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8 Palestinians Killed Ahead Of Gaza Truce
By Ma'an News Agency

http://www.countercurrents.org/maan170714.htm

Israel killed eight Palestinians overnight before a five-hour humanitarian truce came into effect at 10 a.m. Thursday, bringing the death toll in Gaza to 230. Shortly before 10 a.m., Israeli artillery shells killed three Palestinians from the Abu Sneima family and injured four others in eastern Rafah. Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said three bodies, including a woman, were removed from a Rafah home. Earlier, five Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks

Four Children Die Playing Football In Gaza Beach
By Ali Abunimah

http://www.countercurrents.org/abunimah170714.htm

On Wednesday afternoon, in an horrific attack witnessed by international journalists stationed at the Al-Deira Hotel, shelling from an Israeli gunboat killed four children from a single family as they played football on a beach near Gaza’s seaport. The four victims were Ahed Atef Baker and Zakaria Ahed Bakr, both ten years old, Muhammad Ramiz Bakr, eleven, and Ismail Muhammad Bakr, aged nine


An Open Letter To Israelis And Jews!
By Dr Salim Nazzal

http://www.countercurrents.org/nazzal170714.htm

You are stronger militarily, but we still resist, you are stronger in the media and capable to make the black, white, but our voice is getting through, and get louder and louder .You do all this terror as if you will have the upper hand all the time. But this is illusion; your fate will be like all colonial powers


Krugman's Illusion: We Becoming Richer, But Not Damaging The Environment
By Saral Sarkar

http://www.countercurrents.org/sarkar170714.htm

I read an article by Paul Krugman (Nobel Laureate in Economics) in the New York Times (17.04.2014) entitled Climate Change:Salvation Gets Cheap. Referring to the glad tidings on the cost of saving the planet coming from the IPCC, Krugman wrote he thinks the climate threat is solved. He went even further. He wrote: “… there's no reason we can't become richer while reducing our impact on the environment .” Is it really possible?


How America's Policies Sealed Iraq's Fate
By Dahr Jamail

http://www.countercurrents.org/jamail170714.htm

As Iraq's disintegration into darkness progresses, it sickens me to think of all the Iraqis I met and became friends with, who have since been killed, disappeared, or have become refugees. What is left of Iraq, this mess that is no longer a country, should be considered the legacy of decades of U.S. policy there, dating back to the moment when Saddam Hussein was in power and enjoyed Washington’s support. With Maliki, it has simply been a different dictator, enjoying even more such support (until these last weeks), and using similarly barbaric tactics against Iraqis


Did Brazil's Poor Protesting Painful World Cup Capitalism Affect Its Team's Morale?
By Jay Janson

http://www.countercurrents.org/janson170714.htm

Did Brazil putting the World Cup above improvements in the lives of its poor ultimately affect its team's morale? Organized poor have elected socialist presidents in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay Nicaragua Cuba Paraguay Chile Guatemala, Guiana, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Honduras. Asking Maradona to again raise his voice against injustice murderously emanating from a Wall St. center of plundering First World power


Washington Is In A State Of Immobility
By Fazal M. Kamal

http://www.countercurrents.org/kamal170714.htm

The Obama administration's socio-economic-political ambitions are evidently in limbo though, under the circumstances, he himself maybe feeling that he's in a Sisyphean state


Climate Crisis Increases Risk Of Flooding Across 70% of Asia
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc170714.htm

Climate crisis increases risk of flooding across 70% of Asia, shows a new map launched by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office on July 16, 2014