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Avijit Roy Assassinated: Avijit Stands For Humanity
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc020315.htm


The assassination, latest in a series of attacks on secular writers in Bangladesh in recent years, occurred in the backdrop of on-going political disturbance carried by the opponents of Sheikh Hasina government as her government publicly announced its policy of zero-tolerance to religious extremism, and is strong handedly trying to weed out the religious extremists. There have been a series of similar attacks in recent years blamed on the Islamic militants


The Saudi Hypocrisy
By Mazin Qumsiyeh

http://www.countercurrents.org/qumsiyeh020315.htm

The kingdom of "Saudi Arabia" is going to behead a man for "apostacy" (renouncing his belief in Islam and the Quran) while welcoming Egyptian Al-Sisi whose security forces are torturing people to death in Egypt for being supportive of an Islamic political system more moderate than that of that Kingdom!


Obama Prioritizes Weakening Russia, Over Weakening ISIS
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse020315.htm

Almost all Republicans, plus the top level of the Democratic Party such as Obama, hate Russia, even after communism ended and the Soviet Union broke up. They are simply obsessed with destroying Russia. So: although Bush was weak against Al Qaeda, he was strong against Russia: he brought into NATO, the military club against Russia, the following seven nations: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia — six of which seven nations had formerly been members of the Warsaw Pact along with the U.S.S.R., against the U.S. The reality is: Obama, like Republicans generally, hates Russia


My War on Terror : Letter To An Unknown American Patriot
By Tom Engelhardt

http://www.countercurrents.org/engelhardt020315.htm

The Ten Commandments for a Better American World


ISIS 101: What’s Really Terrifying About This Threat
By John Chuckman

http://www.countercurrents.org/chuckman020315.htm

The truly terrifying aspect of ISIS and other forces fighting with it in Syria is that the United States and Israel have approved and supported such wanton destruction in so beautiful and formerly-peaceful a place as Syria. Millions of lives destroyed and countless historic places damaged as though they were all nothing more than a few pieces moved on a geopolitical chessboard. I think it fair to describe that as the work of psychopaths


Review of 'Confessions Of A Terrorist – A Novel'
By Anita McKone

http://www.countercurrents.org/mckone020315.htm

If you have ever asked 'Why?... How could they do this?' in response to the latest report of terrorism, then 'Confessions of a Terrorist' is the novel for you. But only if you genuinely want to find out the answers


How To Stop Bogus Wars And Articulate Global Peacemaking?
By Mahboob A. Khawaja

http://www.countercurrents.org/khawaja020315.htm

Islamophobia is on the rise. Few reactionary instances of individual madness are used by the Western strategists to blame Muslims and Islam as the focal point of their perpetuated belligerency


Quotas Aren't Negating Merit And Efficiency
By V.M.Yazhmozhi

http://www.countercurrents.org/yazhmozhi020315.htm

Though caste based reservation is an affirmative action to uplift the socially and educationally oppressed classes and to bring forth social justice, critics often argue that “Quotas are a negation of merit and efficiency”. A paper published by Ashwini Deshpande, Professor at the Delhi School of Economics and Thomas E. Weisskopf, Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan has defeated this ideology