CounterCurrents: Britain Spearheads The Campaign To Make European GMO Regulation Meaningless, Some Hard Facts About Terror, How Israel Is Turning Gaza Into A Super- Max Prison

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UNICEF Report: 2.6 Million More Children In Poverty In Developed Countries Since 2008
By Andre Damon

http://www.countercurrents.org/damon291014.htm

The number of children in poverty in developed countries has increased by 2.6 million since 2008, according to a report published Tuesday by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The report, titled Children of the Recession, states that there are 76.5 million children in poverty in the 41 countries surveyed by UNICEF


Violence Against Children: UN Gets It Wrong
By Robert J. Burrowes

http://www.countercurrents.org/burrowes291014.htm

The United Nations has just issued a report, 'Why Children's Protection from Violence should be at the Heart of the Post-2015 Development Agenda' This is a worthy ideal. Unfortunately, the UN Report does not identify the fundamental cause of violence. Hence, its recommendations, which obviously cannot and do not include addressing this cause, are effectively useless and this report will have as much impact as previous official attempts to reduce violence in our world. Given that human violence now has us on the brink of precipitating our own extinction, it is time we faced the truth and responded meaningfully to it


Some Justice At Last For Baby N-Finally!
By Enakshi Ganguly Thukral

http://www.countercurrents.org/thukral291014.htm

Today the man who raped baby N was convicted. He was sentenced to life imprisonment based on the nature of the crime he committed and the gravity of the injuries that baby N had sustained. On the 29 th of October, baby N will be admitted into hospital for the fourth operation


Britain Spearheads The Campaign To Make European GMO Regulation Meaningless
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter291014.htm

As Washington's trusted lapdog, the UK is spearheading US agritech's drive to get genetically modified (GM) food into Europe. Officials, politicians, academics and media outlets have been co-opted by and are colluding with the GMO agritech industry. These people and institutions have been spewing out falsehoods, ignoring evidence pertaining to GMOs and are putting a one-sided positive spin on GM food with the aim of forcing it onto a public that does not want it


Some Hard Facts About Terror
By John Chuckman

http://www.countercurrents.org/chuckman291014.htm

We are having an outbreak of reports in the Canadian press about “home grown” terrorists, “radicalized” young men of Muslim faith traveling out of the country to participate in extremist groups abroad, a relatively insignificant phenomenon which has received inordinate publicity. In any event, if you give the matter some thought, you realize that this “news” is a kind of empty publicity, noise about something as old and familiar as human life itself, although it has been bestowed with a new name intended to frighten us into supporting measures outside the framework of a society of laws


Israeli Chooses "Honorable Life" Over Joining Military
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson291014.htm

Danielle Yaor is 19, Israeli, and refusing to take part in the Israeli military. She is one of 150 who have committed themselves, thus far, to this position


How Israel Is Turning Gaza Into A Super- Max Prison
By Jonathan Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook291014.htm

Where else in the world apart from the Palestinian territories would the international community stand by idly as so many people suffer – and not from a random act of God but willed by fellow humans? The reason for the hold-up is, as ever, Israel’s “security needs”. Gaza can be rebuilt but only to the precise specifications laid down by Israeli officials


“Poets Talk With Charles Orloski: Solzhenitsyn, T. S. Eliot,
Monica Lewinsky, Thomas Paine, Bertrand Russell, et. al.
By Gary Corseri

http://www.countercurrents.org/corseri291014.htm

In Old Japan, Basho and others wrote “linked verse”—tankas interweaving their own and others' work. It's a practice I hope other artists will take to heart. Following, is the 3 rd “Poets Talk” between Charles Orloski and myself


Flashpoint In Ukraine. How The US Drive For Hegemony Risks World War III
By Dr. Ludwig Watzal

http://www.countercurrents.org/watzal291014.htm

Review of "Flashpoint in Ukraine. How the US Drive for Hegemony Risks World War III" edited by Stephen Lendman


Precariats In India: Globalization And Changing Employment Relations
By Shalu Nigam

http://www.countercurrents.org/nigam291014.htm

The Prime Minister of India recently announced the paradigm shift in the labour laws to boost manufacturing and facilitate the ease of doing business. In the process, the plight of workers was blatantly ignored. However, this was not the first instance of an initiative to reform policies and laws relating to land, labour and capital. These have remained contentious issues since independence and there is clear division between interest of common masses and those of the government as well as of the business sector


Ghulam Azam : Death Of A War Criminal
By Subhash Gatade

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatade291014.htm

Ghulam Azam, the once all powerful leader of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, who died recently, might have brooded over this old dictum, in his last days in detention. It was only last year that he was sentenced to 90 years of imprisonment for his crimes against humanity which he committed when people of the then East Pakistan - todays Bangladesh - had risen up against the occupation army of Pakistan in the year 1971


Modi Sarkar: Politics Through Culture
By Ram Puniyani

http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani291014.htm

Where are we heading to becomes clear in the last few weeks of Modi Sarkar. The government will be trying to stick to the language which will be subtle while undertaking steps in Hinduization. Its associates, VHP-RSS will tell us bluntly about their agenda. Needless to repeat that this agenda, being unfolded is that of Hindu nation, where religious minorities will be relegated to secondary position and the Chaturvarnya system will be slipped in a subtle manner