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Jul 10, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Chris Wright |Bharat Dogra |Andre Damon |Kristin Christman
The world is at its most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Back then, however, the fear of total destruction consumed the public; today, few people seem even to be aware of this possibility.
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Jul 6, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Andre Damon |Kristin Christman |Medea Benjamin |Binoy Kampmark
The US-led NATO military alliance will establish a separate command dedicated to the war against Russia in Ukraine at next week’s summit in Washington, D.C., NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Jake Johnson |Sabiha Mazid |Kristin Christman |Bharat Dogra
Women’s Studies, TISS, Alumni StatementWe, the alumni of Women’s Studies (WS), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai; are appalled at the recent news published in various news platforms (30th June 2024 The Hindu; 1st July 2024, Indian Express among others) with regard to the mass termination of contracts of faculty members and non-teaching employees.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Kristin Christman |Andre Damon |Binoy Kampmark |Alex Lantier
“It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. Its appeal is to the material part, and if allowed its way it will in time disturb the spiritual balance of the man.”Ohiyesa, Wahpeton Dakota[1]How many of you saw the video of the beautiful Russian beach in Crimea on Sunday, June 23, 2024?
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Countercurrents Collective |P S Sahni |Kristin Christman
Times were supposedly better in 2022. That is, if you were a lawmaker in the Australian state of Victoria, a busy Israeli arms manufacturer, or cash counting corporate middleman keen to make a stash along the way between the two. That view is premised on the notion that what happened on October 7, 2023 in Israel was stunningly remarkable, a historical blot dripped and dribbled from nothingness, leaving the Jewish state vengeful and yearning to avenge 1200 deaths and the taking of 240 hostages.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
countercurrents.org | Kristin Christman
This is the conclusion of the series on Israel and the Palestinians. When asked in June to write a memo on the consequences of apartheid in Israel, I identified and described 16 consequences. Here we can look at consequence #16 and then turn to foreign policy and social programming recommendations based on the Paradigm for Peace model. My policy recommendations will seem like common sense to many people.
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Oct 29, 2023 | 
countercurrents.org | Kristin Christman
Fronts of conflict amongst Palestinians, USG double standards, and AIPAC’s undemocratic control over the US governmentWe’ve been discussing the fronts of conflict in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, for while the major, publicized front of conflict is between the Israeli government and the Palestinians, there are bitter, violent fronts of conflict within each of these sides based on religious sect, ethnic group, geographical location, political goals, and historical experience.
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Oct 28, 2023 | 
countercurrents.org | Kristin Christman
in Palestine — by Kristin Christman — 28/10/2023 The Israeli government’s systematic, unkind, unjust, and brutal discrimination against Palestinians routinely violates Palestinians’ human and legal rights and denies them the fulfillment of their human needs, not only for life, safety, health, power, freedom, wealth, land, and possessions, but for values, identity, respect, friendship, kindness, caring, and self-potential. Palestinians have faced this discrimination and brutal treatment for...
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
countercurrents.org | Kristin Christman
in Palestine — by Kristin Christman — 27/10/2023 On Wednesday, October 25, 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated, “Our war against Hamas is a test for all of humanity. It is a fight between the Iran-Hezbollah-Hamas axis of evil and the forces of freedom and progress. . . We are the people of the light, they are the people of darkness.
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Jul 10, 2023 | 
countercurrents.org | Kristin Christman
Kristin Christman, with dedication in video to Angel ChristmanIn this series, I’ve been refuting the claims made in the National Security Strategy 2022 (NSS 2022). I refer to the NSS as the Sullivan & Biden NSS, even though it’s not known whether or not Biden’s National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, took part in writing the document. In this essay, I’ll continue to refute Claim #9, a refutation begun in NSS Essay 9:Claim 9.
