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Second Round Syria Peace Talks End In Failure
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/CC160214.htm

A second round of peace talks between Syria’s warring sides broke off on Saturday without making any progress and without a date being set for a third round.The UN-Arab League mediator of the talks, Lakhdar Brahimi, issued an apology to the Syrian people after the negotiators parted ways once again


How Not To Get Aid Into Homs, Yarmouk, And To 9.3 Million Syrians via A UN Resolution
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb160214.htm

The starving victims besieged in Syria, and all people of goodwill, are demanding immediate, non-politicized humanitarian aid without further delay. Virtually every American voter is in a position to pressure his or her congressional representative, and would possibly achieve much good by making the White House aware of their demands to end playing international ‘gotcha’ politics, and to cooperate to end the needless deaths by starvation that continue today


On Reading Morani Kornberg Weiss' "Dear Darwish"
By Vacy Vlazna

http://www.countercurrents.org/vlazna161214.htm

When I received your book of poetry, Dear Darwish, I was excited with the possibility that here could be another welcome Israeli voice to join respected Israeli dissidents like Gila Svirsky, Miko Peled, Maya Wind, Ilan Pappe, Tali Shapiro, Amira Hass, Rami Elhanan, Yehuda Shaul, Avigail Abarbanel, Jeff Halper, Dorothy Naor, Guy Butavia to name but a few. However the poems in your collection reveal that your ‘transformation' has some way to go before you reach the place, where, for example, Peled and Pappe, free from Zionist brainwashing, speak, neither ‘for,' nor ‘to' but ‘WITH' the Palestinians against injustice


Today's Egypt In A Song: Rima Is Back To Her Old Ways
By Mamoon Alabbasi

http://www.countercurrents.org/alabbasi160214.htm

The song 'Rima' is not only a work of art in the aesthetic sense but it is also a noble act of bravery. It sings truth to power without compromising on 'form' for the sake of 'content'. There is cohesion between the melody, lyrics and video clip, which are tied up together by a folkloric flavour


USA’s Efforts For A New Election To Restore Democracy In Bangladesh
By M Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/mrchowdhury160214.htm

Bangladesh cannot avoid world’s pressure to dissolve unaccepted parliament and will have to organise a new parliamentary election, which is obviously a manifestation in favour of mass people of Bangladesh. The sooner the government of Bangladesh understands this reality, the better for the country and its people


A Low In Bangladesh-US Relations
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury160214.htm

Dan Mozena, the US ambassador in Bangladesh, has recently told Dhaka journalist: “The US relations with Bangladesh are not usual”. He said: The US interaction with the present government is not business as usual. No doubt, the publicly made observation is part of public diplomacy. Purpose of public diplomacy is known to all. However, at least a part of a reality has come out to public view


Bangladesh: Where Have All The Molotov Cocktails Gone?
By Taj Hashmi

http://www.countercurrents.org/hashmi160214.htm

Unless the country adopts democratic methods to run its government, desensitized people may be lured into adopting Molotov Cocktails and even more deadly weapons as their only means to live with dignity and honour. As India should not take Bangladesh for a ride, the Government should not consider the people too stupid to understand its cry wolf jingles, “Islamists are coming” and “After us the deluge”. Sooner the Government comes to its senses, the better


Ongoing Aboriginal Genocide And Aboriginal Ethnocide
By Politically Correct Racist Apartheid Australia
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya160214.htm

Decent Australians should (a) inform everyone they can, and (b) vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last. Decent folk around the world should urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all those complicit in the ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide, just as they urge and apply BDS against Apartheid Australia-backed Apartheid Israel's ongoing Palestinian Genocide


Pro-Israeli Bill Threatens US Academic Freedom
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali

http://www.countercurrents.org/ghazali160214.htm

Congressman Roskam, the Chief Deputy Whip and co-chair of the House Republican Israel Caucus, and Democratic Rep. from Illinois Dan Lipinski have recently introduced the so called “Protect Academic Freedom Act” that would deny federal funding to colleges and universities that participate in a boycott of Israeli academic institutions or scholars


How To Remove The Rich From Power And Abolish Class Inequality
By John Spritzler

http://www.countercurrents.org/spritzler160214.htm

These steps focus on the United States. The same steps need to be taken by people in other countries as well. The more globally this happens, the less able the ruling class in one country will be to remain in power because of help from the ruling class in another country


Dancing With Death At Death Cafes
By Shepherd Bliss

http://www.countercurrents.org/bliss160214.htm

Each death is unique and personal. We can recover from them. Death Cafes are not grief groups where people get counseling. They exist to talk and listen to stories about death, without judgment. They can be more fun than I would have imagined