Sunday, July 19, 2015

CC News Letter 19 July - Climate Change And Our Historic Calling

CC News Letter 19 July - Climate Change And Our Historic Calling

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Binu Mathew
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Right Sector Threatens Violence Throughout Ukraine
By Andrea Peters

http://www.countercurrents.org/peters190715.htm

The Ukrainian neo-fascist militia, Right Sector, has announced it is preparing for "widescale actions" and the holding of an "emergency Congress" in Kiev, after a violent standoff with a rival gang and government authorities in western Ukraine last week. The primary fighting force behind the US-backed coup in February 2014 that led to the installation of the current regime in Kiev, Right Sector is now challenging the government of President Petro Poroshenko and demanding his resignation


Climate Change And Our Historic Calling
By Kathy Kelly

http://www.countercurrents.org/kelly190715.htm

This is an historic time, posing a perfect storm of challenges to the survival of our species, a storm we can't weather without "all hands on deck." Whoever arrives to work beside us, and however quickly they arrive, we have heavy burdens to share with many others already lifting as much as they can, some taking theirs up by choice, some burdened beyond endurance by greedy masters


Abdulazeez And Abdulaziz
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini190715.htm

The Tennessee shooter is quoted in his high school year book as saying that his name, Abdulazeez, "causes national security alerts". This is now literally true, but is dependent on circumstances. One attack by an Abdulazeez is saturating US headlines and receiving stark condemnation from the US government/oligarchy (Obama called it "heartbreaking"), while an incomparably worse attack by an incomparably worse Abdulaziz, raining down on thousands of people, including US Americans abandoned by their oligarchy, is met with media silence and extreme support and participation from Washington


The Iranian Nuclear Deal: Will America And Israel Scuttle It?
By G. Asgar Mitha

http://www.countercurrents.org/mitha190715.htm

After 20 months of negotiations in Lausanne and 18 days of meetings in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 (US, France, UK, Russia and China and Germany), a deal was finalized on July 14, 2015 to end the Iranian weapons nuclear program and lift sanctions. It is a deal which is win-win for the US and Iran and a path towards peace but does Israel and its far right Republican cohorts want it?


By Never Calling For Prosecution 'Left' Journalism Protects
Investments In Continuous Genocide
By Jay Janson

http://www.countercurrents.org/janson190715.htm

Western society's progressive writers leave their readers with the impression that citizens of the US and allied nations will never be prosecuted for their mega massive crimes against humanity. Legal and moral implications and future ramifications are discussed and contrasted with ongoing litigation and warnings Martin Luther King gave


What Former Chadian Dictator Hissène Habré's
July Trial in Senegal Means For His Victims
By Jacqueline Moudeina

http://www.countercurrents.org/moudeina190715.htm

On July 20 former president Hissène Habré, who ruled my native Chad from June 7, 1982 to December 1, 1990, goes on trial in Senegal, in a special tribunal set up by the African Union. Habré's reign was one of absolute terror. He created the Documentation and Security Directorate (DDS), which quickly developed into a machine of repression. According to the report of an investigation ordered by the Chadian government in 1992, 40,000 people were killed in the prisons of the DDS


Introduction To The Political And Social Structures Of
Democratic Autonomy In Rojava
By Zanyar Omrani

http://www.countercurrents.org/omrani190715.htm

What goes on in Syrian Kurdistan cannot be reduced to the war against the ISIS, and in order to understand the events in Rojava, one should look into the newly established institutions which under the title of the Movement for a Democratic Society (KCK, called MED-VET in Rojava) are organizing all the events and fields in Rojava. The lack of research and study resources and the narrow literature of field studies, has made it difficult to fully define and pathologically explain the democratic autonomous system of the three cantons. In this report, the aim is to give a general view of the necessity of the social and political institutions and how they really function


Farmers Seek Permission To Die In Order To Live
By Samar

http://www.countercurrents.org/samar190715.htm

Seven farmers have recently sought the governments' permission to end their lives. They have drafted applications and submitted them – as per protocol in any "normal" application – to the Office of the Tehsildar (local revenue officer) in Wardha District, Maharashtra


Stop Hounding Teesta Setalvad, Javed Anand And Others
Press Release

http://www.countercurrents.org/pr190615.htm

Demonstrations are being held in different cities in solidarity with Teesta Setalvad, Javed Anand and their colleagues. Intellectuals, academicians, students, artists, activists, teachers and ordinary people are coming out outraged by the blatant misuse of state machinery to hound and persecute a group of courageous human rights defenders


Chhattisgarh PUCL Condemns The Abduction And Killing Of Four Constables
By People's Union for Civil Liberties, Chhattisgarh

http://www.countercurrents.org/pucl190715.htm

The People's Union for Civil Liberties, Chhattisgarh condemns in no uncertain terms the abduction and killing of four constables belonging to the Chhattisgarh Auxiliary Force (erstwhile SPOs) attached to Police Station Bedre, district Bijapur by the Maoists

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