CounterCurrents: Washington Moving Towards Wider War In Iraq And Syria, Obama's Secret Deals With Saudi Arabia & Qatar

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Washington Moving Towards Wider War In Iraq And Syria
By Bill Van Auken

http://www.countercurrents.org/auken061114.htm

There are new indications that Washington is moving toward a wider and protracted military intervention in the Middle East in the name of combating the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). In the wake of last weekend’s collapse of US-backed Syrian “rebels” in the face of an offensive by Al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, the Al Nusra Front, plans are being prepared to extend the three-month-old US-led bombing campaign deeper into Syria. The ostensible purpose of these air strikes would be to provide air support for the Western-backed militias formed to prosecute the war for regime change against the government of President Bashar al-Assad


Obama's Secret Deals With Saudi Arabia & Qatar
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse061114.htm

What's Behind Lower Gas-Prices and the Bombings of Syria and of Eastern Ukraine: Obama Represents U.S. & Arabic Aristocracies, Against Those of Russia & Iran


Kobane And The Middle East Shell Game
By Judith Bello

http://www.countercurrents.org/bello061114.htm

The news about the US in the Middle East has been focused almost exclusively on the fight in Kobane for weeks. There has been a lot of conjecture in the papers about whether the rebels can be trained, whether they are moderate, whether they can fight, whether they exist at all separate from ISIS and Jabhat Al Nusra, the local Al Qaeda front


Is A Peaceful Resolution of The Israel-Palestine Conflict REALLY Possible?
By Alan Hart

http://www.countercurrents.org/hart061114.htm

I’ll begin my answer by saying that for some weeks I have been suppressing in my mind the conclusion that Palestine is a lost cause and that there is no point in me continuing to devote a great deal of time (as I have done for three decades) to writing books and articles which expose Zionism’s version of history – the version upon which the first and still existing draft of Western history is constructed – for the propaganda nonsense it mainly is. In other words I was close to concluding that I should close my Palestine file. And while I was debating with myself about whether or not to do so I could see only one most likely end-game scenario, in two parts


Political Prophecies: Sealing The Fate Of al-Aqsa
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud061114.htm

Israel's decision to shut down al-Aqsa Mosque on Thursday, 30 October, is not just a gross violation of the religious rights of Palestinian Muslims. It remains unclear what fate awaits al-Aqsa Mosque. Caught between Israeli annexation plans, raids of Jewish extremists, international silence and a history of bloodshed , al-Aqsa is facing difficult days ahead, as indeed are the people of Jerusalem, whose suffering, like their city, seems eternal


The Forgotten Palestinians
By Vacy Vlazna

http://www.countercurrents.org/vlazna061114.htm

The burden of alleviating the misery of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon lies heavy behind Olfat Mahmoud's dark eyes which have seen, both as a child and as a dynamic adult, 50 out of the 67 years of Nakba exile. Her children are fourth generation refugees. During a recent tour in Australia, Olfat spoke intensely of the desperate situation of the Forgotten Palestinians stuck in a stasis of statelessness


Restore The Kingdom Of Hawaii!
By Professor Francis A. Boyle

http://www.countercurrents.org/boyle061114.htm

President Obama owes this to the Kanaka Maoli and the Kingdom of Hawaii. He was born here. He was raised here. He was educated here. President Obama lived the formative years of his life here in Hawaii. And at a minimum, he owes the Kanaka Maoli to recognize the Kingdom of Hawaii. But again, none of this will happen unless you all 135,000 Kanaka Maoli on that list, go to the Convention, vote to restore the Kingdom of Hawaii and set up a provisional government of national unity for it


Discovering Iran
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

http://www.countercurrents.org/ulrich061114.htm

Marcel Proust said: “The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” During the past two decades, I visited Iran on numerous occasions staying 10-14 days at a time. This time around, I stayed for 2 months and heeding Proust, I carried with me a fresh pair of eyes. I discarded both my Western lenses as well as my Iranian lenses and observed with objective eyes. It was a formidable journey that left me breathless


Yeh Kahan Aagaye Hum…..? Or The Indian Left’s Epic Journey Into Oblivion
By M. Vijaya Kumar

http://www.countercurrents.org/vkumar061114.pdf

The Indian Left, with its glorious history of waging people’s struggles in the last 90 years, not withstanding its immense contribution to the political and cultural spheres, is today facing irreversible losses and what appears to be terminal decline. The Left’s role as leaders of mass movements and grass-roots mobilisations on people’s livelihood issues, is a thing of the past. It has lost the ability to wage people’s struggles on burning issues such as gross income and wealth inequalities, youth unemployment, drinking water, peasant struggles and such other critical issues. Its influence within the progressive intelligentsia is also on the wane