CounterCurrents: Inequality: Cheaper Bad Food For The Poor, American Financial Markets Have No Relationship To Reality

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Republicans Win Control Of Senate In US Congressional Elections
By Patrick Martin

http://www.countercurrents.org/martin051114.htm

The Republican Party won control of the US Senate in Tuesday’s midterm elections, taking more than the six Democratic-held seats needed to obtain the 51 required for a majority. Republican candidates defeated incumbent Democratic senators in North Carolina, Arkansas and Iowa and won open Democratic seats in West Virginia, Iowa, South Dakota and Montana


Useful Liberal Illusions: From FDR To Obama
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz051114.htm

While “everyday” citizens debate Obama’s socialism (sic), the poverty, the repression, the ecocide expands. As long as we choose to accept the two-party lie, the capitalist puppet masters will continue their reign of terror. To paraphrase a “certain admirable Italian gentlemen”: Fascism is corporatism


American Financial Markets Have No Relationship To Reality
By Paul Craig Roberts & Dave Kranzler

http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts051114.htm

As we have demonstrated in previous articles, the bullion banks (primarily JP Morgan, HSBC, ScotiaMocatta, Barclays, UBS, and Deutsche Bank), most likely acting as agents for the Federal Reserve, have been systematically forcing down the price of gold since September 2011. Suppression of the gold price protects the US dollar against the extraordinary explosion in the growth of dollars and dollar-denominated debt


Why Libya?
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini051114.htm

Following the standard US playbook, the Obama regime and its accomplices made up crimes to propagandize their populations into accepting illegal aggression and terrorism against Libya in 2011, and now ignore the actual crimes being committed in the Libya shoved, by the West, into “the abyss”


Inequality: Cheaper Bad Food For The Poor
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury051114.htm

Inequality in the area of food and health under capitalism is egregious. With bad food, bad health and difficult-to- or no-access to health services, the poor, the low-income people pay the inequality. It’s a payment made with life, and by the subaltern classes


Rajiv Gandhi: He Who Shall Not Be Named?!
By Simran Kaur

http://www.countercurrents.org/skaur051114.htm

While there has been due (even if not sufficient) protest (even if not result) against the current Pogrom Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, this week's posts and analysis about 1984 are conspicuously silent on that heir-of-violence: Rajiv Gandhi


Upcoming Elections In Kashmir
By Adfar Shah

http://www.countercurrents.org/shah051114.htm

The first observation which needs to be highlighted is simply that the haste for conducting elections in Kashmir despite a massive flood disaster is nothing but the result of ego-politics and purely based on political motives


Uninformed Outrages Won’t Bring In Criminal Justice Reform
By Samar

http://www.countercurrents.org/samar051114.htm

This fact remains the biggest impediment to justice in India and will remain so till radical reforms are made in the system. The reforms will not come via such outrages, genuine or uninformed, but from a push from within. Until then, one can get justice for one Jessica Lal or Priyadarshini Matoo but not for the majority