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Binu Mathew
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Sunni Militant Army Vows To March On Baghdad
By Jon Queally

http://www.countercurrents.org/queally120614.htm

The al-Qaeda breakaway Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which has been seizing territory and key cities across eastern and north-central Iraq in recent days has vowed to march on the capital city of Baghdad, according to various news agencies


People Of The World Needs To Cooperate As U.S.A Fails In World Leadership
By Dr. Vivek Kumar Srivastava

http://www.countercurrents.org/srivastava120614.htm

There has come a time to organize a people movement at global level to arrest the spread of orthodoxies .When nations, leaders and global organizations have failed then people of the world must come together otherwise Mosul will be repeated in many countries


The Militarized Realities of Fortress America
By William J. Astore

http://www.countercurrents.org/astore120614.htm

I’ve been out of the military for nearly a decade, and yet I feel more militarized today than when I wore a uniform


#NotAllSoldiers?
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz120614.htm

It takes more than obscene amounts of taxpayer subsidies to keep this criminal enterprise afloat. It also takes more than the volunteers willing to be paid to wage illegal, immoral, and eco-system-destroying wars. The DoD is be able to maintain its crime spree because most of us continue to unconditionally support the troops


The Legacy of World War II
By Elliott Adams

http://www.countercurrents.org/adams120614.htm

Returning to June 6th and what it means, the veterans and people I grew up among in the shadow of World War II did not talk about winning another war, they believed the world could not even survive another war – they talked about Nuremberg, what it meant and the hope that Nuremberg brought. As we remember that day, D-day, let us not loose sight of what all those lives were lost for, of what the people who lived through that war did to keep the scourge of war from ever consuming our world again. Make June 6th your day to study the Nuremberg Tribunals


Given The Lessons Shouldn't War Be Obsolete?
By Arshad M Khan

http://www.countercurrents.org/amkhan120614.htm

Through wars, often of doubtful legality, and a retreat from adherence to the rule of law, society has undergone a climate change to nobody's liking. Checking this one is easier ... we just have to hold our governments and elected leaders responsible


The Shame of Mental Health Care In The US
By Fazal M. Kamal

http://www.countercurrents.org/fmkamal120614.htm

Here are some illuminating numbers: 1) 40 percent of the estimated number of adults with serious mental illness in the US doesn't receive mental health services. 2) $100 billion is the annual economic cost of untreated mental illness. 3) 63 million is the number of visits to physician offices, outpatient facilities and emergency rooms associated with mental health disorders each year. 4) 1.25 million is the estimated number of prison inmates across the US who have reported mental health problems. What's worse is that numerous people with psychological problems are incarcerated instead of being provided medical assistance


So You Want A Thatcherite Revolution? Free Trade,
Corporate Plunder And The War On Working People
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter120614.htm

Prior to the recent national elections in India , there were calls for a Thatcherite revolution to fast-track the country towards privatisation and neo-liberalism. Under successive Thatcher-led governments in the eighties, however, inequalities skyrocketed in Britain and economic growth was no better than in the seventies


Resisting Modi Through Mass Struggles
By Praful Bidwai

http://www.countercurrents.org/bidwai120614.htm

Unless the Congress rebuilds its base among the Dalits, Adivasis, lower OBCs and the urban poor, by agitating for their livelihood rights, it’s likely to go into steep, possibly terminal, decline – especially if it loses the coming assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana, as seems likely