CounterCurrents: Obama Blocks Making TTIP Trade-Deal Terms Public, Turkish Troops Enter Northern Syria, Fidel Castro And The Cuban Role In Defeating Apartheid,

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Turkish Troops Enter Northern Syria
By Patrick Martin

http://www.countercurrents.org/martin230215.htm

A force of 600 Turkish troops entered northern Syria Saturday in the first-ever incursion by Turkey since the Syrian civil war began in 2011. The convoy of nearly 200 military vehicles, including 39 tanks and 57 armored cars, evacuated 40 Turkish soldiers guarding the tomb of Suleyman Shah, an ancestor of the Ottoman dynasty that ruled Turkey for 500 years


Obama Blocks Making TTIP Trade-Deal Terms Public
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse230215.htm

Should it start now, by all Presidential candidates being asked their view of TTIP? Would that perhaps defeat Obama — and Hillary Clinton, and Jeb Bush, and … all the boosters of American Empire? Would that defeat the international aristocracy, and their political agents (such as those) for the very first time, and so start our world back on the road toward democracy, and away from the very dangerous imperial path it's now on?


So You Want To Help Africa Mr Paterson? Then Stop Promoting
Ideology And Falsehoods To Push GMOs
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter230215.htm

According to Mathew Holehouse in the UK's Telegraph newspaper (here), former UK Environment Minister Owen Paterson will this week accuse the European Union and Greenpeace of condemning people in the developing world to death by refusing to accept genetically modified crops. Speaking in Pretoria, South Africa, on Tuesday, Paterson will warn that a food revolution that could save Africa from hunger is being held back and that the world is on the cusp of a green revolution, of the kind that fed a billion people in the 1960s and 1970s as the world's population soared


Fidel Castro And The Cuban Role In Defeating Apartheid
By Matt Peppe

http://www.countercurrents.org/peppe230215.htm

American officials would, no doubt, prefer that Cuba’s heroic role in defeating apartheid and the U.S.’s shameful role in enabling it be relegated to the ash heap of history. But the historical and documentary record speaks for itself, despite Washington’s attempts to bury it. Like Castro, one has to wonder: why keep hiding the truth?


Introducing The Malcolm X Movement
By SUkant Chandan

http://www.countercurrents.org/chandan230215.htm

Building towards a new wave of Global South decolonial anti-imperialist Resistance in Britain


Genocide In Sri Lanka: "It's A Question That Certainly Needs To Be Litigated"
By Usha S Sri-Skanda-Rajah

http://www.countercurrents.org/rajah230215.htm

There are two related issues currently of critical consequence to Tamils: 1) The deferment of the release of the OISL report (the OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka report) initially fixed for March 25, 2015. 2) the question of whether or not it was Genocide and the Dire need for it to be litigated


Kashmir At Cross-Roads
By Mohammad Ashraf

http://www.countercurrents.org/ashraf230215.htm

It is a tragedy that whenever Kashmir has been at the cross roads of history, its leaders have taken the wrong turn because of some deficiencies in the basic character of its people among whom these leaders rose!


TB Alliance Advances Next-Generation TB Drug Candidate Into Clinical Testing
By Shobha Shukla

http://www.countercurrents.org/shukla230215.htm

The Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) announced on February 19, 2015 the start of the first human study of a new TB drug candidate TBA-354--the first new potential TB drug to begin a Phase 1 clinical study in 6 years since 2009. “There is a critical gap of new compounds for TB,” said Mel Spigelman, MD, President and CEO of TB Alliance. “The advancement of TBA-354 into clinical testing is a major milestone, not only because of the potential it shows for improving TB treatment, but because it is the first new potential TB drug to begin a Phase 1 clinical trial in six years.”


Condemn Murder of CPI leader Govind Pansare
By People's Union For Democratic Rights

http://www.countercurrents.org/pudr230215.htm

The shocking similarity between the murder of Dr. Dabholkar in Pune in August 2013 by gunmen while he was on his morning walk and that of Govind Pansare has been remarked upon in the press – it needs to be remembered that eighteen months after Dabholkar's murder none of the culprits have been caught