CounterCurrents: BBC Interview Claims The West Was Behind The Islamic Uprising In Iran

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Ukraine Parliament Approves Move Towards NATO
By Patrick Martin

http://www.countercurrents.org/martin241214.htm

In an action calculated to provoke further conflict with Russia, Ukraine’s parliament voted Tuesday to repeal legislation defining the country as “non-aligned,” and thus barring it from joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The vote came by an overwhelming margin, 303 to 8, one month after President Petro Poroshenko declared his support for the step


Another MH17 Cover-Up: Hiding A Key Autopsy
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse241214.htm

Decisive evidence as to how the July 17th shooting-down of the MH17 Malaysian airliner occurred is being hidden by the four-nation team that's doing the official ‘investigation' into the plane-downing incident. This decisive evidence is the coroner's report on the corpse of the airliner's pilot. If the pilot was killed by bullets, then the standard ‘explanation' of the downing (that the plane was downed by a ground-fired missile) isn't just false, it's an outright hoax. So: where's the pilot's autopsy?


BBC Interview Claims The West Was Behind The Islamic Uprising In Iran
By Akbar E. Torbat

http://www.countercurrents.org/torbat241214.htm

Because the economic pressures against Iran have not succeeded to completely shut down the entire Iran’s nuclear program, it seems political strategies are now accentuated to confront the regime in Tehran. One such strategy could be the release of details of how the West managed to overthrow the Shah in 1979 and helped the clerics to form the Islamic Republic. The BBC released an interview with the late Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, in which he said that the US government prepared the ground for victory of the Islamic revolution in Iran


Five Reasons Why 2014 Was A Game Changer In Palestine
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud241214.htm

In terms of losses in human lives, 2014 has been a horrific year for Palestinians, surpassing the horrors of both 2008 and 2009, when an Israeli war against the Gaza Strip killed and wounded thousands. While some aspects of the conflict are stagnating between a corrupt, ineffectual Palestinian Authority (PA), and the criminality of Israeli wars and occupation, it would also be fair to argue that 2014 was also a game changer to some degree - and it is not all bad news

Fighting ‘Islamic State’ Is Not The Israeli Priority
By Nicola Nasser

http://www.countercurrents.org/nasser241214.htm

Defying a consensus that it is a priority by the world community comprising international rivals like the United States, Europe, Russia and China and regional rivals like Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia, Israel, like Turkey, does not eye the U.S. – led war on the IS as its regional priority. Nor fighting Israel is an IS priority


Cuba-“Confusion”
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury241214.htm

Cuba appears “confusing”. Contradictory claims, blames, assertions, imaginations, opinions are making a cloud of confusion


Impossible Lessons
By Ravi Sinha

http://www.countercurrents.org/sinha241214.htm

Speaking against religion is not a wise thing to do. It carries all kinds of dangers – exclusion and ridicule being among the more benign ones. It is not easy, therefore, to draw truthful lessons from histories and practices of religion. Nearly all of humanity that has lived so far has been religious and, by and large, it continues to be so. How does one criticize or evaluate the mode of living of the entire human race? How does one bring its core beliefs under dispassionate and fearless scrutiny?


Periyar: Remembering An Iconoclast
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat241214.htm

We remember iconic Periyar today on his death anniversary. The man who shook the foundation of brahmanical crookedness in Tamilnadu and gave a new direction to the state. Periyar is the name which still send shiver to these religious thugs who have been befooling people in the name of religion for years


The Nation And The Soldier
By S.G.Vombatkere

http://www.countercurrents.org/vombatkere241214.htm

After PM Modi's outright insult to the Indian Army during his election campaign speech in Kashmir, one soldier was heard reflecting the general mood: “Saala, I don't care for AFSPA-shafspa. After this, one thing is clear to me. When the paltan goes to the valley, I am not going to stick my neck out for anything. Let the militants kill as many people as they want, and escape. At least that way there won't be any risk, either of getting killed, or killing someone, getting court martialled and going to jail.” The colourful language has been excluded, but the words convey the ominous ramifications


Massacre of Adivasis In Assam Is A Crime Against Humanity
By ACHR

http://www.countercurrents.org/achr241214.htm

Asian Centre for Human Rights today condemned the massacre of over 60 Adivasis including 18 children and 23 women in Assam last night in Kokrajhar and Sonitpur districts allegedly by members of the National Democratic Front of Bodolond (Songbijit faction) as crimes against humanity as defined under the Rome Statute of International Criminal Court