http://www.countercurrents.org/ Educate! Organize! Agitate! Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:51:57 GMT ListGarden Program 1.3.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.countercurrents.org/ai201213.htm Torture, flogging, and summary killings are rife in secret prisons run by the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), an armed group that controls large areas of northern Syria , said Amnesty International in a briefing published today. ISIS, which is linked to al-Qa’ida in Iraq, is an armed opposition group whose fighters, all Sunni Muslims, are drawn from many countries. They claim to advocate a strict form of Shari’a rule and use extreme force to impose it in areas that they control or where they are present Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:51:52 GMT http://www.countercurrents.org/engelhardt201213.htm USA is number one in obliterating Wedding Parties in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen.... And were a wedding party to be obliterated on a highway anywhere in America on the way to, say, a rehearsal dinner, whatever the cause, it would be a 24/7 tragedy. Our lives would be filled with news of it. Count on that Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:51:34 GMT http://www.countercurrents.org/rockstroh20123.htm According to a recent, exhaustive study commissioned by the US Department of Energy and headed by a scientific team from the U.S. navy, by the summer of 2015, the Arctic Ocean could be bereft of ice, a phenomenon that will engender devastating consequences for the earth's environment and every living creature on the planet Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:51:14 GMT http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb201213.htm Preparing for a tough next few months is what the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is doing these days and the UN Specialized Agency is working in the face of daunting odds. UNWRA was founded in 1949 and for more than 60 years it has been plagued by harassments, intimidation, and countless conspiracies to close it down waged by the international Zionist lobby increasingly trying to ‘put it out of its misery’ as Prime Minister Netanyahu recently demanded from the US Congress Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:50:56 GMT http://www.countercurrents.org/littlewood201213.htm Let us look the children of Gaza in the eye if we can. And if we can’t, as I could not, seize the moment to reflect on what it means to be (in)human during this holiday season Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:50:40 GMT http://www.countercurrents.org/lieberman201213.htm Despite their more compelling narrative, the Palestinians have been unable to successfully articulate their experiences or implement a powerful rebuttal to Israel's narrations, and Israel has prevailed in the war of narratives, a feat that defies the possible Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:50:20 GMT http://www.countercurrents.org/peebles201213.htm Vulnerable and easily exploited, the millions of women and children meeting the domestic needs of the economically better off, are victims of a global socio-economic system that has trapped hundreds of millions into poverty and continues to fuel stellar levels of inequality Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:50:04 GMT http://www.countercurrents.org/hopkins201213.htm Here Annie Leonard talks about citizen muscle, Glen Beck and what she's giving for Christmas this year Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:49:47 GMT http://www.countercurrents.org/riggins201213.htm This is a reply to Slavoj Zizek's article "Mandela's Socialist Failure" published online in The Stone (a New York Times maintained philosophy blog) on December 6, 2013. In eight pithy paragraphs Zizek endeavors to expose the real legacy of Mandela as opposed to his current "beatification." Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:49:29 GMT http://www.countercurrents.org/corseri201213.htm A peom celebrating the heroic struggle of Lynne Stewart who is imprisoned in Fort Worth prison, Texas and suffering from Cancer Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:49:12 GMT http://www.countercurrents.org/mujtaba201213.htm After fifty-two years of its inception, the Lokpal bill at last has become a law. Both the houses of the Parliament passed this controversial bill on December 18, 2013 amidst reservation from the Samajwadi party and some other ruling UPA allay Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:48:57 GMT http://www.countercurrents.org/sindhi201213.htm Lack of sensitivity of teachers towards the needs and classroom dealing of the young children in school is a serious problem Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:48:42 GMT http://www.countercurrents.org/mb201213.htm At India International Centre, New Delhi on 21st December 2013, 2 to 5 PM Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:48:24 GMT