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Binu Mathew
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Poland Rearms Against Russia 
By Clara Weiss

http://www.countercurrents.org/weiss260815.htm

Under new President Andrzej Duda, the Polish government is aggressively rearming against Russia. The strengthening of the military and state apparatus is aimed at consolidating Poland’s position as a regional power in Eastern Europe, and is at the same time directed against the Polish working class


Let It Shine 
By Kathy Kelly

http://www.countercurrents.org/kelly260815.htm

This past summer, collaborating with Wisconsin activists, we decided to feature this refrain on signs and announcements for a 90-mile walk campaigning to end targeted drone assassinations abroad, and the similarly racist impunity granted to an increasingly militarized police force when they kill brown and black people within the U.S.


Playing The Long Game On Iran 
By David Bromwich

http://www.countercurrents.org/bromwich260815.htm

The Neoconservatives, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Republicans Game the System


Israel Unleashes Its Diplomatic Thug on The UN 
By Jonathan Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook260815.htm

The appointment by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu of one of his most hawkish and outspoken rivals as Israel’s new ambassador to the United Nations has prompted widespread consternation. As one Israeli analyst noted last week, Danny Danon’s appointment amounts to a “cruel joke” on the international community. The new envoy “lacks even the slightest level of finesse and subtlety required of a senior diplomat”


Visual Of Global Military Expenditures 
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini260815.htm

How did the US propel itself so far ahead, to the point that it could, alone, comprise about half of global military spending? Professor of history at Cornell University: “The idea that the commodification and suffering and forced labor of African-Americans is what made the United States powerful and rich is not an idea that people necessarily are happy to hear. Yet it is the truth.”





A Palestinian Novel Par Excellence: If Poetry Be The Food of Love, Read On 
By Vacy Vlazna

http://www.countercurrents.org/vlazna260815.htm

Zionists be warned by the novel’s intrinsic prophecy: Susan Abulhawa is a third generation refugee to whom you deny her right of return and yet this definitive Palestinian novel rose from her indestructible roots to her land


Preventing Gun Violence 
By William John Cox

http://www.countercurrents.org/cox260815.htm

Just because Americans have a right to own firearms does not mean that they have to do so. The percentage of individuals who own firearms continues to decrease. People can continue to freely choose to give up their firearms and to live, more safely, without them—both personally and as a society. There have been some successes with "buy back" programs whereby people are paid for their guns. All too often, however, the guns turned in are old, defective, or obsolete. What is needed is a broad-based grassroots movement to encourage the American people to participate in achieving a voluntary and massive reduction of operable firearms in their own homes and communities


The Rise of The Permanent Prisoners of War 
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson260815.htm

If someone has had the good fortune not to encounter the world of U.S. police and prisons, and the misfortune to learn about the world from U.S. schools, entertainment, and "news" media, a great place to start understanding one of the worst self-inflicted tragedies of our era would be with James Kilgore's short new book, Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time, followed up by Radley Balko's longer Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces


Postcard From The End Of America: Don Hensley in Huntingburg, Indiana 
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh260815.htm

This one is an account of an old farmer in Huntingburg


Privatization Is At The Core of Facsism 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse260815.htm

Privatizations are increasingly fashionable, such as in Greece, Ukraine, the U.S., and UK — and privatizations are a central feature of fascism


Celebrating Differences 
By Ghulam Mohammad Khan

http://www.countercurrents.org/khan260815.htm

The fact is that there is no definite single narrative where the complexity of whole human understanding from across continents can coalesce. To say there is a single view point about the reality of the world would be nothing more than a theoretically unfounded or untenable preposition. The world just comprises of differences and to keep it going evenly, there is an immense need to celebrate these differences