CounterCurrents: Ukraine’s Uprising Against NATO, Neoliberals And Oligarchs

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The Escalating US War In Iraq And Syria
By Peter Symonds

http://www.countercurrents.org/symonds280914.htm

The real scope and purpose of Washington’s escalating war in the Middle East is rapidly coming into relief as the Pentagon boosts its military forces in Iraq, more European allies commit warplanes and the media drumbeat grows for the US to directly target the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad


Cameron Leads Britain Into War Again
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter280914A.htm

The UK parliament has voted in favour of British involvement in air strikes on Syria and Iraq. On Saturday 27 September, RAF Tornado jets returned from the first bombing raids on the Islamic State


Syria, The Latest Crusade
By Andre Vltchek

http://www.countercurrents.org/vltchek280914.htm

In this surreal and post-modern ‘war’, the only victims will be the people of the Middle East, most likely civilians. Their lives will be risked by those who are sitting, in safety, on their destroyers and in control rooms, hundreds and thousands of miles away, drinking coffee and cracking jokes


Obama And The ISIS
By Steve Breyman

http://www.countercurrents.org/breyman280914.htm

Every national peace group (large and small, new and old, religious and secular) opposes Barack Obama's war against ISIS in Iraq , and its recent extension to Syria . Their opposition extends to Obama's Congress-sanctioned arming of "moderate" Syrian rebels (for which legislators found half a billion dollars). The anti-war movement's antagonism is sturdy and reasoned. It's based on irrefutable historical, political, economic and cultural analysis focused on the past thirteen years of bloody, wasteful, failed war on Afghanistan and Iraq , Pakistan and Yemen , Libya and Somalia


Ukraine’s Uprising Against NATO, Neoliberals And Oligarchs – An Interview With Boris Kagarlitsky
Interview by Feyzi Ismail with Boris Kagarlitsky

http://www.countercurrents.org/kagarlitsky280914.htm

A revealing interview on what is really happening on the ground in Ukraine


The Conquest Of Europe
By John Chuckman

http://www.countercurrents.org/chuckman280914.htm

Russia’s President Putin is reported to have said in a conversation a while back that he could be in Kiev in two weeks. In our press, this was reported as yet more evidence of aggressive intentions, but, given even a moment’s thought, that is a patently false interpretation. It is also further evidence, as if more were needed, of the level of desperation American propaganda around events in Ukraine has reached. It is almost as though America’s intelligence/news media alliance started mimicking the almost forgotten Soviet apparatchiks of decades ago


The United Nations Climate Summit
By John Scales Avery

http://www.countercurrents.org/avery280914.htm

Throughout the world, people of all countries need to act with urgency to switch to an economy that aims at sustainability rather than endless consumption and growth, an economy based on renewable energy rather than fossil fuels, an economy devoted to life rather than to profits


From A Competitive-Capitalist-Growth-Economy To An Eco-Economy
By Lionel Anet

http://www.countercurrents.org/anet280914.htm

We must go from the present system to an Eco-economy that functions as a part of the ecosystem with its people interacting in a cooperative way. An eco-economy would indicate what we can or what we mustn’t do. How people functioned within those parameters is a political problem, which can be easily solved with accurate information and a population whose education is centred on understanding rather than just knowing by being indoctrinated. The big problem is how to go from present system to an eco-economy, which requires a different attitude and a way of thinking


Kashmir Floods: And It Finally Arrived
By Abdul Majid Zargar

http://www.countercurrents.org/zargar280914.htm

Kashmir has been devastated by raging floods. While the human toll is yet to be ascertained, the over-all loss to property, infrastructure & business is estimated to be one lakh crores of Rupees. Our ruling class has lost no time in urging New-Delhi to declare the tragedy a national Calamity, but their tribe & administration cannot escape the blame of inviting this fury and in that respect it can legitimately be called a man-made calamity. While limiting this write-up to the floods submerging Srinagar City, following acts of commission & omission have become as contributory causes for the devastation


Of Media Hyped Military Rescue Operations In Kashmir Floods
By Ghulam Nabi

http://www.countercurrents.org/nabi280914.htm

Though it is a bit too late to write the account of the early rescue operation in Kashmir floods, but it is always relevant and important to tell a story—and importantly a hard fact story


