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The End Of Capitalism? What Lies Ahead?
By Alex Knight

http://www.countercurrents.org/knight050810.htm

We are getting smarter at creating approaches that integrate both ecological justice and social justice. More and more people are beginning to see that economic growth is not the goal. The capitalist economy is large but poor – it does not meet the needs of the majority of humanity or the needs of the planet. We can create an economy that is smaller but richer


Two More Die In Kashmir Violence
By Sheikh Imran Bashir & Manoj Khar

http://www.countercurrents.org/bashir050810.htm

A youth was killed Thursday in firing by security forces, while a 50-year man died in hospital of injuries sustained Wednesday, taking to 49 the toll in the cycle of violence sweeping the Kashmir Valley since June


Battling Stones With Bullets In Kashmir! Is India
A Medieval Empire Or A Modern Democracy?
By Avinash Pandey Samar

http://www.countercurrents.org/samar050810.htm

The human aspect which deals with those 26 people killed by the security forces since last Friday alone, or the total 43 who have perished since 11 June, when the current cycle of violence began. These are all real people like us, with jobs to do and families to return to. Some of them were too young, youngest being nine years and many of them under 15 years, too young to cause any serious threat to the security forces and their personnel


Pakistan Hit By Worst Flood In 80 Years
By Brian McAfee

http://www.countercurrents.org/mcafee050810.htm

Support the flood victims of Pakistan


We're Hot As Hell And We're Not Going
To Take It Any More
By Bill McKibben

http://www.countercurrents.org/mckibben050810.htm

Three Steps to establish a politics of Global Warming


So PleaseTell Me Again: What's The War About?
By William Blum

http://www.countercurrents.org/blum050810.htm

If and when the United States and Israel bomb Iran (marking the sixth country so blessed by Barack Obama) and this sad old world has a new daily horror show to look at on their TV sets, and we then discover that Iran was not actually building nuclear weapons after all, the American mainstream media and the benighted American mind will ask: "Why didn't they tell us that? Did they want us to bomb them?"


Whose Hands? Whose Blood?
By Tom Engelhardt

http://www.countercurrents.org/engelhardt050810.htm

"Mr. Assange," Mullen commented, "can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family." You might be a bit taken aback by Mullen's statement. After all, one of the revelations in the trove of leaked documents Assange put online had to do with how much blood from innocent Afghan civilians was already on American hands


Blair Must Be Arrested
By John Pilger

http://www.countercurrents.org/pilger050810.htm

Having helped destroy other nations far away, our former prime minister — "peace envoy" to the Middle East — is now free to profit from the useful contacts he made while working as a "servant of the people". Tony Blair must be prosecuted, not indulged like Peter Mandelson


Europe And Beyond: U.S. Consolidates
Global Missile Shield
By Rick Rozoff

http://www.countercurrents.org/rozoff050810.htm

Both Poland and the Czech Republic remain part of Pentagon plans and will be incorporated into a broader grid with all 28 members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization which in its final stage will cover all of Europe. Or at least the entire continent west of Russia and Belarus


Shame On ADL For Opposing Mosque
Two Blocks From Ground Zero
By Rabbi Michael Lerner

http://www.countercurrents.org/lerner050810.htm

The ADL (Anti-Defamation League) publicly opposes the construction two blocks from Ground Zero of the Cordoba House (also known as Park 51), which the planners imagine as hosting a range of activities similar to those offered at the 92nd Street Y, and including a Mosque at which Muslims could worship. The plan, supported by Mayor Bloomberg, is opposed by some who have consistently used the attack on the World Trade Center as justification for war and fear+hatred of Muslims


Video: Hunger Stalks Niger Children
By AlJazeera

http://www.countercurrents.org/aljazeera050810.htm

About 900,000 children in the West African state of Niger are on the brink of malnutrition, according to the UN. The UN's World Food Programme is calling for urgent help to get food aid to areas in the country that have suffered years of failed crops due to drought


