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Leaked Documents Expose Secret Contracts Between NSA And Tech Companies
By Thomas Gaist

http://www.countercurrents.org/gaist201014.htm

Internal National Security Agency documents published by the Intercept earlier this month provide powerful evidence of active collaboration by the large technology corporations with the US government’s worldwide surveillance operations. The documents give a glimpse of efforts by the American state—the scale and complexity of which are astonishing—to penetrate, surveil and manipulate information systems around the world


Edward Snowden And The Golden Age of Spying
Tom Engelhardt Interviews Laura Poitras

http://www.countercurrents.org/poitras201014.htm

Laura Poitras, like reporter Glenn Greenwald, is now known almost as widely as Snowden himself, for helping facilitate his entry into the world. Her new film, the last in a trilogy she’s completed (the previous two being My Country, My Country on the Iraq War and The Oath on Guantanamo), takes you back to June 2013 and locks you in that Hong Kong hotel room with Snowden, Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill of the Guardian, and Poitras herself for eight days that changed the world. It’s a riveting, surprisingly unclaustrophic, and unforgettable experience


Netanyahu And Hitler: Uncanny Parallels In Character
By John Chuckman

http://www.countercurrents.org/chuckman201014.htm

I don’t know whether anyone else has noticed the fact that Benjamin Netanyahu and Adolph Hitler share uncomfortably similar personality and character traits. Certainly there are, and have been, other politicians who also share the same traits, but it is of particular concern today that a man of this nature dominates events in the Middle East


Once More On Transition -- Critical Thoughts On A Debate On Goal and Strategy
By Saral Sarkar

http://www.countercurrents.org/sarkar201014.htm

If readers of and participants in this discussion want to make some progress in finding the right strategy for the transition to, generally speaking, a better world, then it is necessary first to correct the mistakes in our understanding of the present situation, remove the contradictions in our own positions and, in general, create clarity about the matters being discussed. If we at the end still disagree, then we shall at least know on which points exactly we disagree. That too would be some progress in the discussion


Friend or Foe: Cooperation Creates Friends -Competition Creates Foes
By Lionel Anet

http://www.countercurrents.org/anet201014.htm

To survive we must gradually but quickly change from a growth economy of capitalism to an economy that can manage its shrinkage until we reach a sustainable life. This can only be achieved by progressing from the unfairness of a competitive economy to the fairness of a cooperative one. This would also improve our physical and mental wellbeing


A Tribute To Abdul Matin, Grand Hero In The History Of Bangladesh
By Dr. Peter Custers

http://www.countercurrents.org/custers201014.htm

With the demise of Abdul Matin, Bangladesh has lost a great son of the soil, - the garlanded hero of the historic language movement, the architect of the ‘red cap’ forces of the late sixties, and a committed Marxist


Strange Days Indeed!
By Timothy V. Gatto

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatto201014.htm

More war, bombing campaigns, eventual "boots on the ground" and an ineffectual CDC allowing Ebola "mistakes" leading to more infections are on the short list of what is to come. Eventually we will show just how "exceptional" and "indispensable" we are by pushing either Russia or China into a corner and starting World War III. This is the path you people in Washington are leading us too. The sad part is that most people in America aren't really aware enough to notice


“A Lovely Piece of Real Estate”: 31 Years After the U.S. Invasion of Grenada
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz201014.htm

As I’m sure everyone knows, we’re fast approaching the 31st anniversary of a truly momentous American victory -- a crucial military operation that not only warmed Ronald Raygun's cold, cold heart but was also deemed film-worthy by the former mayor of Carmel, California. Yes, of course, I'm talking about the Oct. 25, 1983, "liberation" of Grenada