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Spy Agencies Used 'Giant Vacuum Cleaner' To Collect Data Across Pacific
By Jon Queally

http://www.countercurrents.org/queally050315.htm

New documents from the cache of files leaked by Edward Snowden show that New Zealand's intelligence agency has been collecting in bulk the cell phone, email, and internet files of people across the Pacific Island nations and handing that data over to the U.S. National Security Agency in an operation one angered lawmaker now describes as a "giant vaccum cleaner of information


Letter To NDTV On The Teleast Of The Documentary “India’s Daughter”
By Concerned Citizens

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc050315.htm

This communication, we are sending after viewing the documentary film, which ironically, you had proposed to telecast on 8th March 2015, on the occasion of InternationalWomen's Day. We are writing to you to express our serious concerns about some aspects of this film which, as a responsible channel, we fully expect that you will take on board and postpone the broadcast of this film, till all legal processes and proceedings pertaining to the 16 December 2012 case have concluded


"India's Daughter" : A Ban Is Not The Solution
By National Federation Of Indian Women

http://www.countercurrents.org/nfiw050315.htm

National Federation Of Indian Women (NFIW) strongly opposes the banning of the documentary India's Daughter. The 'objectionable' portions of the documentary not only expose the mentality of the rapist, they are also a reflection of the mentality and attitude of the Indian patriarchal society towards women


“India’s Daughter”: Blanket Ban An Attack On The Freedom Of Expression
By All India Democratic Women's Association

http://www.countercurrents.org/aidwa050315.htm

All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) strongly opposes the blanket ban on the documentary titled “India’s Daughter” made by BBC 4. This is a knee jerk reaction that constitutes an attack on the freedom of expression


Netanyahu’s Farcical Fear Mongering
By Alan Hart

http://www.countercurrents.org/hart050315.htm

Netanyahu’s portrayal of an Iran on course to possess nuclear weapons for the purpose of annihilating Israel, plus the standing ovations and the applause his performance received, might well have pleased enough brainwashed Israeli Jews to vote in ways that guarantee he will emerge from Israel’s upcoming elections in a position to cobble together the next coalition government and serve a fourth term as prime minister


Compete To Possess And Die Out, or Be Fair To Survive
By Lionel Anet

http://www.countercurrents.org/anet050315.htm

Atmospheric scientists have estimated that, with the carbon we have emitted, we can expect a 3 metre ocean rise by the end of this century. We are in big trouble and continual reliance on growth will end up killing everyone. The task ahead of us is the most difficult ever and to deal with it will take a united effort. So the ball is in their court, the 1%,has to decide to live as one of us or die.Nevertheless they can’t see the choice they have on their own; we must show them the choices they have, to save ourselves


US Considering Openly Arming Syrian al-Qaeda Faction, al-Nusra
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini050315.htm

As reported at Antiwar.com, the US and some of its regional client dictatorships are prodding the major al-Qaeda faction operating in Syria, a brutal terrorist group called al-Nusra, to “re-brand” so the US can openly arm it


Are Pilots Deserting Washington's Remote-Control War?
By Pratap Chatterjee

http://www.countercurrents.org/chatterjee050315.htm

A New Form of War May Be Producing a New Form of Mental Disturbance


Not Science, Just Lies And Propaganda: The Massive Fraud Behind GMOs Exposed
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter050315B.htm

‘Altered Genes, Twisted Truth' is a new book by the US public interest lawyer Steve Druker. The book is the result of more than 15 years of intensive research and investigation by Druker, who initiated a lawsuit against the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that forced it to divulge its files on GM foods. Those files revealed that GM foods first achieved commercialisation in 1992 but only because the FDA covered up the extensive warnings of its own scientists about their dangers, lied about the facts and then violated federal food safety law by permitting these foods to be marketed without having been proven safe through standard testing


Fast Food Nations: Selling Out To Junk Food, Illness And Food Insecurity
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter050315A.htm

Western agribusiness, food processing companies and retail concerns are gaining wider entry into India and through various strategic trade deals are looking to gain a more significant footprint within the country. The Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture (KIA) and the ongoing India-EU free trade agreement talks have raised serious concerns about the stranglehold that transnational corporations could have on the agriculture and food sectors, including the subsequent impact on the livelihoods of hundreds of millions


Did Hindus Never Eat Beef?
By BR Ambedkar

http://www.countercurrents.org/ambedkar050315.htm

The claim of the Hindutva gang that Dr BR Ambedkar endorsed the Hindutva project and opposed beef-eating as cow was sacred to Hinduism is a terrible travesty of facts. Dr Ambedkar, a great researcher, produced a brilliant essay on the subject titled ‘Did The Hindus Never Eat Beef?’ All those who are really interested in understanding the Indian past and wish to challenge the supremacist myth making for cleansing and marginalizing minorities must read the above-mentioned work which is being reproduced here


An Underground Radioactive Waste Laboratory Coming Up
In Gogi Village In Yadgir District Of Karnataka
By VT Padmanabhan & Joseph Makkolil

http://www.countercurrents.org/makkolil050314.htm

In March last year, we reported a secret move by the DAE to set up a repository (DGR) for storing high level radioactive waste (HLW) under the hills of Idukki-Theni districts in Kerala-Tamil Nadu. TIFR published a blanket denial saying that INO has nothing to do with radioactive waste. Our contention was that radioactive waste repository was a separate project, co-located at the same site. Now we report a similar effort to build an underground research laboratory (URL) in Gogi village of Yadgir district in Karnataka


INO Will Cause Major Environmental Damages In Theni: Medha Patkar
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc050315A.htm

Noted social activist Medha Patkar joined hands with MDMK leader Vaiko to oppose the proposed neutrino observatory project in Theni district, saying that it would cause large-scale environmental damages. "Nature will suffer major damages if India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) is set up. Radiation from it will affect people in the area. The central government does not seem to care about the people's livelihood. The INO project will not benefit India either," Patkar said


Sour Grapes In ‘Wine Country’— Intense Challenges To Wineries Erupt
By Shepherd Bliss

http://www.countercurrents.org/bliss050315.htm

A movement against the expansion of rural wineries grows throughout the North Bay. Residents demand that applications should include an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and conform to the rules of CEQA (California Environment Quality Act). Demands grow for moratoriums on all new wineries in Sonoma and Napa Counties, especially those seeking to be industrial, commercial event centers, located away from urban centers, compromising the quality of rural life and nature