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Attack On Greenpeace India Is An Attack On Free Speech
By Asian Human Rights Commission

http://www.countercurrents.org/ahrc060515.htm

The announcement by Greenpeace India of its imminent shutdown is saddening. However, it was only a matter of time. How long could the organization have continued running with its bank accounts frozen and with a ban on foreign funds? That this has happened after the Delhi High Court’s judgments in two cases related to the government’s crackdown on Greenpeace India is telling on how the Modi government views dissenting voices in India


US-Jordan War Games Prepare Wider Mideast Conflict
By Patrick Martin

http://www.countercurrents.org/martin060515.htm

Some ten thousand troops began military exercises in Jordan on Tuesday, in the fifth annual “Eager Lion” war games led by the Pentagon. The drills are in preparation for a greatly expanded military conflict in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East


US War And Theft: Millions Of Dollars Financial Crimes In Iraq-Afghanistan Wars
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc060515.htm

Financial crimes worth millions of dollars by the U.S. military personnel have been unearthed in Afghanistan and Iraq. The amount goes to $50 million


UN Lawyer Calls TTP & TTIP ‘A Dystopian Future In Which Corporations And Not Democratically Elected Governments Call The Shots'
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse060515.htm

The Obama-proposed international-trade deals, if passed into law, will lead to "a dystopian future in which corporations and not democratically elected governments call the shots,” says Alfred De Zayas, the UN's Special Rapporteur on Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order


Body Counts, Drones, And “Collateral Damage” (aka “Bug Splat”)
By Tom Engelhardt

http://www.countercurrents.org/engelhardt060515.htm

In the twenty-first-century world of drone warfare, one question with two aspects reigns supreme: Who counts? In Washington, the answers are the same: We don't count and they don't count


Birzeit Wins Again: Students Of The West Bank Unite
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud060515.htm

As a member of a past generation at Birzeit, I would like to take my hat, or red kuffiyeh off, and tell the students of Birzeit, Najah, al-Quds, Bethlehem and elsewhere: Please finish the job we started. Democracy is your vehicle and the freedom of your people should always be your ultimate goal


Peace Lessons: How To Reduce Violence
By Robert J. Burrowes

http://www.countercurrents.org/burrowes060515.htm

If you are interested in learning more about the meaning of, and the relationships among, direct, structural and cultural violence and how one peace studies scholar suggests we use the integrative power of nonviolence to address violence constructively, then I suggest you read the new book by historian, playwright and novelist Professor Timothy Braatz called 'Peace Lessons'


Big Wine Blasted At North Coast California Gathering
By Shepherd Bliss

http://www.countercurrents.org/bliss060515.htm

In the heart of what corporate wine industry lobbyists have re-branded “Wine Country,” activists from four North Coast California counties gathered in early May for their third monthly meeting. They created a regional network of groups from Sonoma, Napa, Lake, and Mendocino counties


The Wretched Plight Of The Kashmiri Youth
By Ummer Wani

http://www.countercurrents.org/wani060515.htm

It is high time for the power-holders of our society to have a sympathetic eye to the problems of the youth and extricate them from the maze of frustration. Let the power-holders of our society realize that somewhere in our society there are these young minds melting under the heat of frustration. They are tired…tired of their hanging status. They are waiting for the air of freedom and peace to set them free from the chains of frustration. Let that air come, let our youth bloom again under the freeze of freshness


India's Ph.D Conundrum
By Panchendra Kumar Naik

http://www.countercurrents.org/naik060515.htm

This article is attempted to deconstruct recent Parliamentary Committee’s remarks on ‘quality and suitability’ of Ph.D. holders in India


Appointment Of Justice Sathasivam Will Compromise Autonomous Status Of NHRC Says PUCL
By PUCL

http://www.countercurrents.org/pucl060515.htm

Do not appoint Justice Sathasivam as Chairperson of NHRC: PUCL writes to the President of India