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US/India WTO Agreement: How Corporate Greed Trumps Needs of World's Poor And Hungry
By Andrea Germanos

http://www.countercurrents.org/germanos141114.htm

The United States cheered on Thursday an agreement it reached with India as progress for the World Trade Organization (WTO). Critics, however, say deal is likely a win for corporations and economic loss for developing countries


A New Push For Peace In Syria?
By Shamus Cooke

http://www.countercurrents.org/cooke141114.htm

The giant void in the market for peace has opened up opportunities for Russia and Egypt, who reportedly are attempting to insert themselves as leaders in Middle East diplomacy, in part to expand their influence, in part to protect themselves from the conflagration of Islamic extremism the conflict is producing


What We Truly Learned From The Great War And The Absurdity Of Remembrance Day
By John Chuckman

http://www.countercurrents.org/chuckman141114.htm

Humans are little more than chimpanzees with larger brains, those larger brains enabling us to magnify immensely the power of our murderous instincts, a fact we seem determined proudly to display every Remembrance Day


The Lessons Of Libya
By Dan Glazebrook

http://www.countercurrents.org/glazebrook141114.htm

The Libya war opened the eyes of many – or should have. But the overriding lesson – if it needed reiterating - should be the realisation that the US, the UK, France and their allies will stop at nothing, including even the imposition of total societal collapse, in order to attempt to reverse their declining global economic position through military destruction. This is the reality behind all talk of protecting civilians, humanitarianism, and democracy promotion, and all Western military intervention should be seen in this light


Media Blackout As U.S. Sponsors Genocide In Southeastern Ukraine
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse141114.htm

There is also plenty of bombing, and firing missiles at, the cities and villages there, to destroy people and buildings , so that many of the surviving residents will flee over the border into neighboring Russia, from whence they'll never again be allowed to vote in a Ukrainian election — thereby further reducing the number of those voters in Ukrainian national elections. Such bombing and shelling seem to be the Government's main methods of eliminating residents in the southeast . Also, white phosphorous and other illegal weapons of terror are used, in order to especially induce the residents to evacuate into Russia


Porno And Bloodbaths: The CIA In Indonesia
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz141114.htm

Time magazine celebrated Suharto’s rise to power with a cover story calling it a “boiling bloodbath that almost unnoticed took 400,000 lives,” and characterized the new regime as “scrupulously constitutional,” lauding the “quietly determined” Suharto with his “almost innocent face.” Never forget, comrades… this is what we’re up against


Psycho Killer
By Tim Gatto

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatto141114.htm

I have pulled the plug on the mainstream media. I'm sick of their propaganda and fear mongering. The talking heads on the networks are completely out of their minds. The drivel that they get from politicians that they pass off as interviews make me want to vomit. They listen to lies and spin and never confront these full-blown psychopaths. If that passes for "news" I have had enough


The Assault On Forward Press: Intimidating Dissent
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat141114.htm

The assault on Forward Press in Delhi for allegedly ‘hurting’ the sentiments of Hindus is an act of cowardice and intimidation by the Delhi police


Nehru's Perfidy In Kashmir
By Abdul Majid Zargar

http://www.countercurrents.org/zargar141114.htm

According to rightwing Hindutva discourse, Nehru mismanaged & botched up Kashmir issue in 1947. In their view, his deputy Sardar Patel was more suited for the job but was not allowed by Nehru to have his way. What they probably mean is that Patel could have engineered covert murderous operations in valley like the ones practiced earlier in Jammu & later in Hyderabad to simply annex Kashmir without involving UN? What they forget or don’t know is that Patel was initially opposed to accession of Kashmir to India and being a Muslim Majority State, he wanted that it should go to Pakistan (Kuldeep Nayyar- Beyond the lines-Page 60). But looking to Nehru’s sensibilities on the issue, he had to go along with him


Advancing Dalit Women's Rights Through CEDAW's Provisions
By Cynthia Stephen

http://www.countercurrents.org/stephen141114.htm

The Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women and its use in advocating the human rights of Dalit Women


A Sikh Millenial’s Take On Remembering The Forgotten
By Keerit Kaur Kohli

http://www.countercurrents.org/kohli141114.htm

This thirtieth year after 1984, I came across Sikh Millennials spending much energy to collect stories from 1984, the year India’s 2% Sikh minority faced widespread attacks and tens of thousands of deaths. I joined these Sikhs from across California, and now across North America and beyond, in a project that honors the dead while focusing on the living: the 1984 Living History Project