CounterCurrents: Doing Mining Right In Africa, America 's New War And Coming of The Age of Arab Discontent, Awareness = Overrated

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Turkey Demands US Back War To Topple Syria’s Assad
By Bill Van Auken

http://www.countercurrents.org/auken081014.htm

As forces of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) appeared poised to overrun the predominantly Kurdish town of Kobani Tuesday, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spelled out demands that Washington back a ground war aimed at toppling the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad


America 's New War And Coming of The Age of Arab Discontent
By Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja

http://www.countercurrents.org/khawaja081014.htm

After failure of the bogus War on Terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq , America has embarked on a new war to support the war economy, re-enact failed global leadership imagery and destroy the entire Arab region to define unilaterally the fate of the people of Palestine . The Arab coalition leaders supporting the US war efforts to bomb ISIL positions in Iraq and Syria have no sense of reality and lack popular backing in their homeland. The authoritarian Arab leaders live in palaces, not with people to understand the outcomes of their political folly. Ironically, the US air strikes and killings of the civilians will instigate reactionary opposition and increased insurgency to topple the puppet regimes


ISIL: From Decapitation To Islamophobia
By Ismail Salami

http://www.countercurrents.org/salami081014.htm

With the ISIL terrorists mounting more gory adventurism in Syria and Iraq and capturing villages and towns, there seems to be no tangible impediment to stop this influx of terror. The ghastly images circulated freely by the cult on the internet from beheading to crucifying their victims in cold blood have incensed the international community on the one hand but on the other hand, they have regrettably conduced to Islamophobia, a plan long funded by the officials in Washington


Terror Hysteria - Draconian New Australian Anti-Terrorism Laws
Target Journalists, Muslims And Human Rights
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya0810114.htm

Supported by US-inspired “terror hysteria” the extreme right wing Australian Coalition Government with the support of the right wing Labor Opposition has war criminally re-invaded Iraq and passed draconian anti-terrorism legislation that makes Australia a secret police state with detention without charge or trial and Australian Intelligence officers (e.g. of the Australian Security and Intelligence Organization, ASIO) having criminal and civil immunity from prosecution, and reportage on any special intelligence operations criminalized with maximum punishments ranging from 5 years' to 10 years' imprisonment


Hillary Clinton Confirms Commitment To Democracy By Acknowledging
Role In Overthrow of Honduran Democracy
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini081014.htm

As reported by Al Jazeera, Hillary Clinton now publicly acknowledges her globally isolated role in aiding a terrorist organization in the overthrow of Honduras's democratically elected president, Manuel Zelaya, in 2009


Awareness = Overrated
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz081014.htm

My sincere question: When exactly does all this goddamned awareness translate into authentic solidarity, productive action, and tangible change?


Challenging Drone Warfare In A U.S. Court
By Kathy Kelly

http://www.countercurrents.org/kelly081014.htm

On October 7, 2014, Kathy Kelly and Georgia Walker appeared before Judge Matt Whitworth in Jefferson City, MO, federal court on a charge of criminal trespass to a military facility. The charge was based on their participation, at Whiteman Air Force Base, in a June 1 st 2014 rally protesting drone warfare. Kelly and Walker attempted to deliver a loaf of bread and a letter to the Base Commander, encouraging the commander to stop cooperating with any further usage of unmanned aerial vehicles, (drones) for surveillance and attacks


A Long Walk For Palestinian Freedom
By Vacy Vlazna

http://www.countercurrents.org/vlazna081014.htm

The savage horror of Israeli war crimes in Gaza was wreaked for 51 days in full view of the unconscionable inertia of the US, UN, UK, China, Russia, Canada, Australia. The people of Palestine cannot trust in world powers to bring about peace, but they can trust people power; they can trust the hundreds and thousands of people who took to the streets in protest and solidarity, they can trust in the inexorable buildup of BDS, they can trust a lone man who joined them on their long walk to freedom


Postcard From The End of America : Jackson , Mississippi
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh081014.htm

I wish I had more to report about Jackson , but my time there was short, though considering what's lurking beyond the horizon these days, having little time anywhere might not be a curse. Still, there are plenty who can't wait for the fireworks to begin, for they think their daddy of daddies will emerge from the red, white and blue smoke


Doing Mining Right In Africa
By Thomas C. Mountain

http://www.countercurrents.org/moountain081014.htm

The small east African country of Eritrea has started a mining industry and is doing it right. To start with Eritrea is receiving 40% of the profits generated by its first gold/copper mine. Compare this to Tanzania where Anglo-American mining company operates one of the worlds largest gold mines and pays a whopping 4% royalty to the government


Writing My Epitaph : Of Prison Accounts And Articulations Against Injustice
By Sushmita

http://www.countercurrents.org/sushmita081014.htm

Book Review : Colours Of The Cage : A Prison Memoir, Arun Ferreira


Piketty For Progressives-- Part 4
By Thomas Riggins

http://www.countercurrents.org/riggins081014.htm

But, "the heart of the book" Piketty says, is his second major result. This is that there are major forces at work that push both towards increasing inequality (divergence) and decreasing inequality (convergence). I will call these D-forces and C-forces