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20 Killed In Gaza As Israel Resumes Bombardment
By Ma'an News Agency

http://www.countercurrents.org/maan200814.htm

Renewed Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed 20 Palestinians since a temporary ceasefire collapsed on Tuesday. An Israeli army statement said that 117 rockets had been fired at Israel from Gaza since the truce collapsed


How Many Bombs Has Israel Dropped On Gaza?
By Ali Abunimah

http://www.countercurrents.org/abunimah200814.htm

A few days before he was killed trying to disarm an unexploded Israeli missile, Hazem Abu Murad, the head of Gaza’s bomb squad, estimated that Israel had dropped between eighteen to twenty thousand tons of explosives on Gaza since 7 July. If Abu Murad’s estimate is right, then the explosive power Israel has fired on Gaza by land, sea and air so far is roughly equivalent to one of the atomic bombs the United States dropped on Japan in August 1945


Another Police Killing In St. Louis, Missouri As Assault On Protestors Continues
By Niles Williamson

http://www.countercurrents.org/williamson200814.htm

St. Louis, Missouri police officers shot and killed a 23-year-old man Tuesday afternoon. The killing occurred only four miles east of Ferguson, where the police murder of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown has sparked popular protests and an orchestrated state crackdown that has placed parts of the city under effective martial law


This Is A Teachable Moment For The Nation That Presents
An Opportunity To Transform Policing So It Serves The People
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers

http://www.countercurrents.org/flowers200814.htm

The killing of Michael Brown by a Ferguson, MO police officer, who was identified Friday as Darren Wilson, and the aftermath in which nonviolent protesters and reporters were met with a violent and militarized police force have exposed something that has been building for years. Many have written about the militarization of the police and the disproportionate impact they have on people of color, but now more Americans are seeing this reality and cannot escape it


Ukraine Crisis Continues
By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts200814.htm

Having served Washington’s propaganda purposes, the downed Malaysian airliner and the alleged Russian armored column that entered Ukraine and was allegedly destroyed have dropped out of the news even though both stories remain completely and totally unresolved


International Day For The Total Elimination Of Nuclear Weapons
By John Scales Avery

http://www.countercurrents.org/avery200814.htm

Just as the generals and politicians who started World War I seem not to have comprehended what a war with machine guns and long-range artillery would be like, so our leaders today seem not to have an imaginative idea of what a thermonuclear war would be like. Promising to defend their populations, they do no such thing, but instead they put us at risk of total annihilation. Today, it is up to each individual to work with courage and dedication to put an end to nuclear insanity


The Real “Dirty Wars” In The Horn Of Africa
By Thomas C. Mountain

http://www.countercurrents.org/mountain200814.htm

The real dirty wars in Africa remain unknown to the worlds peoples, thanks in part to a smokescreen, how ever blissfully ignorant or well intended, about drones and high tech murders that diverted attention from the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Africans, whose “expiration by starvation” was sanctioned by the highest levels of the Obama White House


The Human Rights Issue And The Sanctions On Iran
By Akbar E. Torbat

http://www.countercurrents.org/torbat200814.htm

The US nuclear negotiations with Iran that had began secretly months before it became public, led to a temporary agreement on November 24, 2013. The agreement was expected to be finalized by July 20, 2014. However, because the West's demands were beyond Iran's obligations to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, the negotiations were left in limbo. As a result, the deadline for the final agreement was pushed back to November. 24, 2014. If Iran yields to all US demands to finalize the agreement, most of its $40 billion investments in nuclear facilities will be worthless. Moreover, not all sanctions on Iran may be lifted


The U.S. Congress: A Metonym For AIPAC
By William Hanna

http://www.countercurrents.org/hanna200814.htm

A comprehensive history of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)


Israel: The "Only Democracy In The Middle East" or Just A "Rogue State"?
By Dr. Ludwig Watzal

http://www.countercurrents.org/watzal200814.htm

For the credibility of all the democracies, Israel becomes an unsustainable problem. Political consequences are overdue


Politics And The Indian Military
By Major General (Retd) S.G.Vombatkere

http://www.countercurrents.org/vombatkere200814.htm

India and Pakistan achieved independence from the British in August 1947. The Indian military has been constitutional and steadfastly apolitical over the years. This is a source of some wonderment especially because the Pakistani military has been in formal control for more than half of Pakistan's existence. What is the secret of Indian military's apolitical character? Major General (Retd) S.G.Vombatkere has some answers


The Fear That Does Not Speak Its Name
By Firdaus Ahmed

http://www.countercurrents.org/ahmed200814.htm

NN Vohra, the current governor of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir said in a recent speech, "another phenomenon, relatively more recent, relates to the emergence of certain radical counter-groups which have been organised with the primary objective of countering the Jihadi terror networks. It needs being noted that the activities of such counter groups have the potential of spreading disharmony and divisiveness which could generate wide spread communal violence and result in irreparably damaging the secular fabric of our democracy". Which groups is he referring to?


Money Is “Mightier” Than Man
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury200814.htm

A Dhaka hospital has reached an understanding with the family of a dead man: all dues, more than a million Taka (the Bangladesh currency), will be paid to the hospital within months in return for the dead body of the man – a father, a husband


‘Muslims Have Become New Subalterns'
Interview with JNU Prof. Ajay Gudavarthy by Mishab Irikkur and Abhay Kumar

http://www.countercurrents.org/akumar200814.htm

As the fire of communal violence is fast engulfing many parts of the country and the ruling BJP, as alleged by the opposition parties, remains involved in polarising society for electoral gains, Mishab Irikkur and Abhay Kumar spent Sunday's morning with Ajay Gudavarthy conversing with him about the current volatile situation. In a free-wheeling discussion, Gudavarthy contended that the saffronization of subalterns, Dalits and Other Backward Castes (OBCs), is one of the main causes of the spurt of anti-Muslim violence


18 August, 2014


National Guard, Police Tighten Grip On Ferguson, Missouri
By Eric London & Patrick Martin

http://www.countercurrents.org/martin190814.htm

Police launched several rounds of tear gas and what appeared to be crowd-control percussion devices late Monday night to clear the streets of the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri after a tense half-hour confrontation between several hundred protesters and a wall of law enforcement officers 60 wide and five deep


Ten Facts About Police Violence In Ferguson Sunday Night
By Bill Quigley

http://www.countercurrents.org/quigley180814.htm

While the Governor of Missouri is sending in the National Guard to Ferguson, it is worth considering where the real violence is coming from


Rebellion In Ferguson: A Rising Heat In The Suburbs
By Chris Hedges

http://www.countercurrents.org/hedges190814.htm

Being the object of unwarranted deadly force by police officers is part of what it means to be black and poor in America. But, as Hamm said, no matter how much blacks raise their voices against indiscriminate police violence “the killings keep coming.”


'Borderfree': Creating Freedom And Beauty In A World At War
By Kathy Kelly

http://www.countercurrents.org/kelly190814.htm

The Borderfree Center is named for Prof. Noam Chomsky’s call, in a 2013 American University of Beirut commencement speech, for participation in “a worldwide struggle to preserve the global commons” so as to secure “decent human survival in a world that has no borders.” The symbol of their participation is the blue scarf they distribute to friends and supporters, symbolizing the blue expanse of sky upon which national boundary lines will never be drawn