Tar Sands Mining Destroying Local Ecosystems & Hypocritical, Decadent US Preaches “Freedom” To Our Dying World

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"No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields Of Sri Lanka" To Be Released Online In India
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc220214.htm

The documentary "No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka" has been refused a censor certificate for release in theaters by the Indian Central Board of Film Certification. In response, Callum Macrae, the documentary’s director has decided to make it available free online in India – from Sunday 23 February on http://nofirezone.org/watch


Exxon CEO Comes Out Against Fracking Project Because It Will Affect His Property Values
By Rebecca Leber

http://www.countercurrents.org/leber220214.htm

As ExxonMobil’s CEO, it’s Rex Tillerson’s job to promote the hydraulic fracturing enabling the recent oil and gas boom, and fight regulatory oversight. The exception is when Tillerson’s $5 million property value might be harmed. Tillerson has joined a lawsuit that cites fracking’s consequences in order to block the construction of a 160-foot water tower next to his and his wife’s Texas home


Study Confirms Tar Sands Mining Destroying Local Ecosystems
By Andrea Germanos
http://www.countercurrents.org/germanso220214.htm

A new study puts the spotlight on tar sands' threat to one of the planet's precious and increasingly scarce resources—water. The study by Environment Canada shows that tailings ponds, open 'lakes' that hold toxic bi-products from tar sands mining, are leaching into groundwater and contaminating Alberta's Athabasa River

Ukraine Part Of US/NATO/EU Plan To Break Up Russia
Interview With Prof Francis Boyle

http://www.countercurrents.org/boyle220214.htm

Ukraine has for a long time been a strategic objective of the United States and trying to get Ukraine into NATO. And this EU plan was simply a first step in that direction. The EU wasn't really offering anything to Ukraine. But it was very clear, if they could move Ukraine closer to the EU, that would be a step closer to NATO. In fact, I regret to say over the years, even though I have EU citizenship and carry an EU passport, the EU now has become nothing but an anteroom to NATO


Hypocritical, Decadent US Preaches “Freedom” T o Our Dying World
By Gary Corseri
http://www.countercurrents.org/corseri220214.htm

Gun-crazy, violent America preaches “freedom” to the world, but doesn't begin to understand the word. We worship idiot celebrities and ignore the great teachers—Martin Luther King, Jesus, Mohammed, Lao Tzu, Socrates, et.al. We choke on the polluted air spewing from politicians, corporate criminals and media pimps; freeze in the “polar vectors” of our hearts. In freedom's name, we kill the freedom to think, to question, to contextualize, to challenge the absurd


‘Coalition Of The Willing’ Promotes No Fly Zone
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb220214.htm

If President Obama extends his record of putting American interests first to three key decisions over the past six months, and if he sticks with diplomacy rather than launch all-out war with Syria, and potentially the allies of Damascus, via a NFZ, he just may be on his way to earning his per-maturely awarded Nobel Prize


Syria: Destroying Humanity's Heritage
By Chandra Muzaffar

http://www.countercurrents.org/muzaffar220214.htm

One of the most tragic consequences of the three year war in Syria has been the destruction of historic architectural sites and the loss of archaeological treasures of immense significance. Severe damage has been caused to all six world heritage sites in the country. Syria is arguably that one place on earth that has more ancient monuments and historic sites than any other country in the world


Book Review: “Wanting” By Richard Flanagan – Exposing
British Imperial Racism And Tasmanian Aboriginal Genocide
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya220214.htm

The novel “Wanting” by civilized Tasmanian writer Richard Flanagan is an historical novel (faction) that exposes genocidal British racism and in particular the Tasmanian Aboriginal Genocide. “Wanting” links on the one hand the merciless, near-comprehensive, 19th century British Tasmanian Aboriginal Genocide


Strike: They Need Us More Than We Need Them
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz220214.htm

Imagine: No one to drive their limos, tutor their kids, do their laundry, landscape their property, walk their dogs, open doors for them, reboot their damn laptops when they crash, and best of all: no one to fight their wars. Ultimately, the 1% can mock us all they want, but they won’t be laughing as they watch stock prices and corporate profits take an abrupt nose-dive. How and why? Two words: General Strike


First Anniversary Of 21st February Trade Union Strike:
Workers' Protest Demanding Their Rights
By AICCTU& RYA

http://www.countercurrents.org/rya220214.htm

Hundreds of workers gathered in front of City Magistrate Office in Noida (India) demanding the release of their fellow comrades falsely arrested during the nationwide trade union strike on February 21st 2013. Many workers belonging to various trade unions are still logged in jail and charged with false cases under the direction of UP Government to protect the vested interests of bourgeoisie industrialists


Trees Speak
By Anitha S

http://www.countercurrents.org/anitha220214.htm

These are my thoughts on a morning after an evening when summer rains cooled the city. I stand in the fading moonlight with my leaves cleansed of the dust all ready to absorb the energy of the rising Sun. I know there are many people in the city who care and love me. I hope they will stand for us, their tall green friends


The 2014 Elections, A Secular United Front And The Aam Aadmi Party
By Concerned Citizens

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc220214A.htm

Left-wing and anti-communal activists who are serious about defeating Modi in the coming elections should stay out of AAP and refrain from campaigning for it (because their support for AAP will help the BJP by further fragmenting the anti-BJP vote and driving right-wing AAP supporters to vote for the BJP), and vote for an AAP candidate if and only if there is no other candidate who has a good chance of defeating the BJP/NDA in that particular constituency. After the elections, there will be time enough for those who have already joined AAP to try and push it to the Left, gender-sensitise it, or whatever – but not now. At present, campaigning against Modi and the BJP, working for a broad secular electoral United Front, and organising strategic voting against the BJP are the priorities