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Israel Blocks Funds Of Palestinian Authority
By Jean Shaoul

http://www.countercurrents.org/shaoul060115.htm

Israel has announced it will withhold $127 million in monthly tax funds, about 70 percent of the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) budget that it collects on the PA’s behalf.It is considering a raft of other measures against the Palestinians. Israel’s vindictive action came hours after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas submitted an application to join the International Criminal Court


Land Concentration, Land Grabbing And People’s Struggles In Europe
By Staff, CIT

http://www.countercurrents.org/cit060115.htm

This report, involving 25 authors from 11 countries, reveals the hidden scandal of how a few big private business entities have gained control of ever-greater areas of European land. It exposes how these land elites have been actively supported by a huge injection of public funds –at a time when all other public funding is being subjected to massive cuts


A Grim Very Tale: The Kehoe Paradigm
By Jeff Berg

http://www.countercurrents.org/berg060115.htm

To the vast detriment of generations of humans and other animals to come the courts sided with the money. This has become known as the Kehoe Paradigm or the Kehoe Rule. A rule that states that the burden of proof is on those who claim harm is being done. This stands in stark contrast to the Precautionary Principle which says that when there is doubt about the safety of a product the burden of proof is on those who would profit


Presidents Are Gods
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson060115.htm

A former Governor of Virginia is expected to be sentenced to a long stay in prison. The same fate has befallen governors in states across the United States, including in nearby Maryland, Tennessee, and West Virginia. A former governor of Illinois is in prison. Governors have been convicted of corruption in Rhode Island, Louisiana, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Connecticut, and (in a trumped-up partisan scam) in Alabama. The statewide trauma suffered by the people of states that have locked up their governors has been . . . well, nonexistent and unimaginable. Locking U.S. presidents up for their crimes is a different story


20 Activist Resolutions For 2015
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz060115.htm

Since this is the time of year when so many of us choose to articulate goals and promise big changes, I say we transfer this concept to the realm of dissent. With that in mind, I offer an admittedly incomplete list of 20 activist resolutions for 2015


Time To Stand Up To The NYPD
By Kevin Zeese

http://www.countercurrents.org/zeese060115.htm

Stop the NYPD Coup and Create the Police-Community Relationship We Want to See