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Historic Day Of Action To "Save The Internet!"
By Jon Queally

http://www.countercurrents.org/queally150514.htm

US Federal Communications Commission's plan would allow companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon to create a two-tiered Internet, with a fast lane for those who can afford it — and a dirt road for those who can't afford it


Can We Keep The Internet Free?
By Candace Clement

http://www.countercurrents.org/clement150514.htm

In this new world, smaller content providers and startups that could not pay for preferential treatment might not be able to compete because their delivery speeds would be much slower. And consumers would have to pay more because any company that agrees to strike deals with phone and cable companies would undoubtedly pass on those costs to their users


Blackwater Mercenaries Direct Kiev Regime’s Crackdown In Ukraine
By Alex Lantier

http://www.countercurrents.org/lantier150514.htm

Hundreds of US mercenaries are directing the repression of pro-Russian protesters in eastern Ukraine by the fascist forces of the NATO puppet regime in Kiev, according to German media report


The Hidden Costs Of Cheater Economics On Human Health And The Future Of Life On Earth
By Brent Blackwelder

http://www.countercurrents.org/blackwelder150514.htm

In a true cost steady state economy, the real costs of goods and services would not be disguised, hidden, or kept off the accounting ledger. The former head of Friends of the Earth England, Tony Juniper, makes a significant contribution to the discussion of a true cost economy in his new book What Has Nature Ever Done For US? How Money Really Does Grow on Trees


Wow! An Israeli Government Minister Speaks The Truth!
By Alan Hart

http://www.countercurrents.org/hart150514.htm

Who was it? Justice Minister and chief negotiator (with the Palestinians) Tzipi Livni. What did she say? On 9 May she said on Army Radio that Israeli settlements were to blame for the failure of peace talks. “The settlers want to prevent us from living a normal life and do not accept the authority of the law… Settlers are preventing us from reaching a resolution… Settlement construction makes it impossible to defend Israel around the world.”


On Nakba Day, Israelis Forced To Confront A Guilty Secret
By Jonathan Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook150514.htm

As marches and festivals are held today by Palestinians across the region to mark Nakba Day – commemorating the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and the erasure of more than 500 villages – Israelis will be watching


The U.S. Military’s New Normal In Africa
By Nick Turse

http://www.countercurrents.org/turse150514.htm

The Benghazi killings, unrest in South Sudan, and now the Boko Haram kidnappings have provided the U.S. with ways to bring a long-running “light footprint in Africa” narrative into line with a far heavier reality. Each crisis has provided the U.S. with further justification for publicizing a steady expansion on that continent that’s been underway but under wraps for years. New forces, new battlefields, and a new openness about a new “war,” to quote one of the men waging it. That’s the real new normal for the U.S. military in Africa -- and you don’t need to talk to Lieutenant Colonel Lee Magee to know it


Child Labor In USA And Need For CARE ACT
By Dr. Soma S. Marla

http://www.countercurrents.org/marla150514.htm

USA often preaches against child labor and campaigns to reduce child labor in developing countries such as Mexico and India but a recent report on child labor in USA released by Human Rights Advocate Group reveals many shocking statistics. The report reveals debilitating effects that tobacco plantations, for example have had on the health of children as young as seven years working there. For earning higher profits Capitalism does not discriminate young children, old or any category of population


Condemnation Of Communal Violence in Sikh Chawni:
Interfaith Forum Demands Judicial Enquiry
By Interfaith Forum - Press release on communal violence in Hyderabad

http://www.countercurrents.org/if150514.htm

We appeal to citizens of Hyderabad to ensure rumors do not vitiate the peaceful atmosphere of the city and to prevent any untoward incidences in their localities and ensure peace in the entire city


Isn’t ‘Illegal Bangladeshi’ Racist Shorthand For Bengali Speaking Muslims In Assam
By Bonojit Hussain

http://www.countercurrents.org/hussain150514.htm

A lot has been written about the underlying causes of these recurring targeted killings and we need not dwell upon that here. What should bother us all is how quickly discourse over the recurring massacres in BTAD is transformed into a debate on the question of illegal immigration from Bangladesh, wherein the victims are immediately labeled as ‘illegal Bangladeshis’. Even if the victims were ‘illegal Bangladeshis’, the barbaric act of killing 46 people in a span of 36 hours is a crime against humanity


Gross Violations Of Prof. G. N. Saibaba’s Human Rights Continue In Judicial Custody
By Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association

http://www.countercurrents.org/jtsa150514.htm

The Gadchiroli I.G. claims that it was the court’s issuance of a non-bailable warrant in FIR case number 3017/2013 (Aheri PS, Dist. Gadchiroli) against Prof. G.N. Saibaba that led them to arrest him. Did the court also order that a person who suffers 90 per cent disability be blindfolded and abducted? That no arrest warrant be served? That his wife should not even be officially informed of her husband’s arrest?