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European Powers Implement Police State Measures In Wake Of Charlie Hebdo Attack
By Ulrich Rippert

http://www.countercurrents.org/rippert140115.htm

Governments throughout Europe have responded to the attacks on Charlie Hebdo in France by moving quickly to push through a raft of anti-democratic measures. They are exploiting the shock and confusion generated by the event in Paris to take actions that have long been prepared, but that have so far encountered resistance


JE NE SUIS PAS CHARLIE
By John Chuckman

http://www.countercurrents.org/chuckman140115.htm

The Extremely Dark and Unexamined Underside of the Charlie Hebdo Affair


Je Suis Ahmed Hebdo
By Mustapha Marrouchi

http://www.countercurrents.org/marrouchi140115.htm

Like everyone else on the planet, I have been following the carnage that has been taking place in Paris; a carnage that has left nearly twenty people dead, including a black woman from Africa recently appointed a policewoman, a French policeman of Algerian descent, and three “terrorists,” also of African lineage. And while it is inhuman not to feel sympathy for all the victims who died in horrible conditions, we must remind ourselves of the stand that France has been taking vis-à-vis many issues concerning Muslims living inside its belly. For France, unlike the other colonial powers, has never faced up to its xenophobic past, especially when it has to do with those from The Maghreb


The Spectacular Media Failure On Charlie Hebdo
By Shamus Cooke

http://www.countercurrents.org/cooke140115.htm

A core tenet of journalism is answering the question “why.” It’s the media’s duty to explain “why” an event happened so that readers will actually understand what they’re reading. Leave out the “why” and then assumptions and stereotypes fill in the blank, always readily supplied by politicians whose ridiculous answers are left unquestioned by the corporate media. Because the real “why” was unexplained in the Charlie Hebdo massacre, an obviously false culprit was created, leading to a moronic national discussion in the U.S. media about whether Islam was “inherently” violent


2015 A-to-Z Alphabetical List Of Actions And Advocacies For Climate Change Activists
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya140115.htm

In 2015 the World may have now run out of time to prevent a catastrophic 2 degree Centigrade temperature rise, but while there is life there is hope. Climate change activists must still try in every way they can to make the looming disaster less bad. Below is an alphabetical list of numerous actions and advocacies whereby science-informed climate activists can try to mitigate the consequences of man-made climate change driven by remorseless, neoliberal One Percenter greed


Freedom For Badawi
By Dr. Ludwig Watzal

http://www.countercurrents.org/watzal140115.htm

Last May, the Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi was sentenced to ten years in prison, 190,000 Euro fine and 1,000 lashes. The latter should be enforced, spread across 20 Fridays, that is: Every Friday 50 lashes over a period of almost five months. 2008, Badawi founded the website "Free Saudi liberals"


Journalist Launches Online Archive To Document Diversity Of Rural India
By Robert Jensen

http://www.countercurrents.org/jensen140115.htm

P. Sainath started building the People's Archive of Rural India http://www.ruralindiaonline.org/ only a couple of years ago. But the passion behind the innovative online project that mixes journalism and oral history, which was launched last month to overwhelming acclaim, goes back more than two decades


Why Narendra Modi Stole Christmas?
By India United Against Fascism

http://www.countercurrents.org/iuaf140115.htm

Christmas Day had been a public holiday throughout the history of independent India , so what changed in 2014? Obviously, the fact that it was the first Christmas with Modi in power as PM


Juvenile (In)Justice System
By Ajita Banerjie

http://www.countercurrents.org/banerjie140115.htm

“It would have been better if we had murdered someone. We could have gotten out of the jail much earlier than rotting in this place”, one of the girls had once said. Perturbed, I ask her, “Why do you say so?” I never received an answer for that. But I understood what she meant. In the next one month that I spent in the Rehabilitation home for Juvenile Girls I realized what our phenomenal system is doing to the youth of the country. Young, impressionable girls are being subjected to a life of confinement, boredom and frustration


Why Was Greenpeace Activist Prevented From Travelling To London?
By People's Union For Democratic Rights

http://www.countercurrents.org/pudr140115.htm

Greenpeace came under scrutiny because of its support to Mahan Sangharsh Samiti, a grassroots organisation challenging coal mining license for Mahan Coal Ltd, a joint venture of Essar and Hindalco (Aditya Birla group). What is ominous is that the Home Ministry has purportedly stated that there is "no rule which allows restraining a citizen from travelling abroad....(because) he/she would express views in conflict with government's policies." (TOI, 13/01/2015)]. So if this is the case who ordered the 'lookout circular', and at whose behest? These are questions which remain unanswered


BSP’s Dalit Votes Shifting Towards BJP?
By Prof. Vivek Kumar

http://www.countercurrents.org/vkumar140115.htm

Rejoinder to Biased Article in Hindu: ‘When the Elephant disappears’ (The Hindu 5 January, 2015)


Sri Lanka: Will Rajapaksa Return?
By Nilantha Ilangamuwa

http://www.countercurrents.org/ilangamuwa140115.htm

There are few possibilities of Rajapaksa regaining the leadership in the country again. To accomplish his desire first he has to win the struggle within the party while fuelling the internal crisis. Second, he will have to take the people into the streets, while instigating racism within Sinhalese sentiments. If he can do this he may set foot on the road of his return


"On King's Birthday BREAK the BLACKOUT! Facebook/Twitter King's
Condemnation of US Atrocity Wars for Predatory Investments." Ramsey Clark
By Jay Janson for Ramsey Clark

http://www.countercurrents.org/janson140115.htm

Social networking Facebook Twitter YouTube cellphone cameras Everyone everywhere especially in countries suffering US bombings or CIA covert deadly violence, starvation! BREAK 48 year BLACKOUT of King's condemnation of his gov."greatest purveyor of violence in the world," Don't let genocidal media sucker our eyes and ears Use King's 1963 "I have Dream' to erase his 1967'That Dream won't come true unless we end the Nightmare'