CounterCurrents: Large Portion of Israeli Settlers In Palestine Are US Citizens, Nazis Riot Again In Kiev To Force Resuming War, U.S. Publicly Splits v. EU On Ukraine War

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`No More Violence, Want Peace And Justice!’ Say People Of Kandhamal
By Kandhamal Nyaya Shanti O Sadbhabana Samaj

http://www.countercurrents.org/kns010915.htm

Marking the completion of seven years of communal violence in Kandhamal, Odisha, more than 5,000 Adivasi Christians and Dalit Christians gathered at Raikia, Kandamal upholding the need for Justice, Peace and Harmony. Thousands of people marched from Beradakia Chowk to Raikia College Chowk, covering a distance of one and half kilomenters, shouting slogans `We Want Peace, Not Violence’, `Stop Atrocities on Minorities and Women’, `In the Name of Religion and Caste Do Not Divide People’, `We Demand Appropriate Compensation’. The rally was organised by Kandhamal Nyaya Shanti O Sadbhabana Samaj, the organisation of victims and survivors of Kandhamal communal violence


Nazis Riot Again In Kiev To Force Resuming War 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse010915A.htm

On Monday, August 31st, racist fascists (nazis) who hate Russians rioted in front of Ukraine’s parliament building to demand resumption of the unlimited bombing campaign against the breakaway former Ukrainian region, Donbass, which had voted 90%+ for the neutralist Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, whose government these nazis had helped the U.S. to overthrow in February 2014


U.S. Publicly Splits v. EU On Ukraine War 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse010915.htm

There now is open disagreement between three Western leaders regarding how to move forward with regard to Ukraine: Barack Obama of the United States, versus Francois Hollande of France, and Angela Merkel of Germany. On Friday, August 29th, this split became public concerning whether the Minsk II accords for ending the Ukrainian civil war should remain in force. Obama supports the view of Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko, to violate the Minsk II accords, which would end it; the same day, Hollande and Merkel agreed with Russia's President Vladimir Putin, that the Minsk II agreement needs to be implemented in full


Assassination Of M.M. Kalburgi : The Ugly Face Of Juggernaut Jingoism 
By Ghulam Mohammad Khan

http://www.countercurrents.org/khan020915.htm

The murder of the renowned Kannada scholar, rationalist and epigraphist M.M. Kalburgi, yet again comes as a strong warning to all those who would rationally wish to venture beyond a hegemonic religio-political culture of the state. Kalburgi was just a rationalist; being a rationalist in a post-modern world of endless epistemological fluidity, is by no means a crime or dissent. What really does a particular dominant political faction of Indian society want its citizens to be; a ceaselessly submissive and unproductive generation or a credulous mob that we see in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, to be always spurred and driven and deceived by so called emotional political orgies?


CPDR Condemns Killing of Dr Malleshappa Kalburgi 
By Dr Anand Teltumbde

http://www.countercurrents.org/teltumbde020915.htm

We are yet to come out from the shock of the assassinations of Dr. Narendra Dabholkar and Com. Govind Pansare in 2013 and 2014 respectively, the Hindutva zealots have gunned down one more rationalist and renowned scholar in Dr Malleshappa Kalburgi, this time in neighboring Karnataka


Afghan Girl, Sakina, Buries Toy Gun And Says… 
By Dr Hakim

http://www.countercurrents.org/hakim010915.htm

10 year old Sakina, an Afghan street kid, had this to say, “I don’t like to be in a world of war. I like to be in a world of peace.” On 27th August 2015, Sakina and Inam, with fellow Afghan street kids and the Afghan Peace Volunteers, held a mock funeral for weapons and celebrated the establishment of a green space in Kabul


Large Portion of Israeli Settlers In Palestine Are US Citizens 
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini010915.htm

Native journalist Zebula Hebert told me that, in the Israeli colonization of Palestine, he sees “the United States’ genocide against American Indians. Gaza and the West Bank are two big reservations…” A new study out of Oxford University further reveals that this statement is more literal than symbolic, finding that 15% of Israeli settlers illegally living in Palestine are US citizens


Smearing New Zealand Decency With Palestinian Blood And Tears 
By Dr Vacy Vlazna

http://www.countercurrents.org/vlazna010915.htm

On its New Zealand Now website, the New Zealand (NZ) government truthfully describes the welcoming characteristics of New Zealand as “Open spaces, open hearts, open minds. That’s New Zealand and its people in a nutshell”: a people with “in-built expectations of ‘fair play’, integrity, honesty and trust.” who live in one of “the world’s most peaceful, least corrupt countries”. And yet..and yet..the NZ government via its New Zealand Super Fund (NZSF) has deviously exploited the trust of its citizens and besmeared their good reputation with the blood and suffering of innocent Palestinians


