European Powers Seek To Bomb Libya To Stop Migrants

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European Powers Seek To Bomb Libya To Stop Migrants
By Patrick Martin

http://www.countercurrents.org/martin110515.htm

The European Union is preparing to bomb targets in Libya to stop migrants from attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea in small boats. EU foreign policy coordinator Federica Mogherini is to brief the United Nations Security Council Monday on plans for a "Chapter VII" resolution that would give a UN green light for the use of force


UK Election Aftermath: Cameron To Continue Waging War On Working People
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter110515.htm

Today in the UK, people are waking up to their first week of a five-year rule under a Conservative majority government. It's been the first time the Tories have managed to form such a government since 1992. Only 37 percent of those who bothered to vote actually voted Conservative. In fact, the current administration is in government with 24 percent of support from all those who were eligible to vote


German Firestorm Rises About Angela Merkel's Lies
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse110515.htm

Starting on Friday May 8th, some German news media have been reporting on the release of previously secret emails from the office of the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel. These emails make clear that when her underlings have said, ever since 2013, that the U.S. has promised to stop tapping the phones and other communications of Germans and even of the German Chancellor herself, no such promise had actually been received from anyone in the U.S. Administration of President Barack Obama. Instead, this claim from the Chancellor's office was being made simply in order for her to be able to win the 22 September 2013 parliamentary elections. It was contrary to fact. And it still is


War Threat Rises As Economy Declines
By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts110515.htm

Paul Craig Roberts, Keynote Address to the Annual Conference of the Financial West Group, New Orleans, May 7, 2015


Seymour Hersh Succumbs To Disinformation
By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts110515A.htm

Hersh's story does prove that the US government is a liar, but it does not prove that a SEAL team murdered Osama bin Laden


Obama, Osama bin-Laden And Lies By Government And Media
By Jon Kofas

http://www.countercurrents.org/kofas110515.htm

Time will prove if the Hersh story is legitimate, if it is partially true, if it is even worse than he described it. For now, we are left with the Obama administration that came to office in 2009 with the pledge to end exactly the kind of practices he has been pursuing in foreign policy and in the process lying to the American people, as in the case of US drones killing of a US and Italian hostage in January 2015. This does not mean that the world will ever know a single version of what took place with Osama bin-Laden, the Pakistanis and the Americans, but a clearer picture will emerge at some point. Meanwhile, the foreign policy of destabilizing the Middle East, the foreign policy of contradictions, and the defense policy of outspending all rivals to maintain Pax American will continue until it brings the nation deeper in debt, economically weaker with a dwindling middle class in a country where the word democracy will not have much meaning


Russell Brand And The Currency Of Revolution
By Nozomi Hayase

http://www.countercurrents.org/hayase110515.htm

The blockchain innovation has already opened the floodgates. The currency of revolution is showing that solutions to systematic abuse of power are within us. All we need to do is unite our will with what moves us from within and become the diverse currencies of our unfettered wishes and dreams


So, You Want A Clinton In The White House?
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz110515.htm

Where were the simplistic Nazi references when Clinton blew up a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant to distract us from Monica Lewinsky? Where were the Hitler mustaches when Clinton bombed Iraq in response to an alleged plot to assassinate Bush the Elder and ended up killing Layla Al-Attar, that country's best-known female artist?


Fostering Arab Springs To Civil And Sectarian Wars In The Middle East
By G. Asgar Mitha

http://www.countercurrents.org/mitha110515.htm

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed ―from the Adolf Hitler Book (2008). Remarkably Hitler's legacy is now applicable to the US, NATO friends, Israel and the Gulf Arab monarchies


Al Qaeda In Bangladesh: The Mythology And Pathology Of Terror
By Taj Hashmi

http://www.countercurrents.org/hashmi110515.htm

The propaganda about the presence of al Qaeda or its "India-based offshoots" like Ansarullah in Bangladesh is politically motivated. Although this sort of political propaganda seldom pays any political dividends (at least, not in Bangladesh), yet politicians are politicians! They never give up playing the game of mutual vilification. Portraying political opponents in Bangladesh – read arch enemies – as Indian or Pakistani agents, anti-Liberation, or even as agents of al Qaeda has been going on for decades


Murder Of A Young Girl In Moga: An Open Letter To Chief Minister Of Punjab
By Daljit Ami

http://www.countercurrents.org/ami110515.htm

The reason for writing this letter is the recent incident near Moga where a young girl was murdered when she was thrown out of a running bus. The victim's mother is lying injured in a hospital. Per newspapers and television reports,upon the statements by representatives of your government, the girl was a minor and was travelling with her mother and brother. There was an altercation between bus conductor and the mother over the bus fare and after that the employees,along with another accomplice,misbehaved with the mother and daughter. The employees and accomplice threw both mother and daughter off the bus. The daughter's corpse reached the hospital.The hospital admitted the mother for treatment. All this happened in daylight hours. In this letter we shall talk about this one murder, this one intent to murder, and the molestation. All of these have a direct relation with you


Sri Lanka: Deterioration Of The Legal Intellect (7):
Delays In Adjudication As A Manifestation Of Learned Helplessness
By Basil Fernando

http://www.countercurrents.org/fernando110515.htm

A young man, then 18 years old, filed a communication on 28th January 2003, about an incident that took place on 18th April 2002. The UNHRC came to a finding on 14th July 2006. The UNHRC found that the Sri Lankan Government has violated the rights of the man by its failure to adjudicate the case without undue delay. The man is over 30 years old today. Sri Lanka has witnessed 4 governments since 2002. However, his case is still pending before the Sri Lankan courts