CounterCurrents: Hawks Push For Iraq War, The Rule Of Law Prevents It

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Hawks Push For Iraq War, The Rule Of Law Prevents It
By Kevin Zeese

http://www.countercurrents.org/zeese150614.htm

The same people who got the US into the mistaken Iraq War are now urging President Obama to use military force in Iraq again. Republican hawks are using the violence in Iraq as a political tool that is escalating pressure for US military intervention. But, if the US follows the rule of law — both US and international law — the president does not have the authority to attack Iraq without Congressional and UN authorization


Letter From Baghdad In The Growing Shadow Of War
By Nesreen Melek

http://www.countercurrents.org/melek150614.htm

I will never forgive the Americans for the atrocities they committed in Iraq. The ones who are still here are protected in their Green Zone castle. For them, Baghdad has become another American city. I had lunch a week ago by the river Dijlah (Tigris), and there was a long wall—the Great Wall of America—facing the restaurant. I told my friend that it will be hard for me to swallow my food knowing that my people’s killers are facing us and are safe behind that wall


How Obama Lost Iraq And The War on Terror
By Shamus Cooke

http://www.countercurrents.org/cooke150614.htm

The secular nations of Iraq, Libya, and Syria were virtually free of terrorism before U.S. military intervention, and now they’re infested. The war on terror has done nothing but destabilize the Middle East, create more terrorists, and drain the U.S. economy of billions of dollars it could have otherwise used towards jobs and social programs


Iran versus The West: The Oil And The Nuke
By Akbar E. Torbat

http://www.countercurrents.org/torbat150614.htm

Iran has had two major disputes with the West that involved international legal organizations' scrutiny: its oil nationalization case in early 1950s and its nuclear program controversy in the past two decades. In both cases, Iran was put under economic sanctions while pursuing its national interests


From Egypt To Afghanistan : Electing Our Own Slavery
By Sherif Samir & Dr. Hakim

http://www.countercurrents.org/samir150614.htm

While people know that perpetuating the unequal status quo dominated by a greedy and militarized elite is enslaving for the human spirit, a helpless feeling prevails that we can't do much but vote once every four of five years


U.S. Resumes Drone Attacks In Pakistan After Six Month Lull
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali

http://www.countercurrents.org/ghazali150614.htm

The United States Wednesday (July 11) resumed drone strikes against targets in Pakistan with two successive strike in North Waziristan killing 16 people


That Much Petroleum Is That Much Bullshit
By Nicholas C. Arguimbau

http://www.countercurrents.org/arguimbau150614.htm

China Won the Oil War, and the Shale Oil Revolution is About to Shrivel Up


After The Harvest: Learning To Leave Th Planet Gracefully
By Robert Jensen

http://www.countercurrents.org/jensen150614.htm

The days of plenty are over, the high-energy phase of human life is coming to a close, and we have not yet learned all that we need to know — about ourselves or the world — to adapt to a new era


We Must Fix Civilisation To Survive
By Lionel Anet

http://www.countercurrents.org/anet150614.htm

Humanity is about to commit the greatest possible crime on all living things including ourselves


Why The U.S. Must Not Arm Syria’s Opposition: In Disagreement With Robert Ford
By Taj Hashmi

http://www.countercurrents.org/hashmi150614.htm

Paying heed to not-so-responsible advice to arm groups to topple the Assad regime would be disastrous and counterproductive. America should not ignore Russia, Iran, and Iraq (among others) who have geo-politic and other interests in Syria. It is time to work for restoring order in both Syria and more so in Iraq, in collaboration with others, including Russia, China, Syria, Iran, and Iraq


Syrian Students Restore Our Global Heritage, Tesserae by Tesserae….
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb150614.htm

. The people of Berhalia, like so many other Syrians this observer has met, feel deeply connected to their cultural heritage, and they pled their case to fighters on both sides of the conflict. Spare the country’s antiquities from the ravages of war—this was their message. An eyewitness reported that the hardened fighters appeared somehow moved, and soon a delegation of specialists in archaeological preservation left Damascus for Berhalia village to investigate


Foreign Policy Bait And Switch
By Jack A. Smith

http://www.countercurrents.org/smith150614.htm

President Obama chose to ignore the most important strategic aspect of U.S. foreign policy in his major address May 28 at West Point graduation ceremonies. It was perhaps thought politically wise to emphasize current events rather than military preparations for a possible major future confrontation with China


Boko Haram And The Crisis Of Authority In The Muslim World: The Shariah's Lost Soul
By Maryam Sakeenah

http://www.countercurrents.org/sakeenah150614.htm

The founder of Islam had no time for extreme zealotry. ‘May the fanatics perish,’ he once commented. If he detected extreme or hateful behaviour in anyone he would condemn it immediately. Present-day leaders recall this, as they struggle to find ways of fighting terrorism


America To Watch Entanglement In Iraq’s Bloody Saga
By Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja

http://www.countercurrents.org/khawaja150614.htm

The informed and mature global community looks towards to those thinkers, educated and honest proactive leaders enriched with coherent unity of moral, spiritual, intellectual and physical visions and abilities to be instrumental to rescue the mankind from the planned encroachment of the few global warlords


A Few Minutes With The Iron Lady Of India
By Ravi Nitesh

http://www.countercurrents.org/nitesh150614.htm

An interaction with the world’s longest hunger striker


Report Of The 14 May 2014 Accident At The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant
By VT Padmanabhan,R. Ramesh, V Pugazhendi,Raminder Kaur, Joseph Makolil

http://www.countercurrents.org/kknp150614.pdf

AERB's accident analysis released by the PIB of the Government of India is not convincing as it does not tally with the available evidence. Incidentally, the 14 May accident was a culmination of the events that began on 9th May 2014, a day after the Supreme Court of India refused to order an independent investigation of the affair-la-KKNPP, on the strength of the assurances given by the AERB


Is Maharashtra Caste Blind or Caste Prejudiced?
By Anand Teltumbde

http://www.countercurrents.org/teltumbde150614.htm

Maharashtra is far from being a caste blind progressive and secular state. It is the state, which is as badly prejudiced against Dalits as any other. The self-worn soubriquet of Phule-Ambedkarancha Maharashtra (Maharashtra of Phule and Ambedkar) has only served to fool the people


IB Report On Activists, People's Movements And NGOs An Attempt To Criminalise Dissent
By PUCL

http://www.countercurrents.org/pucl150614.htm

People's Union for Civil Liberties condemns the attempt, in the guise of an Intelligence Bureau (IB) report submitted to the Prime Minister of India, to intimidate, slander, throttle and terrorise the voice of various citizens' groups, NGOs and individuals, who raise people's issues relating to the violations of their fundamental human rights guaranteed by the Indian constitution, concerns over violations of rights relating to their life, livelihood and well being and the life - threatening impact of `destructive development’ programmes adopted all across India


A World Of Indras And Akalyas
By Maharathi

http://www.countercurrents.org/maharathi150614.htm

A deserted mill, a dilapidated building, a crowded bus, train, market, theatre, temple, beach.... and now social media sites... women are dogged by the archetypal Indras always on the prowl for penetrating into Akalyas