CounterCurrents: Israel Lights The Touchpaper At Al-Aqsa Again, Bombing Of Afghan Hospital Is A War Crime, Geographical Coordinates Provided To US Forces Used To Pin Point Attack On Afghan Hospital

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Bombing Of Afghan Hospital Is A War Crime 
By Kathy Kelly

http://www.countercurrents.org/kelly061015.htm

U.S./NATO forces carried out the airstrike at about 2AM on October 3rd. Doctors Without Borders had already notified the U.S., NATO and Afghan forces of their geographical coordinates to clarify that their compound, the size of a football field, was a hospital. When the first bombs hit, medical staff immediately phoned NATO headquarters to report the strike on its facility, and yet strikes continued, at 15 minute intervals, until 3:15 a.m., killing 22 people. 12 of the dead were medical staff; ten were patients, and three of the patients were children. At least 37 more people were injured. One survivor said that the first section of the hospital to be hit was the Intensive Care Unit


Geographical Coordinates Provided To US Forces 
Used To Pin Point Attack On Afghan Hospital 
By Thomas Riggins

http://www.countercurrents.org/riggins061015.htm

The U.N. and international community is rightly outraged since the U.S. was given the precise location of the hospital and its international protected status was well known. This information was provided to prevent any attack. Since the attack was carried out with unrelenting accuracy over a thirty minute period one suspects the information was used to pin point the target


US-Dominated Pacific Trade Pact Agreed 
By Mike Head

http://www.countercurrents.org/head061015.htm

After five days of marathon talks between trade ministers in Atlanta, the US administration of President Barack Obama finally succeeded at 5 a.m. on Monday, American eastern time, in securing agreement from 11 other Asia-Pacific governments for the adoption of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). It is an unprecedented trade and investment bloc


Parenting On The Brink: Wrestling With Fears Too Big To Name  
By Frida Berrigan

http://www.countercurrents.org/berrigan061015.htm

And then another thought comes to mind, the sort of thought that haunts the parents of this moment: When I'm 85, it will be 2059, and what will that look like? When my grandkids are my age now, it could be almost a new century. And what will our planet look like then? And I feel that little chill that must be increasingly commonplace among other parents of 2015


Israel Lights The Touchpaper At Al-Aqsa Again 
By Jonathan Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook061015.htm

Now the West Bank and Jerusalem are on fire again, as Palestinian youths clash with the same oppressors. Reports suggest soldiers killed one Palestinian youth and injured more than 100 others on Sunday alone. Talk of a third intifada grows louder by the day


Illegal Trade Contributes To Placing Cacti Among World’s 
Most Threatened Species – IUCN Red List 
By Marianne de Nazareth

http://www.countercurrents.org/nazareth061015.htm

Many gardeners across the world are fond of cactii, and several have rock gardens taking pride of place in their gardens. Infact because of this craze for the rare specimens of cacti, there are several species that are threatened, with being lost to us forever, and how many of us know that?


Mumbai's Malvani Shack Dwellers Evicted, Houses Demolished:
Still No Hope For Justice 
By Ghar Bachao Ghar Bano Andolan

http://www.countercurrents.org/gbga061015.htm

Informal settlement in Malvani no.8, Malad was demolished on 4th and 6th June this year in the name of protecting mangroves. In this forcible eviction more than 600 houses were demolished. The demolition was carried out by the Mangroves Cell of the Maharashtra Forest Department. Evicted slum dwellers had moved to the Bombay High Court in the hope of ‘justice’ but the Forest Department’s misleading submissions before the Court compelled the slum dwellers to withdraw case and now trying luck with all the documents in their possession with the concerned collector. On 1st October, the slum dwellers finally withdrew their case

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Charles Pierce, Esquire 
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AP Sues FBI Over Failure to Provide Records on Agents Posing as AP Reporters 
Michael Biesecker, Associated Press 
Biesecker writes: "The Associated Press sued the U.S. Department of Justice Thursday over the FBI's failure to provide public records related to the creation of a fake news story used to plant surveillance software on a suspect's computer." 
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Trevor Timm | Many Police Departments Spy on You Without Oversight. This Must End 
Trevor Timm, Guardian UK 
Timm writes: "Rather than be upfront about their surveillance methods to prosecutors, defendants and judges - like is required by law - they are purposefully letting serious alleged criminals go free, all to continue their blanket surveillance practices with minimal scrutiny." 
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People Are Still Living in FEMA's Toxic Katrina Trailers - And They Likely Have No Idea 
Heather Smith, Grist 
Smith writes: "As new trailers arrived, they brought hope: They were shiny and new, and most importantly, had never been buried under 12 feet of water. But when the people who were supposed to live in them opened the doors, many noted a strong chemical smell inside." 
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Israel Attacks Gaza Again, Claiming Hamas Launched Rocket 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Israel launched an airstrike on Gaza this Thursday, targeting a Hamas facility in response to a rocket Tel Aviv claims was launched by Hamas militants. Hamas denies it has launched any rockets since summer 2014, according to The Times of Israel." 
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Report: Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal Could Become the World's Third-Biggest 
Tim Craig, The Washington Post 
Craig writes: "A new report by two American think tanks asserts that Pakistan may be building 20 nuclear warheads annually and could have the world's third-largest nuclear stockpile within a decade." 
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Obama Calls Out Charles Koch For Standing in the Way of Renewable Energy 
Cole Mellino, EcoWatch 
Mellino writes: "The White House fired back at the Koch brothers yesterday after Charles Koch told Politico he was 'flabbergasted' by a recent attack on him and his brother by President Obama during a clean energy speech in Las Vegas, Nevada earlier this week." 
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