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On 'Moral' Grounds, Pope To Push For Action On Climate Change In 2015
By Deirdre Fulton

http://www.countercurrents.org/fulton291214.htm

Pope Francis will take on global warming in 2015, with a lengthy speech on human ecology and climate change to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, an address to the United Nations general assembly, and a summit of the world’s main religions, according to the Observer


The Militarist Agenda Behind Washington’s Confrontation With North Korea
By Peter Symonds

http://www.countercurrents.org/symonds291214.htm

A comment published in the Wall Street Journal entitled “Time to End the North Korean Threat” demonstrates that powerful sections of the American ruling elite are pressing for a far more aggressive strategy directed at nothing less than regime-change in Pyongyang—a policy that threatens to trigger World War III. The article’s author, Richard Haass, is a central figure in the US foreign policy establishment—a former director of foreign policy studies at the Democratic Party-aligned Brookings Institution and former top-level diplomat, who is currently president of the semi-official Council on Foreign Relations


US Alliance Mainstream Media Censor Key Witness Testimony
That Ukrainian Pilot Shot Down MH17
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya291214.htm

US, Canadian, Australian, UK and notably Murdoch Empire Mainstream media have exposed their remorseless self-censorship on behalf of the US Government by extraordinarily completely censoring the key testimony by a Ukrainian military witness that a Captain Vladislav Voloshin of the Ukrainian air force had returned to base on 17 July 2014 in his Su25 fighter jet minus his 2 air-to-air guided missiles and had effectively admitted to shooting down Malaysian Airlines MH17. In contrast, the UK Huffington Post, BBC, Guardian and Telegraph, the Australian ABC, and other media across the world from Russia and Germany to Malaysia have reported this important interview


Renaming Afghan War, Renaming Murder
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson291214.htm

The U.S.-led NATO war on Afghanistan has lasted so long they've decided to rename it, declare the old war over, and announce a brand new war they're just sure you're going to love


Activism Is A Job!
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz291214.htm

It’s a rite of passage for all activist movements. When you’ve made enough of an impact and made your presence felt in big enough and consistent enough numbers, you’re gonna start hearing passersby (usually white men) contemptuously scream out to you on the street and in comment threads all across the interwebs: Get a job! As I witness this happening more and more at NYC #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) rallies, I figured it was time to once again share some thoughts from Occupy this Book: Mickey Z. on Activism


Raping The Middle East Religions And Cultures
By G. Asgar Mitha

http://www.countercurrents.org/mitha291214.htm

The rape and victimization of Muslims and Arabs not only by others but by Muslims and Arabs themselves continues and so does that of cultures. Where is the limit? Will it be when the US turns upon the Wahaabists or will it be as Iran becomes stronger and the others become weaker? Or will it be when a leader in the form of a saviour from among Muslims and Arabs stand up to the tormentors and say "we are one. Now leave us alone". Till then the carnage will continue


An Anarchist Critique Of The Cuban “Revolution
By Dave Fryett

http://www.countercurrents.org/fryett291214.htm

Some Thoughts On The “Revolution” In Cuba by an Anarchist


Eelam Tamils Make A Choice ,Take A Stand - Election January 2015
By Dr C P Thiagarajah

http://www.countercurrents.org/thiagarajah291214.htm

Uthayan newspaper reported that Mannar Catholic Bishop Rev Rajappu Joseph in his Christmas night mass had stated that what the country needed was a President who would be sympathetic or supportive of the political aspirations of the Tamils. We could infer from this sermon that a Tamil cannot be a president in the near future and that Tamils have to depend on the good sympathies of a Sinhala president. With all my 30 years government service in Sinhala areas I have my serious doubts that such a Sinhala president will ever be found for another fifty years


Land Acquisition, The Corporate Sector And People
By Walter Fernandes

http://www.countercurrents.org/fernandes291214.htm

According to a news item (The Assam Tribune, 7th December 2014) the Central Government has promised to make land acquisition for the private sector easier. It will amend The Right to Transparency, Just Compensation in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013 (LAR&R) that the Parliament enacted in September 2013 to replace the 119 year old colonial Land Acquisition Act 1894 (LAA). Both the BJP and the Congress voted for it. But after coming to power the NDA wants to amend or delete many of its clauses that favour the land losers but the corporate sector opposes them


Harvest Of Innocent Blood: The Democracy Deficit In Bodoland, Assam
By New Socialist Initiative (NSI)

http://www.countercurrents.org/nsi291214.htm

The centre and the state governments have started an NIA enquiry of the massacre. To be credible, this enquiry should be impartial and find out the nexus between the armed mercenary groups like NDFB-S and the ruling dispensations and power groups who utilize the “services” of such groups. By simply giving a blanket order to flush out and eliminate the “miscreants”, the state cannot resolve the complex situation in Assam and the Northeast in general. It is actually a license for harassment, and violence on the ordinary people


Niall Ferguson on Kissinger's World Order [Part One]
By Thomas Riggins

http://www.countercurrents.org/riggins291214.htm

A good book review both gives the gist of the book and allows you to decide if the book is worth reading or not. This is just what Niall Ferguson's review of Henry Kissinger's new 432 page "magisterial meditation" on world politics, World Order does ["K of the Castle"- TLS 11/28/2014]. I'll give you the gist of Ferguson's review and enough quotes from Kissinger's book for you to decide for yourselves