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Materiel And personnel In Place For Military Intervention In Libya
By Julie Hyland

http://www.countercurrents.org/hyland020311.htm

The United States, Britain and the European powers are deepening their preparations for intervention in Libya, including military action. They hope to exploit the popular revolt against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi to take control of Libya's oil fields and establish a crucial base for further operations in the region under conditions where dictatorships on which they have relied for years are under siege


Peace And Justice Movement Should Oppose
U.S.-Led Intervention In Libya
By Horace Campbell

http://www.countercurrents.org/campbell020311.htm

As talk of potential Western military intervention grows, Democracy Now! speak to Horace Campbell, a professor of African American studies and political science at Syracuse University


Major Media Promote War On Libya
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman020311A.htm

When imperial America wants war, peace advocates are shut out by official rhetoric and hawkish media reports supporting militarism, not diplomatic efforts to achieve peace. Same thing is happening in the case of Libya too


Unverified Misreporting On Libya
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman020311B.htm

America's media, Britain's state-controlled BBC, other Western sources, and Al Jazeera are spreading unverified or false reports on Libya's uprising


Another Corporate-Inspired War?
By Timothy V. Gatto

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatto020311.htm

The news we are hearing about the situation in Libya is conflicted to say the least. In general, the facts presented to us by the mainstream media are sketchy. Reports of Libyan Air Force attacks on protestors are not substantiated in any of the news articles that I have had the opportunity to see, yet the U.S., the UK and NATO member States are calling for a No-Fly zone over Libya


Protests Spread Throughout Arabian Peninsula
By Alex Lantier

http://www.countercurrents.org/lantier020311.htm

Renewed popular protests hit Yemen, Oman and Bahrain yesterday. In addition to the increasing instability of regimes already facing mass opposition, there are signs that the protests that spread from Tunisia and Egypt to the Arabian Peninsula may also overtake Saudi Arabia and Kuwait


Police Defy Order To Clear Protesters
From Wisconsin Capitol
By Lindsay Beyerstein

http://www.countercurrents.org/beyerstein020311.htm

On Monday afternoon, the Capitol Police in Madison, Wisconsin refused to enforce an order to clear the Capitol building of hundreds of peaceful protesters who have been occupying the site to protest Governor Scott Walker's plan to eliminate the collective bargaining rights of public employees


Should Public Workers Make Concessions?
By Shamus Cooke

http://www.countercurrents.org/cooke020311.htm

As workers all over the U.S. become inspired by the massive demonstrations in Wisconsin, a dangerous idea is being voiced by some working-class allies that could unravel it all. The threat lies in the following argument: to protect the bargaining rights of unions, state and city workers must be prepared to make concessions over wages, benefits, etc. This line of reasoning is not only false to the core, it's suicidal


Confinement Conditions Persist For Bradley Manning
By David E. Coombs

http://www.countercurrents.org/coombs020311.htm

Despite a change in command at the Quantico Brig, PFC Manning remains in maximum custody and under prevention of injury watch


Can You Pass The Saudi Arabia Quiz?
By Jeffrey Rudolph

http://www.countercurrents.org/rudolph020311.htm

This quiz is an attempt to supplement the rather shallow coverage of Saudi Arabia provided in the mainstream media


The Enduring Mystique Of The Marshall Plan
By William Blum

http://www.countercurrents.org/blum020311.htm

Amidst all the stirring political upheavals in North Africa and the Middle East the name "Marshall Plan" keeps being repeated by political figures and media around the world as the key to rebuilding the economies of those societies to complement the political advances, which hopefully will be somewhat progressive. But caveat emptor. Let the buyer beware


$1.2 Trillion A Year: The Real
U.S. National Security Budget
By Chris Hellman

http://www.countercurrents.org/hellman020311.htm

If Americans were ever presented with the real bill for the total U.S. national security budget, it would actually add up to more than $1.2 trillion a year


Five Ways You Can Fight Citizens United
By Annie Leonard & Allison Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/leonard020311.htm

The Story of Citizens United v FEC: How we the people can reclaim our democracy


Supporting America's Ambassador of Peace
By Cathy Garger

http://www.countercurrents.org/garger020311.htm

Cindy Sheehan has spent the last six years of her life as the face of the peace movement, living quite sparsely and making great sacrifices most of us will never even know. Now it's our turn not merely to say thank you, but to show our gratitude in a tangible way and support Cindy Sheehan in terms of dollars and cents


Caught In The Food Pirates' Trap
By Devinder Sharma

http://www.countercurrents.org/dsharma020311.htm

Egypt paid the price, so will we if we ignore the Mahatma's prescription: production by the masses, not for the masses


Democracy In A Full World
By Srestha Banerjee

http://www.countercurrents.org/banerjee020311.htm

Thus, as much as we remain cheerful about "people's power", I wonder how long the cheer can be continued in face of such challenges of a full world! Will the joy of liberty in certain nations translate into woes of suffering of some others, where riot only means people's struggle to secure means for everyday sustenance!


A Perfect Storm: Tipping Points, Critical Mass,
And Dynamics Of The Egyptian Revolution
By Paula Cerni

http://www.countercurrents.org/cerni020311.htm

The Egyptian revolution might still suffer setbacks, but it cannot be undone. It will forever be a landmark in the struggle for freedom and democracy in Egypt, in Libya, and beyond


My Life As A Communist
By Bill McKibben

http://www.countercurrents.org/mckibben020311.htm

My life as a communist actually began without me knowing it, on Friday evening, when Glenn Beck spent his program explaining about a "communistic" conspiracy that included 10 groups in America. One was 350.org, a global campaign to fight climate change that I helped found three years ago. He even put our logo up on his whiteboard – and next to it a hammer and sickle


Hyderabad Muslim Youth - Enforced Ghettoization
By Raoof Mir

http://www.countercurrents.org/mir020311.htm

A major issue thus afflicting Muslim youth in Hyderabad is that of enforced ghettoization. Muslim youth in Hyderabad see discrimination in social, religious, and political spheres of life. The lack of education in particular hurts these Muslims youth most. Most of these Muslim youth feel that Muslims are being singled out for discrimination and held to a different standard than other religions because of deep rooted prejudice and the growing ideology of majoritarianism.


Census 2011: A Few Questions
By Shahidur Rashid Talukdar

http://www.countercurrents.org/talukdar020311.htm

The second point is the exercise of filling in these census forms by a pencil. It is supposed to be filled in with a ball point pen in front of the respondent so that it can't be changed later. However, this is again a widely shared discontent among many sections of people

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