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Hundreds Arrested In US Protests Against Ferguson Whitewash
By Jerry White

http://www.countercurrents.org/white271114.htm

Police arrested more than 400 protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, Los Angeles and other cities over the last few nights during demonstrations against the exoneration of the policeman who murdered unarmed black teenager Michael Brown


Mass Arrests In Los Angeles
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc271114.htm

Hundreds of citizens have been arrested in the US . Citizens were arrested in Boston , Dallas , New York , Oakland , Los Angeles and Ferguson . They were protesting the Ferguson-injustice. More troops have been deployed in Ferguson amidst continuing protests across the US


New Coalition Plans To Expand War Against Eastern Ukraine
By Christoph Dreier

http://www.countercurrents.org/dreier271114.htm

Five fractions in the recently elected Ukrainian Parliament agreed on a coalition pact November 21. Although the coalition still has to agree on the division of posts, it has already announced that it intends to step up its aggression in the east of the country and exacerbate Kiev’s confrontation with Russia


Victory For Climate Justice Activists
By Matt Smith & Margaret Flowers

http://www.countercurrents.org/flowers271114.htm

In a successful court appearance this morning, government prosecutors were unable to proceed with charges against six activists involved in the week-long blockade in early November of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Headquarters (FERC) in Washington, DC. The blockade of FERC is part of a growing resistance movement demanding an end to new fossil fuel infrastructure and an immediate shift to community-controlled renewable energy sources


There Goes Virginia's Climate
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson271114.htm

Five-year averages of temperature in Virginia began a significant and steady increase in the early 1970s, rising from 54.6 degrees Fahrenheit then to 56.2 degrees F in 2012. The Piedmont area, where I live, has seen the temperature rise at a rate of 0.53 degrees F per decade. At this rate, Virginia will be as hot as South Carolina by 2050 and as northern Florida by 2100, and continuing at a steady or increasing pace from there


Genocide And THE THANKSGIVING MYTH
By S. Brian Willson

http://www.countercurrents.org/willson271114.htm

As we again plan to celebrate what US “Americans”call Thanksgiving, let us pause for a moment of reflection. Let us recognize that accounts of the first Thanksgiving are mythological, and that the holiday is actually a grotesque celebration of our arrogant ethnocentrism built on genocide


PFLP Soul-Searching: The RiseAnd Fall Of Palestine's Socialists
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud271114.htm

It matters little whether the cousins who attacked the synagogue in Jerusalem were affiliated with the PFLP or not; the repeated muddled statements by the group - justifying the attack, explaining it, owning it and disowning it all at once- matters more. This confusion is becoming symbiotic of the PFLP following the signing of Oslo. And while there are those who employ clever language to maintain the group's radical status, NGO perks and socialist prestige, others expect a more serious discussion of what the PFLP is and what it stands for after two decades of political failure, of which the PFLP, like Fatah and Hamas, should also be held accountable


Beyond The Election
By Jack A. Smith

http://www.countercurrents.org/smith271114.htm

A left turn, however, is an absolute necessity to resolve these problems and many more that afflict American society — most certainly including crises from economic inequality to climate change and the ever-present possibility of nuclear war — and it will only come from outside the 1% -controlled two-party system


Nonviolent Action: Minimizing The Risk of Violent Repression
By Robert J. Burrowes

http://www.countercurrents.org/burrowes271114.htm

In a recent article, full of insight, Professor Bill Quigley identified ten different illegal actions police often take 'to prevent people from exercising their constitutional rights' to take nonviolent action to address a grievance. I would like to complement Professor Quigley's fine article by identifying ways in which the risk of police or military personnel using illegal and violent tactics can be minimized and, in many cases, thwarted, wherever in the world the nonviolent action takes place


India And Its Neighbourhood: RSS Building Deadly Alliance Against Muslims And Christians
By Shamsul Islam

http://www.countercurrents.org/islam271114.htm

RSS is gradually working to build an international set-up to spread and execute its politics of hatred against minorities. Its goal of cleansing minorities is being internationalized with very serious repercussions for the area and the world. Modi Government’s fraternal ties with Zionist Israel make this trend more lethal. These developments pose a very serious threat to democratic-secular fabric of the country and may turn India into unwarranted conflicts


Dark Times Ahead
By Goirick Brahmachari

http://www.countercurrents.org/brahmachari271114.htm

These are dark times. Where the voices of the dissent are expected to be crushed. This is a call for all the progressive people and forces in India, across party lines, to come together and organise against the Brahminical right wing that has taken over the spirit of secularism in this country. This is a call for all the artists, writers, poets, singers, workers, farmers, academicians, politicians and the thinking middle class to organise and come together against a possible backlash of dissent


Saffronites And The Left
By Sushovan Patrais

http://www.countercurrents.org/patrais271114.htm

The secular voice of Left got weekend to some extent in the context of electoral vote bank politics. But it’s a high time for Left to revive their Secular values. It’s high time to come out with viable political direction for Bengal as well as in the National level. It’s high time to reconstruct and act quickly. It’s high time to combat upcoming ruthless saffronites. It’s high time to prevent them from playing with fire


Bangalore’s Lamp of Love
By Roshan​

http://www.countercurrents.org/roshan271114.htm

Located in a quiet lane in Cox Town, Bangalore, Snehadeep—‘Lamp of Love’—is home to some 60 young people from across Karnataka. Being visually challenged hasn’t deterred these boys and girls from pursuing an education and seeking to be economically independent. That’s what Snehadeep is helping them with