Kashmir Floods: Pain, Anger And Hope Among The Affected People
By Tahir Ibn Manzoor

http://www.countercurrents.org/manzoor280914.htm

The losses to business, housing and infrastructure is in tens of thousands of crores. The volunteers, mostly the brave local heroes rescued thousands and now can be seen distributing food, medicines and drinking water to the affected people


Nakhwa Without Borders: Gaza And The End of ‘Arab Gallantry'
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/barooud280914.htm

On its own the Arabic word al-Nakhwa, means “gallantry.” Combined with the word “al-Arabiya” - “Arab gallantry” - the term becomes loaded with meanings, cultural and even political implications and subtext. But what is one to make of “Arab gallantry” during and after Israel's most brutal war on Gaza between 8 July and 26 August which killed 2,163 Palestinians and wounded over 11,000 more? Is this the end of Arab Nakhwa? Did it even ever exist?


New research: European Public's Health And Safety Sacrificed On The Altar Of Corporate Profit
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter280914.htm

A new report by the campaign/watchdog body Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) reveals huge conflicts of interests in the Scientific Committees under DG SANCO, the European Commission's department in charge of consumer issues


Bootcamp Workout: Bringing The War Home
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz280914.htm

When you’ve worked in gyms as long as I have, you become numb to the fitness-as-military-worship motif. For example: Bootcamps, civilian-military combines, Navy Seals this or that, and the ever-ubiquitous “Train Like a Soldier!” This approach not only normalizes the dangerous “soldier as hero” myth but also has the potential to turn something healthy like exercise into a dysfunctional obsession. With this in mind, I allowed myself to imagine what it would look like if I were asked to create a “realistic” Marine bootcamp fitness class and make sure my students ended up on the “winning side.”


America’s Ramped Up Nuclear Capability: Prelude To Another Cold War?
By Taj Hashmi

http://www.countercurrents.org/hashmi280914.htm

While people across the world for the last three years have been watching the unbelievable resurgence in state- and non-state-actor-sponsored violence and terror across the Arab World – Libya, Egypt, Syria, Gaza, and of late, Iraq – the Obama Administration’s recent decision to ramp up its nuclear capability has almost remained unnoticed to most analysts, let alone the common people. Even if, very similar to what happened during the Cold War, America’s ramped up nuclear capability does not lead to a nuclear conflagration, this is going to signal further nuclear proliferation, arms race and a new cold war


An Open Letter to President Obama: Stop Preaching Peace To The World,
Even As You Support Terrorists And Wage Illegal Wars
By Feroze Mithiborwala

http://www.countercurrents.org/mithiborwala280914.htm

After having heard your words at the UN a few hours ago, I felt compelled to write this letter, compelled, to expose your lies & deceit. You, Mr. President, are a war-monger & an abettor of terror. You essentially lend a liberal face to the Trans-National Military Industrial Complex


Supreme Court Decision On Coal Scam Emphasizes Need Of More Vigilant Citizens
By Dr. Vivek Kumar Srivastava

http://www.countercurrents.org/srivastava280914.htm

Role of citizens is most important. Vigilance with intelligence is need of the hour. Cooperation from media and good judgments and rectification from the judiciary will seal the win for the people and the countr


Why The Dual Track Policy In Governance? An Open Letter To Modi ji
By George Abraham

http://www.countercurrents.org/abraham280914.htm

It appears that there is a continuance of the same two-pronged strategy by the Prime Minister who appears to stay above the fray of communal politics and dirty tricks but has quietly unleashed his surrogates to do whatever it takes to consolidate power and implement the Hindutva agenda that the RSS, the parent organization of BJP, has long advocated . The designation of Yogi Adityanath who is known for his virulent and vitriolic rhetoric against minorities, as the lead campaigner in UP for the just concluded election, is the latest in a series of examples of such a long-term strategy. However, the election results indeed proved that the people of UP and other states have rejected such politics of hate and polarization


Time For Ethical Investment In India: A Call To Divest From POSCO
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc280914.htm

