CounterCurrents: Sweden Joins NATO’s Emerging War Against Russia, Putin Warns Romania And Poland Against Installing ABM Missiles, Demand Logging End In Poland's Bialowieza Forest, Europe's Last Large Old-Growth Forest

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In Solidarity
Binu Mathew
Editor
www.countercurrents.org


What A Water Situation! 
By S.G.Vombatkere

http://www.countercurrents.org/vombatkere300516.htm

This year has seen the globally hottest-ever April, and indications point to the worst-ever summer. The media is reporting rock bottom reservoir water levels at the start of summer, and dire predictions of worse days to come for farmers and rural people, and also urban dwellers. Due to this worst drought in living memory that has hit most of India, around 300 million people, as estimated by one source, are migrating. One can only wonder why this on-going tragedy does not make it to the front pages of newspapers


Iranian Arab Villagers Around Shush City In Ahwaz
Left Without Water In Searing Summer Heat 
By Rahim Hamid

http://www.countercurrents.org/hamid300516.htm

Villagers in rural Ahwaz, already deprived of basic services by the Iranian regime, warn that conditions are worsening as the regime fails to repair aging and broken water pipes, leaving residents without any water in summer temperatures that routinely exceed 40 Celsius


Political Implications Of Climate Change 
By Anandi Sharan

http://www.countercurrents.org/sharan300516.htm

Indigenous people, women, untouchables, religious minorities, the unemployed, the landless and the rest who make up the 90% majority of humans who are not in charge of this world should realize what has happened. Western civilization is incompatible with the UNFCCC and the CBD. The law is not upheld nor can democracy uphold it. Surely this means western civilisation has collapsed and nation states along with it. You cannot be a civilisation based on the rule of law if your continued existence is based on breaking the law. If there is a continued free- for-all by all means we should be a part of it. But we should keep as a back up plan the greater wisdom inherited from our ancestors, -to live within our means and within the means of nature regardless of whatever civilisation comes and goes


Demand Logging End In Poland's Bialowieza Forest,
Europe's Last Large Old-Growth Forest
By Rainforest Portal

http://www.countercurrents.org/rp300516.htm

Industrial logging recommenced this week in Poland's Bialowieza Forest - the last intact European temperate lowland old-growth natural forest and UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is time to end old-growth forest logging in Poland, and globally, to prevent regional ecosystem failure, limit abrupt climate change, and avoid biosphere collapse. As the original source of global industrial ecocide, Europe has a special responsibility to protect its last intact natural ecosystems, particularly as it proselytizes to not-yet over-developed nations to do so


Putin Warns Romania And Poland Against Installing ABM Missiles 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse300516A.htm

On Friday, May 27th, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin again said that American President Barack Obama lies when saying that the reason America’s anti-ballistic missile (“ABM”) or Ballistic Missile Defense (“BMD”) system is being installed in Romania, and will soon be installed in Poland, is to protect Europe from Iranian missiles that don’t even exist and that Obama himself says won’t exist because of Obama’s deal with Iran. Putin is saying: I know that you are lying there, not being honest. You’re aiming to disable our retaliatory capacity here, not Iran’s. I’m not so dumb as to believe so transparent a lie as your assurances that this is about Iran, not about Russia


Sweden Joins NATO’s Emerging War Against Russia 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse300516B.htm

Sweden, which historically has been a ‘neutral’ country between the U.S. and Russia, is joining the NATO buildup against Russia, allowing NATO to place nuclear weapons in Sweden for an attack against Russia, and, like NATO (of which Sweden isn’t a member) lying about it to their people, and to the world


From Albrecht To Monsanto: A System Not Run For The Public Good 
Can Never Serve The Public Good 
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter300516.htm

People are fighting back and resisting. From Ghana to India and from Europe to beyond, food sovereignty movements are demonstrating a deep-rooted resistance against neoliberal doctrine and its negative impacts on agriculture, health, communities and the environment. And they are armed with realistic alternatives to corporate dominated agriculture and the policies and framework which allows it to prosper at the expense of both people and the environment


