CounterCurrents: US-Backed Regime Retakes Slavyansk, Threatens Bloodbath In Eastern Ukraine

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US-Backed Regime Retakes Slavyansk, Threatens Bloodbath In Eastern Ukraine 
By Alex Lantier 

http://www.countercurrents.org/lantier070714.htm

Over the weekend, after indiscriminate artillery bombardments, forces of the US-backed Ukrainian regime retook the cities of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, which had been strongholds of armed opposition to the government that emerged from February’s fascist-led putsch in Kiev


Obama's Ukrainian "Afghan Trap" Plays Out 
By Robert Barsocchini 

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini070714.htm

If protecting Russian-speaking people was the true top reason for re-accepting Crimea, then Russia would also staunchly and overtly support independence for Donetsk and Slavyansk, where civilians are being bombed by the fully US-backed, junta-integrated Ukrainian government's military and neo-Nazi paramilitaries, to which Obama has given full diplomatic and material support, including tens of millions of our dollars, after assisting in the neo-Nazi led overthrow of the elected government of Ukraine


NSA Target: Ordinary People Outnumber Foreigners 
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc070714.htm

Ordinary Internet users including Americans far outnumbered legally targeted foreigners caught in the US National Security Agency surveillance. Nine out of 10 people identified in a large cache of online conversations intercepted by the US surveillance agency were ordinary Internet users and not foreign surveillance targets


India Government Must Value Migrant Workers For More Than 
The Billions They Send Home, Says Amnesty 
By Amnesty International 

http://www.countercurrents.org/ai070714.htm

The lack of effective regulation of visa brokers and rogue recruiting agents makes Indian migrant workers vulnerable to serious human rights abuses, said Amnesty International India today in a new report focusing on migrants from the Indian state of Kerala working in Saudi Arabia


A Law Suit Will Probably Trail Obama: State Of A Bourgeois Democracy 
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury070714.htm

A matured bourgeois democracy’s crisis-condition comes to light with the announcement of a plan for a law suit against the president of the democracy, Barack Obama. The law suit being planned probably will trail the president of the US


Sacred Treason: Palestinian-Israeli Security Alliance 
By Vacy Vlazna 

http://www.countercurrents.org/vlazna070714.htm

Cicero asserts that treachery “rots the soul of a nation”. It doesn't apply to Palestine because the members and employees of the PA/PLO/FCC have no souls. They are not ‘Palestinians'. They are Zionists. Not one of them has an iota of the thriving soul and sumud symbolised by the likes of Samer Issawi, Hanan Zoabi, and Ahed Tamimi


Virtual Economy’s Phantom Job Gains Are Based on Statistical Fraud, 
And More Fraud Is in the Works 
By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts070714.htm

Washington can’t stop lying. Don’t be convinced by last Thursday’s job report that it is your fault if you don’t have a job. Those 288,000 jobs and 6.1% unemployment rate are more fiction than reality. In his analysis of the June Labor Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, John Williams (www.ShadowStats.com) wrote that the 288,000 June jobs and 6.1% unemployment rate are “far removed from common experience and underlying reality.” Payrolls were overstated by “massive, hidden shifts in seasonal adjustments,” and the Birth-Death model added the usual phantom jobs


A Discordant Note on The Dowry Order 
By Samar 

http://www.countercurrents.org/samar070714.htm

The Indian Supreme Court’s decision to disallow blind arrest of the accused in dowry cases seems baffling at first sight. In fact, the judgment is not a standalone order of a bench breaking the norm. It falls in line with another recent order of Justices Vikramjit Sen and S.K. Singh that prohibits auto arrest on allegations of rape that follow live in relationships gone sour. The Bombay High Court and many other lower courts have regularly expressed similar concerns


Roy: 'Civil Rights Activists Focus on Americans Promote Continuing US-NATO Genocide'  
By Jay Janson 

http://www.countercurrents.org/janson070714.htm

A 4th of July remembrance and rededication more appropriate to one's own humanity would be for Americans to awake themselves from the farcical deadly and insidious false propaganda seeded and psyoped into the minds of children that the killing of the poor in their own beloved countries overseas is a good thing, and to call to call for prosecution of citizens responsible and participating in US-NATO's sixty-five years of crimes against humanity and to call for compensation and reparations court mandated for the millions of US-NATO's victims. This is an American value your author was taught at his father's knee, in school and in church


Iraq Background: What's Behind the Escalating Sectarian War and U.S. Intervention? 
Where Could It Go? Where Do Our Interests Lie? 
By Larry Everest

http://www.countercurrents.org/everest070714.htm

The U.S. 's goal in all this is to attempt to protect the region's oppressive ruling forces and its subordination to imperialism. In other words, whatever particular tact the U.S. takes, its actions will only bring more horrors for the people