Video: Child Confronts Israeli Forces
Over Father's Detention
By Zuheir Al-Shaer

http://www.countercurrents.org/alshaer050810.htm

Video footage of a four-year-old child begging Israeli forces to release his father from detention on Monday has circulated the globe


Israelis Demolish Bedouin Village Again
By Brian Ennis

http://www.countercurrents.org/ennis050810.htm

Wednesday morning Israel's Land Administration razed the rebuilt village with the protection of Israeli security forces. The Bedouin village of al-Arakib was destroyed by Israel's Land Administration last week as the government of Israel does not recognize it and deems it illegal for being on state land


Israeli High Schoolers Assist
The Razing Of A Bedouin Town
By Max Blumenthal

http://www.countercurrents.org/blumenthal050810.htm

One of the most troubling aspects of the destruction of al-Arakib was a report by CNN that the hundreds of Israeli riot police who stormed the village were accompanied by "busloads of cheering civilians." Who were these civilians and why didn't CNN or any outlet investigate further?


Hamas Slowly Islamising Gaza
By Mel Frykberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/frykberg050810.htm

Gazans are caught between a rock and a hard place. While Israel continues to apply a crippling siege on the coastal territory, Gaza's Hamas government is cracking down on civil and political liberties in what appears to be a campaign to slowly Islamise Gaza


Probe Into Flotilla Killings Met With Skepticism
By Thalif Deen

http://www.countercurrents.org/deen050810.htm

Despite initial misgivings, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon received the tacit approval of the Israeli government to establish an international panel to probe the widely-condemned killings of nine Turkish civilians onboard a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza last May


Julian Assange Responds To Increasing
US Government Attacks on WikiLeaks
By Amy Goodman

http://www.countercurrents.org/goodman050810.htm

Amy Goodman speaks with WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange


The Betrayal of Haiti
By Ashley Smith

http://www.countercurrents.org/smith050810.htm

Conditions in Haiti are still appalling six months after the quake


Leaving It Up To Them
By Shannon Hayes

http://www.countercurrents.org/hayes050810.htm

Even in radical homes, children don't always follow their parents' path. How some families are dealing with their children's choices


When Truth Is Unbelievable
By Megan Quinn Bachman

http://www.countercurrents.org/bachman050810.htm

Most upsetting to this Cassandra is that the poisoning of the Gulf could have been the wake-up call we need to change our ways. Instead, the leaking may be stopped or the oil captured for production, BP may financially recover, and we will be content to continue consuming happily—if only for a little while


If Yes To Kosovo Why Not Balochistan?
By Dr Jumma khan Marri

http://www.countercurrents.org/marri050810.htm

Baloch case is similar to that of Kosovo only the Baloch are an orphan nation without their own powerful uncle to look after their national interests, it is up to Baloch national leaders and the intellectual to find an uncle who could lobby for them at international court of justice, the united nations and other world forums to press their interests, Baloch must stand united and clearly state their goals to international community to understand


Brazen Mockery Of The Forest-Rights Law
By Subrat Kumar Sahu

http://www.countercurrents.org/sahu050810.htm

In yet another unfortunate incident in which how the FRA 2006 – which the government dubs as an instrument to correct 'historical injustices' meted out on forest communities – has rather been used as a tool of oppression and intimidation, a Dalit villager in Orissa was arrested on 21 July 2010 for raising issues of forest rights


The Dispossession And Criminalisation Of
The Adivasis Of Central India
By Stan Swamy

http://www.countercurrents.org/swamy050810.htm

The dispossessed Adivasi is hunted as a criminal; the looter-outsider has become 'honourable citizen'


Family Matters
By Javed Iqbal

http://www.countercurrents.org/iqbal050810.htm

In Bastar, the un-sanitized war is brutal, unforgiving and uncompromising. And it's impact on families has been specifically devastating. Battles aren't just fought in the jungles – this a war where villages are the battlefields, homes are the trenches and your family is a weapon and a target


