Counter Currents: Ukrainian Regime Launches Fascist-Led Crackdown, Fraud With “Russian Soldier In Ukraine ” Photo: US-KievFalse Claims Exposed, et al

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Ukrainian Regime Launches Fascist-Led Crackdown
By Alex Lantier

http://www.countercurrents.org/lantier250414.htm

The Western-backed regime in Kiev and fascist militias allied to it launched a bloody crackdown against pro-Russian protests across eastern Ukraine yesterday. With the Kremlin massing forces on Russia’s border with Ukraine, threatening to intervene defend ethnic Russians, the situation is on the brink of a war between Russia and Ukraine, which could escalate into a direct clash between Russia and NATO


Fraud With “Russian Soldier In Ukraine ” Photo: US-KievFalse Claims Exposed
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc250414A.htm

Photographs presented as proof of Russian involvement in Ukraine by the US and Kiev junta has been exposed as unverified and contradictory to the claims. Freelance photographer Maxim Dondyuk said photos were taken without permission from his Instagram account. The photographs were published on Monday by the New York Times


Marshall Islands Sues US, Obama And US Secretaries of Defense And Energy
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc250414B.htm

In an unprecedented move for a peaceful, nuclear arms free-world, the Marshall Islands, a Pacific nation, has sued nine nuclear-armed powers including the US. The country has also sued the US president Barack Obama and three US secretaries


The Signing Of The Palestinian Spring
By Dr Vacy Vlazna

http://www.countercurrents.org/vlazna250414.htm

The signing of 15 UN multilateral treaties and conventions by the Palestinian Authority signifies the end of its collaborative role as Israel’s proxy police force and consequently is the first step towards Palestinian unity and the long overdue Palestinian Spring


American Democracy Now An Oligarchy
By Joel S. Hirschhorn

http://www.countercurrents.org/joel250414.htm

History has been made. But few Americans are aware of it or angry about it. I say: Wake up Americans. A war has been waged against US democracy, from the inside. Time to pick a side and fight back


Let This Earth Day Be The Last
By Wen Stephenson

http://www.countercurrents.org/stephenson250414.htm

End the dishonesty, the deception. Stop lying to yourselves, and to your children. Stop pretending that the crisis can be “solved,” that the planet can be “saved,” that business more-or-less as usual—what progressives and environmentalists have been doing for forty-odd years and more—is morally or intellectually tenable. Let go of the pretense that “environmentalism” as we know it—virtuous green consumerism, affluent low-carbon localism, head-in-the-sand conservationism, feel-good greenwashed capitalism—comes anywhere near the radical response our situation requires


An Earth Day Under The Trees
By Anitha.S

http://www.countercurrents.org/anitha250414.htm

An Earth day under the trees with children painting and birds singing


Public Spaces or Urban Commons?
By Sushmita Verma

http://www.countercurrents.org/verma250414.htm

Indian cities are finally becoming a bourgeoisie affair with little space for poor as Partha Chatterjee claimed in an essay few years back. The rise of elitist NGOs and acceptance of development in the name of exploitation of many and benefit of a few has led to the strengthening of residents' associations etc, many of whom claim their rights on public space and commons and ensure that certain sections of society become more excluded than ever in the name of promoting aesthetic sense