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18 From One Family Killed In Gaza
By Eva Bartlett

http://www.countercurrents.org/bartlett130714.htm

Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip killed 52 people Saturday, including two severely handicapped women in a care facility, medics said. The toll made Saturday the bloodiest day yet in the five-day conflict, and hiked the overall toll to 157. The deadliest strike came in the Tuffah district in eastern Gaza City, where 18 people were killed in strikes that hit a home and a mosque


“Wake Up My Son!” None of Gaza’s Murdered Children Are Just Numbers
By Ali Abunimah

http://www.countercurrents.org/abunimah130714.htm

Sahir was killed on Friday afternoon when an Israeli warplane bombed his family home in the Tal al-Zaatar neighborhood in northern Gaza. “He was playing and smiling next to his mother when missile shrapnel divided his head”


Israel Fires "Warning" Missiles At Gaza City Geriatric Hospital
By Nora Barrows-Friedman

http://www.countercurrents.org/friedman130714.htm

Israeli warplanes fired a series of “warning rockets” at the al-Wafa Geriatric Hospital in Gaza City on Friday, sending patients and nurses into a panic


Urgent Call From Gaza Civil Society: Act Now!
By Palestinian Civil Society Groups

http://www.countercurrents.org/pcsg130714.htm

We Palestinians trapped inside the bloodied and besieged Gaza Strip call on conscientious people all over the world, to act, protest, and intensify the boycotts, divestments and sanctions against Israel until it ends this murderous attack on our people and is held to account


Save Gaza Today; Tomorrow May Be Too Late!
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

http://www.countercurrents.org/ulrich130714.htm

As Israel is set for a ground invasion of Gaza, the alarming call of a Holy War is heard from an Israeli commander who tells his soldiers that they are engaged in a war to “wipe out” an “enemy who defames” God. Jewish extremism has always been concealed, and with it, the dangers. But the threat is very real – and very well understood even by those supporting this growing danger


Israel/Gaza: UN Must Impose Arms Embargo And Mandate
An International Investigation As Civilian Death Toll Rises
By Amnesty International

http://www.countercurrents.org/ai130714.htm

Amnesty International is calling for an UN-mandated international investigation into violations committed on all sides amidst ongoing Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip and continuing volleys of indiscriminate rocket fire from Palestinian armed groups into Israel


25 Most Fragile States: Gifts From The Global System
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury130714.htm

The world's 25 most fragile states have been identified. The Foreign Policy magazine has released the annual ranking of the least-stable countries, now known as the Fragile State Index (FrSI). Up to last year, the name of the index was the Failed States Index (FaSI). The FaSI/FrSI is created by The Fund for Peace


What Would A Psychiatrist Call This? Delusions Of Grandeur?
By William Blum

http://www.countercurrents.org/blum130714.htm

Question asked: “Which country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?”
Replies: United States 24%, Pakistan 8%, China 6%, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea, each 5%, India, Iraq, Japan, each 4%, Syria 3%, Russia 2%, Australia, Germany, Palestinian territories, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Korea, UK, each 1%


Jordan: Kingdom Of Shadows And Submissiveness
Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek

http://www.countercurrents.org/vltchek130714.htm

Country of some 8 million is producing close to nothing, but many locals are living high life here, thanks to their collaborating with the West and with Saudi Arabia. To be on good terms with Israel is another lucrative business. And to have US military bases on its territory, and to have US army and air force ‘visiting’ Jordanian bases, is also one great way to get cash. Refugees, old and new, are great business. Not for the poor Jordanians, not for the majority, but for the elites


The Myths of Big Corporate Capitalism
By Ralph Nader

http://www.countercurrents.org/nader130714.htm

Large corporate capitalism is a breed apart from smaller scale capitalism. The former can often avoid marketplace verdicts through corporate welfare, strip owner-shareholders of power over the top company bosses and offload the cost of their pollution, tax escapes and other “externalities” onto the backs of innocent people


Overwhelming Evidence: Organic Food Higher
In Antioxidants And Lower In Toxic Metals And Pesticides
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter130714.htm

Consumer demand for organic foods is partially driven by perceptions that they are more nutritious. Now a peer-reviewed study just published in the British Journal of Nutrition [1], a leading international journal of nutritional science, has shown that organic crops and crop-based foods are between 18 to 69 percent higher in a number of key antioxidants such as polyphenolics than conventionally-grown crops


The Natives Play No Football
By Satya Sagar

http://www.countercurrents.org/sagar130714.htm

Watching the football World Cup games in Brazil offers many simple lessons in history for those Indians who think that the ‘Hindus’ are original inhabitants of India while Christians and Muslims are ‘foreigners’


Vindictiveness And Autocracy: "Achhe Din" Defined
By Anshul Kumar Pandey

http://www.countercurrents.org/pandey130714.htm

Ever since the BJP led NDA government took charge on May 22, its leader and our new Prime Minister hasn't stopped preaching to us the value of working together to build the nation. That's all fine. However, if one were to analyze his words and deeds over the past few days, it would reveal a gap so vast as to make the Grand Canyon look like a small crevice


UK Rushes Through Invasive Surveillance Laws As Intelligence Agencies Go On Trial
By Amnesty International

http://www.countercurrents.org/ai130714A.htm

Amnesty International and Privacy International have accused the UK government of trying to rush through legislation in an attempt to deflect from a landmark hearing starting Monday, challenging the validity of UK spy agencies’ justification for mass surveillance of British citizens’ social media use