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Fwd: CC News Letter, 02 August - When Oil And Gas Are Depleted ‎



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US House Approves Record Budget Cuts
 By Patrick Martin

http://www.countercurrents.org/martin020811.htm

The US House of Representatives voted by a 269-161 margin Monday night to approve the budget agreement between congressional Republicans and the Obama administration that will cut nearly $3 trillion from federal spending over the next ten years, the bulk of it from domestic social programs


Fake Debt Crisis Strikes Blow At Safety Net
 By Shamus Cooke

http://www.countercurrents.org/cooke020811.htm

The debt crisis has been averted and people across the globe are breathing sighs of relief. But in the back rooms of Congress politicians are celebrating for a different reason. It's the kind of celebration that erupts when a group executes a complicated plan to perfection. The objective in this case was to strike the first blows against the national social safety net without encountering massive resistance. Mission half-accomplished thus far


Lowering America's War Ceiling?
 Imperial Psychosis On Display
 By Tom Engelhardt

http://www.countercurrents.org/engelhardt020811.htm

For months Americans have been focused on raising that debt ceiling, as onscreen countdown clocks ticked away to disaster. In the process, few have asked the obvious question: Isn't it time to lower America's war ceiling?


Syrian Regime Cracks Down On Protests
 By Niall Green

http://www.countercurrents.org/green020811.htm

Syrian security forces allegedly killed around 100 people in the Syrian city of Hama over the weekend. Since April there have been several large demonstrations against the regime of President Bashar Assad in Hama, in the northwest of Syria, and repeated crackdowns by regime forces


The Tent Intifada
 By Yacov Ben Efrat

http://www.countercurrents.org/efrat020811.htm

Israel is up in rebellion


When Oil And Gas Are Depleted
 By Roy Anderson

http://www.countercurrents.org/anderson020811.htm

If people of the 21st century can apply ingenuity to a declining lifestyle as they did to the improving lifestyle of the 20th century, perhaps the inevitable changes can be made in an orderly way


Madurai Declaration On Climate Change

http://www.countercurrents.org/maduraideclaration.pdf

The Commission on Justice, Peace and Creation of the NCC India was in solidarity with several Climate Justice Action Groups, Civil Society Movements and Originations in holding a state level 'Conference against Warming the Globe 2011. The Conference was held in Madurai, Tamil Nadu from 22nd to 24th July 2011. The conference began with mass rally participated by over 10000 people and followed by cultural programs, public meetings, 47 thematic seminars, and 52 sale cum exhibition stall related with alternative products. . Finally the Madurai Declaration was adopted by the participants on the 24th July


Odisha's Little Gandhians
 By S.G.Vombatkere

http://www.countercurrents.org/vombatkere020811.htm

Gandhiji non-violently opposed unaccountable and cruel (British) power used against ordinary people. Many decades later in independent India, the people of PPSS and elsewhere in the country are following his example but against their own governments' economically and physically violent anti-people actions. But now there is a new dimension; children are in it. The valiant children of Govindpur, Dhinkia and other villages of PPSS deserve national recognition


No Boundaries: An Extended Chronicle Of
 India's Land Acquisition
 By Srestha Banerjee

http://www.countercurrents.org/banerjee020811.htm

While Indian and multinational companies are fast acquiring farm lands in India for industrialisation, Indian companies are acquiring hundreds of thousands of hectares in Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Senegal and Mozambique, for the purpose of cultivating rice, sugar cane, maize, lentils, cotton, palm oil, oilseed for their home market


Reflecting Dalit Movement
 In The Era of 'Globalization'
 Anand Teltumbde Interviewed By Yoginder Sikand

http://www.countercurrents.org/sikand020811.htm

Mumbai-based Anand Teltumbde is a leading scholar-activist, who has written extensively on issues related to caste, class, imperialism and 'globalization'. In this interview with Yoginder Sikand, he reflects on the Dalit movement in the era of 'globalization'


The Oslo Massacre: "Kill Them All
 And Come Back Alone"
 By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury020811.htm

The Kill them all and come back alone massacre in Norway shatters the tranquil appearing Norwegian socio-political surface standing on a base full with unresolved contradictions. The hatred-stuffed rightist social act through "an" individual is a product of an advanced capitalist economy, not a mindless act by a mindless man

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