Dear Friend,
This is Christmas eve here in India. Christmas is a time of peace, justice, forgiveness and harmony. For millions of people around the world, this Christmas may not be a day of happiness or peace as they face sanctions, starvation, war, homelessness... For Christians in Karnataka, India where an anti-conversion law has just been passed, this Christmas may not be a happy occasion as it is, in reality, an Act for persecution of Christians and other minorities. Among all these hardships, Christmas is a moment of hope. Wishing you all and your loved ones a MERRY CHRISTMAS.
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Don’t Let the Deeper Meaning of Christmas Be Lost in Materialism
by Jesse Jackson
https://countercurrents.org/2021/12/dont-let-the-deeper-meaning-of-christmas-be-lost-in-materialism/
Today teachings of Jesus are more important than ever. The pandemic threatens us all. It respects no boundaries. We can only defeat it together, by organizing across the world to ensure that all are vaccinated, that care is available for those who get sick, that safety precautions from masks to ventilation are universally available.
No USA Christmas Charity for Afghans, Venezuelans, Cubans, Syrians, Iranians, North Koreans
by Jay Janson
The Christmas time Christian tradition of charitable feeding of the hungry homeless in capitalist USA never extends to include those millions of men, women and children made hungry by heartless US sanctions on countries overseas. It’s just something the hard hearted Deep State investors in war of the Military Industrial Complex would never allow any of its captive US presidents to be gracious to the hungry in sanctioned nations at Christmas time.
My Year and Welcome to It
by Tom Engelhardt
A reflection on the year gone by and things to come in the new year
Putin in a different December
by Farooque Chowdhury
A significant shift in power equation is going on in today’s world. It’s going to impact almost all countries
including geographically small and tiny countries. A recent incident including arson in an island-country is one of the latest evidences. This situation is meaningful for both of the ruled/exploited and the ruler/exploiting classes. It’ll be stupidity to not keep an eye on the developments, and listen to Putin’s pronouncements.
Millions Of Armed Americans Ready To Seize Power, Warns U.S. Weekly
by Countercurrents Collective
Citing Nieznany, a 73-year-old Vietnam veteran, a Newsweek report said: Millions of fellow would-be insurrectionists will be there, too, says, “a ticking time-bomb” targeting the Capitol. “There are lots of fully armed people wondering what is happening to this country,” he says. “Are we going to let Biden keep destroying it? Or do we need to get rid of him? We are only going to take so much before we fight back.” The 2024 election, he adds,
may well be the trigger.
Japan Business Lobbyist Backs Coup, Urges Investment In Myanmar
by Countercurrents Collective
A Japanese former politician who campaigned to bring billions of dollars of investment from some of Japan’s top companies to Myanmar has urged Japan to endorse its military regime, saying the nation’s coup leader has “grown fantastically as a human being,” while praising his “democratization efforts.”
The Combating Islamophobia Act: On Hate Crimes and ‘Irrational Fears’
by Dr Ramzy Baroud
The result of a vote, on December 14, in the US House of Representatives regarding the combating of Islamophobia, may, possibly, appear to be a positive sign of change, that Washington is finally confronting this socio-political evil. However, conclusions
must not be too hasty.
263,000,000 Hate Messages and Counting
By Thomas Klikauer and Meg Young
Cyberbullying and Internet hate speech continues unabated. If anything, it has gotten worse, perhaps turbo-charged by the Coronavirus pandemic forcing people to sit at home in social isolation. Recently, UK anti-bullying charity Ditch the Label has completed a study on hate speech which focuses on transphobia, racism, homophobia, sexism, misogyny, and violent threats against a wide range of identities.
Failure of US media on Ukraine
by Ron Forthofer
We need to constantly remind ourselves about the US media. During the Cold War, there was the saying that the difference between the New York Times and the Soviet Pravda was that Pravda readers knew they were being lied to. Unfortunately, current coverage by the US media about the movement of
Russian troops demonstrates the applicability of that saying today.
The present state of India, the concept of freedom and diversionary tactics
by Dr A V Koshy
I stand for freedom and no diversionary tactics and global as well as national wellbeing and happiness and not for stultification of cultures to their detriment. Freedom and advancement comes from hybridity and not false notions of purity and though I speak alone I prefer to do so and am ready to continue speaking alone as a sane voice than to join any group or faction none of which supported me in the name of these diversionary tactics which they are also embroiled in in a futile for and against fashion instead of looking long and hard at the real problems India faces.
Pegasus Trail -2
by Hiren Gohain
It is of utmost importance to underscore and
reiterate this idea in the face of the multi-pronged and incremental attacks on ALL freedoms feeling their way ahead,now concentrating on this campaign,now on that.The indivisible freedom of citizens as a whole are under vicious and well-planned attack,to raise on its ashes an inhuman and tyrannical edifice of Rashtra.
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