladesh Prime Minister for the second consecutive time. But the polls which was boycotted by the major opposition allies and marred with violence killing over 200 people across the country could receive only lukewarm appreciations from the international community
The “Ershad Syndrome” And Problems Of Governance And Democracy In Bangladesh
By Taj Hashmi
http://www.countercurrents.org/hashmi180114.htm
As analysts and experts are unanimous in imputing the prevalent chaos, corruption and anarchic violence in Libya, Egypt and Iraq to their former (corrupt) dictators – Qaddafi, Mubarak and Saddam Hussein – one wonders as to why Ershad should remain unscathed and untouched for committing similar crime to Bangladesh. He not only retarded the growth of democracy and civil society in Bangladesh, but he also singlehandedly destroyed the social fabric, respect for law and order, and whatever was left of ethical values and piety among the average people in less than nine years of autocracy. We may call Ershad’s legacy of crime, corruption, hypocrisy and mendacity as the “Ershad Syndrome”
A Fight To Breathe Easy
By Anitha S
http://www.countercurrents.org/anitha180114.htm
I know that the Gadgil Committee Report calls for a review of all development plans that will cause irreparable damage to the life- support system of Western Ghats. Because if this life line is destroyed all human activities connected to food production, healthy life and livelihood will disappear. These are things that we cannot buy with money – only pristine NATURE can provide all that. So ours is a struggle for life and all the priceless sustaining elements in nature
Religion, Peace And Violence
By Ram Puniyani
http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani180114.htm
From Hinduism one can see Mahatma Gandhi on one side and Nathuram Godse on the other. In Islam one can see Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad on one side and Osama bin Laden and the Muslim nationalists on the other. Same way one can see Pope Francis on one side and Anders Berling Brevik (Norwegian terrorist who killed 86 youth) on the other. It is the same religion in whose name such opposite stands are taken. We need to wake up to free ourselves from the ossified, intolerant views of religions and stand for humanistic teaching and tolerant traditions of religions
A Birthday Tree
By Anitha S
http://www.countercurrents.org/anitha180114A.htm
About a boy who plants trees on his birthday
Dent In Democracy
By Anand Prakash
http://www.countercurrents.org/prakash180114.htm
Democracy can be seen as a system in which every individual has an equal say in the government of society , unfortunately it is hardly the case in tribal areas .Individuals surrender their rights to state because they believe that state will provide justice and protect their rights against the private interests and if state fails to do so ,than it will lead to a large scale social unrest . This is precisely what is happening in these tribal areas
“The Fifth Sun” A Novel By Gaither Stewart
By Countercurrents.org
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc180114.htm
Set in Italy and Mexico, The Fifth Sun, is a story of love and disenchantment, of belief and unbelief, adventure and romance. Above all, it is the story of the search of each of us for our real and better selves. The characters in The Fifth Sun are haunted by the Divine. All have a divine discontent which forces them to go beyond the role life seems to have assigned to them. And there is perhaps the key: the attempt to escape one's destiny and create a new one. Published by Punto Press in New York in December 2013, the print version is distributed by Ingrams and available on Amazon and major book sellers throughout the world
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