We appeal to the readers of Counter Currents to listen to the appeal by the anti-POSCO movement which has been struggling for the last ten years in Odiasha to protect the lives of the local villagers as well as the environment. We appeal to all international readers and groups who listen to this voice, to do whatever you can to convince the share holders to divest from POSCO on this largest destructive development project which is taking shape in India. Remember, the future dictated by POSCO will be a pattern followed by all forces of globalization in India in future


Narmada - Sardar Sarovar Dam Can't Be Raised Further!
By Narmada Bachao Andolan

http://www.countercurrents.org/nba280914.htm

Not less than 40,000 to 45,000 families residing or not rehabilitated till date cry halt from the Narmada valley. While Government of Gujarat, blessed with Modi Government, is pulling together their junked material to the Dam site, adivasis, farmers, fishworkers...all warn the government not to violet law and impinge upon their right to life and livelihood!

CounterCurrents: “ISIS –An American-CIA-Mossad-Saudi Intel Covert Operation”, 32 Years After The Sabra-Shatila Massacre: Tension Mounts In Lebanon’s Teeming Camps….

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Kashmir’s Epic Floods: Anger Mounts As Hundreds Of Thousands Still Stranded
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc130914.htm

Authorities in Pakistan and India are struggling to cope with raging monsoon floods which have killed more than 460 people, displaced nearly a million people, and still threaten many more


Indian Army In Kashmir Floods: Demystifying The Truth
By Iqbal Sonaullah

http://www.countercurrents.org/sonaullah130914.htm

When people of Srinagar rejected any help from Indian army and stopped their choppers—a part of propagandist-rescue-operation—from landing, the rhetorical embellishment about Army’s role instantly perished. This is the truth about Kashmir: even in the state of absolute crisis India’s manipulating assistance is unwelcome


How The Monsoon Has Changed
By Sunita Narain

http://www.countercurrents.org/narain130914.htm

On the one hand, we are mismanaging our water resources, intensifying floods and droughts. On the other hand, climate change is beginning to make the country even more vulnerable, because of the increased frequency of extreme weather events


“ISIS –An American-CIA-Mossad-Saudi Intel Covert Operation”
By Feroze Mithiborwala

http://www.countercurrents.org/mithiborwala130914.htm

In terms of the rise of the ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq & Syria) the question that we must ask ourselves is that, is it possible for a terrorist organization to grow as powerful as on view, without the backing of certain nations & intelligence agencies? This is precisely what we will seek to achieve


Islamic State And The American Way Of War: The New Enemy Creation Process
By Steve Breyman

http://www.countercurrents.org/breyman130914.htm

Propagating an endless steam of new enemies transforms war into a permanent enterprise that generates trillions in debt, billions in profits, and millions of security clearances. New bureaucracies are built. Old ones are strengthened and expanded. Militarization transforms formerly civilian police forces and once quiet international borders


Say ‘No’ To War And Media Propaganda
By Mairead Maguire

http://www.countercurrents.org/maguire130914.htm

While the United States, United Kingdom and NATO are pushing for war with Russia, it behoves people and their governments around the world to take a clear stand for peace and against violence and war, no matter where it comes from.We are at a dangerous point in our history of the human family and it would be the greatest of tragedies for ourselves and our children if we simply allowed the war profiteers to take us into a third world war, resulting in the death of untold millions of people


Obama Iraq War And Obama Syrian War Will Both Involve US Alliance In 12 Types Of War Crimes
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya130914.htm

President Barack Obama has announced the Obama Iraq War, the Obama Syrian War and indeed an explicitly adumbrated Obama War on Indigenous Muslim rebels “wherever they are”. These Obama wars will involve commission of war crimes in 12 technical areas by US state terrorism and US Alliance state terrorism


Obama Takes Hypocrisy To New High Levels
By Alan Hart

http://www.countercurrents.org/hart130914.htm

So in my view THE question is this. Is there anything that could be done to change the dynamics of the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel in order to improve the prospects for America taking the lead in calling Israel to account for its defiance of international law and crimes?


