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New Turkey-Saudi Strategy For Proxy War In Syria
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc080515.htm

To bring down Syrian president Bashar Assad, Turkey and Saudi Arabia have united with an aggressive new strategy for the on-going proxy war in Syria. The pact was sealed in early-March when Turkish president Erdogan flew to Riyadh to meet Saudi king Salman. The new virtual military alliance adds Saudi money to Turkey's logistical support. At the same time, Jordan is facing new complication with the proxy war


Where Gareth Porter Is On And Off In Explaining US Media Bias On Saudi Aggression Against Yemen
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini080515.htm

In an important new article, award-winning journalist Gareth Porter notes that US and Western media are using the term “proxy war” as “a way of softening the harsh reality of Saudi aggression” against Yemen


How The Media Misrepresent ‘Fast Track,' TPP & TTIP
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse080515.htm

Both conservative and liberal ‘news' media misrepresent U.S. President Barack Obama's proposed international trade-deals as if they were about only such things as lowering tariffs and reducing national trade-protectionism — which are relatively minor surface-features of these huge proposed treaties: TTIP with Europe, TPP with Asia, and TISA (Trade in Services Agreement). All of these proposed Obama trade-deals are actually about transferring to panels of international corporations the powers that currently reside in the various individual nations' regulatory and legal authorities


V-Day: Russia's Perpetual Fight Against Fascism
By Andre Vltchek

http://www.countercurrents.org/vltchek080515.htm

70 years since the great Victory! 70 years since Soviet people saved the world by smashing Nazism. 70 years since they, almost immediately, joined yet another fight, against Western imperialism and colonialism. 20 or perhaps 27 million Soviet people, mainly Russians, lost their lives defending our planet against Hitler's hordes. Then hundreds of millions of others dedicated their lives to building a much better, and egalitarian world. Without Soviet Union, without the Russian people, there would be no freedom, no independence for Asian, African and the Middle Eastern countries. There would be no revolutions possible in Latin America


Remembering A Magnum Crimen In The Independent State Of Croatia, 1941−1945
By Vladislav B. Sotirović

http://www.countercurrents.org/sotirovi%C4%87080515.htm

The most important post-April War creation on the territory of ex-Kingdom of Yugoslavia was an Independent State of Croatia that was officially proclaimed on April 10th, 1941. It was composed by Croatia, Slavonia, parts of Dalmatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the East Srem (today in Serbia). The official name of the state was Neovisnadržava Hrvatska (theNDH) with a capital in Zagreb. In the attempt to solve the Serb Question westward the Drina River, the Ustashi government established a network of death camps among all Jasenovac (a Yugoslav Auschwitz) nearby the Sava River on the very border with Bosnia-Herzegovina became the most infamous in which perished around 700,000 people among them 500,000 the Serbs


100 Years Of Armenian Genocide
By Sazzad Hussain

http://www.countercurrents.org/hussain080515.htm

Armenians diaspora has been campaigning for international recognition of the 1915 genocide in the last one hundred years. Paraguay became the first country to recognize this in 1965 and presently sixteen nations including Russia, France, EU, the Vatican have recognized the Armenian genocide. The US, Britain and China is yet to recognize it and Israel dropped the Armenian genocide from the list of other such incidents while it hosted the International Conference on Genocide in 1982. India, which has Armenian connection since the reign of Akbar is yet to recognize it. Notably, it is Lebanon, the only Arab and Muslim majority state that has recognized the Armenian genocide in 1997


The Power And Symbolism Of Voting
By William John Cox

http://www.countercurrents.org/cox080515.htm

What does the Boston Tea Party and Gandhi's Salt March have to do with voting in the United States today? These were symbolic political acts that were effectively used to demonstrate against and defeat the same kind of powerful forces now corrupting American politics


The Clintons and Their Banker Friends: The Wall Street Connection (1992 To 2016)
By Nomi Prins

http://www.countercurrents.org/prins080515.htm

This piece has been adapted and updated by Nomi Prins from chapters 18 and 19 of her book "All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power"


Dangerous Flailing And Bellowing Of The Beast
By John Chuckman

http://www.countercurrents.org/chuckman080515.htm

When I think of America’s place in the world today, the image that comes to mind is of a very large animal, perhaps a huge bull elephant or even prehistoric mammoth, which long roamed as the unchallenged king of its domain but has become trapped by its own missteps, as caught in a tar pit or some quicksand, and it is violently flailing about, making a terrifying noises in its effort to free itself and re-establish its authority. Any observer immediately knows the animal ultimately cannot succeed but certainly is frightened by the noise and crashing that it can sustain for a considerable time


Survival Of The Weakest
By Sukumaran C. V.

