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Sep 27, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Maureen Murphy |Sanjay N. Parate |Thomas Scripps |Kevin Reed
All of humanity is less secure after a year of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank and as Israel now unleashes its wrath on Lebanon. “The region is on the brink of a catastrophe,” the spokesperson for the UN secretary-general warned last Friday after Israel escalated attacks in Lebanon in previous days.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Sanjay N. Parate |Thomas Scripps |Kevin Reed |Ramzy Baroud
Chhattisgarh is once again in the news for the wrong reason. The attitude of the Chhattisgarh police and administration and the silence of the BJP government raises the question whether Palestine is an enemy nation for our country and its citizens? Earlier in June, Chhattisgarh came into the news when three cattle traders and transport workers from Uttar Pradesh were murdered by cow-goons associated with RSS and BJP just three days after the BJP government came to power.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vidyadhar Date |Thomas Scripps |Bharat Dogra |Binoy Kampmark
To begin on a positive note it is encouraging to find that 92 young architects have come together under the auspices of Mumbai Architects Collective and urged the municipal commissioner that public spaces in the metropolis should be used for public benefit and not taken over for infrastructure projects . Many feel these projects are fanciful and do not serve public purpose.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Mohd Khan |Pieter Friedrich |Thomas Scripps |Bharat Dogra
The visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the house of Chief Justice Dhananjaya Chandrachud on 12th September, 2024 to participate in Ganesh Aarti has triggered a constitutional controversy due to its cavalier disregard for foundational constitutional principles. The controversy refuses to die down with both the BJP and the Prime Minister doubling down in defence of the same.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Thomas Scripps |Kevin Reed |Ramzy Baroud |Jordan Shilton
Israeli government officials delivered a uniform, savage rebuttal Thursday to the ceasefire proposal for the war with Lebanon proposed by 12 of Tel Aviv’s close allies, including the United States, UK and the European Union. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced bluntly: “The news about a ceasefire—not true. This is an American-French proposal, to which the prime minister did not even respond.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Suresh Khairnar |Vidyadhar Date |Thomas Scripps |Bharat Dogra
Bhubaneswar, Odisha: We, unequivocally condemn the arrest of Kartik Naik, a vocal and committed leader of the struggle against Vedanta’s bauxite mining in South Odisha. Thirty-year-old Kartik was picked up by the Kashipur police on 19 September, 2024 around 11.30 am as he left the bank. He was whisked off to the Kashipur JMFC court after a brief halt at the Kashipur police station. After a few hours, he was then held in the Raygada subjail.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
le-blog-sam-la-touch.over-blog.com | Thomas Scripps
Starmer Meloni Xénophobie Grande-Bretagne Italie Extrême droite Albanie Russie Articles de Sam La Touch Le Premier ministre britannique et chef du Parti travailliste Keir Starmer s'est rendu à Rome lundi pour une rencontre qu'il a qualifiée de « fantastique » avec la Première ministre italienne Giorgia Meloni.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Kevin Reed |Richard Falk |Thomas Scripps |Chris Marsden
Remarks by Chinese Ambassador Fu Cong at the UN Security Council Briefing on the Situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian QuestionPresident, I thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland and Ms. Louisa Baxter for their briefings. Gaza has been subjected to more than 10 months of blockade, siege, bombing, and attacks that have killed more than 40,000 people and displaced 1.9 million.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Kevin Reed |Richard Falk |Thomas Scripps
Despite much grandstanding in the Biden administration about halting specific arms shipments to Israel over feigned concerns about how they might be used (inflicting death is the expected form), US military supplies have been restored with barely a murmur. In a report in Haaretz on August 29, a rush of weapons to Israel has been noticed since the end of July. August proved to be the second busiest month for US arms deliveries to Israel’s Nevatim Airbase since the October 2023 attacks by Hamas.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Kevin Reed |Richard Falk |Thomas Scripps |Chris Marsden
The Israeli military fired a missile into the lead vehicle of an aid convoy in southern Gaza on Friday, killing four Palestinians. The convoy was organized by the Washington, DC-based nonprofit American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera) and was delivering medical supplies and fuel to a hospital in Rafah, the besieged southern Gaza city on the border with Egypt.
