CounterCurrents: Washington’s War Crimes Spread From Africa And The Middle East To Ukraine

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The U.S. Elite Run A Ukrainian Genocide While American Public Are Ignorant of It
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse050714.htm

On Wednesday, July 2nd, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko resumed unlimited war against the residents of southeastern Ukraine, whom he calls “terrorists” for their wanting not to be killed by his troops. European leaders (especially Merkel of Germany, Hollande of France, and Putin of Russia) urged him not to resume his bombing campaign against the southeast, but the U.S. (specifically President Obama) supports the bombings, and that’s enough for Poroshenko; so, he did it. As the U.S. State Department said, “he has a right to defend his country.” Reuters reports that Poroshenko gave as his reason for the resumption, “to rid Ukraine of ‘parasites’.” Adolf Hitler had given the same reason for ethnically cleansing his country


Why America Hates And Despises Victims
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuess050714A.htm

Here are photos of residents in southeastern Ukraine and of their homes that we bombed yesterday, and you see the corpses, and the grieving survivors. But Americans call them "terrorists," even though these people never were that, and even though America is funding the terrorism against all the residents in southeastern Ukraine, to force them to either die or else flee, so that they won't be able to vote in future Ukrainian elections, and so that the government we installed in a February coup in Kiev will stay installed, even if Ukraine becomes again a democracy


Ukraine: Your Tax Dollars at Work, In a Far-Away Land
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse05714B.htm

This Is What Ethnic Cleansing Looks Like (After the Cleansing)


Washington’s War Crimes Spread From Africa And The Middle East To Ukraine
By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts050714.htm

A person might think that revulsion in “the world community” against Washington’s wanton slaughter of civilians in eight countries would have led to War Crimes Tribunal warrants issued for the arrest of presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama and many officials in their regimes. But the vocal part of “the world community”–the West–has become inured to Washington’s crimes against humanity and doesn’t bother to protest. Indeed, many of these governments are complicit in Washington’s crimes, and there could just as well be arrest warrants for members of European governments


Israel Bombs Gaza Strip, Masses Army On Border
By Patrick Martin

http://www.countercurrents.org/martin050714.htm

Israeli warplanes struck the Gaza Strip , hitting at least 15 targets in the blockaded Palestinian territory, causing extensive damage and wounding at least 10 people, including a pregnant woman and a 65-year-old man


HARDtalk — An Intellectual Ambush Masquerading As Truth
By Prof. William A. Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook050714.htm

Dr. Pappe fortunately is diplomatic, forthright, and capable of avoiding Sackur’s strategy to condemn his work as non-academic and biased toward the Palestinians. Sakur’s questioning continues to interrogate Pappe as one sided pointing out that after all “stuff happens” in wartime, borrowing a phrase from our own intellectual wizard, Donald Rumsfeld. Pappe’s response is both truthful and honest and it that fractures Sakur’s deflection of the real history Pappe records in his work


On A Critique of Ilan Pappe By Gilad Atzmon
By William James Martin

http://www.countercurrents.org/martin050714A.htm

Gilad Atzmon's crticism of Ilan Pappe for his Hardtalk interview misses the point


One Percenter Corporatocracy And Huge Global Deaths -
Make 4 July Independence From America Day
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya050714.htm

An egregiously One Percenter-threatened World should urgently make the Fourth of July Independence from America Day. Make no mistake, the World loves and is inspired by the best of America, and notably by the best of its entertainers, sportsmen, writers, scholars, scientists, musicians, artists, actors, heroes and activists, and in particular we love American ideals as expressed in the American Declaration of Independence and the small community values of friendship, goodwill, tolerance and altruism. However America has progressively fallen into the hands of the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist One Percenters with dire consequences for Americans and the World


The Fourth of July— The Spirit of 1776 And The Celebrations
By A D Hemming and Bati Ahmed

http://www.countercurrents.org/hemming050714.htm

Celebrations will be coming up to “celebrate” the Fourth of July across the USA the fourth day of this month with bands playing, militarism glorified and implicitly the imperialism never mentioned at such parades. What’s wrong with this picture? Everything!


Out-Of-The-Box Thinking
By Janet Surman

http://www.countercurrents.org/surman050714.htm

Inside the box we are trapped with our vision limited by firmly entrenched outlooks on life and all that we have been persuaded to believe throughout our lives which repeatedly reminds us there is no alternative. It may sometimes seem pointless to even begin to imagine – 'yeah, but - ' do I hear someone say?


Burning The Witches
By Priyanka Dass Saharia

http://www.countercurrents.org/saharia050714.htm

Bihurama Ganju, a resident if Gurunjuli village along the Assam-Arunchal border was beaten to death on 3rd July by the villagers for allegedly practicing witchcraft. The villagers believed the practice to be the real cause behind the long spell of diseased faced by them, and though the 40 involved have been arrested by the police, this incident is simply one in a hundred similar alleged ‘witchcraft’ lynching that goes on in the area


The Rivers In Spate: Wrath Of The Elements
By Sukumaran C. V.

http://www.countercurrents.org/sukumaran050714.htm

A poem composed in the backdrop of the June 2013 Uttarkhand flash floods that claimed more than 6000 human lives


Sri Lanka: Not A Society At Peace But A Society Of Plunderers
By Nilantha Ilangamuwa

http://www.countercurrents.org/nilantha050714.htm

My main question is that what will happen if Mr. Tony Abbott, continues to ignore the fact that a family outside the elite clan which grabbed the power and resources in last few decades maintains impunity while de-establishing the very idea of the state, in Sri Lanka? Will the Honourable Prime Minister have an answer to this question?


Should International Refugee Law Accommodate Climate Change?
By United Nations News Centre

http://www.countercurrents.org/unnc050714.htm

Can the United Nations help to protect people seeking safety abroad if their homes and jobs are destroyed by prolonged drought, rising sea levels or other climate change-related phenomena in the same way as if they were displaced by war or human rights abuses? The short answer, today anyway, is no


Terror In The Skies
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

http://www.countercurrents.org/ulrich050714.htm

On July 3, 1988, in an unprovoked move, US carrier USS Vincennes fired two missiles at an Iranian passenger plane, Iran Air flight 655 which was on route to Dubai. All 290 innocent civilians were killed. The Untied States did not apologize or admit to wrongdoing. Washington has always maintained that the shooting down of the passenger plane was an accident. But was it?