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Combination Of Man's Greed And Climate Change Could Be Behind Kashmir Disaster
By Marianne de Nazareth

http://www.countercurrents.org/nazareth170914.htm

Walls of swirling brown water, homes and buildings on the banks of the Jhelum being washed away like little match boxes, shades of the Kedarnath tragedy was the thought that crossed one's mind watching TV footage of the Kashmir tragedy. The recent disaster in Kashmir Valley is being increasingly looked at as having been compounded by man, aggravated by reckless “developmental” activities with no regard for nature conservation. On the same lines, the very same lines as Kedarnath


Naomi Klein: 'Ferocious Love' And The Climate Fight To Come
By Jon Queally

http://www.countercurrents.org/queally170914.htm

If there's a way to adequately condense the central tenet of Naomi Klein's new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, it's the observation that just as the rise of global greenhouse gas emissions coincided with the emergence of neoliberal globalization as the dominant economic paradigm in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, it's also possible that the growing and various social movements that have been building up to counter those dual forces are now converging at just the right moment to help save us from the destructive path humanity now walks


The People’s Climate March: Meet The Next Movement Of Movements
By Naomi Klein

http://www.countercurrents.org/klein170914.htm

The most important climate gathering next week will not be happening at the UN, but in the streets: thousands upon thousands of us will be sounding the climate alarm, literally, at the historic People’s Climate March on September 21. While the decision was made not to have speeches during the march, at 12:58pm there will be two minutes of silence followed by the unleashing of a chorus of magnificent sound—part of what organizers are describing as a global call for climate justice—complete with church bells and some 32 marching bands


This Changes Things
By Mark Kirkwood Callingham

http://www.countercurrents.org/callingham170914.htm

A MANIFESTO REMIX, Written by Naomi Klein, Rebecca Tarbotton, Malcolm X, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, David Wolf, George Monbiot, Chief Si'ahl, Art Solomon, M K C


US Prepares For “Generational” War In The Middle East
By Peter Symonds

http://www.countercurrents.org/symonds170914.htm

At a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey set the stage for a massive and protracted expansion of US military operations in Iraq and Syria. “This will require a sustained effort over an extended period of time. It is a generational problem,” Dempsey told the committee


Hell (On Earth) Is For Children
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz170914.htm

"Stop killing our kids,” warns indigenous author Ward Churchill, “if you want your own to be safe." What's that? You're not killing anybody's kids? Au contraire, mon ami... With nearly half of all U.S. tax dollars going to the military, the vast majority of Americans have contributed to enough death to make Kissinger blush


Ukraine And Neo-Nazis
By William Blum

http://www.countercurrents.org/blum170914.htm

Ever since serious protest broke out in Ukraine in February the Western mainstream media, particularly in the United States, has seriously downplayed the fact that the usual suspects – the US/European Union/NATO triumvirate – have been on the same side as the neo-Nazis. In the US it’s been virtually unmentionable. I’m sure that a poll taken in the United States on this issue would reveal near universal ignorance of the numerous neo-Nazi actions, including publicly calling for death to “Russians, Communists and Jews”. But in the past week the dirty little secret has somehow poked its head out from behind the curtain a bit


History Does Repeat Itself: Novorossiya, Ukraine And Crimea
By Gaither Stewart

http://www.countercurrents.org/stewart1709114.htm

Novorossiya or New Russia, so absent in mainstream media and so present in alternative news sources today, is popularly believed to be a fleeting matter, simply a new name created ex-novo for effect by the local militias of southeastern Ukrainians today fighting and defeating the Ukrainian regular army troops invading their territories. In doing so the people of Novorossiya are also shattering the dream of American President Obama. The truth is the people of this region are closely linked to the history of their lands


Can You Pass The "China Threat" Quiz?
By Jeffrey Rudolph

http://www.countercurrents.org/rudolph170914.htm

In terms of both economic and military power, the United States and China are the two most important countries in the world. World stability requires that the US, the established power, and China, the emerging power, effectively work out their differences over issues such as navigation rights in the seas surrounding China and the political status of Taiwan. Perhaps the greatest danger to peace is that China may overestimate its power—thus leading to hubris and aggression—or that the US may overestimate the threat China poses—thus leading to unnecessary fear and confrontation. The main purpose of the following Quiz is to examine China's evolution into an important economic and military power, and to assess the extent of its threat to the US


Lessons Learned In The Bucca Camp
By Kathy Kelly

http://www.countercurrents.org/kelly170914.htm

We need not choose blindness, or the hatred that lets us be herded in fear. We can reach out with truth, with compassion, with the activist courage that leaps from heart to heart, rebuilding sanity, civility, community, humanity, resistance. We can find hope in our own active work to prove that humanity persists, that history can yearn toward justice and that a love which is in no way comfortable, sentimental bosh remains vigorously at work in a world with such need of it


Demagogue’s Delight: US Extremist Leader Advances Militant Agenda
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini170914.htm

Extremist groups in the US have publicly announced that they are going to violate international law and commit aggression by detonating large-scale explosives inside Syria, without UN member-state Syria’s permission or cooperation, without being attacked, and without UN Security Council authorization, which is legally required. It is countless international terrorist actions like this, combined with silly claims like “We are a nation of laws”, that have made Obama a worldwide laughingstock and tragicomic dunce


If ISIS Were Really a Movie
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson170914.htm

ISIS has created a movie preview for the coming war, a war it eagerly wants Washington to take part in. The White House and Congress would like to oblige, as long as the movie can be a short one, on the model of Libya. Here's the plot: Evil force arises out of nowhere; United States destroys it; credits roll. If Libya-The-Movie had begun with years of support for Gadaffi or ended with the disaster left behind, the critics would have hated it. Framing is everything


Obama Has A “Strategy” Now!
By Taj Hashmi

http://www.countercurrents.org/hashmi170914.htm

America and its allies want the overthrow of the Syrian and Iranian regimes, and are paradoxically fighting the ISIS, which has also been fighting Assad, and all pro-Iranian elements in Syria and Iraq. One wonders why the enemy’s enemy is not a friend to the West! This “paradox” looks quite ominous