Friday, September 9, 2011

Fwd: CC News Letter, 08 Sep - Welcome To The Post-Growth Economy ‎



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Subject: CC News Letter, 08 Sep - Welcome To The Post-Growth Economy ‎
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Welcome To The Post-Growth Economy
 By Richard Heinberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/heinberg080911.htm

During recent weeks, evidence has piled up that U.S. and European economies, far from recovering, are swirling back into recession. Failure of American politicians to address the federal debt crisis, the U.S. credit rating downgrade, and increasing fragility of European economies have investors running for the hills


The Times Are Too Desperate For Despair
 By Ellen Cantarow

http://www.countercurrents.org/cantarow080911.htm

Millions of Americans who never think about climate change now know that the actress Daryl Hanna was arrested in Washington last month, and that the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is an environmental threat. Millions even have some inkling what "tar sands" are. Among the 1253 arrested over the course of the two-week "rolling" sit-ins were writer-activist Bill McKibben; James Hansen, the world's most renowned climate scientist


Imperial Delusions: Ignoring The Lessons Of 9/11
 By Robert Jensen

http://www.countercurrents.org/jensen080911.htm

Ten years later, I feel the same thing that I felt on 9/11 -- an indescribable grief over the senseless death of that day and of days to come


Israel Makes Military Preparations For
 UN Vote On Palestinian State
 By Danny Richardson

http://www.countercurrents.org/richardson080911.htm

The IDF is training settler "security squads" in the West Bank and preparing to arm them with stun grenades and tear gas ahead of an expected yes vote for Palestinian statehood in the United Nations General Assembly later this month


The Desperation Of The Fool
 By William A. Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook080911.htm

A view of the true map that exists in Palestine reveals how completely Israel has acted in consuming Palestinian land. The millions of Palestinians, who at one time in 1947 lived on approximately 97% of the land, now have, under the occupation less than 14% remaining. Yet their population virtually equals that of the Jews


For The Love Of Israel: Congresswoman's
 Misguided War On The UN
 By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud080911.htm

From an Israeli point of view, Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the ideal American politician. Although many in the US government aspire to her level of commitment to Israel, few can measure up to a dedication that extends beyond the very interests of her own country


Reality Vs Wishful Thinking
 By Tim Murray

http://www.countercurrents.org/murray080911.htm

Reflections on Chris Clugston's upcoming book, "Scarcity"


Time Server, or Game Changer? Obama's Jobs Speech
 By Niranjan Ramakrishnan

http://www.countercurrents.org/rama080911.htm

If the jobs crisis and the current recession are truly the most serious in a half-century, then it makes no sense to be offering jobs in America to people from other countries. As such, Obama should impose a moratorium on all immigration until the unemployment rate falls below a certain level


Is Tobacco A Necessary Consumer Product?
 By Vasanthkumar Mysoremath

http://www.countercurrents.org/vasanthkumar080911.htm

Why Government is adopting double standards in its approach to contain the growth, the killer weed Tobacco?


Living With HIV And Dying Of TB
 By Shobha Shukla

http://www.countercurrents.org/shukla080911.htm

Fuelled by the HIV pandemic and the spread of drug-resistant strains, tuberculosis (TB) has re-emerged as a major threat to global health. TB is a curable disease that continues to affect millions of people globally each year, and is a leading cause of death in HIV positive people


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