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2015: The Year We Build Power Together
By Kevin Zeese & Margaret Flowers

http://www.countercurrents.org/zeese030115.htm

The Year Starts With the Potential of a Major Victory of the People Over Corporate Power, but We Must Unite to Win It


2015: Defending Humanity By Reason or Force
By Andre Vltchek

http://www.countercurrents.org/vltchek030115.htm

Fascism will be fought. Humanity will be defended! By reason or by force, the regime would have to yield to the interests of humanity. It will not be allowed to make that final, the most destructive step!


Dancing Cows And Scared Pigs
By Saumya Mohanty

http://www.countercurrents.org/mohanty030115.htm

With the punchlines of government dwindling common man aspiring for a happy year ahead with new punchline “ Merry Diwali Subh Idd Chistmas mubbarak”


Surabaya Mourning Air Asia Victims But Not Its Poor
By Andre Vltchek

http://www.countercurrents.org/vltchek030115A.htm

For many years and decades and in the most vulgar manner, plane crashes have been exploited by mass media. As if lives lost at 30.000 feet above the ground or the surface of oceans were more valuable than those that were interrupted ‘on the surface’ by calamities, misery, hunger or preventable diseases, especially in the poor neighborhoods and in the slums. Like in a soap opera, even those who could never afford to buy an airplane ticket were now grieving over lives of those who could afford to fly to Singapore, one of the most expensive cities on earth, just for holidays. Entire tragedy was turned into an absolute pop event by turbo-commercialized and vulgar Indonesian media, especially by the television stations


Wealth Of World’s 400 Richest Billionaires Rose $92 Billion In 2014
By Andre Damon

http://www.countercurrents.org/damon030114.htm

The wealthiest 400 people in the world saw their combined net worth grow by $92 billion last year, hitting $4.1 trillion. The bonanza for the super-rich was underwritten by governments and central banks around the world, which fueled surging stock markets and record corporate profits by pumping hundreds of billions into the financial markets


US Imposes New Sanctions On North Korea
By Peter Symonds

http://www.countercurrents.org/symonds030115.htm

US President Barack Obama yesterday raised the stakes in the confrontation with North Korea over unsubstantiated allegations that it hacked into Sony Pictures Entertainment, authorising a new round of economic sanctions affecting 10 government officials and three state entities


Russia Says Ukrainian Nazis Pay Blackwater For Training
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse030115.htm

The Russian Government's Tass ‘news' agency is alleging that “The US private military company Academi (formerly known as Blackwater) … has confirmed to the Kiev authorities its readiness to start training an experimental battalion of 550 men as of January at the request of Ukraine's General Staff,” according to an unnamed source, which source is probably one of the few remaining anti-nazi bureaucrats still remaining in the Ukrainian Government. The reported price of this Blackwater (a.k.a. “Xe,” a.k.a. “Academi”) training contract is $3.5 million


2015 Reminder: Government Word Is Worthless
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini030115.htm

As US government figures and departments, such as the “FBI” (which, according to its own documents, tried to “destroy Martin Luther King, Jr.”), continue to make and act on “official pronouncements”, let's remember that these people have less than no credibility. They have used lies, extreme violence, and stolen property to build themselves the most massive garrison/exploitation/surveillance state in human history, and are thus the very last people who should be taken at their word


12 Cocaine Years A Community Service Slave
By Charles Orloski

http://www.countercurrents.org/orloski030115.htm

An article on the experience of volunteering at Scranton's St. Francis of Assisi Soup Kitchen. The article provides compelling insights into a small city's suffering, and the goodwill that is latent in those who get in-line for a good "free" meal at a Soup Kitchen


A Stick In The Stocking: Santa’s Supply Shock
By Brian Czech

http://www.countercurrents.org/czech030115.htm

I propose that we stop calling these short-term fuel gluts “supply shocks” and instead call them “supply parties.” We all know the parties must end, and the longer we party, the bigger the real shock, the after-shock, will be. When the suite of resources such as oil, natural gas, minerals, timber, fisheries, soil, rangeland–and oh yes, that cheap thing called “water”–are at a collective all-time low, relative to demand, and when climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental unravelling are in full swing, and when our agriculture, extraction, manufacturing, and services are devastated by the loss of our natural capital, we’ll know we’re in the age of Supply Shock. We’ll have been naughty, and Santa will have known. What’s that going to get us?