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Massacre In Odessa , 20 Killed In Sloviansk and Kramatorsk; Ukraine On The Brink Of Civil War
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc030514.htm

Over the last 24 hours there has been a serious escalation in violence in eastern Ukraine . Violent deaths have been showered over Ukraine as neo-Nazi Right Sector activists in Odessa have burned to death at least 46 activists opposing the authority in Kiev while Kiev troops have killed at least 20 in the eastern cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk in overnight assault over anti-Kiev protesters. Street battles have started in parts of east Ukraine


Washington Responsible For Fascist Massacre In Odessa
By Mike Head

http://www.countercurrents.org/head030514.htm

With the Kiev regime failing to suppress the opposition, Washington appears intent on provoking a confrontation and then accusing Russia of preventing the presidential poll from proceeding. Meanwhile, on the pretext of training exercises, US troops are being deployed in the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, as well as Poland, bringing NATO forces right up to Russia’s borders


Afghan Landslide Takes At Least 2,500 Lives
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc030514A.htm

Death toll in the Afghan landslide has risen to at least 2,500. Thousands of Afghan people in the north-eastern mountain village are still missing. Hundreds of people are now camped out overnight in near-freezing conditions


Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels Are The Highest In 3 Million Years
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc030514B.htm

Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are the highest in 3 million years. The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere averaged more than 400 parts per million throughout April, the first time the planet's monthly average has surpassed that threshold. The data from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California , San Diego , shows how world leaders are failing to rein in greenhouse gases that climate scientists say are warming the planet


Secrets About The Origin Of Life Revealed
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc030514C.htm

How the first organisms on Earth could have become metabolically active? Researchers from the University of Cambridge have published the details of the answer to the question. The results permit scientists to speculate how primitive cells learned to synthesize their organic components -- the molecules that form RNA, lipids and amino acids. The findings also suggest an order for the sequence of events that led to the origin of life


Stephen Hawking Warns About Use Of Drones In War
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc030514D.htm

Stephen Hawking has warned against the use of drones in warfare, with the world caught in “an IT arms race fuelled by unprecedented investment and building on an increasingly mature theoretical foundation”


Where Is The Political Base Of Iran's President?
By Akbar E. Torbat

http://www.countercurrents.org/torbat030514.htm

Rouhani's political base will be further tested as he has begun to implement the next phase of neoliberal reforms prescribed by the International Monetary Fund. While the Iranian economy is already in recession, It remains to be seen how the Iranians, 95% of whom have registered to get a monthly subsidy check, will react to Rouhani's economic austerity program


What Is The Main Issue Of Modi, BJP And NDA During The 2014 Lok Sabha Election-
Development or Majority Communalism?
By Thomas Kocherry

http://www.countercurrents.org/kocherry030514.htm

This is the last article written By Thomas Kochery who passed away today. He sent out this article at 3.50 AM this morning. He passed hours after sending out this article. Thomas Kocherry was a social activist, priest, and lawyer who helped found the Kerala Swatantra Matsyathozhilali Federation. He was also a Special Invitee at World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) and Executive Committee Member. of National Fishworkers' Forum (NFF), India


Book Review: The Fiction of Fact-Finding: Modi & Godhra
By KS Subramanian

http://www.countercurrents.org/subramanian030514.htm

In this remarkable and courageous book, Manoj Mitta (senior editor with the Times of India who writes on legal, human rights and public policy issues) mounts a devastating critique of the final report of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by RK Raghavan, the reports of the amicus curiae Raju Ramachandran, the Chief Minister and aspiring prime minister Narendra Modi, the Gujarat judiciary and by implication the state and central governments too for failing to deliver justice to the over 2000 victims of organised violence in the Gujarat pogrom, 2002, which caused extensive destruction of property as well


Debating Elections, Debating Development
By Ram Puniyani

http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani030514.htm

Mascarenhas, being a religious priest is saying that ‘No magic wand or divine miracles will come to the aid of the Indian people’, this at a time when Narendra Modi is claiming that God has chosen him to lead the country. Modi is in line with some of the recent happenings in the world when God was invoked, George Bush invoked God in invasion of Afghanistan and Tony Blair did the same in the context of attacking Iraq!