http://www.countercurrents.org/sukumaran080515.htm

Violence against women and violence against the Earth, legitimated and promoted by both patriarchal religion and science, are interconnected assaults rooted in the eroticization of domination. The gynocidal culture’s image of woman as object and victim is paralleled by contemporary representations that continually show the Earth as a toy, machine, or violated object, as well as by the religious and scientific ideology that legitimates the possession, contamination, and destruction of Mother Earth


Farmers’ Struggles At Battleground Peripheries
By T Venkateshwarlu

http://www.countercurrents.org/venkateshwarlu080515.htm

The parties and organizations have to revisit their approach and understand the severity of the problems of the farmers. These problems are the result of capital intervening in the agriculture sector. Apart from struggles against ‘Land Acquisition Bill, 2014’ they have to wage struggles on major problems of the farmers. This initiative is require a lot to end the lakhs of farmers’ suicides across the country for the last three decades


Bhakti-Sufi Traditions: Uniting Humanity
By Ram Puniyani

http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani080515.htm

Keeping the relation between state, politics and religion apart, it is interesting that some traditions within religion have appeals cutting across the religious boundaries. The Sufi and Bhakti tradition in Pakistan-India, South Asia are two such humane trends from within Islam and Hinduism respectively, which harp more on unity of humanity as a whole overcoming the sectarian divides. The saints from these traditions had appeal amongst people of different religions and they were away from the centers of power, unlike the clergy which was close ally of the rulers in medieval times


Bollywood’s [Re]presentation of ‘Kashmir’ And ‘Kashmiri’:
From Romance (Kashmir Ki Kali) To Tragedy (Haider)
By Dr. M Ashraf Bhat

http://www.countercurrents.org/bhat080515.htm

The realist cinema, like naked art is always disturbing, and Haider being realistic is mainly because it engaged a well-informed insider, Basharat Peer, to frame its screenplay. Apart from the controversies, it is essential to understand what ‘Haider’ offers different from the Bollywood’s earlier discourses depicting Kashmir


The Essay By A Brown Cow
Communicated By Abdul Majid Zargar

http://www.countercurrents.org/zargar080515.htm

Thank God, a cow, brown in color (Kachir gaw in vernacular) has now made her entry into an institution of higher learning. Preparing hard for her ensuing examinations she, as a preparatory exercise, was asked to pen down an essay about Kashmiri politicians. Protected by all types of laws at national & State level, she was instructed to write truth and call spade a spade without any fear of censure or admonishment. Here is her essay

07 May, 2015


Global Carbon Levels Surpassed 400 ppm For Entire Month
By Sarah Lazare

http://www.countercurrents.org/lazare070515.htm

Marking yet another grim milestone for an ever-warming planet, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration revealed on Wednesday that, for the first time in recorded history, global levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere averaged over 400 parts per million (ppm) for an entire month—in March 2015


Record Number Of Internally Displaced People Globally In 2014
By Niles Williamson

http://www.countercurrents.org/williamson070515.htm

According to a report issued by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) on Wednesday, a record 38 million people in 60 countries were displaced by ongoing conflicts from their homes within the borders of their own country through the end of 2014. They comprise the vast majority of the more than 50 million classified as refugees


Indian Subcontinent-Mystery: Rapid Move Toward Eurasia 80 Million Years Ago Explained
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc070515.htm

In the history of continental drift, Indian Subcontinent has been a mysterious record-holder. Now, scientists have explained the mystery. It was plates pulling the land mass and the plates were acting based on other forces. New questions have risen also


Lampedusa: L'Isola Bella's Shadow Of Death
By Conor Fortune

http://www.countercurrents.org/fortune070515.htm

Given Lampedusa’s location – around 70 nautical miles from Tunisia, between Libya and the Italian mainland – it sits astride Europe’s busiest sea migration route. People fleeing armed conflict, persecution and other hardship in sub-Saharan Africa, Syria, Palestine, and elsewhere are in ever greater numbers entrusting their lives to ruthless people-smugglers in an attempt to reach Europe. In 2014, more than 170,000 people arrived on Italy’s shores. The same year, around 3,500 died – from drowning, hypothermia and other causes – or disappeared at sea, making this the world’s deadliest sea crossing. The first few months of 2015 have seen a 100-fold increase in deaths at sea, compared to the same period last year


NZ Super-Annuitants Profit From Gaza Children's Agony
By Vacy Vlazna

http://www.countercurrents.org/vlazna070515.htm

The shocking decision by the government-owned New Zealand Super Fund (NZSF) to NOT divest from Israel Chemicals Ltd (ICL), manufacturer of white phosphorus, blatantly violates the NZSF Responsibilities