CounterCurrents: Ebola A Symptom Of Ecological And Social Collapse, US Exploiting West Africa Ebola Outbreak To Establish Military Foothold, Fundamentalist Theology Is Bleeding Us Dry

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US Exploiting West Africa Ebola Outbreak To Establish Military Foothold
By Niles Williamson

http://www.countercurrents.org/williamson051014.htm

Under the guise of a humanitarian mission aimed at containing the spread of the Ebola virus, the Obama administration is exploiting the outbreak to establish a solid military footing on the African continent. West Africa continues to be ravaged by the worst outbreak of Ebola since the first case was identified in northern Democratic Republic of Congo in 1976


Ebola A Symptom Of Ecological And Social Collapse
By Glen Barry

http://www.countercurrents.org/barry051014.htm

The surging Ebola epidemic is the result of broad-based ecological and social collapse including rainforest loss, over-population, poverty and war. This preventable environmental and human tragedy demonstrates the extent to which the world has gone dramatically wrong; as ecosystem collapse, inequity, grotesque injustice, religious extremism, nationalistic militarism, and resurgent authoritarianism threaten our species and planet’s very being


Hong Kong Protests: Now The Hard Part, Kick Out The US, Build National Consensus
By Kevin Zeese & Margaret Flowers

http://www.countercurrents.org/zeese051014.htm

When protests in Hong Kong exploded, knowledgeable people looked for US involvement. It was not hard to find. The overt intrusion of the US is available in budgets, documents and websites; the covert involvement has not yet been uncovered but is no doubt there. What does US involvement mean for the credibility of the protest movement and the future of Hong Kong? How should Hong Kong activists respond?


291 Days of ‘Islamic Justice’: Shell-Shocked Syrian Town Freed After Savage Massacre
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb051014.htm

Last week’s battle for Adra al-Omalia was a significant turning point. The town is now liberated but the story of what took place here over the past 291 days is presently emerging, and it is a horrifying one


Fundamentalist Theology Is Bleeding Us Dry:
Stop The Transatlatic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) Agreement
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter051014A.htm

If Cameron really does want to tackle fundamentalism and the assault on the values of ‘fairness' and ‘decency', those much touted ‘British values' he alludes to, he should forget about waging imperialist wars and look closer to home. He should question the interests he serves to protect. Those interests are plundering economies, destroying ordinary people's livelihoods and undermining their quality of life


David Cameron And Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner:
Diverging Voices On Terror And Extremism In The Modern World
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter051014.htm

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s recent speech at the UN was a breath of fresh air. She spoke about economic terrorism and the reasons why some people turn to violence and told the audience how a bankrupt Argentina managed to turn away from hard-line economic neoliberal orthodoxy and stimulate growth. She also discussed the need for multilateral approaches to solving the world’s problems as well as the need to regulate ‘vulture funds’ that cripple sovereign states’ ability to function


International Day of Nonviolence in Afghanistan
By Dr Hakim

http://www.countercurrents.org/hakim051014.htm

We cannot wait. Gandhi said, “Be the change you wish to see in the world!” So, I readily join the APVs' mission: to abolish war. We understand that ‘we are the ones we've been waiting for'. “Wake up! We are not the war generation. We are the generation of love!”


Beyond 935 Lies
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson051014.htm

Charles Lewis' book, 935 Lies , would make a fine introduction to reality for anyone who believes the U.S. government usually means well or corporations tend to tell the truth in the free market. And it would make an excellent introduction to the decline and fall of the corporate media. Even if these topics aren't new to you, this book has something to add and retells the familiar quite well


Probibition: A Problem Or A Solution?
By Kandathil Sebastian

http://www.countercurrents.org/sebastian051014.htm

Governments should withdraw from selling and promoting alcohol, but should let private players to do their alcohol business while state sets rules of alcohol trade, just like state regulates other hazardous objects like ‘gun powder’. Prescribing what to eat and drink, based on moral positions is perhaps the job of religions and state may not encroach into their domain


Death Through The Window
By Tahir Ibn Manzoor

http://www.countercurrents.org/manzoor051014.htm

We will meet again in the schools, offices and on the day of Eid in ragged clothes, but hopeful. We suffered; we helped each other in the toughest of the times. I was born in the hospital, I slept in the half cracked submerged homes, I saw my homes collapsed while leaving for the safer area. I am a rich, poor, visitor and the storyteller who knows pain and at the same time what happiness mean to the labour who works hard – he earns for the day to feed his family. The calamity made it worst, but it’s not an end. The life is limping back to normalcy, but it will take more time after the catastrophe made the city literally a stagnant canal for weeks. We the sufferers will stand again