CounterCurrents: “USrael: The Democracidal Minotaur In The Cesspool of Imagination”

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Shaky Truce Holds In The Gaza Strip
By Peter Symonds

http://www.countercurrents.org/symonds070814.htm

As the 72-hour ceasefire in the Gaza Strip that began on Tuesday morning holds, talks are underway in Cairo between Israeli and Palestinian delegations, mediated by Egyptian officials, over an end to the month-long Israeli military onslaught. The truce remains fragile. The Israeli military has pulled its ground troops back to positions on the border but is poised to recommence its bombardment on the slightest pretext. The tiny, densely populated enclave of 1.8 million people remains under an Israeli-Egyptian economic blockade and menaced on all sides by Israeli forces, from land, air and sea


Edward Snowden Given Three-Year Residence Permit In Russia
By Jon Queally

http://www.countercurrents.org/queally070814.htm

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has received a three-year residency permit from the Russian government, a lawyer representing him in Moscow announced Thursday


Ukrainian Offensive Against Donetsk Raises Threat Of War With Russia
By Christoph Dreier

http://www.countercurrents.org/dreir070814.htm

As hundreds of thousands flee to Russia to escape the bloody offensive of the Western-backed Ukrainian regime against pro-Russian forces in east Ukraine, the risk of an all-out war between Ukraine and Russia that could involve the Western powers is rapidly rising


Will Putin Realize That Russia Holds The Cards?
By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts070814.htm

If Putin does not put his foot down hard and make clear to the Europeans what the stakes are, Washington will succeed in its determination to drive the world to war, and “exceptional and indispensable” Americans will die along with all the rest


Obama's War Against Russia Backfires
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse070814.htm

U.S. President Barack Obama's war against Russia isn't only causing Russia to cooperate more strongly with the other BRIC countries to break the U.S. dollar's reign as the global reserve currency, but it's also causing Russian President Vladimir Putin's job-approval rating in Russia to soar, and the confidence that the Russian people have in their own Government to soar likewise


On Heroes and Preachers: Gaza's New Resistance Paradigm
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud070814.htm

As great as Gandhi was in the context of his country's struggle against colonialism, which remains a source of inspiration for many Palestinians, Palestine has its own heroes, resisters, women and men who are engraving a legend of their own in Gaza and the rest of Palestine


“USrael: The Democracidal Minotaur In The Cesspool of Imagination”
By Gary Corseri

http://www.countercurrents.org/corseri070814.htm

Two bits of truth did leak out while I scavenged among the rubble of the MSM: one news clip showed a Palestinian girl of ten who had awakened paralyzed in a hospital after her family had been killed by Israeli bombs. When she could not feel her limbs, she thought she had died. Actually, she had died… the life she might have had, had died forever. Another bit of truth showed another Palestinian girl, also ten. She had just witnessed her grandmother and three uncles being blown apart by Israeli bombs. She held her palms to her head and kept crying, “Enough! Enough! Enough!”


Palestine And The Zionist Media
By Anthony Mathew Jacob

http://www.countercurrents.org/jacob070814.htm

Welcome to the world where the Israelis are "KILLED" by Palestinians and the Palestinians merely "DIE" to Israeli "retaliation," the oppressed Palestinians are "terrorists" and the oppressor Israel is the "victim."


Israeli Troops Withdraw - Fail To Reoccupy Gaza.
The Palestinian Resistance Has Triumphed Once Again!!
By Feroze Mithiborwala

http://www.countercurrents.org/mithiborwala070814.htm

So now all Israeli soldiers have withdrawn from Gaza. The Israeli Offence Force (IOF) claims to have accomplished its mission of destroying tunnels. Though they caused far more human damage with more than 1800 dead, of whom 80% are children & women, another 10,000 grievously maimed and injured, the total destruction of Palestinian social infrastructure with more than 300 schools, 6000 homes, water & sewage pipelines, electric cables & stations - all utterly destroyed. Yes, but what have they achieved?


How Can We Destroy Love?
By Robert J. Burrowes

http://www.countercurrents.org/burrowes070814.htm

Love is a serious problem in our world. There is too much of it. So I want to explain how we can destroy it systematically. If we can destroy love completely, we can destroy life on Earth. But first, what is love?


India's Religious Minorities And Dalits Weep Alone
By John Dayal

http://www.countercurrents.org/dayal070814.htm

India’s several religious minorities weep alone when they are in pain. So do Dalits and the Indigenous people, called Tribals or Adivasis


Sailan Massacre
By Abdul Majid Zargar

http://www.countercurrents.org/zargar070814.htm

The Jammu & Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society has released the massive heart wrenching report of Sailan Massacre titled “The anatomy of massacre-The Mass Killings at Sailan, August 3-4, 1998”.Sailan is a small village in Surankot Tehsil of border District Poonch. The report lists a graphic account of the most inhuman killing of Nineteen people by the deep State. The martyred comprised 11 children ranging in age from about 4 years to 15 years, and five women including one in an advanced stage of pregnancy


Alas… Who Can Prevent Rajapaksa’s Third Term?
By Nilantha Ilangamuwa

http://www.countercurrents.org/ilanga070814.htm

Who will be the winner of the next presidential election? Is there any doubt in the minds of the citizens that the outcome has not already been decided? In the rotten political culture of Sri Lanka is there any room for a genuine election? Perhaps you may, like me, dream and yearn for a society which stands on the shoulders of human dignity and which is prepared to stand up and say enough is enough