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Kashmir’s Epic Floods: Anger Mounts As Hundreds Of Thousands Still Stranded
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc130914.htm

Authorities in Pakistan and India are struggling to cope with raging monsoon floods which have killed more than 460 people, displaced nearly a million people, and still threaten many more


Indian Army In Kashmir Floods: Demystifying The Truth
By Iqbal Sonaullah

http://www.countercurrents.org/sonaullah130914.htm

When people of Srinagar rejected any help from Indian army and stopped their choppers—a part of propagandist-rescue-operation—from landing, the rhetorical embellishment about Army’s role instantly perished. This is the truth about Kashmir: even in the state of absolute crisis India’s manipulating assistance is unwelcome


How The Monsoon Has Changed
By Sunita Narain

http://www.countercurrents.org/narain130914.htm

On the one hand, we are mismanaging our water resources, intensifying floods and droughts. On the other hand, climate change is beginning to make the country even more vulnerable, because of the increased frequency of extreme weather events


“ISIS –An American-CIA-Mossad-Saudi Intel Covert Operation”
By Feroze Mithiborwala

http://www.countercurrents.org/mithiborwala130914.htm

In terms of the rise of the ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq & Syria) the question that we must ask ourselves is that, is it possible for a terrorist organization to grow as powerful as on view, without the backing of certain nations & intelligence agencies? This is precisely what we will seek to achieve


Islamic State And The American Way Of War: The New Enemy Creation Process
By Steve Breyman

http://www.countercurrents.org/breyman130914.htm

Propagating an endless steam of new enemies transforms war into a permanent enterprise that generates trillions in debt, billions in profits, and millions of security clearances. New bureaucracies are built. Old ones are strengthened and expanded. Militarization transforms formerly civilian police forces and once quiet international borders


Say ‘No’ To War And Media Propaganda
By Mairead Maguire

http://www.countercurrents.org/maguire130914.htm

While the United States, United Kingdom and NATO are pushing for war with Russia, it behoves people and their governments around the world to take a clear stand for peace and against violence and war, no matter where it comes from.We are at a dangerous point in our history of the human family and it would be the greatest of tragedies for ourselves and our children if we simply allowed the war profiteers to take us into a third world war, resulting in the death of untold millions of people


Obama Iraq War And Obama Syrian War Will Both Involve US Alliance In 12 Types Of War Crimes
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya130914.htm

President Barack Obama has announced the Obama Iraq War, the Obama Syrian War and indeed an explicitly adumbrated Obama War on Indigenous Muslim rebels “wherever they are”. These Obama wars will involve commission of war crimes in 12 technical areas by US state terrorism and US Alliance state terrorism


Obama Takes Hypocrisy To New High Levels
By Alan Hart

http://www.countercurrents.org/hart130914.htm

So in my view THE question is this. Is there anything that could be done to change the dynamics of the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel in order to improve the prospects for America taking the lead in calling Israel to account for its defiance of international law and crimes?


ISIS And Israel Allies Against A Palestinian State
By Jonathan Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook130914A.htm

The recent New York Times advertisement and Netanyahu’s depiction of Hamas and ISIS, or Islamic State, as “branches of the same poisonous tree” is a travesty of the truth


Losing The Plot: Israel's Premier To Face New Gaza Reality
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud130914.htm

Netanyahu’s war-turned-genocide in Gaza has backfired badly - his strategy has helped resurrect Hamas, the very movement he tried desperately to crush


Let Us See Through Our Victims’ Eyes
By William A. Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook130914.htm

By acting against the Constitution the President, in like manner, acts contrary to the will and the dictates of the people, and consequently must and should be brought to trial. Indeed, as Robertson points out “The charges against Milosevic at the Hague convey the same idea—the responsibility of the commander for all the natural and probable consequences of his command.” What alternative does the American citizen have then to take back their rights through the International Courts by bringing their own leaders before the law as Cooke did the King in 1649


32 Years After The Sabra-Shatila Massacre: Tension Mounts In Lebanon’s Teeming Camps….
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb130914.htm

They are beginning to arrive at Shatila Palestinian camp in Beirut this weekend. “They” being people of good will from around the world, many of whom annually visit Martyr’s Square in Shatila as well as some of Lebanon’s 11 other Palestinian Refugee Camps. It is the 32nd anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, and commemorative events are scheduled all next week


Warning To War Supporters
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson130914.htm

I know you mean well. I know you think you've found a bargain that nobody else noticed hidden in a back corner of the used car lot. Let me warn you: it's a clunker. Here, I'll list the defects. You can have your own mechanic check them out


Bangladesh On A Slippery Slope
By Fazal M. Kamal

http://www.countercurrents.org/kamal130914.htm

While the world is watching with intense trepidation developments in what are known as hotspots around the globe---i.e. Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Palestine-Israel---a major catastrophic setting is being created in a country that, unfortunately, is more often in the news for all the wrong reasons. Especially after the non-election earlier this year the ruling party in Bangladesh has evidently embarked on an obviously well-thought-out project of enacting laws that will build a state structure which will gift the administration the full freedom to ensure that its decisions cannot be questioned on any ground, thereby assuring itself of comprehensive control over all the tentacles of the state


Scottish Independence Conference In london: When Getting Booed
By The Neo-Colonial Left Is Not A Bad Thing, But A Good Thing
By Sukant Chandan

http://www.countercurrents.org/chandan130914.htm

Neo-colonial contradictions amongst the Scottish Independence socialists, neo-colonial contradictions of the british and western white left


US - UK Genocide Against Iraq 1990-2012 Killed 3.3 Million ,
Including 750,000 Children Says Prof. Francis Boyle
By Sherwood Ross

http://www.countercurrents.org/ross130914.htm

Approximately 3.3 million Iraqis, including 750,000 children, were “exterminated” by economic sanctions and/or illegal wars conducted by the U.S. and Great Britain between 1990 and 2012, an eminent international legal authority says


Ecological Disaster At Polavaram
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat130914.htm

There are no clear estimates available at the moment but the number of people going to be drowned or displaced by dam under construction across the Godavari River would be nearly half a million if some activists are to be believed. The submergence area is not just in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana but also Odisha and Chhattishgarh but according to government’s own assessment it will be catastrophic


1120th Day Of Struggle Against Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant
By The Women of Idinthakarai

http://www.countercurrents.org/wi130914.htm

We invite you to visit us and be with us. We request you to share our dreams and fears. We still do not get adequate safe drinking water, we still do not have good transportation facilities, a suitable hospital or a good road- nothing has changed for us, except that fear has increased. If establishing fear and anxiety in the minds of common people like us is the talisman of development, then that alone has been achieved ever since KKNPP became “operational”


Hand over data for surveillance or face fine $250,000 a day: US threatened Yahoo
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc130914A.htm

Citing court documents news media including AFP, The Washington Post and BBC said in reports: US authorities threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it failed to comply with a secret surveillance program requiring it to hand over user data in the name of national security


Knowing Is One Thing; Doing Is Another Matter...
By Chandi Sinnathurai

http://www.countercurrents.org/sinnathurai130914.htm

The world stood and watched simply mouthing platitudes. Even today, nothing is done to the Tamils – the plight of the poor has worsened in spite of the economic upturn in Sri Lanka