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US, Turkey At Odds Over Syria Intervention
By Patrick
Martin
http://www.countercurrents.org/martin101014.htmA
top-level US delegation arrived in Ankara Thursday for talks with Turkish
leaders amid a mounting crisis on the Syria-Turkey border, where Syrian Kurds
are besieged in the town of Kobani by thousands of fighters mobilized by Islamic
State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
Again The Peace Prize Not For Peace
By David Swanson
http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson101014.htmThe
2014 prize has been awarded to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay, which is
not a person but two people, and they have not worked for fraternity between
nations or the abolition or reduction of standing armies but for the rights of
children. If the peace prize is to be a prize for random good works, then there
is no reason not to give it to leading advocates for the rights of children.
This is a big step up from giving it to leading makers of war. But then what of
the prize for peace and the mission of ending war that Nobel included in his
will in fulfillment of a promise to Bertha von Suttner?
Off-duty Cop
Kills St. Louis Teenager
By Andre Damon
http://www.countercurrents.org/damon101014.htmOn
Wednesday, the day before the two-month anniversary of the police murder of
Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a St. Louis police officer shot and killed
yet another teenager who family members say was unarmed
Israel And
The G-Word: We Need A Better Word Than ‘Occupation’
By Jonathan
Cook
http://www.countercurrents.org/cook101014.htmOne day
doubtless, a historian will coin a word to describe Israel’s unique strategy of
incrementally destroying the Palestinian people. Sadly, by then it may be too
late to help the Palestinians
An Open Letter To The Prime Minister:
Stop The Dilution Of MGNREGA
By Concerned Citizens
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc101014.pdfWe are very
disturbed by impending moves of this government to undermine the Mahatma Gandhi
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and the support it provides to
crores of vulnerable rural families. We write this letter to seek your immediate
assurance that these retrograde, anti-poor and anti-labour measures will be
withdrawn, and that every attempt will be made by your government to implement
the MGNREGA in its true spirit
I Am For “New Democracy”: Varavara
Rao
An Interview With Aishik Chanda
http://www.countercurrents.org/chanda101014.htmVisiting
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai for a talk on “Raging war against
India: Deconstructing the notion of India”, revolutionary poet, Maoist ideologue
and journalist from Telangana, Varavara Rao spoke to TISS student Aishik Chanda
on the Maoist movement and the path ahead
'Forest, Earth, Water,
Sky': A Publication On The Status Of Adivasi Populations Of India
http://www.countercurrents.org/naa101014.htmOn the
occasion of ‘Columbus Day’ National Adivasi Alliance invite all of you to the
launch of the book “Forest, Earth, Water, Sky”, edited by Satya Sagar, writer /
activist. Impregnated with enormous official data and statistics it throws open
to the world, the socio-cultural and economic realities of the Adivasi
population of our country
