CounterCurrents: Iraq: Uranium Contamination, War Crimes And U.S.Troops, Arab Leaders Count Dead Bodies But Peacemaking Is Not The Aim,

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US Steps Up Threats Against Russia As Ukrainian Troops Retreat From Debaltseve
By Niles Williamson

http://www.countercurrents.org/williamson190215.htm

The retreat Wednesday of Ukrainian soldiers from the city of Debaltseve was a major defeat for the Kiev regime in its military offensive against pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Donbass. It was also a blow to US policy in Eastern Europe. The loss of Debaltseve has underscored the bankruptcy of the US puppet regime in Kiev and the lack of popular support for military operations against ethnic Russians in the east


Russia's Outrageous Treatment Of A Right-Wing Ukrainian Film Director
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse190215.htm

Oleg Sentsov is an anti-Russian Ukrainian nationalist who also happens to be a screenwriter and director of Ukrainian-language movies. Because he hates Russia and refuses to accept Crimea's being again a part of Russia (which it was between 1783 and 1954, and which the vast majority of Crimeans wanted it to return to being), he is now treated by Vladimir Putin's Russia in the same way that Barack Obama's America treated Osama bin Laden's bookkeeper Zacarias Moussaoui in a federal penitentiary until recenly


What’s Happening To Canada? An Open Letter To Stephen Harper
By Ralph Nader

http://www.countercurrents.org/nader190215.htm

Many Americans love Canada and the specific benefits that have come to our country from our northern neighbor’s many achievements (see Canada Firsts by Nader, Conacher and Milleron). Unfortunately, your latest proposed legislation—the new anti-terrorism act—is being described by leading Canadian civil liberties scholars as hazardous to Canadian democracy


Greece Is Taking Back Its Democracy, What About The U.S.?
By Nozomi Hayase

http://www.countercurrents.org/hayase190215.htm

The Greeks are fighting to take back their country. So can Americans take back the electoral arena that is now occupied by corporate elites and crony bankers. Only then can the power of We the People become the bullet that can manifest a true governance of the people, by the people and for the people


Parking Space Terrorism: Time For Action After Killing Of Three US Muslims
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud190215.htm

The murder of three American Muslims at a University of North Carolina condominium on Tuesday, 10 February, was no ordinary murder, nor is the criminal who killed them an ordinary thug. The context of the killings, the murder itself and the media and official responses to the horrific event is a testimony to everything that went wrong since the United States unleashed it’s long-drawn-out “war on terror”, with its undeclared, but sometimes declared enemy, namely Islam and Muslims


Arab Leaders Count Dead Bodies But Peacemaking Is Not The Aim
By Mahboob A. Khawaja

http://www.countercurrents.org/khawaja190215.htm

Al-Qaeda and ISIS are distraction from the real issues of Arabian dictatorial regimes. The Western proponent of animosity view it blessing in disguise for opportunities carved-up by collapsed Arab leadership lacking courage and intellectual vision for change and political development to serve the interest of the deprived masses. There is no righteous cause and harmony between the rulers and the ruled


UK Zionist Historian Sir Martin Gilbert (1936-2015)
Variously Ignored Or Minimized WW2 Bengali Holocaust
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190215.htm

British Zionist Sir Martin Gilbert (1936-2015) was an eminent UK historian in the areas of Jewish history, Zionism, Churchill, WW1, WW2 and 20th century history. He was one of very few UK historians who actually mentioned the 1943-1945 Bengali Holocaust (6-7 million Indians killed by Churchill ) but must be criticized for hugely under-estimating this atrocity, excusing the British, eliminating any mention of this from his histories of Churchill, ignoring other holocausts and grossly exaggerating deaths in the WW2 Jewish Holocaust


War Porn
By Peter Van Buren

http://www.countercurrents.org/buren190215.htm

Hollywood and War from World War II to American Sniper


Removing The Roadblocks To Quality In Indian Higher Education
By Ms.Swaleha Sindhi

http://www.countercurrents.org/sindhi190215.htm

The suggestions for quality improvement in higher education include; first and foremost to motivate and guide the students towards their goals with the use of dynamic methods and approaches in the teaching learning process. To motivate young students to use the library, this would help the students to do self learning, self evaluation and self improvement. Teacher capacity building is crucial for both the school education and higher education, attending the refresher courses, participating in conferences, presenting papers, involving in creative and innovative researches must be a part of their job. This will help teachers to create a healthy classroom climate and make use of Information Technology in classrooms


Two-Way Learning Of Languages Needed For Assimilation Of Indians
By Aishik Chanda

http://www.countercurrents.org/chanda190215.htm

At a time when the Narendra Modi-led BJP government is initiating programmes and schemes for the development of North East region, utmost care should be taken not to impose the “Hindi form of nationalism” on the region for the agenda of “assimilation” that many influential Hindi-speaking BJP leaders in the higher echelons of power may suggest. Instead, the learning of languages should be a two-way process


Kashmir: Enemies Overwhelmed By Irrational Love
By Imran Khan

http://www.countercurrents.org/khan190215.htm

We kashmiries are not enemies of India at all; we don’t swear death to India, we don’t want India to be destroyed, we have no problem with common Indians. We are known as hosts and we would love to have them as guests in our homes. I truly believe that we kashmiries want India to progress, prosper and grow, but the harsh reality is that India cannot progress and prosper unless and until it does not stop the military occupation of Jammu and Kashmir, unless and until it does not recognize the rights of kashmiries to breathe in a free space, unless and until it does not give kashmiries the much promised right to self determination

18 Feruary, 2015


Minsk Cease-Fire Verging On Collapse As Fighting Continues In East Ukraine
By Niles Williamson

http://www.countercurrents.org/williamson180215.htm

Fighting escalated in the eastern Ukrainian city of Debaltseve on Tuesday, as the cease-fire negotiated last week in Minsk has failed to take hold. There was street-to-street fighting in Debaltseve, as pro-Russian separatist militias moved to consolidate control over the city, where at least 5,000 Ukrainian troops are trapped. The separatists aim to reinforce their strategic position by seizing the city—a key rail hub connecting the rebel-controlled cities of Donetsk and Luhansk—from the NATO-backed Kiev regime


Iraq: Uranium Contamination, War Crimes And U.S.Troops
By Joseph R. Spencer

http://www.countercurrents.org/spencer180215.htm

ISIS is not alone in their brutality. There is overwhelming evidence that the United States military has committed unimaginable acts of violence that not only constitute war crimes, but that if examined closely, could be described as acts of genocide


The Fundamental Unethicality Of Being Hindu
By Ankur Betageri

http://www.countercurrents.org/betageri180215.htm

If this tragic crisis in the life of the Indian nation is to be resolved with any degree of permanence the 19th century Brahmanical nationalistic religion of Hinduism must be dismantled once and for all, and accepted for what it is—a collection of diverse religious sects, each with its own set of rituals and practices. This is the only way to ensure a life of dignity and self-respect for the Dalits, Muslims and Adivasis of India. It also seems to be the only way to create a society where everyone is judged by his or her actions, and not by his or her birth


Stop Persecution, By False Prosecution, Of Teesta Setalvad And Javed Anand!
By People's Union For Civil Liberties

http://www.countercurrents.org/pucl180215.htm

The PUCL welcomes the Supreme Court granting an immediate stay on the Gujarat High Court order permitting the custodial interrogation of journalists and Human Rights Defenders, Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand, while refusing to grant them anticipatory bail. The Gujarat High Court passed its order on the 12th of February in the FIR of alleged misappropriation of funds collected for building a memorial for the 2002 and other riot victims of the Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad. In the same matter it also granted bail to three other accused of the same charge