CounterCurrents: The Day The Earth Died: And Why Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Etc., Were Virtually Silent About It, Smash NATO Before It's Too Late, Update To US War Manual Makes It Easier To Defend Killing Journalists

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NATO Announces Expansion Of Military Force Targeting Russia 
By Niles Williamson

http://www.countercurrents.org/williamson250615.htm

NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels Wednesday and Thursday agreed to the enlargement of the organization’s Response Force to 40,000 troops from the current level of 13,000. On Tuesday, ahead of the meeting, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced the positioning of hundreds of American tanks, military vehicles and heavy artillery pieces in the Baltic States as well as Poland, Romania and Bulgaria


Smash NATO Before It's Too Late 
By Dr. Ludwig Watzal

http://www.countercurrents.org/watzal250615.htm

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a war-prone institution that poses the biggest threat to world peace. Since the disappearance of the Soviet Union, which turns out to be the greatest disaster for the stability of the international system, NATO expansionism and aggression is rampant. Although NATO was established to contain the Soviet Union, in reality, however, it has always been a complacent vehicle for U. S. hegemony


Update To US War Manual Makes It Easier To Defend Killing Journalists 
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini250615.htm

“The classification of journalists as ‘unprivileged belligerents’ is leading experts to conclude that the U.S. Department of Defense has given the green light for soldiers to kill journalists.” The classification could also be used to justify the continuation and/or extension of other types of illegal treatment of journalists, such as torture or indefinite imprisonment, which the US practices


The Day The Earth Died: And Why Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Etc., Were Virtually Silent About It 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse250615.htm

What the U.S. Senate did on 23 June 2015 was to hand America’s sovereignty over to international corporations. It gave President Obama what he had been seeking with unprecedented intensity, and which he has called his “legacy”: it’s the power to transfer lots of America’s democratic national sovereignty over to international corporations — that is, to the roughly 100 individuals on this planet who own the controlling blocks of stock in the world’s large international corporations, the people who are the real beneficiaries in all of this


Fairness Is Our Life’s Mode; It Determines All Our Interactions - It’s Our Security 
By Lionel Anet

http://www.countercurrents.org/anet250615.htm

The elution of equality to be plausible in the present competitive socio-economy is dependent on economic growth, its capitalism fatal flaw. It’s Life’s fatality, a growth that can only be sustained with unsustainable fossil fuel that’s also changing the chemical composition of the biosphere. That change took only two century, but for nature to revert back to a benign state will take millennium, or never if we don’t act soon


Veganism, Harm Reduction, Moral Baselines, etc. 
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz250615.htm

The basic goal of my individual choices is harm reduction. I have no illusions I can decrease suffering but I know I can put some of my values into practice by making conscious anti-exploitation choices, e.g. not using my meager money to support sweatshops or factory farms; circuses or the automobile culture; chemical manufacturers or vivisection labs; and so on


Five Things That Won't Work in Iraq 
By Peter Van Buren

http://www.countercurrents.org/buren250615.htm

What If There Is No Plan B for Iraq?


Statement of The Committee of Concerned Alumni, 
Students, Faculty and Staff of Brooklyn College

http://www.countercurrents.org/pr250615.htm

The struggle to save Worker Education continues. This battle is an integral part of the defense against the class warfare waged on unions, public education and institutions, the working class and those who work toward a democratic society, and human rights and opportunity for the oppressed, not hedge funders and warmongers. Please join the movement to save worker education at CUNY. Spread the word and repost on social media


Praful Bidwai Is No More: Rest in Peace Comrade
By Subhash Gatade

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatade250615.htm

Praful will be missed by thousands and thousands of his readers (this pen pusher included) who were 'groomed' by him in a career spanning more than four decades. For them he was one such voice who remained uncompromising in his strident criticism of communal fundamentalisms of various kinds and the crony capitalism which is having a field day these days. He was a leading voice for nuclear disarmament and peace as well and had written extensively on it

B. Ajithkumar On FTII Strike

http://www.countercurrents.org/ajith250615.htm