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12 More Dead In Gaza, Death Toll 35
By Ma'an News

http://www.countercurrents.org/maan090714.htm

Twelve Palestinians were killed Wednesday in the ongoing Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, bringing the overall death toll since Monday to 35 and 300 injuries. The most recent deadly airstrike was reported in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip killing 40-year-old woman Sahar Hamdan al-Masri and her teenage son 14-year-old Ibrahim. The two were killed after an Israeli missile hit their house


Eight Children Killed As Israeli Warplanes Relentlessly Bomb Gaza
By Maureen Clare Murphy

http://www.countercurrents.org/murphy090714.htm

Twenty-five lives have been claimed by Israel in Gaza since Monday, including at least eight children, as warplanes bombed areas across Gaza, whose 1.7 million Palestinian residents live under a tightly-enforced siege and are unable to flee and have nowhere to seek shelter


Israelis, Not Palestinians, Excel At Vengeance
By Jonathan Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook090714.htm

Shock and anger have engulfed Israeli and Palestinian societies since they learnt last week of the barbarous murder of children from their communities. Hours after three Israeli teenagers’ bodies were located, long after their abduction, a Palestinian youth, Mohammed Abu Khdeir, was kidnapped, beaten and burnt to death, apparently as revenge. These horrifying events should serve as a lesson in the obscene futility of vengeance. As a relative of one of the murdered children observed: “There is no difference between blood and blood.”


Changing The Israeli Mindset… Is It Really Possible?
By Alan Hart

http://www.countercurrents.org/hart090714.htm

In a recent article with the headline Charting A New Course, Alon Ben-Meir made the statement that “Only the Palestinians can modify and subsequently change the Israelis’ mindset.” The essence of his case is that the Palestinians must recognize that the average Israeli believes they do not seek real peace and are still committed to Israel’s destruction. That is indeed what most Israelis have been conditioned to believe, so the key question seems to me to be something like this. What could be done and by whom to open Israeli minds to the truth?


The Giant Methane Monster Is Lurking
By Thom Hartmann

http://www.countercurrents.org/hartmann090714.htm

There's something lurking deep under the frozen Arctic Ocean , and if it gets released, it could spell disaster for our planet. That something is methane


15 Countries Hold Key To Avoid Dangerous Global Warming, Finds Study
By Sophie Yeo

http://www.countercurrents.org/yeo090714.htm

Climate experts have presented the UN with a report on how countries can club together to avoid world temperatures soaring to dangerous levels. The report, delivered to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on July 8, 2014 in New York , lays out technical pathways on how the world's 15 major emitters can make the deep decarbonisation needed to keep the planet below 2C


Record Levels Of Solar Ultraviolet On Earth's Surface Hit South America
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc090714A.htm

A team of researchers from the US and Germany has measured the highest level of ultraviolet radiation ever recorded on earth's surface. The extraordinary UV fluxes, observed in the Bolivian Andes, are far above those normally considered to be harmful to both terrestrial and aquatic life


Our 21st Century Energy Wars
By Michael T. Klare

http://www.countercurrents.org/klare090714.htm

Global conflicts are increasingly fueled by the desire for oil and natural gas––and the funds they generate


Bowe Bergdahl And The Voice of War
By Kathy Kelly

http://www.countercurrents.org/kelly090714.htm

Bergdahl listened to conscience; listened to the best he knew of the United States; and, heedless of the danger to himself, walked away from war. His military superiors knew that he was troubled, that his platoon was barely functional, and that he needed to find a way out, but they weren't listening to the voice of compassion. They were listening to the voice of war


The Great Corporate Swindle: Agribusiness Leading The Way In Setting The TTIP Agenda
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter090714.htm

According to the official language, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the US and EU plans to create the world's largest free trade area, ‘protect investment' and remove ‘unnecessary regulatory barriers'. Cut through the rhetoric and it becomes clear that the treaty aims to weaken labour, social, environmental and consumer protection standards. Masterminded by the ‘ High Level Working Group on Jobs and Growth ', this group has been accused of constituting nothing but a bunch of unelected and unaccountable, notorious pro-free-trade bureaucrats from both sides of the Atlantic


Why Are Most Human Beings So Powerless?
By Robert J. Burrowes

http://www.countercurrents.org/burrowes090714.htm

Human beings stand at the edge of extinction and yet few of us are mobilized in defense of human existence. Why is this? And what can we do about it?


Debating Secularism In A Communalized Society
By Ram Puniyani

http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani090714.htm

In the aftermath of the recent elections Congress, Communist parties, Samajvadi and Lalu’s RJD, which can be called secular in some sense; bit the dust. In the review of defeat the major opposition party Congress, which has been in power for maximum number of years, one major opinion from its top leader A.K. Antony came forth to say that the secularism practiced by Congress was seen more as an appeasement of minorities (read Muslims) and so the large sections turned against it emasculating it to a mere 19% votes with 44 seats in Lok Sabha. In a free for all; different opinions on secularism, and failure of Congress are coming forth