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Germany Threatens “Massive Damage” To Russia Ahead Of Crimea Referendum
By Johannes Stern and Alex Lantier

http://www.countercurrents.org/lantier140314.htm

Ahead of Sunday’s referendum on the independence of Crimea, Berlin and Washington are escalating a campaign of threats and sanctions against Russia, risking civil war in Ukraine and war with Russia itself. Addressing the German parliament on Thursday, Chancellor Angela Merkel warned of a “catastrophe” unless Russia backs down


The Failure Of German Leadership: Merkel Whores For Washington
By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts140314.htm

Washington, enabled by its compliant but stupid NATO puppets, is pushing the Ukrainian situation closer to war. German Chancellor Merkel has failed her country, Europe, and world peace. Germany is the strength of the EU and NATO. Had Merkel said “No” to sanctions on Russia, that would have been the end of the crisis that Washington is brewing, a crisis unlikely to be ended short of war


On the U.S. Government's Hypocritical Demand
That Russia Respect Sovereignty And International Law
By Matt Peppe

http://www.countercurrents.org/peppe140314.htm

I am not suggesting that Russia is right or that they are in compliance with international law, merely that there is an extremely important historical context that U.S. officials are ignoring, if not flat out denying. They are trying to demonize Putin, turning him into the next Saddam Hussein, Qaddafi, Castro or Chavez. Much like the two minutes hate of Orwell's 1984, the state needs official enemies to survive. Their evilness provides the contrast to the state's own benevolence. In reality, Russia is acting rationally and in accordance with their interests and those of ethnic Russians outside the relatively new borders of the Russian Federation


Ukraine, America's Midas Touch – Again!
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

http://www.countercurrents.org/ulrich140314.htm

Will Ukraine, a state that is not one nation, survive the assault on its diversity and its sovereignty? The unforeseen circumstances, the unpredicted reactions may well turn Ukraine into the last of America's ‘Midas touch'


World Has No Idea How U.S. Decides On Wars
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson140314.htm

People from Yemen and Pakistan and elsewhere have told me, and have testified in the U.S. Congress, that they have a hard time convincing their neighbors that everyone in the United States doesn't hate them. There are buzzing killer robots flying over their houses night and day and every now and then blowing a bunch of people up with a missile with very little rhyme or reason that anyone nearby can decipher


Why I Didn’t Make It To Gaza For International Women’s Day
By Medea Benjamin

http://www.countercurrents.org/benjamin140314.htm

When I boarded the plane to Cairo, Egypt, to make sure everything was in place for the women’s delegation headed to Gaza, I had no reason to think I’d end up in a jail cell at the Cairo airport and then violently deported


Return Of The Righteous
By William A. Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook140314.htm

With “eloquent” words Michele Bachmann returned to the declarations of the dominionists who thrived during the George W. Bush administration, calling again for more war on behalf of that foreign state that receives 8 million a day from American taxpayers as it resumes its demand that America carry its “existential fear against Iran,” to the bombing and slaughter of those who defy its demands as they defy International Law. Why is it that Americans must be led by religious fanatics and obsequiously obey the “mouthings” of superstitious people who properly belong in the year 2014 BCE, i.e. BC? “The congresswoman was echoing an End Times belief that holds that a massive battle will take place in Israel, triggering the Last Days”


Realistic Left Politics In Texas
By Robert Jensen and Patrick Youngblood

http://www.countercurrents.org/jensen140314.htm

Is it unrealistic to pursue left politics in Texas — or anywhere in the United States? Quite the contrary: The ecological crises, economic catastrophes and immorality of empire lead us to conclude that mainstream politics is a dead-end. We remain committed to left politics because we are realistic


Film Review: “Utopia” By John Pilger Exposes Genocidal Maltreatment Of
Indigenous Australians By Apartheid Australia
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya140314.htm

John Pilger's “Utopia” is a must-see film about the continuing Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide by an Apartheid Australia. What can decent people do? Decent people should (a) inform everyone they can, and (b) urge and apply Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all people, parties, politicians, companies and corporations complicit in this ongoing, genocidal and ethnocidal Apartheid Australian maltreatrment of Indigenous Australians


Gender And Caste Discrimination: Apartheid In ‘New' India
By Graham Peebles

http://www.countercurrents.org/peebles140314.htm

A suffocating patriarchal shadow hangs over the lives of women throughout India. From all sections, castes and classes of society, women are victim of its repressive, controlling effects. Those subjected to the heaviest burden of discrimination are from the Dalit or Scheduled Castes, known in less liberal democratic times as the 'untouchables'. The name may have been banned but pervasive negative attitudes of mind remain, as do the extreme levels of abuse and servitude experienced by Dalit women. They experience multiple levels of discrimination and exploitation, much of which is barbaric, degrading, appallingly violent, and totally inhumane