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Defiant Gaddafi Vows To Fight On As Violence Rages In Libya
By Al Jazeera

http://www.countercurrents.org/aljazeera220211.htm

Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, has vowed to fight on and die a "martyr", calling on his supporters to take back the streets from protesters demanding his ouster, shouting and pounding his fist in a furious speech on state TV. Nearly 300 people are reported to have been killed in continuing violence in the capital and across the North African country as demonstrations enter their second week


Bahrain: People's Revolution Heralds New History
By Bahrain Freedom Movement

http://www.countercurrents.org/bfm220211.htm

Now the scene is set for more bloodshed by an increasingly isolated regime as the people become more emboldened to continue their demand that was raised from the beginning of the revolution; the downfall of the Al Khalifa hereditary dictatorship


The Shia Seek Justice : Bahrain Faces Its Faceless
By Dan Lieberman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lieberman220211.htm

A Bahrain that evolves into a non-sectarian and independent democracy initiates a hopeful path to stabilization of the entire Middle East. This task will fail if the western world does not recognize its role in aggravating the problems of the Arab world


Bahrain Riots Alarm Oil-Rich Persian Gulf States
With Restive Shiite Minorities
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali

http://www.countercurrents.org/ghazali220211.htm

The key problem is that Shiites defying the powers in Bahrain would seduce all other minority Gulf Arab Shiites, from Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates to Saudi Arabia itself


Why Saudi Is Now In Play
By Steve LeVine

http://www.countercurrents.org/levine220211.htm

The chink in the Saudi armor is its oil-saturated, Shia-dominated Eastern Province. Here is Dharan, the headquarters of Saudi Aramco; the humongous 5-million-barrel-a-day Ghawar oilfield; the 800,000-barrel-a-day Qatif and Abu Safa oilfields; the gigantic Ras Tanura oil port; and the Abqiaq processing center


From Tahrir Square To Shatila Camp:
"Cry Hurriya!" (Freedom!)
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb220211.htm

Like the streets of Cairo, Lebanon's camps are starting to cry "Hurriya!" The camps here have birthed new leadership, aided by the old, that will anticipate that the new government will respect the words of the Resistance and enact in Parliament the full Right to Work and repeal the discriminatory 2001 law that criminalizes Palestinian home ownership


Israeli Army Will Cash In On Egypt's Upheavals
By Jonathan Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook220211.htm

Israel has been indulging in a sustained bout of fear-mongering since the Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak was toppled earlier this month. The ostensible aim has been to warn the international community that the lengthy "cold peace" between the two countries is on the verge of collapse


Egyptian Uprising Overthrows Its Zionist Master
By Bob Finch

http://www.countercurrents.org/finch220211.htm

What was so marvelous about Egyptians' uprising was not merely the overthrow of a tyrant, but the overthrow of a zionist puppet who'd been imposed upon them by the Zionist state and its gigantic American satellite. It was also the western public's refusal to be manipulated by zionists' propaganda onslaught against the uprising


Blind Human Rights Lawyer Beaten
And Isolated In Chinese Crackdown
By Bill Quigley

http://www.countercurrents.org/quigley220211.htm

Chen Guangcheng, a blind, 39-year-old, self-taught, human rights lawyer in China who was recently released after years in prison has been put in home detention, isolated and beaten by authorities


The Great War Machine Rolls On Under Obama
By Sherwood Ross

http://www.countercurrents.org/ross220211.htm

Under President Barack Obama's new budget for fiscal year 2012, the Great American War Machine just rolls on and on


The Godhra Verdict And Selective Amnesia
By Farzana Versey

http://www.countercurrents.org/versey220211.htm

The man who was all along considered the mastermind behind the burning train has been acquitted. This should tell us just how justice is being dished out in this case


Myth Of Vibrant Gujarat
By Ram Puniyani

http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani220211.htm

Nearly nine years after the carnage of Gujarat (Feb 2011), a perception has been created that Gujarat is developing with rapid strides, there is all peace and harmony and minorities are happy. Like 'Shining India' a word has been coined, 'Vibrant Gujarat'. Nothing can be farther from truth


Maoist Kidnappings: Who Gains
By The Blame Game?
By S.G.Vombatkere

http://www.countercurrents.org/vombatkere220211.htm

The real and obvious agony of the families of these two officials (and the families of others killed in Maoist attacks and ambushes) is brought out by the electronic media, but it ignores the agony of families of thousands of adivasi people who have been victims of governments' economic violence and police depredations over the decades. Is the electronic media being impartial or partisan?


A Million Workers To March In Delhi
By Communist Ghadar Party of India

http://www.countercurrents.org/cgpi220211.htm

Over 1 million workers from all accross India are expected to participate in a massive rally in front of the parliament of India on February 23, 2011. Here is a call to action from Communist Ghadar Party of India


Waging War on Chicago Workers
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman220211.htm

For decades, Chicago's business community profited handsomely under father and son Daley and other city mayors in between. No matter who next heads city government, they're comfortable knowing nothing ahead will change, except Chicago workers facing harder than ever hard times ahead, the city's broad shoulders affording them no space


National Seminar Rejects UID Number Project
By Dr Anuja

http://www.countercurrents.org/anuja220211.htm

Participants Endorsed the Statement of Concern on UID Number Seeking Stoppage of the Scheme


The Collaborator By Mirza Waheed
By Abhijit Dutta

http://www.countercurrents.org/dutta220211.htm

A review of the recently published book The Collaborator by Mirza Waheed


The Great Financial Crisis:
The Infallible Mainstream - Part I
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury220211.htm

The Great Financial Crisis has shown "higher" level of knowledge, wisdom and infallibility of the mainstream. Its democratic practices, accountability, etc. that it strives to teach the poor countries have also been confirmed by the crisis. These are the reasons behind its arrogance and feeling proud, its moral standing to sermon leaders of poor countries. Generous reference of the mainstream is enough to stay informed of its business


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