Articles by Counter Currents
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Animal Welfare: Seeing the Forest for the Denizens
Brian Czech – Counter Currents,
24 Nov 2014
Yet if we are serious about animal welfare, we have to get beyond the mere adoration of hedgehogs and hippos. We have to face up to the big-picture, systematic erosion of wild animal welfare. It’s all around us and getting worse by the day, and our public policies precipitate it. The most prevalent source of animal suffering is habitat destruction. Habitat includes food, water, cover, and space.
→ read full articleKilled Beaten Raped: Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia
Graham Peebles – Counter Currents,
9 Dec 2013
Employers confiscate passports, money and mobile phones of new arrivals; workers who want to change jobs or leave the country must seek their employer’s consent who universally refuse to give it. A “sub-contracting” scheme is also in operation with employers selling workers on.
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William T. Hathaway – Counter Currents,
21 Oct 2013
Where does it come from? The Norwegian peace researcher Johan Galtung denies that human nature condemns us to violence; instead he gives another explanation of its etiology based on three interacting forces: structural, cultural, and direct.
→ read full articleIs Homosexuality Really An Import?
Devika Mittal – Counter Currents,
21 Oct 2013
The Gulf nations are planning to conduct “gay tests” for foreign tourists. It is claimed that the test will “recognise” gays and transgenders who will be then denied entry. This will be applicable in all the GCC or Gulf Cooperation Council countries that includes Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman. In all the GCC countries, homosexuality is outlawed.
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Counter Currents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
Nearly 30 million people around the world are living as slaves, according to the Global Slavery Index 2013, a new index ranking 162 countries. Even, Iceland, Ireland and the UK are not slave-free. This is the first year of the GSI.
→ read full articleNSA Snooping and India’s Sovereignty
Ravi Nitesh – Counter Currents,
30 Sep 2013
With the recent access by some media groups of documents provided by Mr. Snowden it is clear that India is among the top countries from which NSA is collecting telephone records and internet data in bulk quantity.
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Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich – Counter Currents,
30 Sep 2013
The provision to safeguard against future use of chemical weapons is not without its irony: “Underscores that no party in Syria should use, develop, produce, acquire, stockpile, retain, or transfer chemical weapons.” In the face of solid indication to the contrary, the Assad government was held responsible for the chemical attacks that resulted in the passing of UNSC 2118 – exonerating the culprits. A new and dangerous precedent has been set amidst the sight of relief.
→ read full articleIsrael’s History of Chemical Weapons Use
Dr. Elias Akleh – Counter Currents,
23 Sep 2013
The UN inspectors who went to Syria to investigate the use of chemical weapons should have stopped on their way at Occupied Palestine (Israel), where Israeli government has the largest stockpile of chemical and other WMD in the entire Middle East. They would have found a lot of evidence and witness accounts of Israeli use of chemical, as well as biological and nuclear, weapons against the Palestinians and their Arab neighbors.
→ read full articleKoodankulam Nuclear Plant Commissioning: An Open Letter to Prime Minister of India and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
Maj Gen S.G.Vombatkere – Counter Currents,
22 Jul 2013
Today is a historic day for two wrong reasons. First: on 16 July 1945 the world’s first experimental nuclear explosion was conducted at Alamogordo, USA, as a precursor to the next two nuclear experiments over Japan. Second, for us in India, it immediately follows the Koodankulam nuclear power plant going critical in contempt of people’s well-founded fears for safety and health through calculated lack of transparency to the questions and issues raised by them.
→ read full articleRohingya Refugees in India: Tales of Endless Persecution, Torture and Exploitation
Shivnaryan Rajpurohit – Counter Currents,
15 Jul 2013
Another World Refugee Day on June 20 was met with familiar indifference by host countries. Every year, it is passed off as a necessary irritant when media air and publish stories on refugees. Well, this is another sordid tale of Rohingya refugees–who fled Myanmar–in India, sheltering around 11,000 Myanmarese refugees (a figure obtained from the UNHCR).
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Interview by Kourosh Ziabari – Counter Currents,
15 Jul 2013
American philosopher and political author James H. Fetzer argues that the United States is openly supporting Al-Qaeda and the extremist Salafist and Takfiri groups in Syria and equipping the rebels and insurgents inside the country with sophisticated weapons and arms.
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Counter Currents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
Libya seems well on its way to becoming the next Somalia, with much of the country already ruled by tribal/clan based armed militias. As was the case in Somalia, Libya is in the process of separation, with the eastern, oil rich, Cyrenica region having issued a de facto declaration of independence. Tripoli, the capital of Libya, seems to be headed in the direction of where Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia was 20 years ago, with various well armed militias from outside the city taking up residence and clashing over territory and the spoils of power.
→ read full articleInternational Law and Israel’s War on Gaza
Prof. Francis A. Boyle – Counter Currents,
7 Jun 2010
Third, we must abandon the fiction and the fraud that the United States government is an “honest broker.” The United States government has never been an honest broker from well before the very outset of these negotiations in 1991. Rather, the United States has invariably sided with Israel against the Palestinians. We need to establish some type of international framework to sponsor these negotiations where the Palestinian negotiators will not be subjected to the continual bullying, threats, harassment, intimidation and outright lies perpetrated by the United States government.
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