CounterCurrents: Civil War Spreads In Eastern Ukraine Amid Attacks By Kiev Government, Drones: Obama’s Invisible War, et al

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Civil War Spreads In Eastern Ukraine Amid Attacks By Kiev Government
By Alex Lantier

http://www.countercurrents.org/lantier060514.htm

Bloody fighting engulfed the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine yesterday, as forces of the US puppet regime in Kiev assaulted cities held by armed, pro-Russian protesters. Clashes mounted in Slavyansk, an industrial city and center of the pro-Russian forces north of Donetsk city. Yesterday, the Kiev regime reported that four Ukrainian troops had been killed and 30 injured in clashes in the city, while pro-Russian self-defense forces said that they had suffered 3 dead, 10 missing, and 30 wounded. A 30-year-old civilian woman was shot and killed on her balcony


The Crisis In Ukraine: What Can Be Done?
By Floyd Rudmin

http://www.countercurrents.org/rudmin060514.htm

The pieces of the Ukraine crisis all come from the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union 25 years ago: a) oligarchs controlling and corrupting the government, b) regions that are predominantly Russian-speaking, c) neo-fascists with a hatred of Russians and other minorities, and d) NATO nations investing in chances to imperil Russia. It will be difficult for Ukraine, EU, and Russia to escape horrific outcomes unless concerted actions are taken to change the course of events. People need to press their governments to start acting for the well-being of the region’s societies, and stop acting out historical bad habits and loyalty to alliances


CIA And FBI Agents In Kiev 'Assisting Ukraine Security'
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc060514.htm

The German newspaper Bild revealed that numerous US CIA and FBI agents are helping the coup-appointed government in Kiev to “fight organized crime” in the south east of the country


Agriculture's GHG Emission On The Rise
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc06014B.htm

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture, forestry and fisheries have nearly doubled over the past fifty years and could increase an additional 30 percent by 2050, without greater efforts to reduce them


Drones: Obama’s Invisible War
By Ismail Salami

http://www.countercurrents.org/salami060514.htm

In the midst of a crisis which has in recent weeks created a political chasm between Russia and the United States, there is an ongoing carnage in the name of combating terrorism against Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Somalia. The story of the CIA-led killer drones which are killing women and children on a daily basis is a tale accorded inexcusably scant attention in media. Indeed it is being ignored


Ensure The Internet Is Open To All
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers

http://www.countercurrents.org/zeese060514.htm

To ensure the Internet is open to all on an equal basis we must act now to prevent mega-corporations from destroying Internet Freedom


Complaining To Obama: Distorting The Truth
By Chandra Muzaffar

http://www.countercurrents.org/muzaffar060514.htm

The views expressed, and the stances adopted, by a number of local politicians and activists in the midst of President Barack Obama’s official visit to Malaysia at the end of April raise some important questions about their understanding of the nation


Memo To John Kerry From An Israeli Official Re: the Word "Apartheid"
By John Spritzler

http://www.countercurrents.org/spritzler060514.htm

This memo from an anonymous top Israeli official might have been obtained and then made public


Saving Kerry’s Life?
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz060514.htm

Here's a little thought experiment: Let's say I'm on such a corner as a pedestrian pushes past me -- too harried to realize that he is stepping directly into the path of an oncoming SUV. I reach out, grab hold of his jacket, and yank his back to safety… only to realize it was none other than U.S. Secretary of State, John F. Kerry


Postcard From The End Of America : Manhattan
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh060514.htm

Los Angeles has its Skid Row, San Francisco the Tenderloin, and you can find hundreds of roofless Americans sprawling all over Northwest DC, the showcase quarter, but much of Manhattan has become quite sanitized, purged of not just the homeless but any other kind of poorer Americans, as well as the artsy, Bohemian types, who have mostly migrated to Brooklyn. Pumped up by Wall Street, much of Manhattan has become off limits to all but the super affluent


The GM Biotech Sector's Contempt For Democracy: Don't Be Fooled By The Propaganda
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter060514.htm

The majority of the British public who hold a view on genetically modified (GM) crops are against them (1). Yet the push to get them into the country and onto plates is in full swing. Strategically placed politicians like Secretary of State for Rural and Environmental Affairs Owen Paterson and scientists such as Professor Jim Dunwell and Sir David Baulcombe are conveying the message that GM food is both safe and necessary


Book Review: “God's Fifth Column” By William Gerhardie
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060514.htm

William Gerhardie's brilliant anti-war book “God's Fifth Column. A biography of the Age 1890-1940” [1] should be a must-read for all people around the world as we mark in 2014 the centenary of the start of World War 1, the “war to end all wars” that was inexorably succeeded by the 5-fold greater carnage of World War 2 and thence the prospect of annihilation of nearly all of humanity in a nuclear World War 3 or through climate genocide from climate change inaction


A Strange, Soulless Man And His Utterly Failed Presidency
By John Chuckman

http://www.countercurrents.org/chuckman060514.htm

We perhaps can never know what has motivated Obama’s behavior as President. Certainly the memoirs of retired Presidents rarely enlighten us on anything of importance. Is he, as some in his own party have suggested, simply not up to the job? Of course, when they say that, they are not using the same criteria this writer does. In America, even the supposed left is never far from mounting a horse and charging up San Juan Hill. Is he merely responding to the fact of the awesome power of America’s unelected government?


Economic Freedom Fighters of South Africa: From Economic Apartheid To True Democracy
By Garikai Chengu

http://www.countercurrents.org/chengu060514.htm

Contrary to the Westernized, popular belief that South Africa is a “model democracy", it is one of Africa's most dysfunctional democracies. South Africa's apartheid regime is remembered as one of the worst crimes against humanity of the 20th century. The economic system that underpinned it remains alive and well today


Modi: It’s Not Just What He Did, It’s What He Will Do…
By Trevor Selvam

http://www.countercurrents.org/selvam060514.htm

The mall-frenzied classes in India are firmly convinced that Narendra Modi is coming to power like the Kalki Avatar or the Messiah of the Old Testament. The Congress and its camp followers are lost in a trance singing the same tired verses about communalism, fascism, secularism and Hindutva terror. Some Muslims and other minorities have been suckered into believing that “growth” trickles down and it’s all for the good ultimately, like the coming of the Imam Mahdi. It is time to take stock of what Modi will actually do when and if he ascends the throne


Tosa Maidan: Victims of National Interest
By Omkar Khandekar

http://www.countercurrents.org/khandekar060514.htm

Tosa Maidan, the meadow sprawling over 11,200 ha was a designated firing range till April 18, 2014. There were 63 deaths caused due to shells that remained unexploded when fired. Furthermore, 43 villagers were left permanently disabled


India Won?!
By Dr Mansoor Durrani

http://www.countercurrents.org/durrani060514.htm

Two more rounds of voting to go. I hope my dream for India remaining a secular (and not becoming a fascist) state comes true. That will be a victory for India