Emailgate: The Clinton Spin Doctors In Action 
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark

http://www.countercurrents.org/kampmark300516.htm

Hillary Clinton’s email dilemma got somewhat sharper over the weekend, with Sunday programs heavy with the theme. Her use of a private email server during her stint as Secretary of State was given a new lease of life by the Office of the Inspector General’s report which took significant issue with her practices when in office


Mourn Deceived GIs! "US Foreign Policy Greatest Crime 
Since WWII" (Ex US Att. Gen. Ramsey Clark) 
By Jay Janson

http://www.countercurrents.org/janson300516.htm

In 1994, Ramsey Clark wrote in his The Fire This Time - US War Crimes in the Gulf, "The greatest crime since WWII has been US foreign policy," in Crime in America, 1970, "Crimes are meant to be prosecuted," and in Challenge to Genocide, 1998 that 'investments in the illegal and genocidal use of the nation’s Armed Forces, CIA and mass media will be made unprofitable and brought to an end through prosecution under the law'


Drop The Sabah Claim; Focus On The Bangsamoro Agreement 
By Chandra Muzaffar

http://www.countercurrents.org/muzaffar300516.htm

According to media reports, President-Elect Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines would be staking a fresh claim on Sabah. He recognises Sabah as a Sulu Sultanate territory. It is a recognition that has been challenged by various quarters including the Malaysian federal government and the Sabah state government. Many students of law have also disputed the Sulu-Philippine claim which to a large extent has revolved around the question of whether Sabah was leased or ceded by the Sultan of Sulu to representatives of the British North Borneo Company in 1878


Obama Violates Nuclear Treaties While Iran Upholds Them 
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini300516.htm

The IAEA issued a new report reconfirming that Iran is "complying with the P5+1 nuclear deal, and that Iran’s stockpiles have all remained below the limits set forth in the deal." The 'deal' has been selectively imposed, mainly by the US, as a propaganda and war-weapon against Iran, which the US has sought to reconquer since its proxy dictator was overthrown in 1979. While forcing Iran to comply with the strict regime, Washington ignores nuclear violations and ambitions by its allies or proxies, such as Israel and Saudi Arabia


A Response To Dr. Chandra Muzaffar On His Article 
On The Hanging Of The War Criminal Nizami In Bangladesh
By Students of Dhaka University

http://www.countercurrents.org/sdu300516.htm

The response by Dr. Chandra Muzaffar on 19th May, 2016 to our comment on his article “The Hanging of Nizami and the Grip on Political Power” has been very insightful! However we could not but resist from publishing a formal response; it seemed to be high time for the response especially taking into account recent events


‘Achche Din’ For Hatemongers 
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat300516.htm

The war in India is open and unambiguous. It will be a war between the Manuwadi forces and all those who do not believe in it. So, a coalition is the need of the hour. People will respond. Bihar responded to the call and Uttar Pradesh goes to poll next year and it will probably decide the fate of India. If the Dalit Bahujan forces failed to unite and organize themselves, you will only find trolls of hate stronger and more intimidating


Statement of Solidarity With Kancha Ilaiah
By Concerned Citizens

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc300516.htm

This is a statement in support of scholar-activist Prof Kancha Ilaiah, who is under attack from a number of Hindutva organizations and against whom the Hyderabad police recently registered a case for ‘hurting religious sentiments’. The tendency to resort to police cases, in order to stifle any criticism of Hindutva and the regime has assumed menacing proportions, against which we stand firmly with Kancha Ilaiah


Review: “The Secret Chord” By Geraldine Brooks. Palestinian Genocide 
By Israelites In 1000BC And By Zionists Today
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya300516.htm

The Secret Chord is an historical novel by Geraldine Brooks, an Australian convert to Judaism and a Zionist assertedly loathing the ongoing Occupation but opposing BDS against democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel. The Secret Chord is a work of faction (fiction based on fact) that is based on the assertedly factual Biblical account of the life of a genocidal mass murderer and racist psychopath King David whose Star adorns the flag of genocidal Apartheid Israel. This novel is implicitly Zionist and like Zionism is based on egregious falsehoods – there is no non-Biblical evidence for the Hebrew Exodus from Egypt, an Empire of David and Solomon or mass Jewish Exile from Palestine, and almost no evidence for the very existence of King David