Fwd: CC News Letter 22 August - Syria Chemical Warfare Claims Aim To Provoke Western Intervention

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 Syria Chemical Warfare Claims Aim To Provoke Western Intervention
 By Bill Van Auken

http://www.countercurrents.org/auken220813.htm

The unsubstantiated charges that the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad carried out a chemical weapons attack outside Damascus killing large numbers of civilians have all the hallmarks of a staged provocation aimed at provoking Western intervention


Syria Gas Attack Story Has Whiff Of Saudi War Propaganda
 By William Engdahl

http://www.countercurrents.org/engdahl220813.htm

The reports of massive chemical attacks in Syria might become the "red line" for the US for active military intervention. But even rudimentary analysis of the story shows it is too early to believe its credibility


#FreeChelsea: Outpouring Of Support Follows Manning Announcement
 By Jon Queally

http://www.countercurrents.org/queally220813.htm

Support for Bradley Manning continued to grow on Thursday following a statement read by Manning's lawyer on the TODAY show announcing that going forward the whistleblower, sentenced to 35 years in prison on Wednesday, would like to be regarded as a woman


Sometimes You Have To Pay A Heavy Price To Live In A Free Society
 By Bradley Manning

http://www.countercurrents.org/manning220813.htm

The following is a transcript of the statement made by Pfc. Bradley Manning as read by David Coombs at a press conference on Wednesday after Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison


Fukushima Follows The Ghost Of Chernobyl
 By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc220813.htm

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster spread significant radioactive contamination over more than 3,500 square miles of the Japanese mainland in the spring of 2011. Now several recently published studies of Chernobyl, directed by Timothy Mousseau of the University of South Carolina and Anders Møller of the Université Paris-Sud, are bringing a new focus on just how extensive the long-term effects on Japanese wildlife might be


Leadership Concerning The Commons
 By Omar Rashid Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury220813.htm

Protecting the commons is a part of the historic struggle raging under the social surface between contentious classes. The effective leadership to organize the people to claim the commons must develop from the ranks of the people. A leadership founded on the bases of the classes that will play historically progressive role in upholding people's cause only can be justified to have the people's trust. And only then can the commons be claimed successfully by the people


Rabaa Al-Adawiyah And The End Of Secular Liberalism
 By Shaheen Mohideen

http://www.countercurrents.org/mohideen220813.htm

Leading to the final days of the sit-in at Rabaa Al-Adawiya, I came across a Facebook post by eminent American intellectual, political scientist and author of the book 'What Gandhi Says About Non-violence, Resistance and Courage" among many others, Dr Norman Finkelstein; his honest observation being "Are sustained Muslim Brotherhood protests despite murderous provocation the single greatest example and test in history of Gandhian non-violent resistance?"


Modi Phenomenon: An Attack On Indian Democracy
 By Ram Puniyani

http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani220813.htm

Ram Puniyani was a professor in biomedical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and took voluntary retirement in December 2004 to work full time for communal harmony in India. He is involved with human rights activities from last two decades.He is associated with various secular and democratic initiatives like All India Secular Forum, Center for Study of Society and Secularism and ANHAD


As Pastor Terry Jones Prepares To Burn Quran US Muslims Appeal For Peace
 By Mike Ghouse

http://www.countercurrents.org/ghouse220813.htm

We as Muslims plan to respond to pastor Terry Jones' planned burning of 3000 copies of Quran on September 11, 2013 in positive terms