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Constitution Directed By Gauhar Raza

http://www.countercurrents.org/raza040414.htm

The documentary looks at the blatant violations of the Constitution of India, particularly fundamental rights by the State and political parties. Calls for reclaiming the constitution.


Russia Warns NATO Over Military Build-Up In Eastern Europe
By Johannes Stern & Alex Lantier

http://www.countercurrents.org/lantier040414.htm

Russian officials formally protested NATO’s military build-up in Eastern Europe yesterday, warning that it is undermining treaties that have governed NATO-Russian relations since the dissolution of the USSR by the Stalinist bureaucracy in 1991


Rosenberg’s Rubbishing of BDS Misses The Point
By Alan Hart

http://www.countercurrents.org/hart040414.htm

The Jews, generally speaking, are the intellectual elite of the Western world. The Palestinians, generally speaking, are the intellectual elite of the Arab world. Together in peace and partnership in one state they could change the region for the better and, by so doing, give new hope and inspiration to the whole world. If that vision or something very like it was promoted by the BDS Movement, I think its critics and detractors would be exposed for the irrelevance they are


Big Questions = Big Patience (Occupy This Book Excerpt)
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz040414.htm

The 1% is killing the planet partly because these elite players have chosen to look no further into the future than the next fiscal quarter. Meanwhile, our spectacle culture exists to train and condition the 99% to maintain an equally narrow and lethal perspective


Religion - Thy Name Is Superstition
By Alan Johnstone

http://www.countercurrents.org/johnstone040414.htm

As scientific knowledge grows, God is relegated more and more to the background. The God of the modern capitalist is a different God than the slave owner's of ancient times. And the "role" that God plays in the explanation of the working of the material world has changed.The role of God has changed from that of belief in predestiny, to God as a personal God, from God as the first creator of the world and the "cause", to God as an afterthought (agnosticism) who has no control and the question of belief in him as irrelevant


Which Way Turkey? – A Personal Reflection
By Terry Cowan

http://www.countercurrents.org/cowan040414.htm

In examining my own growing disaffection with the new Turkey, I realize the problem lies more in our own expectations. We warmed to the western-oriented Istanbul, where supposedly casual Islam accommodated nicely with modernity. We were charmed by its exotica, and somehow expected its religion to be of the emasculated variety which would not jar our secular sensibilities. This now appears more wishful thinking than reality. As realists, we should face the Turkey that is, not the people we imagined them to be


Postcard From The End Of America : Columbus
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh040414.htm

America 's priapric dreams, however, are nothing to be chuckled at. Increasingly vehement and bloody, they're on course to blow up this Columbus experiment, if not the rest of the world also


The Two Main Lies In Modi’s Propaganda
By People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism

http://www.countercurrents.org/pads040414.htm

Not so long ago, Modi was described in the media as a mass murderer, a man who used his state machinery to track a young woman who was important only because she attracted him, a man who repeatedly mixed up names and historical facts in his public speeches. But now many of the media, clearly toeing the line of owners who care only for the profits that big capital can make, have suddenly begun to see only good in him. They have forgotten the damning things they said


Car Parking Is Becoming Murderous Business
By Vidyadhar Date

http://www.countercurrents.org/date040414.htm

Disputes over parking are now rampant everywhere.Some motorists are now killing each other .Four people were killed in Delhi in the last two months in disputes over car parking. One of them was a law student who was assaulted by other students inside the law college and elsewhere three members of a Mishra family were shot dead