Postcard From The End of America: Champ Ali In Camden 
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh010915.htm

Camden’s most famous resident ever is Walt Whitman, and in 1888, our egalitarian bard opined to Horace Traubel, “The nigger, like the Injun, will be eliminated: it is the law of races, history, what-not: always so far inexorable—always to be. Someone proves that a superior grade of rats comes and then all the minor rats are cleared out.” Quite a few people can be categorized as minor rats these days, and they are certainly at the mercy of the superior rats. Unable to reach or even identify these superior rats, billions of minor rats are left to fight over scraps of garbage and tear each other apart. This carnage will only get much worse


Life Has Become A Combined Self-Sustaining Economic System Energised By Sunlight 
By Lionel Anet

http://www.countercurrents.org/anet010915.htm

We need a non-competitive educational system to suit a cooperative economic system for a fruitful life, to live as a part of nature. We can do it, because we have to, to survive


Cointelpro And The Assassination of Tupac Shakur 
By Thomas C. Mountain

http://www.countercurrents.org/mountain020915.htm

Tupac Shakur was assassinated, the US government had to be involved at the highest levels and we should add Tupac Shakur’s name to the long, bloody list of those murdered by the FBI and its minions in law enforcement


The Misinterpretation: Microfinance, NGOs 
And Neoliberalism In Bangladesh [Part 1] 
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury020915.htm

Bangladesh, the country with geostrategic importance in the current imperialist chess board, is rich with experiences of microcredit/microfinance and non-governmental organizations. So-called neoliberalism’s onslaught also has “enriched” the mainly alluvial land. The issues – microcredit/microfinance, non-governmental organizations, neoliberalism – require debate as sometimes misinterpretations and/or confusing statements/observations are made on the issues


What Is The Role of NGOs In Society? 
By Jon Kofas

http://www.countercurrents.org/kofas020915.htm

The president of Liberia recently warned that although NGOs had financial and moral integrity problems, they were challenging the state's sovereignty on the same grounds. That so many NGOs have become everything from soft pressure or lobbying groups for governments and business, that others are in the business of spying that modern technology has made easier, or that they have sinister goals of undermining the public good in order to serve narrow interests is a distortion of the historical purpose of NGOs


The Right To Information Act: Ten Years of Transparency or A Decade of Ambiguity 
By Shalu Nigam

http://www.countercurrents.org/nigam010915.htm

RTI is a powerful mechanism for citizens to demand transparency in governance and therefore any attempt to dilute the law cannot be tolerated and this is possible when citizens initiate a movement to `Occupy Information’ before `Right to Information’ becomes `Obstruction to Information’. The need is to encounter the weapon of secrecy used by the dictatorial regime. It is essential to promote openness and transparency as tools to true democracy


India Census 2011: Where Are The Atheists? 
By Subhash Gatade

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatade010915.htm

The consternation witnessed around release of religious figures in Census 2011 has rather overshadowed an interesting fact which has emerged through this mammoth exercise. It tells us that India has 2.87 million people who have no faith in any religion, which is around 0.24 per cent of our population. Definitely it includes not only atheists, rationalists but all those people who do not believe in any faith but some ‘unknown’ force


One Day Strike: Again Tokenism?
By IFTU (Sarwahara)

http://www.countercurrents.org/iftu01915.htm

Against the massive assault on the interest of working class, one day nationwide general strike called on 2nd September by Central Trade Unions (CITU, INTUC, HMS BMS and others)


Muslims Must Combat The Extremist Cancer 
By Fethullah Gulen

http://www.countercurrents.org/gulen020915.htm

As the group that calls itself Islamic State, known as ISIS, continues to produce carnage in the Middle East, Muslims must confront the totalitarian ideology that animates it and other terrorist groups. Every terrorist act carried out in the name of Islam profoundly affects all Muslims, alienating them from fellow citizens and deepening the misperceptions about their faith’s ethos


Environmental/Ethical/Spiritual Costs Of Northern California’s Wine Industry 
By Shepherd Bliss

http://www.countercurrents.org/bliss010915.htm

I have been contemplating why the growing struggle by rural residents against the expanding, industrial wine industry in Sonoma and Napa counties, Northern California, has touched my heart and soul so deeply