CounterCurrents: Whose Security? How Washington Protects Itself And The Corporate Sector

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Hindu Nationalism In The USA: A Report On Nonprofit Groups Released
By J.M.

http://www.countercurrents.org/jm010714.htm

This report compiles publicly available tax records, newspaper articles, and other materials on non-profit groups in the United States affiliated with the Sangh Parivar (family of Hindu nationalist groups) from 2001-2014, documenting a segment of the projects and priorities of U.S.-based Hindu nationalism. This report discusses the strategies and activities of Hindu nationalist groups in the United States in four areas of mobilization


Israel Attacks Palestinian Territories After Bodies Of Missing Youth Discovered
By James Cogan

http://www.countercurrents.org/cogan010714.htm

The bodies of three Israeli teenagers were discovered overnight, buried in a shallow grave in a field northwest of Halhoul, a town inside the West Bank territory of the Palestinian Authority. Halhoul is only a short distance from where they were last seen hitchhiking to a nearby illegal Israeli settlement on June 12. According to initial media reports, Naftali Fraenkel and Eyal Yifrah, both 16, and Gilad Shaer, 19, were most likely shot shortly after they disappeared


In The Death of 3 Israeli Teens, The Occupation Itself Deserves Scrutiny
By Juan Cole

http://www.countercurrents.org/cole010714.htm

It should be fairly obvious that if you take adolescents into the middle of the Palestinian West Bank and steal Palestinian land and build houses on it and shoot at Palestinians trying to harvest their crops nearby and bulldoze down their homes or dig tube wells so deep as to cause the Palestinian wells to run dry– if you engage in this settler-colonial enterprise, then you are exposing those adolescents you drag with you into it to danger


Whose Security? How Washington Protects Itself And The Corporate Sector
By Noam Chomsky

http://www.countercurrents.org/chomsky010714.htm

As we are all surely aware, we now face the most ominous decisions in human history. There are many problems that must be addressed, but two are overwhelming in their significance: environmental destruction and nuclear war. For the first time in history, we face the possibility of destroying the prospects for decent existence -- and not in the distant future. For this reason alone, it is imperative to sweep away the ideological clouds and face honestly and realistically the question of how policy decisions are made, and what we can do to alter them before it is too late


Iraq Crisis And The Oil Situation
By Tom Whipple

http://www.countercurrents.org/whipple010714.htm

It looks as if there will be higher and possibly much higher oil and gas prices coming soon. If ISIS decides that the way to finish off the Shiite “infidels” is by cutting their oil revenues, then a bombing and terror campaign against southern Iraqi oil installations and oil workers would be a likely result. It would not take much to send the foreigners running. The Chinese are already moving out some of the 10,000 oil workers they have in southern Iraq, and others are likely to follow as we have seen in so many other places


Pity The Children
By Chris Hedges

http://www.countercurrents.org/hedges010714.htm

People maimed physically or psychologically by the violence, especially the Iraqi and Afghan children, will never escape. Time and memory will play their usual tricks. Those who endured war will begin to wonder, years from now, what was real and what was not. And those who did not taste of war’s noxious poison will stop wondering at all


Key Book Review: “Capital In The Twenty-First Century” By Thomas Piketty
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya010714.htm

“Capital in the Twenty-First Century” by French economist Professor Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics, France) is a very readable, information-rich, must-read book about the basis of capital accumulation inequality past, present and future


Plastic Debris On Oceans' Surface Enters Food Chain
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc010714A.htm

Plastic debris in the ocean has started entering ocean food chain


US Supreme Court Sets Powerful Limits For Cell Searches, Fails To Protect Internet Streaming
By Electronic Frontier Foundation

http://www.countercurrents.org/eff010714.htm

In a groundbreaking decision on cell phone privacy, the court set powerful limits for police searches of cell phones, ruling in two consolidated cases that law enforcement must get a warrant before accessing the data on an arrested person's cell phone


Sexual Assault On Four Girls In Haryana In The Context Of Dalit Rights To Common Land
A Status Report on Bhagana by AFDR, PUDR and WSS

http://www.countercurrents.org/pudr010714.htm

The incidents in Bhagana are a perfect example of the impunity that the powerful and dominant caste groups enjoy when they commit crimes on the oppressed and marginalised sections of society. Their confidence that they can get away with anything they do makes them repeat these crimes again and again


Striving For Gender Justice: Overcoming Obstacles
By Ram Puniyani

http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani010714.htm

The recently released Nikahnama (Marriage Norms) by Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) is one such leap by Muslim women to overcome the shackles of patriarchal grip on the Muslim women. Model Nikahnama released by BMMA (June 23, 2014) is an important step in this direction, in the direction of empowering Muslim women This tries to give the solution to various problems faced by Muslim women. It outlines the various steps for which the large section of Muslim women is longing for