Many Forks Of The Devil's Tongue :
Whitewashing Crimes a la The Pracharak Way
By Subhash Gatade

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatade050810.htm

Sangh watchers know that it is a very old strategy of the RSS to distance itself from people, organisations whenever it finds it inconvenient to own them. There are n number of examples in Sangh history where it has been engaged in distancing itself from its own activists. Imagine an organisation like RSS, which does not have any membership list, can tomorrow claim that even Ram Madhav does not belong to it, then do we have any proof to counter it. No


Poverty Spectrum Disorder
By Sadanand Patwardhan

http://www.countercurrents.org/patwardhan050810.htm

A couple of rupees of difference in consumption levels that are used in defining poor is all it takes to shift literally hundreds of millions of people from poor to non-poor and vice versa. Once this is learnt it becomes obvious that Poverty Line is unlike an internationally recognized BORDER that it is made out to be – inviolable & sacrosanct - a sort of litmus test to decide whether to bestow or to withhold "welfare largesse" . In fact, what we have is apicture of Poverty Spectrum – a continuum – of deprivations that has wafer thin separations


The Liberative Question: A Fancy Footnote
By Chandi Sinnathurai

http://www.countercurrents.org/sinnathurai050810.htm

The argument is what does it mean to have "Sustainable peace and stability" in Sri Lanka? Will the voice of the Tamils in the island be heard loud and clear?


Hanging A Hammock Between Death
And The Abyss: A Götterdämmerung Of Kitsch
By Phil Rockstroh

http://www.countercurrents.org/rockstroh050810.htm

Given the level of cultural absurdity at large, both the commercially tormented landscape and the mass media dominated mindscape of the United States seem a Gogol goof-take


9/11 Truth
By Joel S. Hirschhorn

http://www.countercurrents.org/joel050810.htm

When people in the public spotlight do not support the truth movement, as the head of WikiLeaks has done, it is a sign that success remains elusive. The coming anniversary of 9/11 will most likely show that we still lack a critical mass of public demand for a new government investigation. One glimmer of hope might be the wide scale rejection of incumbents in Congress. Do candidates for Congress support a new investigation? The truth movement should get their act together and spread the word that truthers should only vote for candidates supporting a new investigation


Recent Israeli Provocations
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman050810C.htm

Perhaps suggesting a larger-scale planned offensive, recent violent Israeli outbreaks struck Gaza, the West Bank, and Israeli/Lebanon border, the first there since the summer 2006 war


The Repressive Citizenship And
Entry Into Israel Law
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman0500810A.htm

Calling Israel's Citizenship Law racist and nefarious, PHR-IL demands its abolition because of its harm to thousands of families seeking reunification, the Committee a "fig leaf" for injustice, a tool to camouflage outrageous human rights violations, denying Muslims equal status to Jews - official Israeli policy, discriminatory, racist, and outrageous


Targeted Assassinations: Challenging US Policy
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman050810B.htm

The WikiLeaks "Afghan War Diaries" provided documented evidence of America's out-of-control lawlessness, including Special Forces death squads (Task Force 373) extrajudicially murdering or capturing suspected Taliban and Al-Qaeda figures, many hundreds or perhaps thousands on a so-called Jpel (joint prioritized effects) list, also willfully killing civilian men, women and children


Why Systems Become Murderous
Exploitation Machines
By Denis G. Rancourt

http://www.countercurrents.org/rancourt050810.htm

On the racism and pathology of left progressive First-World activism as opposed to what would be needed


Smoke On A Bridge: Lebanon Awaits A Verdict
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud050810.htm

Notes from Beirut, Lebanon


Colonial Designs On Kashmir
By Dr Shabir Choudhry

http://www.countercurrents.org/choudhry050810.htm

Text of Dr Shabir Choudhry's speech made in a seminar arranged by UKPNP on 02 August 2010

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