CounterCurrents: Ukraine And The Danger Of Nuclear War

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Ukraine And The Danger Of Nuclear War
By John Scales Avery

http://www.countercurrents.org/avery130314.htm

The current situation in Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula is an extremely dangerous one. Unless restraint and a willingness to compromise are shown by all of the the parties involved, the crisis might escalate uncontrollably into a full-scale war, perhaps involving nuclear weapons. What is urgently required is for all the stakeholders to understand each other's positions and feelings. Public understanding of the points of view of all sides is also very much needed


Obama Issues New Threats Against Russia
By Chris Marsden

http://www.countercurrents.org/marsden130314.htm

Following a White House meeting with interim Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk designed to underscore US support for the newly installed government and ratchet up pressure on Russia, President Barack Obama issued new threats against Moscow


Al-Aqsa vs. Israel: The Lurking Danger Beneath
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud130314.htm

Something sinister is brewing around and below al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, and it has the hallmark of a familiar Israeli campaign to strip the Mosque of its Muslim Arab identity. This time around, however, the stakes are much higher


Washington’s Back-to-the-Future Military Policies in Africa
By Nick Turse

http://www.countercurrents.org/turse130314.htm

A new type of expeditionary warfare is underway in Africa, but there’s little to suggest that America’s backing of a former colonial power will ultimately yield the long-term successes that years of support for local proxies could not. So far, the U.S. has been willing to let European and African forces do the fighting, but if these interventions drag on and the violence continues to leap from country to country as yet more militant groups morph and multiply, the risk only rises of Washington wading ever deeper into post-colonial wars with an eerily colonial look. “Leveraging and partnering with the French” is the current way to go, according to Washington. Just where it’s going is the real question


Death Of A Trade Unionist: Bob Crow, A Genuine Socialist Who Remained True To His Principles
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/hunter130314.htm

British trade union leader Bob Crow died suddenly at age 52 on Tuesday of a suspected heart attack. He had been leader of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers Union since 2002. Once described as a ‘dinosaur’, a relic from a different period, he stayed firm to his left wing principles and fought tooth and nail for his members’ rights


Smash or Be Smashed? Lenin's Theory of The State
By Thomas Riggins

http://www.countercurrents.org/riggins130314.htm

We must remember that bourgeois rule takes many forms but in essence even the most democratic bourgeois state is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (of the 1% over the 99% as it were). Until we arrive at a classless society we have only two kinds of state to live in-- both of them class dictatorships, one of the 1% over the 99%, the other of the 99% over the 1%-- there is no third, so in the words of the old song "Which side are you on?"


1933 of 2014 ! :Time To Break New Grounds In Confronting Communal Fascism!!
By Subhash Gatade

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatade130314.htm

Any sane person would agree that the situation as it exists today is just an indication of the emerging crisis which is in store for us. While the immediate question on the agenda before many of us is what will happen in 2014 when the elections are held, we cannot shy away from the fact that there are deeper causes involved and that is why a man worthy to be condemned as Modern Day Nero is 'Hriday Samrat' for many amongst the crowd


Bara Imambara And The Head Cover Regulation For Women
By Concerned Citizens

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc130314.htm

Open Letter to Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court by concerned citizens regarding the Imambara administration's decision to make head cover for women mandatory


Say NO To Death Penalty!
By Concerned Citizens

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc130314A.htm

More than 25 human rights activists representing People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR), Delhi, Civil Liberties Committee, AP, Progressive Democratic Forum, Karnataka, BMC / CDRO – West Bengal, People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Karnataka, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu and journalists, lawyers, other professionals and citizens gathered in Chennai on March 8, 2014 and demanded the complete abolition of the death penalty


Breaking The Wall Through Art
By Ravi Nitesh

http://www.countercurrents.org/nitesh130314.htm

With the shared history and culture, India and Pakistan can make the cultural exchange as one of the main tools to enhance P2P (people to people) bonding. With the time, these bonds will only benefit these countries and its people