Postcard From The End Of America : Joliet

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Postcard From The End Of America : Joliet
By Linh Dinh
http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh040314.htm

The story of Joliet is familiar enough. With its industries gone, a city turns to the casino as a last ditch salvation, but cannot reverse its decline. The details of this disintegration, though, can be interesting

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No War, Says Putin
By Jon Queally

http://www.countercurrents.org/queally040314.htm

As US Secretary of State arrives in Kiev with 1 billion dollar loan package, Russia's President Vladimir Putin addressed the world in a televised press conference Tuesday saying the tense situation in Crimea would not descend into all out war in Ukraine and that military force would only be used as a last resort


US Steps Up Pressure On Russia Amid Growing Risk Of War Over Ukraine
By Stefan Steinberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/steinberg040314.htm

The military standoff between Ukraine and Russia continued to escalate. The Western-backed, anti-Russian regime that came to power in Kiev last month in a fascist-led putsch began sending out mobilization orders to 1 million reservists, anticipating a possible war with Russia


Ousting A Democratically Elected Leader In Ukraine And Elsewhere
By Chandra Muzaffar

http://www.countercurrents.org/muzaffar040314.htm

If Ukraine is on the brink of a catastrophe, it is mainly because the present regime in Kiev and its supporters, backed by certain Western powers had violated a fundamental principle of democratic governance. They had ousted a democratically elected president through illegal means. President Viktor Yanukovich who had come to power through a free and fair election in 2010 should have been removed through the ballot-box


Vladimir Putin, The World's Last True Statesman
By John Chuckman

http://www.countercurrents.org/chuckman040314.htm

The fact is that we will have a better world where there are independent actors able enough to thwart a world bully from kicking sand into everyone’s eyes, an activity which appears now to have become a favorite American pastime. How is a world dictator-nation any less contemptible and dangerous than a country dictator-leader? It’s not


Israel’s Dirty Role In The Syrian Crisis
By Kourosh Ziabari

http://www.countercurrents.org/ziabari040314.htm

Israel is a big accomplice in the atrocities that are taking place in Syria. It’s playing a dirty role in the Arab country, but it doesn’t seem that it would be held accountable over its war crimes, like the past 66 years that it has been immune to accountability and responsibility before the international community by virtue of its “passionate attachment” with the United States


The Wolves of Psycho Street: America’s Economic Enslavement
By The Psychopathic Corporate Elite
By Richard Gale & Gary Null

http://www.countercurrents.org/null040314.htm

As long as such people are placed in charge of banks and firms that control so much of our economic lives, and we continue to elect legislators and presidents based upon charm rather than true integrity and moral substance, the US as a nation is destined to continue on its long descent into psychopathology and towards a future of narcissistic bliss for an oligarchic elite and immense suffering for everyone else


Monsanto Causing Extinction Of The Monarch Butterfly
By Frosty Wooldridge

http://www.countercurrents.org/wolldridge040314.htm

Monarch butterflies vanish faster with each passing year -- and all signs point to Monsanto as the main culprit. Major press outlets worldwide reported last month that Monarchs face "grave danger", with their population reaching the lowest numbers ever recorded. Now, an independent study linked the monarch's decline with Monsanto’s "Round-up" herbicide. One of the most beautiful phenomena in the natural world -- the annual mass migration of 60 million monarchs from Canada to Mexico – stands on the verge of being a relic of history


Corporate Moles In High Places: India Is Capitulating To The GM Biotech Industry
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter040314.htm

Can genetically modified (GM) food crops be kept out of India? Things seemed positive when, as Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh put a moratorium on GM eggplant (BT Brinjal). However, he has now been replaced. Veerappa Moily, India's Oil Minister, is now also India's new Environment Minister. Moily has approved field trials of 200 GM food crops on behalf of companies like Monsanto, Mahyco, Bayer and BASF. Monsanto's shares surged by 77 percent as soon as Moily's decision was announced


Postcard From The End Of America : Joliet
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh040314.htm

The story of Joliet is familiar enough. With its industries gone, a city turns to the casino as a last ditch salvation, but cannot reverse its decline. The details of this disintegration, though, can be interesting


Open Letter To Australian Human Rights Commission Condemns
Pro-Zionist Anti-Jewish Anti-Semitism In Apartheid Australia
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya040314.htm

Politically correct racist Apartheid Australia has reached a new low in its world-leading support for Apartheid Israel and by permitting, without public challenge, the egregiously false defamation of anti-racist Jews critical of human rights abuses by the racist, democracy-by-genocide, Zionist rogue state


Kerala's Shame: When The Police Do Moral Policing!
By K.P. Sasi

http://www.countercurrents.org/sasi040314.htm

Today, the struggle is between creativity and muscle power, between culture and goondaism, between misuse of power and democratization of power, between freedom of expression and suppression of discourse, between respect for women and patriarchy, between access to commons and acquisition, between moral policing and moral rights, between State repression and people, between fascism and secularism, between national chauvinism and freedom and perhaps the list may go on if we really go on analysing the recent incidents in Thrissur