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Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseyuk Resigns
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse110416.htm

On Sunday, April 10th, Arseniy Yatseyuk, finally officially resigned, though his actual service as Ukraine’s Prime Minister ended in the very closing days of December 2015. He had been selected by U.S. President Obama’s agent on Ukraine, Victoria Nuland, on 4 February 2014, to lead Ukraine as that country’s new Prime Minister — to lead it as soon as the Obama-planned Ukrainian coup overthrowing Ukraine’s democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych would be completed (which happened 22 days later). As this reporter had noted on 15 January 2016, “Yats” (as Nuland affectionately called him) had been effectively ousted from power by Petro Poroshenko


US Deploys B-52s For Bombing In Syria, Iraq
By Patrick Martin

http://www.countercurrents.org/martin110416.htm

The US Air Force sent B-52 bombers to the Persian Gulf Saturday and plans to use them for bombing raids on targets in Iraq and Syria, according to the Pentagon and the US Central Command, which oversees US military operations in the Middle East. An undisclosed number of bombers will be stationed at Al Udeid air base in Qatar


Obama Deceives World Over State Terrorism, Non-state Terrorism, 
Apartheid Israeli Nuclear Threat And US Nuclear Terrorism
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya110416.htm

American President Barack Obama recently hosted and addressed the 4th Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) that is aimed at preventing nuclear terrorism. However an endlessly mendacious Obama ignored the failure over long-term storage of nuclear waste, the unconscionable US Alliance dispersal of depleted uranium in US war zones around the world, and the massive reality of state nuclear terrorism in which Humanity is existentially threatened by the nuclear terrorism of 9 nuclear weapons states, specifically (with upper estimates of nuclear weapons in brackets) the US (7,315), Russia (8,000), Apartheid Israel (400), France (300), UK (250), China (250), Pakistan (120), India (100), and North Korea (less than 10)


Jakob von Uexküll And The World Future Council 
By John Scales Avery

http://www.countercurrents.org/avery110416.htm

Jakob von Uexküll and the World Future Council remind us that the threat of climate change is an extremely severe emergency. Quick action is needed or else our future will be lost


Capitalism And Global Agribusiness:  From Ford To Monsanto, It's For Your Own Good
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter110416.htm

In capitalism, private commercial entities are legally obliged to maximise profit, thereby serving shareholder interests ahead of any notion of the public good. According to the description of liberal democracy in textbooks, the state will act to protect the public interest. What is missing from the term ‘liberal democracy’ is the word ‘capitalist’. In capitalist liberal democracies, the state serves the interest of private capital, first and foremost, and does its best to convince the public that commercial interests and the public and national interest are one and the same


The Disneyfied Narrative Of The International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia 
By Milan Djurasovic

http://www.countercurrents.org/djurasovic110416.htm

Pinocchio and Little Red Riding Hood still believe in the impartiality of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). I have yet to meet either a partial or an impartial Serb that shares their sentiments. Toward the political bazaar in Hague the Serbs feel what has been hurled at them by the institution’s creators since the early 1990’s—disdain, occasional profanity, and boiling resentment. Those are the only self-defense tools available to the tired citizens of a small, impoverished country


What Do They Know Of Cricket Who Only Cricket Know?
By Ali Abbas

http://www.countercurrents.org/aa110416.htm

Three incidents that happened lately remind us of the importance of the question that CLR James asked. Gayle dancing with Afghanistan team after they beat his team, Sachin playing cricket with William and Kate , Harsha Bhogle being sacked as a commentator from IPL


Prafulla Samantara Attacked By Vedanta Goons
By Campaign for Survival and Dignity(CSD) Odisha

http://www.countercurrents.org/csdo110416.htm

On 6th April 2016 PrafullaSamantra was assaulted by about 10 goons of Vedanta Company while he was returning from a meeting from Village Masiput inKoraput district. He said that the hired goons of Vedanta company tried to kidnap him forcefully but failed as the villagers rushed to the spot after getting information


Sri Lanka : Why Investigations Into Mass Graves Failed So Far 
By Basil Fernando

http://www.countercurrents.org/fernando110416.htm

Every mass grave is a symbol of the grave yard of criminal justice in Sri Lanka


India: MNREGA Budget Cut In The Times Of Drought
By Asian Human Rights Commission

http://www.countercurrents.org/ahrc110416.htm

The devastating that has hit India is affecting more than half of India’s 676 districts. Welfare schemes, like Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) end up as the only way out for millions of rural poor to subsist. And, the government now wants to deny them even that. The Supreme Court of India observed the same while hearing a petition by Swaraj Abhiyan, an activist group, which sought relief for drought hit regions in the country. The Court examined the data provided to it by the union government and curtly told the government that the funds allocated for MNREGA are not enough to alleviate the rural crisis, worsened by the drought that is affecting more than 10 states