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Water Disaster Hits Every Single Person In Gaza
By Ali Abunimah

http://www.countercurrents.org/abunimah140814.htm

Right now, none of the 1.8 million Palestinians living in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip has access to a safe and secure supply of water. The water situation was already severe before Israel’s bombardment began on 7 July. But now water experts are calling it a disaster. Ninety percent of wells, wastewater treatment plants and desalination plants cannot operate due to power cuts and lack of fuel


Head of Gaza Bomb Squad Killed As 1,000 Tons Of Israeli Munitions Remain
By Nora Barrows-Friedman

http://www.countercurrents.org/friedman140814.htm

Six people were killed and six others seriously injured on Wednesday when an unexploded 500-kilogram Israeli missile blew up in Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza, as weapons disposal experts were attempting to make it safe. Bilal Muhammad al-Sultan, Rahed Taysir Ali al-Hom, Hazem Ahmad Abu Murad and Saeed Talal Salman were killed in the explosion


Gaza Professor Haidar Eid Describes "Most Devastating Destruction Since 1948"
By Nora Barrows-Friedman

http://www.countercurrents.org/friedman140814A.htm

Palestinian resistance factions and civil society in Gaza demand that Israel abide by international law and lift the seven-year-long siege and blockade, enforced by Egypt, as part of the terms for a lasting ceasefire. Gaza-based professor, scholar and boycott activist Haidar Eid says that even if Israel and Egypt lift the siege and allow unrestricted reconstruction materials into Gaza via its seven crossing points, it could take up to ten years to restore Gaza to the state it was in even before the attacks began last month


“ICC Can And Should Investigate Israeli Officials For Possible War Crimes in Gaza”
By Brian J. Trautman

http://www.countercurrents.org/trautman140814.htm

Israel is already attempting to recruit supporters to stave off an ICC investigation of its leaders. Last week, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, turned to allies in US Congress for a pledge of support. Regardless of the efforts of Israel or its closest ally, the United States, to prevent the ICC from seeking justice for the Palestinians and international aid workers killed and wounded in Gaza, the Court has a duty to at least open an investigation. The credibility of the ICC hangs in the balance. No individual who violates international law should escape justice. If Israeli officials are not investigated for possible war crimes in Gaza, then the tragic lessons learned from the last century about failures in international criminal justice and the consequences of inaction will have been in vain


Small Genocides
By Justin Podur

http://www.countercurrents.org/podur140814.htm

Hitler saw the expansion of the United States and the destruction of the indigenous populations of the Americas as a model. If the U.S. could do it to the indigenous, Hitler reasoned, why could Germany not do it to the people of Eastern Europe?


Violence And Western Civilization
By Ron Forthofer

http://www.countercurrents.org/forthofer140814.htm

Israel's slaughter of over 1900 Palestinians in Gaza, by far and away most of whom were civilians, got me thinking about Western civilization


Postcard From The End Of America : Wisconsin
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh140814.htm

Before we start, I must admit that I didn't set foot in Wisconsin this time, but only saw it from the train as I crossed it going West, then East. This, then, is really a train Postcard, but the long distance train is a community in itself


Has Israel Turned Into An Apartheid Regime?
By Kourosh Ziabari

http://www.countercurrents.org/ziabari140814.htm

Apartheid is recognized as an international crime, and there's The 1973 International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid which clearly sets out the conditions under which the actions and policies of a government can be identified as resembling the crime of apartheid. Israel is now committing this crime overtly, ostensibly and unequivocally, any conscious man attests to it. Is there anyone who dares to hold Israel accountable and punish it?


Some Thoughts On Resilience And Transition
By Saral Sarkar

http://www.countercurrents.org/sarkar140814.htm

Movements like the Transition Town Movement (TTM) ought to pursue a greater goal, which, apart from being good in itself, is necessary to attract people and encourage them to join it. We need not set an ideal society as our goal . An ideal will perhaps always remain an ideal. But an acceptably good and peaceful world society is possible and can therefore be our goal


Science, Religion And War
By John Scales Avery

http://www.countercurrents.org/avery140814.htm

The recent murderous, and religiously motivated,.attacks by ISIS on the Yazidi community in Iraq make it appropriate to ask whether religion most frequently acts as a force for peace in the world, or whether it is more often the source of conflicts


How The Excessive Militarization of The Police Is Turning Cops Into Counterinsurgents
By Matthew Harwood

http://www.countercurrents.org/harwood140814.htm

Welcome to a new era of American policing, where cops increasingly see themselves as soldiers occupying enemy territory, often with the help of Uncle Sam’s armory, and where even nonviolent crimes are met with overwhelming force and brutality


Pakistan : Anatomy of Turbulent 68th Independence Day
By Mahboob A. Khawaja

http://www.countercurrents.org/khawaja140814.htm

Pakistan 's Freedom Movement was carried out by the people under the visionary leadership of Mohammad Ali Jinnah- Quaid-e-Azam. The 14 August, should have been a day to rejoice and value the imperatives of the 68 th Independence Day across Pakistan . Not so, the same masses are barbed wired, dehumanized and deprived of the rightful opportunity to celebrate their freedom with human dignity, honor and peaceful activism. Panicky and buried under pillage of corruption allegations, PM Nawaz Sharif never knew the essence of national freedom to acquire the reality.


Reflections From The Margins On Independence Day
By John Dayal

http://www.countercurrents.org/dayal140814.htm

Nehru may be a reviled figure now in certain political circles, but we risk the future of coming generations if we revile and reject this dream of a modern, plural India, which has its doors, and windows open for fresh wings to blow in from all directions, and which would hold its head high in the comity of nations. This vision needs to be reiterated from the ramparts of the Red Fort every Independence Day