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Dozens Killed In Airstrike On Dairy Factory In Yemen
By Thomas Gaist

http://www.countercurrents.org/gaist020415.htm

The Saudi-led war in Yemen continued Wednesday, with the bombing of a dairy and juicing factory near the western port city of Hodeida killing at least 37 workers and injuring 80 others. The factory was hit by two bombs dropped by warplanes from the Saudi-led coalition, according to a Yemeni army newspaper


Saudi Dictator's US-Coordinated Terror-Bombings in Yemen: Updates
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini020415.htm

As the Saudi dictator continues his US-coordinated aggression against Yemen: “Erich Ogoso, a spokesman with the United Nations' humanitarian agency, reported 182 dead and hundreds more wounded just between last Wednesday and Sunday. Some 75,000 people have been displaced in the past week…


Fateful Steps That Led To The Crisis In Ukraine (Part Two: Conclusion)
By Thomas Riggins

http://www.countercurrents.org/riggins020415.htm

It is this vision, with its roots in irrationalism, fascism and the anti-Semitism and ethnic massacres of WWII, that President Obama, Secretary of State Kerry and NATO along with the leaders of the EU, as well our domestic right wing jingoists and puppet mass media are defending as “democracy, freedom, and national sovereignty.”


Fracking Comes To Germany
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse020415.htm

On Wednesday, April 1st, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet approved a measure to bring fracking (the patents for which are owned mainly by “large American companies, including Halliburton, Baker Hughes and Schlumberger”) into Germany. This is a prelude not only to U.S. President Obama's secret Trans-Atlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) pact with Europe to subordinate national laws and regulations to trans-national mega-corporate panels that will be dominated by U.S. firms and that will override the participating nations' environmental and labor regulations and consumer protections (and harm European economies generally), but it is also a major step toward removing Europe from Russia's energy-market, and bringing U.S. and European oil companies to dominate there instead.


Is US The “Good Guy” Imposing Sanity On Iranian “Bad Guy”?
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini020415A.htm

Ex CIA analyst Ray McGovern today points out that “The mainstream U.S. media portrays the Iran nuclear talks as ‘our good guys' imposing some sanity on ‘their bad guys.'” Does this portrayal make any sense?


Wisconsin Grandmother Jailed For Opposing Drone Murders
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson020415.htm

Joy First reports from Mauston, Wisc., that Bonnie Block, a Madison grandmother and long-time peace activist, was found guilty of trespassing in a jury trial in the Juneau County Courthouse on Wednesday, April 1, 2015, and sent to jail


Sri Lanka : Deterioration Of The Legal Intellect: Part II
By Basil Fernando

http://www.countercurrents.org/fernando020415.htm

Father, Mother, And Son Killed In retaliation for filing a fundamental rights petition against five police officers


It's All Bad News: The Pro-GMO Lobby In Retreat
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter020415.htm

Bt brinjal has failed for the second year in Bangladesh resulting in hardship for farmers, and Monsanto has been forced to pay out $600,000 in fines for not reporting hundreds of uncontrolled releases of toxic chemicals at its eastern Idaho phosphate plant. It also paid out a string of lawsuit settlements totaling $350,000 as a result of its GMOs tainting wheat in seven US states. And the bad news just keeps coming


Canada, Do Not Follow U.S. Into Permawar
By David Swanson and Robert Fantina

http://www.countercurrents.org/fantina020415.htm

We remember the lead you took, Canada, in banning land mines. The United States sells flying land mines called cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, which attacks its neighbors. The United States uses those cluster bombs on its own war victims. Is this the path you want to follow? Do you imagine, like some Las Vegas tiger tamer, that you'll civilize the wars you join? Not to put too fine a point on it, Canada, you will not. Murder will not be civilized. It can, however, be ended -- if you help us


Review of Collision Course (Endless Growth on a Finite Planet)
By Herman Daly

http://www.countercurrents.org/daly020415.htm

This informative book is about the rise of economic growth to the status of the number one goal of nations; the short-lived challenge to that dogma from the book The Limits to Growth (1972); the solidity of the Limits position as confirmed by subsequent data and the analyses of others; the intellectual poverty and dishonesty of the growth economists’ reaction against the Limits argument; and how it nevertheless happened that through modern public relations and well-financed ideological think tanks, the intellectually weaker growth arguments prevailed. Higgs focuses on the US story, but with informative parallels from her native Australia


Newroz In Self-Ruled Syrian Kurdistan
By Zanyar Omrani

http://www.countercurrents.org/omrani020415.htm

This year’s Newroz (New Year) had a bloody start with two suicide explosions which changed the atmosphere of the Newroz times. The explosions happened in the two main squares of Hasakah, the Newroz celebrations sites. The explosions claimed at least 35 lives and 150 people were injured


RSS's Ghar Wapasi Bigot Rajeshwar Singh Is Back With A Promotion
By Shamsul Islam

http://www.countercurrents.org/islam020415.htm

Rajeshwar Singh, the force behind the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's high-octane ghar wapsi programme in western Uttar Pradesh last year, who was quietly sent on a three-month leave by the RSS later, is back with an elevation. From the fringe body, Singh has now been promoted to the parent organization. According to regional RSS leaders, this is indeed a shot in the arm for Singh