CounterCurrents: Libya: From Africa's Richest State Under Gaddafi, To Failed State After NATO Intervention, The Politics of Empire. The US, Israel And The Middle East, Inequality And Imperialism

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Government Indifference Compounds Ebola Disaster
By Kate Randall

http://www.countercurrents.org/randall191014.htm

United Nations officials said Thursday that the UN trust fund for Ebola has only $100,000 on hand, a fraction of the nearly $1 billion the world body says is needed to contain the spread of the deadly virus. While the UN fund has received pledges of about $20 million from various governments, it has received only $100,000 in actual cash deposits, and that from only one country, Colombia


Will Serbia Turn To The East? The Real Significance of Putin’s Visit
By Joaquin Flores

http://www.countercurrents.org/flores191014.htm

All of this indicates a very real and growing shift, not only for Serbia, but for all of Europe. As the conflict between the CSTO and NATO intensifies, Russia is shoring up its traditional allies and reaffirming its support for the ‘Pink Tide’ Latin American allies in MERCOSUR. Russia does not oppose Serbia’s potential to join the EU, seeing it as another asset within the EU, which can help to maintain its position in bilateral relations. With all of this in mind, we know at least this: the pouring rain did not deter a single Serb from attending Thursday’s massive events, which caused traffic jams throughout Belgrade that, for the first time in a long time, were ones to be happy about


Libya: From Africa's Richest State Under Gaddafi, To Failed State After NATO Intervention
By Garikai Chengu

http://www.countercurrents.org/chengu191014.htm

The fall of Gaddafi’s administration has created all of the country’s worst-case scenarios: Western embassies have all left, the South of the country has become a haven for terrorists, and the Northern coast a center of migrant trafficking. Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia have all closed their borders with Libya. This all occurs amidst a backdrop of widespread rape, assassinations and torture that complete the picture of a state that is failed to the bone


Stop The Killing
By Kathy Kelly

http://www.countercurrents.org/kelly191014.htm

"I want to make a special appeal to soldiers, national guardsmen, and policemen: each of you is one of us. The peasants you kill are your own brothers and sisters. When you hear a man telling you to kill, remember God's words, 'thou shalt not kill.' No soldier is obliged to obey a law contrary to the law of God. In the name of God, in the name of our tormented people, I beseech you, I implore you; in the name of God I command you to stop the repression."


Venomous European Journeys! Send Me Back To Cuba
By Andre Vltchek

http://www.countercurrents.org/vltchek191014.htm

As I was approaching Stuttgart Airport, a huge military Hercules was taking off. Stuttgart is not only the home of the Porsche and Mercedes factories, but also of The United States Africa Command (USAFRICOM or AFRICOM). It is deadly; it is murderous. But of course, in Stuttgart, nobody really knows or cares what it really is!


Inequality And Imperialism
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chwodhury191014.htm

Imperialism emerges as one of the main actors behind inequality and its rise. Mainstream's discussions on inequality don't take into account the issues of imperialism and the world order that the imperialist powers run. It's mainstream's altum silentium , profound silence


Middle East: The Regional Chessboard
By G. Asgar Mitha

http://www.countercurrents.org/mitha191014.htm

It remains to be seen in the future whether the NATO-Arab (excluding Syria and Lebanon) alliance will be successful in their efforts to reshape and dominate the Middle East. If it is successful in bringing about the regime change in Syria and then Lebanon (an undertaking by Israel), it is possible that the next move on the chessboard would be aggression against Iran and Pakistan. If that is the scenario that would be played out, China and Russia will become directly involved in the region resulting in a catastrophic war


Postcard From The End of America : New Orleans
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh191014.htm

This time, I got to New Orleans on a bus named Mega, and it also dropped me off at Elysian Fields. In Nola, there's a street called Arts, so of course there has to be one named Desire, and Tennessee Williams clearly saw the two as intertwined, thrusting and plunging their bodies against each other. Of course, death will interrupt this coupling not just finally but every step of the way


The Politics of Empire. The US, Israel And The Middle East
By Dr. Ludwig Watzal

http://www.countercurrents.org/watzal191014.htm

Whether the 21st century will be an American one, has to be seen, although, according to Petras, "there is no alternative imperial or modern anti-imperial tendency on the immediate horizon". Right now, the US makes more enemies than friends. Its new adventurism in Syria and Iraq may turn out to be even more disastrous for the US than the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Petras' book gives the readers an insight in the making of US foreign policy, which appears multifarious and determined by a power struggle between different elites


Vatican’s Changing Position on Homosexuals And
Its implications For Indian Sexual Minorities
By Kandathil Sebastian

http://www.countercurrents.org/sebastian191014.htm

A recently concluded synod meeting of Catholic bishops in Vatican has significant implications for sexual minorities all around the world. The synod meeting has seriously debated on the need for unconditionally welcoming homosexuals into the Catholic community by radically altering some of its intensely held catechisms on ‘family’ and ‘sexuality’. Initial reports of this meeting indicate Church’s willingness to accept cohabitation of homosexual couples as a fact of life, rather than a sin


Love, Jihad And Political Lust: Colonising India’s Muslims
By Farzana Versey

http://www.countercurrents.org/versey191014.htm

Hindutva can get away with marketing itself as an all-purpose karma and culture, the blandishment camouflaging despotism


Kashmir Elections: Misplaced Priority!
By M.Ashraf

http://www.countercurrents.org/ashraf191014.htm

The urgent need is to go in for massive restoration and rehabilitation programme with national and international assistance through dedicated and honest people rather than put the entire administrative machinery into election mode thereby leaving them in the lurch in view of the fast approaching winter. The elections could be held during June next year after regaining the lost “Paradise”. At the present moment these have the least priority notwithstanding the pleas from different quarters with vested interests!