CounterCurrents: Ten Illegal Police Actions To Watch For In Ferguson

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Missouri Governor Declares State Of Emergency, Mobilizes National Guard Ahead Of Protests
By Andre Damon

http://www.countercurrents.org/damon181114.htm

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency Monday and mobilized the National Guard, claiming that this was necessary to “keep members of the public safe and protect property” in anticipation of a grand jury decision on whether to bring charges against Darren Wilson, the Ferguson police officer who killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown in August


Ten Illegal Police Actions To Watch For In Ferguson
By Bill Quigley

http://www.countercurrents.org/quigley181114.htm

When the Michael Brown verdict is announced, people can expect the police to take at least ten different illegal actions to prevent people from exercising their constitutional rights. The Ferguson police have been on TV more than others so people can see how awful they have been acting. But their illegal police tactics are unfortunately quite commonly used by other law enforcement in big protests across the US


Obama, Not The Giant Telecoms, Is Right On Net Neutrality
By Ralph Nader

http://www.countercurrents.org/nader181114.htm

In the aftermath of his party's defeat in the midterm elections, President Obama surprised many when he reaffirmed his overwhelming support for net neutrality, proposing that the Internet should be treated as a public utility


Net Neutrality Shows People Power Can Make The Politically Impossible, The Politically Inevitable
By Margaret Flowers & Kevin Zeese

http://www.countercurrents.org/zeese181114.htm

It is proof that even in a government corrupted by money, united and mobilized people who act strategically with creative tactics can win. Stay tuned and get ready to become engaged if things begin to turn the wrong way. Winning the battle for the future of the Internet is one that will impact each of us, and we all must take responsibility for it


The Siege of Julian Assange Is A Farce - A Special Investigation
By John Pilger

http://www.countercurrents.org/pilger181114.htm

The siege of Knightsbridge is a farce. The persecution of Julian Assange must end. Even the British government clearly believes it must end. On 28 October, the deputy foreign minister, Hugo Swire, told Parliament he would "actively welcome" the Swedish prosecutor in London and "we would do absolutely everything to facilitate that". The tone was impatient


Fossil-Fueled Republicanism : The Grand Oil Party Takes Washington by Storm
By Michael T. Klare

http://www.countercurrents.org/klare181114.htm

Pop the champagne corks in Washington! It’s party time for Big Energy. In the wake of the midterm elections, Republican energy hawks are ascendant, having taken the Senate and House by storm. They are preparing to put pressure on a president already presiding over a largely drill-baby-drill administration to take the last constraints off the development of North American fossil fuel reserves


A Communalised or A Privatised Planet
By Lionel Anet

http://www.countercurrents.org/anet181114.htm

To survive we must gradually but quickly change from a growth economy of capitalism to an economy that can manage 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. The side effect would be a better physical and mental health


Relentless US Journalist Who Has Seen And Felt
The Boot of Israeli Fascism Is Returning To Palestine For More
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini181114.htm

Journalist Zebula “Sha” Hebert has been “shot at, stabbed, pepper sprayed, maced, tear-gassed, tased, arrested, detained, beaten, and interrogated” while conducting his work. He knows what repression feels like, which is why he is undertaking a highly ambitious project: in the wake of the recent US-backed Israeli assault, Hebert will return to Palestine and spend a year in Gaza. He will conduct interviews with Gazans, publish reports, and ultimately write a book about his findings and experiences, all to help amplify the voices of a trapped refugee population being brutalized by the world's most powerful aggressors


Fixing Responsibility For The Dying Women In India's Sterilization Camps
By Kandathil Sebastian

http://www.countercurrents.org/sebastian181114.htm

Death of women in the sterilization camps in India is not new phenomenon. As per the official data, between 2003 and 2012, there are at least 12 post sterilization deaths on average, per month. Unofficial estimates of such deaths put the mortality figure even higher. We routinely see umpteen debates and ‘blame games’ after such sterilization induced deaths. In the recent incident in Chattisgarh state where 14 women died has also resulted in such serial blame games


Battle For The Sundarban
By Anu Muhammad

http://www.countercurrents.org/muhammad181114.htm

The survival and growth of Sundarban cannot be compromised for profit-mad business mafia. Battle for Sundarban continues, has to be strengthened. Sundarban must win in the battle, because there are many alternatives for power generation; but we have only one Sundarban that cannot be rebuilt or replaced with any other; there is, therefore, no alternative to Sundarban


Kashmir: Subjugation And Then Legitimization
By Umar Lateef Misgar

http://www.countercurrents.org/misgar181114.htm

This cycle has been continuing untamed since Indian state buried its teeth in Kashmir and is bound to continue unless the so called 'elected representatives' or in other words collaborators dissolve into thin air. To use this instrument of retrospective consent and devoid Kashmiris of their political rights is akin to colonialism or, in words of Dibyesh Anand, is sort of an informal post-colonial imperialism