CounterCurrents: America’s Advancing Empire: Putsch, Pillage And Duplicity, The Climate Of Change And The Dangers Of Stasis, et al

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Denouncing Crimea Referendum, US And EU Step Up Pressure On Russia
By Johannes Stern

http://www.countercurrents.org/stern110314.htm

In the lead-up to the referendum on the status of Crimea scheduled for March 16, Washington and its European allies are stepping up diplomatic and military pressure on Russia. On Monday, US ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt declared that the United States would not recognize the results of the “so-called referendum” and threatened further steps against Russia. He said Washington was “not prepared to recognize any result of the referendum,” as it regards Crimea “as an integral part of Ukraine.” He accused Russia of trying to change the status of Crimea “under the barrel of a gun.”


America’s Advancing Empire: Putsch, Pillage And Duplicity
By Prof. James Petras

http://www.countercurrents.org/petras110314.htm

The Obama regime, in coordination with its allies and proxies, has re-launched a virulent world-wide campaign to destroy independent governments, encircle and ultimately, undermine global competitors, and establish a new US – EU centered world order. We will proceed by identifying the recent ‘cycles’ of US empire-building; the advances and retreats; the methods and strategies; the results and perspectives. Our main focus is on the imperial dynamics driving the US toward greater military confrontations, up to and including conditions which can lead to a world war


Who Is In Charge Of The Madhouse? Escape Of The Cold War Warriors
By Dan Lieberman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lieberman110314.htm

If comments by U.S. government officials and media actors represent thoughts that guide U.S. policy toward Ukraine, then its time to ask: "Who is in charge of this madhouse?"


The Climate Of Change And The Dangers Of Stasis
By Rebecca Solnit

http://www.countercurrents.org/solnit110314.htm

During 9/11, survival meant evacuating the south tower of the World Trade Center. In 2011, survival on the northeast coast of Japan meant going uphill or far inland. Our climate crisis requires us to evacuate our normal ways of doing things. That will not always be cheap or easy, but divestment can be done now with no loss, even possibly with an upside, say many financial analysts. In any case, it’s the only honorable and sane thing to do -- for the young who will be alive in 2064, for the beauty and complexity of the world we have been given, including all the other living things on it, for the sake of the people who are already suffering and will suffer more because of the disruption of the elegant system that is the Earth we inherited


Postcard From The End Of America : Chicago
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh110314.htm

At the corner of Western and Chicago, there was a man of about 40-years-old walking with a cardboard sign in the middle of the street, between cars. Increasingly common across America , this sight will be ubiquitous soon enough. I got close enough to read, “PLEASE SPARE SOME CHANGE?!? HOMELESS, HUNGRY, BROKE & COLD.”


Kissingerian Realpolitik And The Crimean Crisis
By Nilantha Ilanguamuwa

http://www.countercurrents.org/nilantha110314.htm

Mr. Henry Kissinger , a man who is responsible for the millions of lives and assassination plots against several statesmen across the globe has sent advise from his retirement bed, about what to do and how to deal with the crisis that erupted in Ukraine over Crimea. The deadly crisis has claimed hundreds of lives so far, and caused hundred thousand refugees. Writing to the Washington Post, last week, once again Kissingerian realpolitik tried to play around the US foreign policy which is based on intervention and destruction for profit making while keeping democracy as the pretext


Bourgeois State Is Dismantling Bourgeois Democracy, Reveals Snowden
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury110314.htm

Edward Snowden explains working of the NSA, the global surveillance system the US operates, and the GCHQ of the UK, ally of the Empire: It’s dangerous. Mass surveillance violates our rights, risks our safety, and threatens our way of life


Is It The Best or The Worst of Times for Women in India?
By Shobha Shukla

http://www.countercurrents.org/shukla110314.htm

International Women's Day (8 March) which was first celebrated in 1911 is a global day honouring the work of the Suffragettes, celebrating economic, political and social achievements of women past and present and reminding us of the grim inequities that still need to be redressed. Of course we have made the roses grow in the dreary desert of gender inequality and can rightfully savour their aroma, but there are bleeding pricks of thorns too whose edges we need to blunt


Muzaffarnagar Diaries: From The Killing Fields Of Phugana
By V. Arun Kumar

http://www.countercurrents.org/akumar110314.htm

The riot survivors are not sure whether or not they will get any justice, but only thing they are sure is that if they die today at least their body will cremated and not destroyed, which happened to many who vanished into thin air without any traces


RSS And Murder Of Mahatma Gandhi: What Do Contemporary Documents Tell?
By Shamsul Islam

http://www.countercurrents.org/islam110314.htm

Hindu Mahasabha and RSS were jointly responsible for the murder of Father of Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, this fact was further corroborated by Sardar Patel in a letter to a prominent leader of Hindu Mahasabha, Syama Prasad Mookerjee on July 18, 1948