ISIS And Israel Allies Against A Palestinian State
By Jonathan Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook130914A.htm

The recent New York Times advertisement and Netanyahu’s depiction of Hamas and ISIS, or Islamic State, as “branches of the same poisonous tree” is a travesty of the truth


Losing The Plot: Israel's Premier To Face New Gaza Reality
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud130914.htm

Netanyahu’s war-turned-genocide in Gaza has backfired badly - his strategy has helped resurrect Hamas, the very movement he tried desperately to crush


Let Us See Through Our Victims’ Eyes
By William A. Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook130914.htm

By acting against the Constitution the President, in like manner, acts contrary to the will and the dictates of the people, and consequently must and should be brought to trial. Indeed, as Robertson points out “The charges against Milosevic at the Hague convey the same idea—the responsibility of the commander for all the natural and probable consequences of his command.” What alternative does the American citizen have then to take back their rights through the International Courts by bringing their own leaders before the law as Cooke did the King in 1649


32 Years After The Sabra-Shatila Massacre: Tension Mounts In Lebanon’s Teeming Camps….
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb130914.htm

They are beginning to arrive at Shatila Palestinian camp in Beirut this weekend. “They” being people of good will from around the world, many of whom annually visit Martyr’s Square in Shatila as well as some of Lebanon’s 11 other Palestinian Refugee Camps. It is the 32nd anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, and commemorative events are scheduled all next week


Warning To War Supporters
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson130914.htm

I know you mean well. I know you think you've found a bargain that nobody else noticed hidden in a back corner of the used car lot. Let me warn you: it's a clunker. Here, I'll list the defects. You can have your own mechanic check them out


Bangladesh On A Slippery Slope
By Fazal M. Kamal

http://www.countercurrents.org/kamal130914.htm

While the world is watching with intense trepidation developments in what are known as hotspots around the globe---i.e. Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Palestine-Israel---a major catastrophic setting is being created in a country that, unfortunately, is more often in the news for all the wrong reasons. Especially after the non-election earlier this year the ruling party in Bangladesh has evidently embarked on an obviously well-thought-out project of enacting laws that will build a state structure which will gift the administration the full freedom to ensure that its decisions cannot be questioned on any ground, thereby assuring itself of comprehensive control over all the tentacles of the state


Scottish Independence Conference In london: When Getting Booed
By The Neo-Colonial Left Is Not A Bad Thing, But A Good Thing
By Sukant Chandan

http://www.countercurrents.org/chandan130914.htm

Neo-colonial contradictions amongst the Scottish Independence socialists, neo-colonial contradictions of the british and western white left


US - UK Genocide Against Iraq 1990-2012 Killed 3.3 Million ,
Including 750,000 Children Says Prof. Francis Boyle
By Sherwood Ross

http://www.countercurrents.org/ross130914.htm

Approximately 3.3 million Iraqis, including 750,000 children, were “exterminated” by economic sanctions and/or illegal wars conducted by the U.S. and Great Britain between 1990 and 2012, an eminent international legal authority says


Ecological Disaster At Polavaram
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat130914.htm

There are no clear estimates available at the moment but the number of people going to be drowned or displaced by dam under construction across the Godavari River would be nearly half a million if some activists are to be believed. The submergence area is not just in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana but also Odisha and Chhattishgarh but according to government’s own assessment it will be catastrophic


1120th Day Of Struggle Against Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant
By The Women of Idinthakarai

http://www.countercurrents.org/wi130914.htm

We invite you to visit us and be with us. We request you to share our dreams and fears. We still do not get adequate safe drinking water, we still do not have good transportation facilities, a suitable hospital or a good road- nothing has changed for us, except that fear has increased. If establishing fear and anxiety in the minds of common people like us is the talisman of development, then that alone has been achieved ever since KKNPP became “operational”


Hand over data for surveillance or face fine $250,000 a day: US threatened Yahoo
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc130914A.htm

Citing court documents news media including AFP, The Washington Post and BBC said in reports: US authorities threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it failed to comply with a secret surveillance program requiring it to hand over user data in the name of national security


Knowing Is One Thing; Doing Is Another Matter...
By Chandi Sinnathurai

http://www.countercurrents.org/sinnathurai130914.htm

The world stood and watched simply mouthing platitudes. Even today, nothing is done to the Tamils – the plight of the poor has worsened in spite of the economic upturn in Sri Lanka