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Ottawa Terror Attack Triggers Massive Police-Military Mobilization
By Keith Jones

http://www.countercurrents.org/jones231014.htm

The Canadian state has enacted its National Anti-Terrorism Plan, which involves the coordinated mobilization of all sections of the national-security apparatus, including the military, in response to the shooting Wednesday morning of a soldier at the National War Memorial in downtown Ottawa and storming of the national parliament building by a gunman


Evo Morales’ Victory Demonstrates How Much Bolivia Has Changed
By Federico Fuentes

http://www.countercurrents.org/fuentes231014.htm

Predictions by pollsters and commentators that Evo Morales would easily win Bolivia’s October 12 presidential elections were confirmed when the incumbent obtained over 60% of the vote. However, to understand why Morales will soon become the longest serving head of state in a country renowned for its history of coups and rebellions, it is necessary to start with an acknowledgement of the profound changes that Bolivia has undergone during his presidency


Greens Support But Coalition & Labor Right Attack
Humane Legacy Of Former Australian PM Gough Whitlam
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya231014.htm

Courageous, anti-racist social humanist and former Australian Labor Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam died on 21 October 2014 at the age of 98. Gough Whitlam was a courageous, intelligent and visionary social democrat who transformed Australia in 3 short years (1972-1975) before his removal in a US-backed Coup


Inequality: The Unaccounted Surplus Value Women Produce
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury231014.htm

More burdens are put on women than men as exploiting women has been made easier in the present world system. The tricky arrangement, a make-belief “universal” fact, is part of status quo. Advanced capitalist economies fail to discard the arrangement as the surplus value women produce is a lot, at times and in lands it's trillions of dollars


The Coming Financial Crisis: A Harbinger of World Renewal?
By Rajesh Makwana

http://www.countercurrents.org/makwana231014.htm

As the prospect of global financial crisis beckons once again, will our elected leaders finally accept the need for an entirely new economic approach that breaks away from the primacy of growth and profit – or will their hand be forced by a resurgence of mass public protest?


American Exceptionalism And Its Discontents
By David Bromwich

http://www.countercurrents.org/bromwich231014.htm

The Importance of Being Exceptional, from Ancient Greece to Twenty-First-Century America


War Culture
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson231014.htm

I'm convinced that a culture that favors war is necessary but not sufficient to make a population as warlike as the United States is now. All sorts of circumstances and opportunities are also necessary


Planet of The Living Dead (Halloween 2014)
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz231014.htm

Every year, as Oct. 31 nears, loyal consumers squander a small fortune to adorn their soon-to-be-foreclosed-upon abodes with Made-in-China images of tombstones, skulls, ghouls, goblins, monsters, zombies, and even the occasional bloody severed limb or two. But let's face it, none of these cardboard depictions remotely compare to the real-life horrors we passively accept as normal


Bury The Bomb Before It Buries Us
By Jack A. Smith

http://www.countercurrents.org/smith231014.htm

A quarter century after the Cold War ended, the people of the world are now entering a dangerous era of improved and more accurate nuclear weapons and faster, more precise delivery systems at a time of growing antagonism between Washington and Moscow and potential antipathy between the U.S. and China. All nine nuclear countries are upgrading their atomic weaponry, led by the United States and Russia


Britain’s Real Promise To Israel; “Symbolic” Vote on Palestine
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud231014.htm

66 years after ending its “mandate” in Palestine, Britain remains a party in a bloody conflict where Israel is still carrying out the same policies of colonial expansion, using western - including British - funds, arms and political support. Only when Britain fully and completely ends its support of Israel and financing of its occupation, and works diligently and actively towards correcting the injustice it had imposed on the Palestinians a century ago, one could consider that a real change in British policies is finally taking hold


Will The Clean India Campaign Really Cleanse India?
By Kandathil Sebastian

http://www.countercurrents.org/sebastian231014.htm

The present essay will examine whether a fully clean India or even a cleaner India is a realistic possibility and if it is so, how easy or difficult it is, based on our experience of setting apart the ‘dirty’ and the ‘clean’ people. In order to deconstruct the idea of a ‘clean India’, a better understanding of what I describe as the ‘political economy of shit’ – an ideological construct by which the ruling regimes have effectively segregated, subjugated and controlled individuals is central. Shit in this article is a metaphor which represents not only human excreta but also all extreme forms of dirt created by man. The operational definition of ‘shit’ includes industrial waste too