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Nov 4, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Antara Haldar |Vikas Meshram |Bhabani Nayak |Ariel Gold
CAMBRIDGE – Each fall, a telephone call from Stockholm launches one or a few scholars to international fame with the bestowal of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences – a process that Irving Wallace dramatized in his 1962 potboiler The Prize. This year, the call went to three figures who are already well-known, the economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the political scientist James A. Robinson of the University of Chicago.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vikas Meshram |Bhabani Nayak |Ariel Gold |Ramzy Baroud
The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize is expected to reignite discussions around nuclear disarmament, emphasizing the devastating effects of nuclear weapons and the need for further steps toward their elimination. The destructive use of nuclear weapons and their catastrophic consequences on humanity should be highlighted through this award.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bhabani Nayak |Ariel Gold |Ramzy Baroud |Subhash Gatade
South Korean Nobel laureate Han Kang has declined to celebrate and refused to address a press conference after winning the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, citing the deaths, destitution, pain, and suffering of people affected by the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Arnold R. Isaacs |Binoy Kampmark |Countercurrents Collective |Ariel Gold
“Say her name!” Marjorie Taylor Greene shouted from the House floor during President Biden’s State of the Union Address. The same slogan was on the T-shirt she wore under her red jacket, which had a pin with a picture of the person whose name she was referring to — a pin she’d also handed out to colleagues before that session as well as to the president as he passed her on his way to the rostrum.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
transcend.org | Ariel Gold
After Germany sunk the Lusitania ship in May 1915, US public support for joining the war swelled. But not everyone got on board. Political activist and theologian A.J. Muste responded to his country’s gearing up for war by becoming a pacifist. His views resulted in him being forced out of his pastoral position.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
original.antiwar.com | Ariel Gold
According to legend, the organization I lead, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, was founded in August 1914 when a British Quaker and a German Lutheran shook hands at a railway station in Cologne. With England on the cusp of joining World War I, they pledged, “We are one in Christ and can never be at war.”After Germany sunk the Lusitania ship in May 1915, American public support for joining the war swelled. But not everyone got on board.
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Mar 24, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Marwan Asmar |Joydip Ghosal |Andre Damon |Ariel Gold
Much of the information coming out of Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City speak of dark times and ill-will for the people there. Ever since the Israeli army raided the hospital last week reports have suggested of unspeakable atrocities being made to the doctors, nurses, general staff as well as the thousands of displaced people there who took the hospital as their abode because they have nowhere to go. Eyewitness accounts are horrifying.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Joydip Ghosal |Andre Damon |Marwan Asmar |Ariel Gold
Mohammed Omer in his book ‘Shell-Shocked, Dispatches from a War, On the ground under Israel’s assault’ (Publisher Speaking Tiger) documented the third major Israeli assault on the Gaza strip. He is a Palestinian journalist. In 2008 he was awarded the Martha Gellhorn Prize for journalism. He has reported extensively for Al Jazeera, the Nation, Democracy Now!, and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Andre Damon |Marwan Asmar |Ariel Gold |Prakash Kona
On Friday, the United Nations Security Council failed to pass a resolution sponsored by the United States that was absurdly proclaimed by the US media as a “ceasefire” resolution. In fact, the resolution would have given the UN’s imprimatur to the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza, specifying conditions for “ongoing and future operations” by the Israeli military.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Marwan Asmar |Andre Damon |Ariel Gold |Prakash Kona
‘No stone is unturned’: The Israelis are determined to make the lives of the Palestinians of Gaza into a living hellWhen the Israeli army left Hamad City, they totally destroyed it. A plush city, north of Khan Younis and built with hundreds of millions of dollars from Qatar starting 2015, it was raised to the ground. The destruction left by the Israeli army in Hamad City in Gaza before it withdrew.
