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Obama Steps Up Drive To War Against Syria
By Peter Symonds
http://www.countercurrents.org/symonds030913.htm
While the majority of the American people oppose war on Syria, this finds no reflection within the political establishment. Leaders of both political parties in Congress have declared their backing for the administration's plans. As was the case a decade ago with the invasion of Iraq, the US Congress is preparing to rubberstamp an illegal war of aggression to prosecute the interests of American imperialism in the Middle East
Syria And America Exchange Messages As Both Peoples Breathe More Easily….For Now
By Franklin Lamb
http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb030913.htm
The morning following President Obama's announcement he would not bomb Syria immediately, the streets of Damascus were packed with shoppers and employees heading to their jobs. Several reasons for this were mentioned by my friend, Eyman. Some Damascenes who had fled their homes last week had returned, and a palpable sense of at least temporary relief pervades much of this capital city
Obama's Speech On Syria : Lies To Justify An Immoral War
By Larry Everest
http://www.countercurrents.org/everest030913.htm
Obama's speech was a move to impose a very warped, distorted, and false framework on discussion and debate over a U.S. attack on Syria . It situated a U.S. attack within a big lie about the benevolent role the U.S. has played and is playing in the world today. A U.S. attack on Syria would be another war crime in the long annals of U.S. war crimes. And, such an attack has the potential to spin out of control in unpredictable ways. Obama's speech was aimed at manufacturing public opinion within the U.S. for the war, but also at hammering out unity within the U.S. ruling class for an assault on Syria
US Diabolical Design For Syria
By Dr. Ismail Salami
http://www.countercurrents.org/salami030913.htm
In all this murky diabolical design is some degree of pleasant optimism: Washington no longer enjoys the support of other western countries in its military adventurism. It should act solo. The US is desperately alone now
Letter To A Syrian Friend
By Vijay Prashad
http://www.countercurrents.org/prashad030913.htm
Syria deserves better. But now the cord of Syrian nationalism is wrapped around the neck of the Syrian people, asphyxiating your dreams of sovereignty and freedom. A mediated peace alongside a process for genuine democratization guaranteed by your neighboring states would strengthen the chances for the renewal of your national ambitions. Anything else will simply lead to the destruction of your country, its history, and its future
Iran Has Resisted The World's Most Powerful Forces
For Three Decades: American Pastor Dr. Randy Short
Interview by Kourosh Ziabari
http://www.countercurrents.org/ziabari030913.htm
American pastor, historian and human rights activist Dr. Randy Short believes that the military expeditions of the United States and other imperial powers in the world have a common ultimate goal, that is, to exploit the vast energy resources of the oil-rich Middle East countries and bring independent nations such as Iran under their dominance and control
Tamils Stand With Rojava Kurds And Condemn Ethnic Cleansing By Islamists
By Karthick RM
http://www.countercurrents.org/karthick030913.htm
We received the news of the horrible ethnic cleansing of Kurdish civilians in Rojava with great anguish. It is reported that Islamist thugs affiliated with the al-Qaeda linked al-Nusra front carried out this brutal massacre in Rojava/Western Kurdistan, located in Northern Syria, over the last few days. It is also reported that civilians were butchered inside their homes, women and children were raped, and that there were also beheadings
Once Upon A Time
By John Spritzler
http://www.countercurrents.org/spritzler030913.htm
Once upon a time there was a country ruled by a small number of rich and evil men and women. The rulers led the country into one evil war after another. To get The People of the country to go along with the wars, the rulers told them Big Lies. Some people believed the lies and some didn't. But whether they believed the lies or not didn't matter very much because The People were not in power, only the evil rulers were
Delusional Thinking In The Age Of The Single Superpower
By Tom Engelhardt
http://www.countercurrents.org/engelhardt030913.htm
Such a world should be fantastical enough for the wildest sort of dystopian fiction, for perhaps a novel titled 2014. What, after all, are we to make of a planet with a single superpower that lacks genuine enemies of any significance and that, to all appearances, has nonetheless been fighting a permanent global war with... well, itself -- and appears to be losing?
The Necessity Of Speaking
By Rakhshan Rizwan
http://www.countercurrents.org/rizwan030913.htm
I know that even poetry is not apolitical, nothing is. That, this carefully balanced world of controlled conversations and ritualistic avoidance is held in place by silence. And silence is political. It is where injustice festers, where genocide sows its poisonous seeds and where the laws of race, class, and ethnicity are laid out. We must all step into the whirling vortex of 'noise' and let it swallow us whole. We must speak
A Tree Friend For Jaseera And Her Children Fighting Sand Mining In Coastal Kerala
By Anitha S
http://www.countercurrents.org/anithas030913.htm
I am Rizwana. I am 13 years old. Me, my sister Shifana and baby brother Mohammed have been here in front of the Trivandrum Secretariat along with our mother Jaseera for nearly a month now. I am sure you are wondering why. It is because our home and the sea shore of the village Madayi in Kannur District is in real danger
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