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US, Turkey At Odds Over Syria Intervention
By Patrick Martin

http://www.countercurrents.org/martin101014.htm

A top-level US delegation arrived in Ankara Thursday for talks with Turkish leaders amid a mounting crisis on the Syria-Turkey border, where Syrian Kurds are besieged in the town of Kobani by thousands of fighters mobilized by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)


Again The Peace Prize Not For Peace
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson101014.htm

The 2014 prize has been awarded to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay, which is not a person but two people, and they have not worked for fraternity between nations or the abolition or reduction of standing armies but for the rights of children. If the peace prize is to be a prize for random good works, then there is no reason not to give it to leading advocates for the rights of children. This is a big step up from giving it to leading makers of war. But then what of the prize for peace and the mission of ending war that Nobel included in his will in fulfillment of a promise to Bertha von Suttner?


Off-duty Cop Kills St. Louis Teenager
By Andre Damon

http://www.countercurrents.org/damon101014.htm

On Wednesday, the day before the two-month anniversary of the police murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a St. Louis police officer shot and killed yet another teenager who family members say was unarmed


Israel And The G-Word: We Need A Better Word Than ‘Occupation’
By Jonathan Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook101014.htm

One day doubtless, a historian will coin a word to describe Israel’s unique strategy of incrementally destroying the Palestinian people. Sadly, by then it may be too late to help the Palestinians


An Open Letter To The Prime Minister: Stop The Dilution Of MGNREGA
By Concerned Citizens

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc101014.pdf

We are very disturbed by impending moves of this government to undermine the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and the support it provides to crores of vulnerable rural families. We write this letter to seek your immediate assurance that these retrograde, anti-poor and anti-labour measures will be withdrawn, and that every attempt will be made by your government to implement the MGNREGA in its true spirit


I Am For “New Democracy”: Varavara Rao
An Interview With Aishik Chanda

http://www.countercurrents.org/chanda101014.htm

Visiting Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai for a talk on “Raging war against India: Deconstructing the notion of India”, revolutionary poet, Maoist ideologue and journalist from Telangana, Varavara Rao spoke to TISS student Aishik Chanda on the Maoist movement and the path ahead


'Forest, Earth, Water, Sky': A Publication On The Status Of Adivasi Populations Of India

http://www.countercurrents.org/naa101014.htm

On the occasion of ‘Columbus Day’ National Adivasi Alliance invite all of you to the launch of the book “Forest, Earth, Water, Sky”, edited by Satya Sagar, writer / activist. Impregnated with enormous official data and statistics it throws open to the world, the socio-cultural and economic realities of the Adivasi population of our country