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US-NATO War Games Prepare Massive Military Escalation In West Africa
By Thomas Gaist

http://www.countercurrents.org/gaist170215.htm

US and NATO forces launched massive war games Monday in West Africa, in tandem with a slate of African militaries. The exercises, known as Operation Flintlock 2015, are to serve as the spearhead for a comprehensive military escalation by the US and European powers and their client regimes throughout the resource-rich Lake Chad Basin. The war simulations will focus on “interoperability and capacity-building among African, Western and US counterterrorism forces,” according to a Pentagon press release


Another Year, Another Coup Attempt In Venezuela
By Andre Vltchek

http://www.countercurrents.org/vltchek170215.htm

Another year, another set of coups that we can expect to be administered by the West. This year, it is all beginning in February. First the onslaught against Argentina and following that comes yet another coup against Venezuela, and its democratically elected, progressive government. The coup has been thwarted. Venezuela prevailed!


Cyber-Security Firm: NSA-Linked Spyware Found In Hard Drives Worldwide
By Lauren McCauley

http://www.countercurrents.org/mccauley170215.htm

A top technology security firm announced on Monday that they have uncovered evidence that sophisticated spying software, likely linked to the National Security Agency, was implanted in the hard drives of personal computers across the globe


Gallup: Americans' Fear of Russia Soars
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse170215.htm

Gallup headlined on February 16th, "Americans Increasingly See Russia as Threat, Top U.S. Enemy,” and reported that whereas back in 2011 only 3% of Americans answered “Russia” when asked “What country anywhere in the world do you consider to be the United States' greatest enemy?” 18% cite “Russia” today, which is 3% more than the #2-cited threat, “North Korea,” cited now by 15% (which had been 16% back in 2011, when the top-cited threat of all was then Iran, at 25%, which is now cited by only 9% of Americans, as being America's “greatest enemy.”


American Officials Silent On Israeli Abuse Of Palestinian Children
By Matt Peppe

http://www.countercurrents.org/peppe170215.htm

Six weeks after being abducted on her way home from school in the occupied West Bank, 14-year-old Malak al-Khatib was released on Friday from the jail where she was being imprisoned by Israeli occupation forces. The youngest Palestinian girl ever to be incarcerated, Malak is one of hundreds of children to be prosecuted through the Israeli military court system each year. As of December 2014, there were 156 Palestinian child prisoners, 17 of which were under 16 years old, according to the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association


Stop All The Horror!
By Jack A Smith

http://www.countercurrents.org/smith170215.htm

Watching the horror of the Islamic state on TV is sickening. It must be stopped. But we should never justify, devalue, ignore or forget the far greater horrors that continue to be perpetrated by our own country, for they, too, are sickening and must be stopped!


Demonizing Scientists And Opponents Of GMOs: The Cheap Propaganda Of The Pro-GMO Lobby
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter170215.htm

When GMO supporters mount personal attacks and accuse prominent anti-GMO campaigners of being liars, we must question what credibility they themselves have


Food Deserts + Solidarity = Food Justice
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz170215.htm

Embracing a life of activism means being a teacher and student at the same time. I was recently reminded of this while re-watching a talk I gave last year at the NYC March Against Monsanto. In that speech, I told the several thousand attendees how the first step in the fight against GMOs is to “not buy them.”


The Economy Is Wasteful, Unfair, But It Suits The 1%
By Lionel Anet

http://www.countercurrents.org/anet170215.htm

Most of us who have a satisfactory job or super are mainly concern in maintaining and improving ones position. We probably see global warming mainly a threat for the poor people of the third world and a few who are losing their island. As well the feelings that it’s not possible to do much about our carbon emissions, or it’s impossible for the 1% to be concern for anyone else as they’ll be OK. That feeling is what the 1% managed to allow circulating. Today’s children will be the unfortunate victims


In Whose America?
By Tom Engelhardt

http://www.countercurrents.org/engelhardt170215.htm

Machine Guns, MRAPs, Surveillance, Drones, Permanent War, and a Permanent Election Campaign


Revisiting The Vietnam War
By Ron Forthofer

http://www.countercurrents.org/forthofer170215.htm

Amazingly, the history of the Vietnam War is still being fought over in the United States. There seems to be an effort to reframe that horrific and shameful campaign into some honorable intervention. For example, the National Defense Authorization Act of 2008 authorized the U.S. Secretary of Defense to conduct a program to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War. In 2012, President Obama signed a proclamation stating that the commemoration would begin on Memorial Day (May 28th) 2012 and would continue until Veterans Day (November 11th) 2025


The European Union: Current Status And Future Prospects
By Jon V Kofas

http://www.countercurrents.org/kofas170214.htm

EU Political Polarization, Downward Socioeconomic Mobility and Core-Periphery Division


Poetic Resistance: An Interview With Dominique Christina
By Vincent Emanuele

http://www.countercurrents.org/emanuele170215.htm

Dominique Christina is an award-winning writer, performer, educator, and activist. She holds five national poetry slam titles in four years, including the 2014 & 2012 Women of the World Slam Champion and 2011 National Poetry Slam Champion. Her work is greatly influenced by her family's legacy in the Civil Rights Movement and by the idea that worlds make worlds. Her first full-length poetry book, The Bones, The Breaking, The Balm: A Colored Girl's Hymnal, published by Penmanship Books, is available now. Her second book, This Is Woman's Work, is set for publication in October 2015


Intergrity: Casting Aspersions
By Chandra Muzaffar

http://www.countercurrents.org/muzaffar170215.htm

Like many other Malaysians, I am deeply concerned about allegations in the media hurled at the Malaysian Prime Minister and his family which have cast serious aspersions on their integrity. Some of these allegations have been circulating for a while but they have now re-surfaced in a more trenchant form. The New York Times has played a big role in this


Northeast: India’s Other?
By Parvin Sultana

http://www.countercurrents.org/sulatana17025.htm

The region of Northeast continues to be in the headlines for the wrong reasons. The latest being the Vision Document published by BJP on the eve of Delhi elections which claim to provide special security for people from Northeast who move to the capital city. But the document called such people “Immigrant”. While the BJP leaders were too quick to make amends and called it a typing error, the damage was already done. What such a statement did is reinforce the alienation that the region has faced since ages


Review: The Book of Gold Leaves Is A ‘Melancholy’ Story
By Kashoo Tawseef

http://www.countercurrents.org/tawseef170215.htm

It’s about art, it’s about love, it’s about culture, it’s about nostalgia and it’s about Kashmir. The Book of Gold Leaves is the second book by the author after The Collaborator. At the very outset, it takes you to Kashmir with Papier Maché art as its cover page. The book is set in early 90’s of Kashmir; the book revolves around a heartbreaking love story between Roohi, a young Sunni woman, and Faiz a Shia Papier Maché artist, set in the heart of the downtown, Srinagar


Understanding Aam Admi Party’s Mega-Victory In Delhi
By Adfar Shah

http://www.countercurrents.org/shah170215.htm

Now what remains to be seen is how AAP carries its challenging and apparently difficult manifesto forward to meet the peoples huge aspirations.BJP on the other hand, needs a serious introspection on over confidence (what people see as arrogance) and relying upon the subsided Modi Wave, while the already surrendered Congress needs to rise from the ashes and see how to restructure especially its Delhi unit which is devoid of any visible leadership and lacks ample marketing