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UN Officials Demand Criminal Prosecution Of US Torturers
By Thomas Gaist

http://www.countercurrents.org/gaist111214.htm

The US is legally obliged to prosecute all high-level government officials involved in organizing the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) torture programs, top UN human rights officials said Wednesday. The torture programs violated international law, UN special rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights Ben Emmerson said


EU Demands Russia Bail Out EU & Ukraine
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse111214.htm


IMF says Ukraine will be bankrupt ‘within weeks' and needs $15 billion more for war against eastern Ukraine; EU threatens Russia with more sanctions if Russia lets Ukraine go bankrupt; EU will lose billions on Ukraine if Russia won't bail them out


How The President Who Pledged To Banish
Nuclear Weapons Is Enabling Their Renewal
By James Carroll

http://www.countercurrents.org/carroll111214.htm

Mark these days. A long-dreaded transformation from hope to doom is taking place as the United States of America ushers the world onto the no-turning-back road of nuclear perdition. Once, we could believe there was another way to go. Indeed, we were invited to take that path by the man who is, even today, overseeing the blocking of it, probably forever


‘I Can't Breath': Racism And War In America And Beyond
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud111214.htm

“I cannot breath,” were Eric Garner's last words. He died, but many millions from New York to Missouri, to Kabul and elsewhere are still gasping for air


This Changes Everything. Capitalism vs. the Climate” by Naomi Klein -
Green Socialist Revolution ASAP
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya111214.htm

Naomi Klein's important new book “This Changes Everything. Capitalism vs. the Climate” sets out the dire state of the planet due to neoliberal-driven, man-made climate change. Her very well written but lengthy book is an indignant catalogue of the machinations of the Big Polluters and their Big Green collaborators, and concludes with the faint hope of a Revolution “when societies suddenly decide they have had enough” (page 464). However before the societal tipping point is reached for Naomi Klein's Green Revolution, science-informed people must urge and apply comprehensive Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the terracidal politicians, parties, countries and corporations that are destroying a decent future


A Tribute To Rajani Thiranagama: A Beacon For The Left
By Rohini Hensman

http://www.countercurrents.org/hensman111214.htm

The 25th death anniversary of Rajani Thiranagama fell on 21 September 2014, and was marked in Jaffna with a series of events to honour her memory