RSN: Anti-Syrian Muslim Refugee Rhetoric Mirrors Calls to Reject Jews During Nazi Era, In Mali and Rest of Africa, the US Military Fights a Hidden War

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Andy Borowitz | Carson Announces Detailed Plan to Google Syria 
 
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker 
Borowitz writes: "Republican Presidential candidate Ben Carson said that 'Google holds the key' to many questions about Syria. 'Where is it? Who lives there? How many square miles is it? These are all things that have to be pinned down,' he said." 
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US Releases Convicted Israeli Spy Jonathan Pollard After 30-Year Prison Term 
Bill Chappell, NPR 
Chappell writes: "After spending 30 years in prison for spying on the U.S. for Israel, Jonathan Pollard was released Friday. His attorney confirmed Friday morning that Pollard has been released, shortly after Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement welcoming his release." 
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Nick Turse | In Mali and Rest of Africa, the US Military Fights a Hidden War 
Nick Turse, The Intercept 
Turse writes: "What are the dozens of groups in Africa that the Pentagon is fighting with more special operations forces, more outposts, and more missions than ever? For the most part, the Pentagon won't say." 
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Anti-Syrian Muslim Refugee Rhetoric Mirrors Calls to Reject Jews During Nazi Era 
Lee Fang, The Intercept 
Fang writes: "During the 1930s and early 1940s, the United States resisted accepting large numbers of Jewish refugees escaping the Nazi terror sweeping Europe. Many rejected Jews simply because they weren't Christian. In recent days, similar arguments are being resurrected to reject Syrian refugees fleeing sectarian terrorists and civil war." 
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A Radical Idea: Democratic Control of the Police 
Brendan McQuade, Jacobin 
McQuade writes: "There's nothing progressive about community policing - it deepens criminalization and expands police power. What's needed instead is community control of policing." 
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More Mexicans Leave the US Than Arrive, Say It's Not Better 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "A large number of Mexicans don't see life in the U.S. as better or worse than in Mexico." 
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FDA Approves Genetically Modified Salmon for Human Consumption 
Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press 
Jalonick writes: "The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved genetically modified salmon, the first such altered animal allowed for human consumption in the United States." 
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CounterCurrents: GMOs, Agriculture And Independence: Hypnotic Trance In Delhi, Hiroshima Spring, Take-Aways From Iran Deal, Incongruities In The News

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Our Humanity Is Hanged In Installments: R.I.P Yakub Memon 
By Saswat Pattanayak

http://www.countercurrents.org/pattanayak300715.htm

Yakub Memon has been killed by the Indian State. And it is our humanity that is hanged in installments. It is not an Afzal Guru, or a Yakub Memon alone


Execution Of Yakub Memon: An Act Of Revenge or Justice? 
By Shamim Zakaria

http://www.countercurrents.org/zakaria300715.htm

Hanging Yakub Memon makes killers of us all. While the 1993 blasts or any unlawful killing is extremely lamentable, the state awarding capital punishment is simply another act of killing! The mere difference is this is under the legal frame work and is an organized killing; therefore we are bound to accept it. But, the process barely justifies the result, for a killing is a killing, be it legally or illegally!


GMOs, Agriculture And Independence: Hypnotic Trance In Delhi 
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter300715.htm

We are about to enter August. And that's a special month in India. Each year, on the 15th, the country commemorates the anniversary of independence from Britain. To mark the occasion, official public celebrations take place in Delhi with flag waving and fly-pasts, and the corporate media is awash with patriotic sentiments. Behind the scenes, however, agriculture, the very heart and soul of the nation, will continue to be restructured for the benefit of foreign interests, raising the question: just where does the notion independence sit with such a policy?


No Warlords Need Apply, --A Call For Credible Peacemaking In Afghanistan 
By Kathy Kelly & Buddy Bell

http://www.countercurrents.org/kelly300715.htm

A second round of peace talks between Afghan government officials and Taliban representatives, expected to begin before the end of July, 2015, suggests that some parties to the fighting want to declare a cease fire. But even in the short time since the first round on July 7th, fighting has intensified. The Taliban, the Afghan government forces, various militias and the U.S. have ramped up attacks, across Afghanistan


Hiroshima Spring 
By Gary Corseri

http://www.countercurrents.org/corseri300715.htm

Author's Note: UNESCO declared 1979 “The International Year of the Child.” Fatefully, I found myself in Hiroshima that spring, surrounded by ghosts…. On the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of civilians in a prostrate, defeated Japan—the greatest act of “terrorism” in history, not to end a war, as has been told, but to establish imperial hegemony-- let us look around our world today and consider-- to what end?


