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Israeli Airstrikes Kill 33 Palestinians In Gaza
By Ma'an News Agency

http://www.countercurrents.org/maan100714.htm

Israeli airstrikes across the besieged Gaza Strip killed 33 Palestinians overnight Wednesday and Thursday, including a family of eight


Death Toll Mounts In Israeli Attacks On Gaza
By Patrick Martin

http://www.countercurrents.org/martin100714.htm

The latest atrocity overnight Wednesday was the killing of at least eight people at a café in Khan Younis, a Gaza neighborhood, where spectators were watching the World Cup match between Argentina and the Netherlands. That bomb injured at least another ten Palestinians


Israel's Genocidal War On Gaza, Palestine - The Third Intifada Begins!
By Feroze Mithiborwala

http://www.countercurrents.org/feroze100714.htm

This is the time for the "Global Palestine Solidarity Movement" to take to the streets across the world to stand in solidarity with the courageous resistance. Globalise the Resistance, Globalise the Intifada!!


An Open Letter To The Israelis And Palestinians
By Dr. Alon Ben-Meir

http://www.countercurrents.org/meir100714.htm

I have been writing about your conflict for more than three decades. Invariably, I find myself delving into the same themes time and agaihemes time and again. The nature of the conflict remains the same. You coexist, and short of self-inflicted catastrophe, you are destined to coexist until the end of time. You must now choose to live in harmony and peace, or in self-consuming enmity and hate


The Unabated Devastation In Palestine
By Fazal M. Kamal

http://www.countercurrents.org/kamal100714.htm

The recent murders of three Israeli and one Palestinian teenagers---and the merciless torture of another Palestinian-American teen) are unquestionably barbaric, beyond tragic and comprehensively reprehensible. No rational person can even come close to condoning any such brutality. But if one follows the trail it leads directly to the door of Israel’s leaders and primarily to Benjamin Netanyahu who, partially but not wholly, to appease his extremist supporters has been for months spewing hatred utilizing constantly the language of violence, intransigence and belligerence while punishing an entire people


The Deteriorating Economic Outlook
By Paul Craig Roberts, Dave Kranzler, and John Williams

http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts100714A.htm

The third and final estimate (until the annual GDP revisions) of first quarter 2014 real GDP growth released June 25 by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis was a 2.9% contraction in GDP growth, a 5.5 percentage point difference from the January forecast of 2.6% growth. Apparently, the first quarter contraction was dismissed by those speculating in equities as weather related, as stock averages rose with the bad news


Remembering Thangjam Manorama On The 10th Anniversary Of
Her Rape And Murder By The Indian Paramilitary
By Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression

http://www.countercurrents.org/wss100714.htm

Ten years ago, in the early hours of 11th July 2004, the bullet riddled body of 32- year old Thangjam Manorama Devi was found in Laipharok Maring of Imphal East district of Manipur. She had been picked up by the paramilitary Assam Rifles from her home in Bamon Kampu Mayai Leikai and was raped and killed


Contributing To A Culture Of Mutual Peace And Understanding : Zindagi Channel
By Devika Mittal

http://www.countercurrents.org/mittal100714.htm

The Zee network has recently launched a new channel by the name of Zindagi. With the theme of “Vasudeva Kutumbkam” or “The whole world is my family”, Zindagi channel promises to bring in stories from around the world. The channel theme and the tag line “Jodey Dilon ko” or “to connect hearts” clearly indicates that this channel has a clear mission. It is trying to use the medium of television to create a culture of peace


Activist Endurance: A Look Back At The 2004 RNC
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz100714.htm

Even in the face of urgent, ecocidal issues, dissent is a marathon, not a sprint. With authentic solidarity, a daily ego check, and an enduring willingness to evolve, we can each find our pace and help make a difference


Iraq: Whose Fault, Obama’s or Maliki’s?
By Taj Hashmi

http://www.countercurrents.org/hashmi100714.htm

As Bush was responsible for the ongoing, post-invasion civil war in Iraq, so is Obama responsible for the messy situation in Syria, Iraq and the entire region. History has proven Bush wrong


Obama's Failure And Richard Perle's Whitewashing of The Iraq War
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud100714.htm

As Iraq stands on the verge of a complete breakdown into mini sectarian states, former leading neoconservative and Iraq war advocate Richard Perle made a sudden appearance on Newsmax TV. His statements in the interview were yet another testament to the intellectual degeneration of a group that had once promised a ‘new Middle East', only to destabilize the region with violent consequences that continue to reverberate until this day


Washington’s Arrogance Will Destroy Its Empire
By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts100714B.htm

It is difficult to imagine a country as wrong as the US, where government serves not the people but a tiny handful of the one percent, a government incapable of delivering any kind of justice, a government that if it uttered truth would destroy itself. Washington reeks of evil. And the world is beginning to realize it


Let's Remove The Rich From Power
By John Spritzler

http://www.countercurrents.org/spritzler100714.htm

Unless we start thinking and writing and acting (yes, acting in our own neck of the woods, with the people who also live there) with a focus on removing the rich from power, then all we really are is a bunch of observers, with no effect on what actually happens. We're not helping Palestinian victims of Zionism or anybody else. The ruling elite know it. Isn't it about time we did too?


USA's Multi-Decade Campaign of Imperial Terror Against Afghanistan
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini100714.htm

This is an update to my examination of the USA's decades-long campaign of brutal imperial violence and terror against Afghanistan


'Movie ‘Punjab 1984’-Its Content And Intent'
By Ajmer Singh

http://www.countercurrents.org/ajmersingh100714.htm

Before analyzing the movie, one question that really needs to be answered is, how ‘well thought’ was the name of the movie; ‘Punjab 1984’? With all fairness to the hardworking team of this project, let’s safely presume that it was pretty well thought out. And, after that presumption, my immediate reaction is that the contents, the story line and the message of this film has no relevance to its title what so ever. It is, perhaps, manipulatively misleading