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Binu Mathew
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Western Threats Against Russia Increase Danger Of Nuclear War
By Johannes Stern

http://www.countercurrents.org/stern300814.htm

The imperialist powers are intensifying their confrontation with Russia in the run-up to today’s European Union (EU) meeting and next week’s NATO summit in Wales. The escalation, which is being driven by Washington and Berlin, is increasing the danger of a military conflict between NATO and Russia that could result in a nuclear war


The New York Times And Flight MH17
By Bill Van Auken

http://www.countercurrents.org/auken300814.htm

In an August 29 editorial calling for the US and NATO to adopt a retaliatory policy against Russia over its alleged “large and unacceptable escalation of ... aggression against Ukraine,” the New York Times asserts in passing that after rebels in eastern Ukraine “shot down a Malaysian jetliner with a Russian missile ... Russia’s involvement became more overt.”


The Truth About Immigration
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz300814.htm

While the corporate media obscures the real terror and trains its focus on the latest battle between god’s country and ISIS (or whomever the villain of the day is), the primary conflict on the planet remains unchanged: globalization from above vs. globalization from below


Revolutionary Rats
By Gary Corseri

http://www.countercurrents.org/corseri300814.htm

You’re a rat in a maze and you can’t get out.
The rats are eating the other rats.
How do you like this luscious rat food?
Gorge your full on the putrid cats!


Iraq And Syria: The US Goes In Deeper
By Jack A. Smith

http://www.countercurrents.org/smith300814.htm

After 13 years of stalemated wars against al-Qaeda and the Taliban, Washington is in no position to ignore the much more powerful IS that now controls a third of the territory in two countries — larger than Great Britain and inhabited by 6 million people. This most powerful jihadist organization is the unanticipated byproduct of America’s ill-conceived imperial misadventures in the Islamic world


Iran Sanctions: US Plays Dirty Game
By Ismail Salami

http://www.countercurrents.org/salami300814.htm

On Friday, the US government announced the imposition of a new round of sanctions on over 25 Iranian individuals and companies, including shipping firms, oil companies, airlines and six banks despite the fact that Iran and the six world powers Russia, China, France, Britain and the US and Germany are in the process of talks with the intention of resolving the West’s nuclear standoff with Iran


Release The MER On Encounter Killing Of Five People In Sonia Vihar, Delhi
Press Release

http://www.countercurrents.org/pr300814.htm

Full text of the petition submitted to the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, demanding the public disclosure of the magisterial enquiry report (MER) investigating the encounter killing of five people by the Special Cell in Sonia Vihar (Delhi) in 2006. The MER was submitted in 2012. The most recent killing of one Fauzi by the Special Cell in the same Sonia Vihar area has re-opened the questions that were raised earlier. Scores of citizens wrote to the LG asking that the MER be made public immediately