CounterCurrents: Washington Threatens The World, The Bad, The Ugly And The US Media

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Renewed Israeli Bombardment Kills Five In Gaza
By Ma'an News Agency

http://www.countercurrents.org/maan090814.htm

Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip early Saturday left at five Palestinians dead and dozens injured, as a series of strikes overnight hit homes, mosques, and a sports club on the second day after the end of a 72-hour ceasefire. The strikes, which come on the 33rd day of a massive Israeli assault that has left more than 1,900 Palestinians dead and more than 9,837 injured, come as negotiations between Palestinian and Israeli delegations stalled, despite reports Friday that both sides were close to an agreement


Israel Broke All Taboos In Attacking Civilians, Says Gaza Doctor
By Nora Barrows-Friedman

http://www.countercurrents.org/nbf090814.htm

In an interview with The Electronic Intifada on Friday, Dr. Belal Dabour, a resident physician at Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital, said that “the situation in Gaza is tense, in anticipation for what will happen. Drones have not left the area,” he added


Book Review: "Hiroshima August 6, 1945: A Silence Broken"
By John Scales Avery

http://www.countercurrents.org/avery090814.htm

The nuclear destruction of Hiroshima was a tragedy in itself, but its larger significance is that it started a nuclear arms race which today threatens to destroy human society and much of the biosphere


How ISIS Finally Became Obama’s Enemy
By Shamus Cooke

http://www.countercurrents.org/cooke090814.htm

Suddenly the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has become a threat worthy of American missiles. For almost two years President Obama completely ignored the biggest and most brutal terror group in the Middle East, allowing it to balloon into a regional power. No matter how many heads it severed or how much territory it conquered, ISIS just couldn't draw Obama’s attention


The Bad, The Ugly And The US Media
By Fazal M. Kamal

http://www.countercurrents.org/kamal090814.htm

In a country that practically rules the world, nay the entire universe really, it’s generally offensive to utilize the word Palestine in any sense that could/might convey the notion that you’re even distractedly being sympathetic to the people who once lived in a place of that name


Turkey’s Erdogan or Erdogan’s Turkey?
By Mohammad Behzad Fatmi

http://www.countercurrents.org/fatmi090814.htm

Turkey is going to vote tomorrow, August 10, to elect its next president in an unprecedented way. Unprecedented because it would be the first time a president is elected directly by the population rather than being chosen by the country’s parliament. The factors that are lingering around this election, however, are so dubious that it raises the question of whether this election is a sign of an advanced democracy or is it plainly majoritarianism?


Washington Threatens The World
By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts090814.htm

The consequence of Washington’s reckless and irresponsible political and military interventions in Iraq, Libya, and Syria has been to unleash evil. The various sects that lived in peace under the rule of Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, and Assad are butchering one another, and a new group, ISIS, is in the process of creating a new state out of parts of Iraq and Syria