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US, European Union Impose Sanctions Against Russia
By Alex Lantier

http://www.countercurrents.org/lantier070314.htm

Western powers ratcheted up sanctions against Russia Thursday, while the US mounts a major military buildup in Eastern Europe. The immediate pretext for sanctions from both the US and Europe was the vote in the regional parliament of the Crimean Peninsula to prepare secession from Ukraine and association to Russia, subject to a popular referendum later this month


The Looting Of Ukraine Has Begun
By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts070314.htm

According to a report in Kommersant-Ukraine, the finance ministry of Washington’s stooges in Kiev who are pretending to be a government has prepared an economic austerity plan that will cut Ukrainian pensions from $160 to $80 so that Western bankers who lent money to Ukraine can be repaid at the expense of Ukraine’s poor. It is Greece all over again


American Unlimited Imperialism:Now Ukraine
By Prof. Francis A. Boyle

http://www.countercurrents.org/boyle070314.htm

It is the Unlimited Imperialists along the lines of Alexander, Rome, Napoleon and Hitler who are now in charge of conducting American foreign policy. The factual circumstances surrounding the outbreaks of both the First World War and the Second World War currently hover like twin Swords of Damocles over the heads of all humanity


America’s Bewildered Time Capsule And Russians Are Coming
By Mahboob A. Khawaja

http://www.countercurrents.org/khawaja070314.htm

The Russians, Chinese, and Iranians are trying to avoid confrontation with Washington, as war with the modern nuclear weapons would destroy all life on planet earth.... Considering the utterly insane government ruling in Washington, if human life exists in 2020, it will be a miracle


What Europe Should Know About US Mass Surveillance
By Edward Snowden

http://www.countercurrents.org/snowden070314.htm

What follows is a statement addressed to an investigative panel of the European Parliament looking into the nature and scope of U.S. surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency and its partner agencies in Europe. Subsequent to the statement are specific answers to written questions posed by the panel to Mr. Snowden


A Painful Conundrum - The Hidden Tax Trap
By Rosemarie Jackowski

http://www.countercurrents.org/jackowski070314.htm

This makes the Banking Mortgage Fraud scandal look like child's play. In either case, families lose their homes. Stated very simply, Medicaid is now a loan program. Low income citizens need to have this information. They need to be told that they have been singled out to re-pay health care expenses. Poverty has now been institutionalized and will pass from one generation to the next


A Little Idea: Embrace The Process (Occupy This Book Excerpt)
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz070314.htm

I ask you: What “little idea” can you bring to your local activist movement, and how soon will you create this “beautiful beginning”?


Memories Of Kashmir: Past, Present And Hope
By Dr. M Ashraf Bhat

http://www.countercurrents.org/bhat070314.htm

The conflict induced alternative testimonies and personal narratives must not be treated as mere complaints, but the painful internalised memories of the conflict, which must not be repeated or forwarded to the coming generations. These narratives are altogether different from the conventional approaches of theorising the ‘Kashmir conflict’ as they are based on the personal experiences: on real events which we, as Kashmiris, have witnessed during the last three decades


When Cricket 'Threatens' The 'Integrity' Of A Country
By Devika Mittal

http://www.countercurrents.org/mittal070314.htm

The reference is to the action of the State Government of Uttar Pradesh and Subharti University (a private university in meerut) taken against the kashmiri students who cheered for the Pakistani Cricket Team. Both the government and the university have maligned the concept of fearless minds. They have instilled fear in the minds of the citizens who shall now think before praising any country for any reason


Baghdad Central
By Neve Gordon

http://www.countercurrents.org/gordon070314.htm

Center-staging the calamities of collaboration, Elliott Colla’s noir thriller exposes the moral and strategic failures of military occupation