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US Threatens Russia As Ukraine Crisis Escalates
By Chris Marsden

http://www.countercurrents.org/marsden050314.htm

US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry issued bellicose statements directed against Russia on Tuesday, one week after right-wing putsch backed by the US and European powers brought down the Ukrainian government. Responding to Russian actions in Crimea, Kerry—on visit to Kiev, Ukraine’s capital—said Moscow was lying. “Russia has been working hard to create a pretext for Russia to invade further,” he said. If Russia does not de-escalate, “then our partners will have absolutely no choice but to join us” in measures to isolate Russia politically and economically. Kerry added that Russia’s moves were a “brazen act of aggression.”


Ukraine: US, NATO, EU Want Nuland's Neo-Nazi Thugs In Power
By Prof Francis Boyle

http://www.countercurrents.org/boyle050314.htm

Instead of the Obama Administration trying to sit down with President Putin and negotiate a way out of this in good faith, all the signs are that the Obama Administration is going to try to cement Victoria Nuland's neo-nazi gang of thugs in Kiev into power, according to US based Professor Francis Boyle. He says the OSCE (The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe), NATO and the EU all support the US/CIA "project" as he called it. Professor Boyle says it is appalling that the EU stated that Nuland's neo-nazi thugs in Kiev "reflect European values"


No War But The Class War
By Alan Johnstone

http://www.countercurrents.org/johnstone050314.htm

This true struggle against war requires at every stage the utmost clarity and realism and the working class of every country must understand who their enemy is. They must understand that the enemy is not the people of any other nation against whom their 'own’ government may wage war, but that the real enemy the ruling class of “their own country”. Noble talk about “democracy” or “peace” or “defense” or “collective security” is cant and hypocrisy. Every conception of patriotism and nationalism must be opposed. The only war worth fighting is for a world socialist society


At AIPAC, Netanyahu Launches “Desperate” Attack On BDS Movement
By Ali Abunimah

http://www.countercurrents.org/abunimah050314.htm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday launched a frontal assault on the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. “One movement that’s definitely on the wrong side of the moral divide is the movement to boycott Israel, the so-called BDS,” Netanyahu told the cheering delegates, in his keynote speech to the annual gathering of the powerful Israel lobby group AIPAC in Washington, DC


Erasing Academic Freedom In America
By William A. Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook050314.htm

The action threatened by Roskam and Lipinski through their H.R. 4009 seeks to curtail not just freedom of expression voiced against a political entity, the state of Israel, for perceived crimes against humanity in its destructive actions against Palestinian educational institutions and its students, but presents the American people, most particularly the faculty and administrators at American institutions, with obligations to support a state that has been found guilty of apartheid actions that require international legal action and could, at some time in the future, result in a finding that convicts this nation and its people of crimes against humanity


In Birzeit, ‘Trigger Happy’ Israel Vindicates Amnesty’s Report
By Nicola Nasser

http://www.countercurrents.org/nasser050314.htm

In the Palestinian West Bank town of Birzeit early last February 27, the Israeli (IDF) Occupation Forces (IOF) acted determinedly, under the media spotlights, to feed Amnesty International with a show case study to vindicate the report it released only hours earlier, entitled “Trigger-happy: Israel’s use of excessive force in the West Bank,” and to refute the Israeli official diplomatic denial of the contents thereof


A Medical Missionary’s Environmental Epiphany
By Herman Daly

http://www.countercurrents.org/daly050314.htm

I would gladly give up medicine tomorrow if by so doing I could have some influence on policy with regard to mud and soil. The world will die from lack of pure water and soil long before it will die from a lack of antibiotics or surgical skill and knowledge. But what can be done if the destroyers of our earth know what they are doing and do it still? What can be done if people really believe that free enterprise has to mean absolute lack of restraint on those who have no care for the future?


Edge-Dwelling: A Social Ecology For Our Time: Part 5:
Shamans, Midwives, And Hospice Workers
By Dianne Monroe

http://www.countercurrents.org/monroe050314.htm

Conclusion (for now) of a series about inhabiting and acting in the edge-places of our civilization as crucial for humanity’s passage through these challenging times – and inviting you to share your personal edge-dwelling experiences


Silencing Whistleblowers Obama-Style: Supreme Court Edition?
By Peter Van Buren

http://www.countercurrents.org/buren050314.htm

The Obama administration has just opened a new front in its ongoing war on whistleblowers. It’s taking its case against one man, former Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Air Marshal Robert MacLean, all the way to the Supreme Court. So hold on, because we’re going back down the rabbit hole with the Most Transparent Administration ever


The War on Emotions is Driving Us Insane
By Anita McKone

http://www.countercurrents.org/mckone050314.htm

Have you ever been provoked by someone into fear, anger or pain, and then blamed, punished or humiliated for feeling and expressing these feelings? This is a form of psychological torture which has very serious consequences. Here are three stories that demonstrate how commonly this form of torture occurs in human society


The Last Of Their Kind (PDF)
Book Review By Tim Flannery

http://www.countercurrents.org/flannery050314.pdf

Tim Flannery on Andrew Glikson’s Evolution of the Atmosphere, Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction, Errol Fuller’s Lost Animals and Clifford Frith’s The Woodhen


Cutting Through Fukushima Fog: Radiation in U.S.?
By Bernard Weiner
http://www.countercurrents.org/weiner050314.htm

Given the diametrically conflicting views of the Fukushima disaster, it's way beyond time for a full-court-press approach by the U.S. and global community to challenge what may be a whitewashed coverup, and with intensified scientific research and accurate figures and diagnosis, to get to the bottom of what's happening at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant. Doing nothing is not an option


Of Caste Massacre And Judicial Impunity: Bloodstains In Bathani Tola And Laxmanpur Bathe
By Anand Teltumbde

http://www.countercurrents.org/teltumbde050314.htm

When we are rightly agitated over the miscarriage of justice to the Laxmanpur-Bathe or Bathani Tola victims, we should not merely attribute it to the caste prejudice of the judges sitting on the bench alone. This prejudice pervades everywhere and is well integrated with the system. While the existential struggles should go on challenging them as they are seen, we must be clear about its mechanics as well as dynamics. It will tell us that the real solution to Bathani Tolas or Laxmanpur-Bathes lies only in the annihilation of castes


Ordinary People, Extraordinary Violence: Naxalites and Hindu Extremists in India
Book Review by S. Mohammed Irshad

http://www.countercurrents.org/irshad050314.htm

Violence of any kind does not get acceptance in a liberal society, no matter whether it is politically motivated or other reasons. Analysing violence can be either political or choice driven. The author has applied both methods to analyse religious violence in Gujrat and Naxal violence in Chatisgrah


NAFTA Partners Pushing North American Competitiveness Integration Agenda
By Dana Gabriel

http://www.countercurrents.org/gabriel050314.htm

The recent North American Leaders Summit in Mexico was seen as a perfect opportunity to try and kickstart the trilateral partnership. While there was no headline grabbers or major breakthroughs, the NAFTA partners still moved forward on some crucial issues that centered around North American competitiveness