CounterCurrents: Understanding Israel's Corrosive Influence On Western Democracy

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Binu Mathew
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Hate Crime In Pune Shocks India
By Concerned IT Professionals From Pune

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc050614.htm

A 28 year old IT professional Shaikh Mohsin Sadiq was thrashed to death by a group of people suspected to be connected with a radical Hindu outfit called Hindu Rashtra Sena. While offering our deepest condolences to the bereaved family members and friends of Mohsin, we extend our heartfelt solidarity to each and every member of minorities/disadvantaged communities in struggle to preserve the values of democracy, secularism and justice


Re-visiting The People’s Report on Bangladesh Environment
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury050614.htm

A temporal comparison, revisiting the People’s Report on Bangladesh Environment 2001 (PBE), is made here to identify the changes in the realm of environment movement


The Glue That Holds Us All Together 
By Vacy Vlazna

http://www.countercurrents.org/vlazna050614.htm

Abandoned for 66 years by the international community to Israeli war crimes, Palestine needs friends


Understanding Israel's Corrosive Influence On Western Democracy
By John Chuckman

http://www.countercurrents.org/chuckman050614.htm

The corrosion of democracy in Western governments afraid of ever saying no to Israel and too willing to add to party political coffers in exchange for favorable words and acts is real and palpable, and it is going to do nothing but become worse. The situation is best characterized as a race for the bottom


Reporting The Middle East: Please Go Back To The Streets
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud050614.htm

Unlike Mohamed Bouazizi, the Fatimas and Mostafas of the Middle East should not have to set themselves ablaze to become worthy of a news report. Their constant struggle and resistance is a story that must be told. In fact, it is the only story that should have mattered in the first place


How Egypt's Generals Sidelined Uncle Sam
By Dilip Hiro

http://www.countercurrents.org/hiro050614.htm

Among the regional and world leaders who telephoned Sisi to congratulate him on his landslide electoral triumph was Russian President Vladimir Putin. No such call has yet come in from President Obama. For Washington, still so generous in its handouts to the Arab Republic of Egypt and its military, trailing behind the Russian Bear in embracing the latest strongman on the Nile should be considered an unqualified humiliation. With its former sphere of influence in tatters, the last superpower has been decisively sidelined by its key Arab ally in the region


Egypt: Journalism Is Not A Crime Against The State!
By Nilantha Ilangamuwa

http://www.countercurrents.org/ilangamuwa050614.htm

Journalism is not a crime in a country where democracy is functioning in its true meaning. But unfortunately there are few places on this planet where people enjoy the privilege to enjoy the freedom of expression. As a result of this, journalists suffer tremendous stress and live in chaotic situations because they practice of the responsibilities of their profession


Turkish False Flags And The Invasion That Almost Was
By David Boyajian

http://www.countercurrents.org/boyajian050614.htm

A leaked audiotape caught Turkish officials plotting to stage ‘false flag' military attacks on their own territory and blame them on Syrians. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, General Yaşar Gürel, and Intelligence chief Hakan Fidan planned to use the attacks as an excuse to invade Syria . The title of this article could easily apply to that plot


Piketty, The Wall Street Journal, And Rational Conservatives
By Thomas Riggins

http://www.countercurrents.org/riggins050614.htm

Thomas Piketty's book, Capital in the 21st Century, has almost had the effect of a tsunami on economic thinking here in the United States after its translation from French into English washed up on our monoglot shores. In France itself it has been treated as more or less just another economics book-- no big deal


‘Am I Not A Citizen Of India’? An Inner Cry From A Dalit From The Heartland Of India!
By George Abraham

http://www.countercurrents.org/abraham050614.htm

‘Why I am asked about my caste when I go to the police? Am I not a citizen of India’? The father of one of the girls gang raped and brutally murdered asked the Samajawadi Party leader and Badaun member of Parliament Darmendra Yadav. It is time that this pertinent question needs to be answered not just by few politicians across the party lines but by the nation itself. What happened in Katra village in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh is a horrific crime of brutality against women


What’s It To You? Women, Caste, Politics And Toilets
By Maharathi

http://www.countercurrents.org/maharathi050614.htm

For all the multi-dimensional nature of the episode, the parents of the Dalit girls whose grief-stricken portraits were published in the Mailonline are living with broken hearts, bereavement gnawing at their hearts. The nation is simply watching mutely like Bheeshmar, as our Draupathis get stripped of clothes, dignity, and life too!