CounterCurrents: Two Most Amazing Feats Of Mass Media Bias?, Right Wing Domestic Terrorists Far More Deadly Than Islamic Extremists, The Importance of Being Angry

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Crossroads On Global Infrastructure
By Brent Blackwelder

http://www.countercurrents.org/blackwelder150115.htm

Massive Global Infrastructure Projects Could Prevent Achievement of a Sustainable Economy While Undermining Life Support Systems of the Earth


Private Property Versus Common Property
By Lionel Anet

http://www.countercurrents.org/anet150115.htm

For our descendants to survive we must be honest and fair but that’s not possible in civilisation as it built on the reverse of those values. The less value our private property is the more honest and fairer we can be. It’s either civilisation or our children that we attempt to persevere, but we can only succeed with the children


The Importance of Being Angry
By Robert J. Burrowes

http://www.countercurrents.org/burrowes150115.htm

Unfortunately, in many circles, anger has a bad reputation. Anger is a vitally important evolutionary gift and without it we are perpetual victims. Anger has two primary evolutionary functions: to let us know when we are being threatened or attacked (whether by a more 'subtle' abuse or in an explicitly violent manner) while also giving us the power to respond effectively to this threat/attack


An Australian Block To BDS
By Vacy Vlazna

http://www.countercurrents.org/vlazna150115.htm

The Australian government, Israel and its collaborator , the Palestinian Authority (PA) scored a victory over the Palestinian Boycott Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) Movement on November 29, 2014. This was the shameful day that the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN), at its AGM, voted for No.1 from the following options,
APAN not to actively engage in BDS
APAN to engage actively in all aspects of BDS
APAN to engage actively in BDS ‘across the green line'
APAN to engage actively on a settlement boycott


War Begets War: It's Not About Islam; It Never Was
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud150115.htm

It is still not about Islam, even if the media and militants attacking western targets say so. Actually, it never was. But it was important for many to conflate politics with religion; partly because it is convenient and self-validating


Right Wing Domestic Terrorists Far More Deadly Than Islamic Extremists
By Garikai Chengu

http://www.countercurrents.org/chengu150115.htm

Since September 11, extremists associated with various far-right wing ideologies, including white supremacists, and Jewish extremists, have killed far more people in the United States than extremists motivated by radical Islam


Disputes Flare Up In Iran Over A Nuclear Deal
By Akbar E. Torbat

http://www.countercurrents.org/torbat150115.htm

The latest round of Iran's nuclear negotiations with the 5+1 group (the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany) failed to reach a final agreement by its second deadline on November 24, 2014. Consequently, the two sides agreed to extend the negotiations for seven more months until July 1, 2015. As the third deadline is now looming, the confrontation between President Hassan Rouhani and the opposition factions in Iran is heating up


Two Most Amazing Feats Of Mass Media Bias?
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini150115.htm

1) Convincing a large percentage of the public that human-caused climate change is not happening. 2) Downplaying the role of the Saudi Arabian regime in the 9/11/01 attacks and overall global terror, and the USA's ongoing sponsorship of and collaboration with the Saudi regime


How Obama Lied About Obamacare
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse150115.htm

The first open enrollment period under Obamacare lasted from October 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014; and, so, there have now been a full 15 months, during which period, it's been up and running: Americans have been buying health insurance under the Act for 15 months now. Did it meet that basic promise he made? Is it even coming close? If it hasn't come close, is it likely ever to get there? The answers to all of these questions are uniformly and unequivocally no, and Obama knew that this would be the case, even back when he was running for the Presidency. All of this will be documented here


Poet-Journalists And Central Questions
By Gary Steven Corseri

http://www.countercurrents.org/corseri150115.htm

A review of David Smith-Ferri’s Where Days Are Stones


Grief For France On A Scranton School District Bus
By Charles Orloski

http://www.countercurrents.org/orloski150115.htm

Aconversation with an 8th grade female student in Scranton School District bus


56 Days Hungry: Activist Stays Steadfast For Human Rights
By Gurmeet Kaur

http://www.countercurrents.org/gkaur150115.htm

A human rights activist in North India just completed day 56 of his hunger strike in protest against the government’s mistreatment and illegal detention of political prisoners. His cause and the duration of his strike reminds one of Bobby Sands, the first of ten Irish Hunger Strikers to die in 1981. The ten protested against the British government on revocation of the prisoner-of-war like category for paramilitary prisoners. They survived without food for 46 to 73 days


Has The Ordinance Raj Come To Stay?
By Raghavan Srinivasan

http://www.countercurrents.org/srinivasan150115.htm

In recent days, the central government has introduced a slew of ordinances related to land acquisition, raising cap on foreign investment in the insurance sector, coal and mineral mining license allocation, changes to the TRAI Act and so on. Several governments in the past, including the earlier UPA regime, have used the ordinance route to push through legislations which they have found difficult to get passed in the legislature. What is the ordinance route and does it benefit the people?


It’s Not Faith, But The Politics Of Conversion That Hurts
By Tanweer Fazal Delhi

http://www.countercurrents.org/fazal150115.htm

Ghar wapasi is an ideological project to produce the loyal citizen for the Hindu nation-state


Stupid! This Happens Only In Kashmir
By Prof. Hameeda Nayeem

http://www.countercurrents.org/nayeem150115.htm

For the past two weeks a number of articles appeared in Various papers expressing anguish over BJP-PDP alliance. But Still there remain some points that need to be put together to make an argument


POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti Denounces Land Acquisition Ordinance
By POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti

http://www.countercurrents.org/ppss150115.htm

POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti strongly condemn the Narendra Modi government’s decision for bringing a Presidential ordinance three days after the Indian Parliament ended its formal session with a clear and clandestine intention of turning the progressive Land Acquisition Act 2013 ineffective which had been designed to protect farmers’ interest from invading aggressive corporation


Piketty For Progressives (Part Six suite et fin )
By Thomas Riggins

http://www.countercurrents.org/riggins150115.htm

The Theoretical and Conceptual Framework of Piketty's Book