Is Zimbabwe Ready For America’s Global Shift On Foreign Policy? 
By Tsungai Chipato

http://www.countercurrents.org/chipato300715.htm

With both Iran and Cuba entering historic agreements in 2015; it is now official that geopolitics is back and in the forefront of global affairs. President Obama’s administration soon will be remembered for when a shift in global foreign policy for the United States of America began in unison with its domestic policy shift, which is rare in American politics. For a country built on disagreement; this symbiosis is no small task and doesn't happen a lot, often occurring during traumatic events such as wars or great economic depressions


Incongruities In The News 
By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts300715.htm

Jonathan Pollard, a paid spy for Israel described by Michael D. Shear as “one of the country’s most notorious spies,” has been pardoned from his life sentence. It strikes me as hypocritical for the US government to sentence anyone to prison for spying when the government itself spies on everyone everywhere. All Americans including members of the House and Senate, congressional staff, military officers, foreign governments including the leaders of Washington’s closest allies, and foreign businesses are spied upon. No one is exempt from Washington’s spying


Take-Aways From Iran Deal 
By Kashoo Tawseef

http://www.countercurrents.org/tawseef300715.htm

If this deal is a success then that might give some credit to the nobel prize that Obama received even before doing anything for peace besides his efforts in the resumption of relation with Cuba will add to the legacy of Obama when he leaves the office as his second term is in its last phase. While as some are suggesting that US secretary of state, John Kerry and Iran’s foreign minister, Jawad Zarif deserve the Peace Prize as they stopped another war


Dulat’s Dulatti! 
By Mohammad Ashraf

http://www.countercurrents.org/ashraf300715.htm

Punjabi word “Dulatti” describes a very strong kick with hind legs given by a horse while drawing a cart when its driver whips the horse violently. This may sometimes even topple the cart! The way the disclosures about Kashmir’s leadership given in the book by Mr. Dulat, the former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) chief have been hyped up by the media, it is alleged that the intention is to topple not only the cart of the Kashmiri leadership but also discredit its entire society

RSN: Chicago Tops in Fatal Police Shootings Among Big US Cities, Dylann Roof Is Not a "Terrorist" - But Animal Rights Activists Who Free Minks From Slaughter Are, UN Gives US Flunking Grades on Privacy and Surveillance Rights

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Glenn Greenwald | Dylann Roof Is Not a "Terrorist" - But Animal Rights Activists Who Free Minks From Slaughter Are 
 
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept 
Greenwald writes: "The FBI on Friday announced the arrests in Oakland of two animal rights activists, Joseph Buddenberg and Nicole Kissane, and accused the pair of engaging in 'domestic terrorism.'" 
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Navy Probes Complaint of Cancer 'Cluster' Among Guantanamo Workers 
Al Jazeera America 
Excerpt: "Complaint says seven Gitmo employees developed cancer, and seeks evacuation and investigations; jet fuel dump suspected." 
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UN Gives US Flunking Grades on Privacy and Surveillance Rights 
Jenna McLaughlin, The Intercept 
McLaughlin writes: "The United States scores very low when it comes to protecting its citizens' privacy, according to a new United Nations Human Rights Committee review." 
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US Dentist Accused of Killing Cecil the Lion 'Upset' as Hunter Becomes Hunted 
Jessica Glenza, Ashifa Kassam and David Smith, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "As Zimbabwean police say he faces poaching charges, Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer faces furious criticism on social media." 
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Chicago Tops in Fatal Police Shootings Among Big US Cities 
Andrew Schroedter, Better Government Association 
Schroedter writes: "Chicago police have fatally shot 70 people over a five-year span, tops among departments in the largest U.S. cities. The Chicago victims were nearly all male. Most were black. More than half of the killings happened in six South Side police districts. 
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Jonathan Pollard, Spy for Israel, to Be Released in November 
Greg Miller and Spencer S. Hsu, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "Jonathan Pollard, a U.S. intelligence analyst who was convicted of spying for Israel in the 1980s and sentenced to life in prison, has been granted parole and will be released in November, according to his lawyers." 
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BP Reveals $6.3 Billion Quarterly Loss Owing to Deepwater Horizon Bill 
Graham Ruddick, Guardian UK 
Ruddick writes: "Extra charge of $10.8bn taken on by UK oil company follows $18.7bn legal settlement to cover US federal, state and local compensation claims." 
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