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German, French Leaders Fly To Russia Amidst Warnings Of “Total War” Over Ukraine
By Alex Lantier

http://www.countercurrents.org/lantier060215.htm

As fighting between pro-Russian separatists and the NATO-backed Kiev regime escalates in east Ukraine, and as NATO foreign ministers announced a massive troop deployment throughout Eastern Europe, France and Germany have suddenly announced plans to travel to Russia to propose a new “peace plan.”


Chomsky And Kissinger Agree: Avoid The Historic Tragedy Of Ukraine
By Kevin Zeese

http://www.countercurrents.org/zeese060215.htm

The views of Henry Kissinger and Noam Chomsky on this conflict are quite similar, though it's difficult to find two more polar opposites regarding U.S. foreign policy. Indeed, Chomsky has been a long-time critic of Kissinger for the bombings in Southeast Asia and the various coups against democratic leaders that occurred during his tenure. Yet when it comes to Ukraine, Chomsky and Kissinger essentially agree with each other. They disagree with the more hawkish Obama administration and the even more extreme Sen. John McCain — who are both escalating the conflict in their own ways


US, Ukraine And Russia: What Went Wrong?
By Kim Scipes

http://www.countercurrents.org/scipes060215.htm

Two widely recognized authorities on big power politics and NATO recently gave a public talk on the current situation in the Ukraine at the Evanston (Illinois) Public Library. Organized by the Evanston Neighbors for Peace, John J. Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and Rick Rozoff, a long-time activist who maintains the "Stop NATO—Opposition to Global Militarism" web site , spent three hours recently trying to cut through the lies and obfuscation that the US public has been fed around the current developments in Ukraine


Ukraine: Hypermasculinity And World-Ending Weapons
By Winslow Myers

http://www.countercurrents.org/myers060215.htm

Escalating tensions in the Ukraine raise the concern that the “firebreak” between conventional and the tactical nuclear weapons potentially available to all parties in the conflict could be breached, with unforeseen consequences


A Tale Of Two Movies
By John Reuwer

http://www.countercurrents.org/reuwer060215.htm

As a student and teacher of nonviolent action, I was disheartened last week to wake up and read of the box office success of what I thought was yet another shoot-em-up action film, the American Sniper, while the same day noting that a film about my field, Selma, though successful, was not even in the same ballpark with the money. It made me wonder why, so I went to see them


The ‘Great War’ of Sinai: How To Lose A ‘War On Terror’
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud060215.htm

The Sinai Peninsula has moved from the margins of Egyptian body politic to the uncontested center, as Egypt’s strong man - President Abdul Fatah al-Sisi - finds himself greatly undercut by the rise of an insurgency that seems to be growing stronger with time


Activist Anger: Is Your Aim True?
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz060215.htm

What motivates any human -- especially one living in relative privilege -- to embrace the unpopular and challenging path of activism? Of course, there are many particular/specific reasons but I’ll posit that the underlying emotion is most often anger


Sustainability Is The Key To Beat Climate Change
By Marianne de Nazareth

http://www.countercurrents.org/nazareth060215.htm

What came out very strongly from the conference which had hundreds of businessmen present is that developing countries can still look at a development trajectory without having to compromise the planet by using fossil fuels. Green is the way to go and clearly it is a win- win situation for all


Writing The War On Terror: Language, Politics And Counter-Terrorism by Richard Jackson
A Book Review By Gola Traub

http://www.countercurrents.org/traub060215.htm

A prominent feature of the War on Terror is the set of vivacious terms and phrases coined and deployed by the US political elites. In this book Richard Jackson uses discourse analysis to show how these expressions are used to securitize - to describe, interpret and prioritize a potential danger or provocation as an existential threat


Behind Sangh Parivar’s Ghar Wapsi, The politics Of Power And Profit
By Ajaya Kumar Singh

http://www.countercurrents.org/singh060215.htm

A series of attacks and forced conversion of Christians are taking place in the Bastar region of Chattisgarh state of India. A few concerned citizens visited the region on a fact finding mission. This report is based on that visit


Indian Democracy At The Crossroads
By Ram Puniyani

http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani060215.htm

What is required is a multi pronged movement based on the rights and concerns of Dalits, women, workers, Adivasis and minorities in particular. We need to form alliances and platforms to coordinate our campaigns for the defence of our democratic rights. All those standing for democracy and secularism need to come together in solidarity. We have to hold hands and march together to protect our democracy. We need to work towards isolation of communal forces by pushing for alliance of non communal political formations


‘Adivasi Campaign’ Demands Rejection Of The Land Acquisition Ordinance, 2014
By Adivasi Campaign for Human Rights

http://www.countercurrents.org/achr060215.htm

The present BJP led National Democratic Alliance government introduced an ordinance on 31st December 2014 to amend the LARRA. The Ordinance set aside the five major safeguards – social impact assessment, mandatory consent of the affected people, provisions to safeguard food security of the communities, punishment to the government officials and returning of unutilised land to the original land owners. These amendments effectively reintroduced the Land Acquisition Act of 1894 and ought to be rejected for the following reasons


Seat Chodo Activist: Control By Any Means
By Arshie Qureshi

http://www.countercurrents.org/qureshi060215.htm

Since the choice of clothing should be utterly personal bearing in mind the setting, the dissent here has the potential of becoming the main arena of societal disharmony. Dressing up based on choice and not having to be shamed would represent a critical marker of social identity of the women for a human ceases to be so when he/she cannot chose and relaxing them from exercising their choice is freeing them from a larger responsibility