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Reoccupy The World: A Global Campaign Initiated
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury050414.htm

Reoccupy the world – an initiative expected to gradually spread around the globe – has begun on April 4, 2014. It’s hoped that the campaign will ignite a global spring for change in future


US Secretly Built “Cuban Twitter” To Topple Cuban Government By Stirring Unrest
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc050414.htm

The United States engineered a text messaging network, a “Cuban Twitter”, to spread unrest in the communist country and bring down the Castro government. The communications network was built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks


Witnessing Collateral Murder; The Conscience Of Chelsea Manning
By Nozomi Hayase

http://www.countercurrents.org/hayase050414.htm

Four years have passed since WikiLeaks' sensational release of the classified US military video titled Collateral Murder. On April 5 2010, the raw footage was published depicting airstrikes by a US Army helicopter gunship in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad


Socrates Rebukes The NSA
By Gary Corseri

http://www.countercurrents.org/corseri050414.htm

Esteemed gentlemen of Athens, colleagues, friends, and less-than-friends. I thank you for this opportunity to speak in my defense against the charges brought against me by the Network of Spies of Athens, our NSA. You want, I believe, something of an apologia. And I shall offer nothing less


Australia – Still Yearning For A Dignified Way To Remember The Human Waste At Gelibolu (Gallipoli) (PDF)
By George Venturini

http://www.countercurrents.org/venturini050414.pdf

During the next four years the Australian Government will spend AU$ 325 million to celebrate the first world war, opening with the 'glorious defeat' at Gallipoli, and going on with other wars fought overseas under a 'foreign' flag. All wars will be celebrated. There will be dawn services, marches, children in miniature uniforms, and exceptional drinking. In a triumph of induced ignorance, history will be 'militarised'. 'Events' will be marketed and business will be booming. Alcoholic consumption 'spikes' on Anzac Day, with the ensuing public and domestic violence. Yet, a clear head is needed to remember anything


The Future We Want: The City We Need Is A Human Rights City!
By People's Movement for Human Rights Learning

http://www.countercurrents.org/pdhre050414.htm

Given that two billion people live in cities today and that four billion people will live in cities in 15 to 20 years, a new urban paradigm is needed to ensure that urban dwellers know and own the support systems to live with one another in ways that reflect their hopes expectations for economic and social justice and the moral values they share in today's fast changing world. The future we want is one in which women and men design, plan, build and manage their cities to make them sustainable and to contribute to harmonious development


The Struggle For Justice And Freedom Cannot Be Determined By Temporary Setbacks
An Interview With Rev. S. J. Emmanuel By Nilantha Ilangamuwa

http://www.countercurrents.org/ilangamuwa050414.htm

REVEREND Father S. J. Emmanuel is a priest, activist and the president of the Global Tamil Forum, an umbrella organisation for Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora groups.In this interview he extensively elaborates the situation in Sri Lanka from the geo-political perspectives with his personal experiences


An Open Letter To Indian Democracy
By Amit Chamaria

http://www.countercurrents.org/chamaria050414.htm

I know your ‘grand festival’ is around the corner and I wish you the best for it. Simultaneously, I offer my sincere apology for asking your attention at such a crunch time. But some unusual situations have emerged and I could not stop myself to make you known about it. It is my request that you must think over it after reading the letter. Some solution might come out of it. In addition to that, my conscience would also be satisfied