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Protests Across US Ahead Of Syria Vote In Congress: Prayer, Fasting, Vigils Across The Globe
By Countercurrents.org
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc080913.htm
Anti-war protesters gathered outside the White House on Saturday to voice their opposition to a US military strike in Syria, calling their picket line one that Congress shouldn't cross as it prepares to vote on the issue. Grass roots level anti-war protests have also been held in many other US cities. Pope Francis has made an impassioned appeal to avert a widening of Syria's conflict, urging world leaders to pull humanity out of a "spiral of sorrow and death"
Striking Russia Through Syria
By Linh Dinh
http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh080913.htm
A war on Syria , then, is an attack on Russia itself, and that's why Russian warships are patrolling the Mediterranean . Countering the American menace, Russia will certainly be no silent spectator, and to show support for Russia and Syria , a Chinese warship has also shown up, with more coming. Though Washington talks of a "warning shot across the bow" or "tailored strike," a quickie hit and run that won't distract too much from the exhilarating start of football season, World War III might just erupt, for we haven't been this close to universal calamity in half a century
This War Too Is A Lie
By David Swanson
http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson080913.htm
The deepest lie at the route of this drive for war is perhaps the lie that a nation can prepare for war, dumping its energies and resources into every possible plan for every conceivable war, and yet manage to avoid those wars unless they are forced upon it as a "last resort." This next dishonest, immoral, illegal, unpopular, murderous, atrocity-laden, uncontrollable, environment-destroying, rights-eroding, money-wasting war will come relentlessly, ineluctably, it will come . . . unless we compel our government to consider other possible courses of action, including that of actively working for peace through a posture of respect for others that would require a bit of truthfulness
Syria: Colonization Redux
By Rana Bose
http://www.countercurrents.org/bose080913.htm
As the world waits to see how Obama, the Butler in the White House, pulls off his cavort—let us remember that the entire Syria episode (irrespective of how these Arab nations have replaced one nasty dictator with another, one after the other) was scripted several years ago, not because there was a humanitarian crisis, but because the neocon-neoliberal entente had it on their colonial sights to rule this region by any means necessary
AIPAC, Syria And The Return Of The Golems
By William A. Cook
http://www.countercurrents.org/cook080913.htm
To understand AIPAC's press statement to the US Congress and the American people, we must understand what is not said: "urges" means "demands"; "protect America's national security interest" means "protect Israel's national security interests"; "dissuade" means "destroy"; "Syrian regime's further use of unconventional weapons" means "prevent by total destruction Syria's use of the weapons Israel uses against Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey and the Palestinian people"; "civilized world cannot tolerate the use of these barbaric weapons" means "Israel, which does use these barbaric weapons even against children as in the Christmas devastation of Gaza in 2008/9, calls itself civilized knowing the truth that it acts in a barbaric manner but doesn't want the world to think that is true."
Syria Expedition
By Farooque Chowdhury
http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury080913.htm
Should the legitimate international institutions be overlooked? Should international law be devalued? Should the Security Council be ignored? Should military intervention outside of UN process be carried out? Shall not that be an aggression? And, does democracy allow aggression? In democracy, people prevail. And, people are not aggressive
One Democratic State In Entire Historic Palestine – A Socialist Viewpoint
By Tikva Honig-Parnass
http://www.countercurrents.org/Parnass080913.pdf
The very struggle for a one-state solution constitutes a challenge against the imperialist order in Middle East of which the Zionist colonial state is its cornerstone. Hence as socialists, we cannot stay neutral to the issue of the resolution of the conflict. Joining the movement for one secular democratic state in Historic Palestine should be perceived as part and parcel of our struggle against US imperialism and the Zionist settler state of Israel and for socialism in the Middle East
The Other 9/11: How U.S. Interventions Evolve
By Mickey Z.
http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz080913.htm
Since September 11, 2001, there has been a marked increase in the comfort with which those in power openly discuss military interventions -- both current and pending. This shift is particularly obvious when examining the "other 9/11."
4 People Killed In Shopian: Protests In Kashmir
By JandkLive
http://www.countercurrents.org/j&klive080913.htm
Three of the slain youth have been identified to be as civilians,the identity of the fourth one is yet to be revealed by the police.However sources say that the fourth deceased is also a civilian, a labourer from Bihar. Three of the deceased have been identified as Tawseef Ahmad Bhat, 18, son of Gulam Muhammad Bhat, resident of Baba Mohallah Shopian, Muhammad Yousuf resident of Durpora, Zainpora (a labourer) and Tariq Ahmad Mir son of Ghulam Nabi Mir, a resident of Okay, Kulgam
Pakistan: Asif Ali Zardari Retires
By Riaz Ali Toori
http://www.countercurrents.org/toori080913.htm
Today Asif Ali Zardari is retiring from the post of President of Pakistan. The author argues that in the history of Pakistan, President Asif Ali Zardari's era should be written in golden words for his services for strengthening democracy, federation of Pakistan and the poor oppressed sections of Pakistani society
Unravelling The Jesus Of History
By Countercurrents.org
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc080913A.htm
Reza Aslan's "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth" is a biography of Jesus of Nazareth, an effort to unravel the Jesus of history. The picture that emerges is both fascinating and may be a little unsettling for the 'true' faithful Christians
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