CounterCurrents: Palestine: A Roadmap To Apartheid, NATO Causes Refugees, Then Uses Them As Excuse For More Invasions, Lebanon: Now It Is Being Forced To Collapse,

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Lebanon: Now It Is Being Forced To Collapse 
By Andre Vltchek

http://www.countercurrents.org/vltchek090416.htm

Lebanon cannot stand on its feet, anymore. It is overwhelmed, frightened and broke. It stands on the frontline, facing the ISIS in the east and north, a hostile Israel in the south and the deep blue sea to the west. 1.5 million (mostly Syrian) refugees are dispersed all over its tiny territory. Its economy is collapsing and infrastructure crumbling. The ISIS is right at the border with Syria, literally next door, or even with one foot inside Lebanon, periodically invading, and setting up countless “dormant cells” in all Lebanese cities and all over its countryside. Hezbollah is fighting the ISIS, but the West and Saudi Arabia apparently consider Hezbollah, not the ISIS, to be the major menace to their geopolitical interests. The Lebanese army is relatively well-trained but badly armed, and like the entire country, it is notoriously cash-strapped. These days, on the streets of Beirut, one can often hear: “Just a little bit more; one more push, and the entire country will
collapse, go up in smoke.”


Western Powers Press Ahead With Plans For New War In Libya 
By Marianne Arens

http://www.countercurrents.org/arens090416.htm

Five years after NATO's Libya war, Italy, the EU and the US are in the advanced stages of preparations for the next military intervention. The Western imperialist powers want to establish their own military bases in Libya in order to control the country's massive sources of oil and natural gas, and secure an important gateway to Africa


Iran And Russia Join The Global Alliance To Preserve Syria's Endangered Heritage 
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb090416.htm

It is known that ISIS has been increasingly using social media so as to cut out the middleman and sell artifacts directly to buyers. Preference is given to US dollar transactions, while transactions conducted over the Internet involve the same financial institutions as are involved in transactions for the purchase of weapons and ammunition


NATO Causes Refugees, Then Uses Them As Excuse For More Invasions 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse090416.htm

The refugee problem in Europe is caused by the enemies of the European peoples, and these enemies are the aristocracies of the U.S., the EU, and the GCC


Palestine: A Roadmap To Apartheid 
By Jim Miles

http://www.countercurrents.org/miles090416.htm

The idea of apartheid and the concept and actions of BDS are fully linked because of the South African experience. The documentary Roadmap to Apartheid (2012) by Ana Nogueira and Eron Davidson highlights the parallels between what happened in South Africa and what is happening in Palestine. Beyond the parallels, the commentators from South Africa indicate that Israel is worse than their situation actually was, and - perhaps more revealing - is that the two countries worked together on military and security resources, up to and including nuclear weapons


Where Are Marx And Lenin When We Need Them? 
By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/pcr090416.htm

There is no reason for a person to have thousands of millions of dollars. The money elevates the political power of individuals over the power of the electorate. Indeed, the money becomes the electorate. The money is used to purchase political control, which destroys representative government


When RSS Comes To Srinagar, There's A Reason To Worry 
By Abdul Majid Zargar

http://www.countercurrents.org/zargar090416.htm

Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS) has announced that it will hold a public rally in Srinagar somewhere in the middle of this year. It has already held a full public parade in Jammu on 22nd October 2015 flaunting arms & weapons in full public view. There should be no cringing about it as our own so-called mainstream politicians, acting more as merchants than governors, have brought this fascist organization to our door steps. One political party kissed it in Delhi & the other hugged it in Srinagar


Dalit Politics Needs A New Radical Alternative 
By SR Darapuri

http://www.countercurrents.org/darapuri090416.htm

Today country needs such a political platform which is committed for liberation of dalits as well as whole society with an alternative pro-people policy framework, democratic value- system as well as politics. Vision of AIPF (All India Peoples Front) is to develop precisely such a political platform. All India Peoples Front (Radical) is a mass political platform dedicated to the goal of ushering in a humane society free of exploitation and alienation. It stands committed to end the present exploitative and unjust social and economic order. It envisions the establishment of a social and economic order which is people- centric and eco-friendly; which is inspired by the principles of equality and solidarity; and which ensures a life of dignity for all


An Invitation For An Ongoing Dialogue And Reflection About Art And Society 
By Sukant Khurana

http://www.countercurrents.org/khurana090416.htm

Previously I had enjoyed interaction with some people from this bunch who had liberated art from galleries and taken them to street, in one of the first street art events in India that I got to know of after my relocation to India in 2014. I would encourage people to visit such exhibitions, starting with Pratibimb – Reflections held between April 10 to April 16 Apr 10 at 5 PM at Lalit Kala Akademi Rabindra Bhavan, 35, Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi, India 110001 and several more to come in coming days. Beyond participation in a particular event or not, the most important thing is to get involved in a dialogue to celebrate the multitudes in society and art, ones that have been explored and ones that remain to be explored