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A Looming Oxygen Crisis And Its Impact On World's Oceans
By Carl Zimmer

http://www.countercurrents.org/zimmer060810.htm

As warming intensifies, scientists warn, the oxygen content of oceans across the planet could be more and more diminished, with serious consequences for the future of fish and other sea life. In some places, the oxygen is getting so scarce that fish and other animals cannot survive. They can either leave the oxygen-free waters or die. The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium reported this week that this year's so-called "dead zone" covers 7,722 square miles


Coming Of Age In Hiroshima
By Jane Braxton Little

http://www.countercurrents.org/little060810.htm

65 years later, what we can learn—and why we still can't forget


Jews Rejoice At Overturn Of Gay Marriage Ban
By Rabbi Michael Lerner

http://www.countercurrents.org/lerner060810.htm

Homosexuals were with us in Auschwitz and were persecuted along with Jews throughout Western societies for the past several thousand years, so we stand with them in the struggle for full acceptance and full legal equality, including marriage equality, in the 21st century. But even had they not shared our fate, the denial of rights and the double standards used to justify such denials are always a threat to Jews as well as to everyone else on the planet!


Katrina Pain Index 2010 New Orleans – Five Years Later
By Bill Quigley, Davida Finger & Lance Hill

http://www.countercurrents.org/quigley060810.htm

The challenges of post-Katrina New Orleans reflect the problems of many urban and suburban areas of the US – insufficient affordable rents, racially segregated schools with falling populations, great disparities in income by color of households, serious pollution from remote uncaring corporations, and reductions in the public services like transportation. Katrina made these more visible five years ago and continues to make a great illustration of the US failures to treat all citizens with dignity and our failure to achieve our promise of liberty and justice for all


US War Criminals Threaten WikiLeaks,Private Manning
By Patrick Martin

http://www.countercurrents.org/martin060810.htm

The most strident rhetoric has come from the ultra-right. Republican Congressman Mike Rogers of Michigan, a former FBI agent who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, told a local radio station Monday that he thought the death penalty would be appropriate punishment for Manning if he is convicted on charges of leaking classified military documents to WikiLeaks


German Media Attack WikiLeaks
By Johannes Stern

http://www.countercurrents.org/stern060810.htm

Although the documents expose the true face of the dirty colonial war in Afghanistan, and certain reports in Der Spiegel and in the Süddeutsche Zeitung have reported the facts, there has hardly been any critical analysis in the German media regarding the contents of the documents. Instead, editorial writers have tried to downplay their importance, while attacking WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. After a few days, the issue disappeared almost completely from the media


Israel's Teenage Barbarians At Al-Arakib
By Lawrence Davidson

http://www.countercurrents.org/davidson060810.htm

Lawrence Davidson considers the role played by Israeli youths in the construction of fascism in Israel, most recently during an operation to ethnically cleanse non-Jewish citizens of Israel from a village in the Negev, where teenage students had been bussed in to hound the villagers out of their homes and act as cheerleaders during the ethnic cleansing


Negev Village Torn Down For Second Time
By Jonathan Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook060810.htm

Israeli security forces destroyed a Bedouin village this week for the second time in a matter of days, leaving 300 inhabitants homeless again after they and dozens of Jewish and Arab volunteers had begun rebuilding the 45 homes


Israel Says Ancient Muslim Gravestones
'Built Illegally'
By Soraya Bauwens-Nuseibeh

http://www.countercurrents.org/soraya060810.htm

Israel's Jerusalem Municipality said Thursday that tombstones razed by authorities a day earlier in a 12th-century Muslim cemetery were "built illegally with the aim to take over the plot."


Palestinians Denied Access To Water
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman060810.htm

According to OCHA (the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs), Palestinians face a serious water crisis, being denied access to their own resources


Attacking Iran: US Options
By Gwynne Dyer

http://www.countercurrents.org/dyer060810.htm

When Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the highest-ranking American officer, was asked recently on NBC's Meet The Press show whether the United States has a military plan for an attack on Iran, he replied simply: "We do."


Economic Justification For America's Next War
By Gulam Mitha

http://www.countercurrents.org/mitha060810.htm

China and Russia have both supported the Iran sanctions and that they do not intend to be left out of a business expansion due to the forthcoming war, most likely in Iran. China and Russia have been past beneficiaries of Afghanistan and Iraq wars also. There is no bigger corporate profits, higher government taxes and consumer spending than in wars. But the costs in human lives and sufferings cannot be condoned


Gulf Residents Likely Face Decades of
Psychological Impact From BP's Oil Disaster
By Dahr Jamail

http://www.countercurrents.org/jamail060810.htm

While the devastating ecological impacts of BP's oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico are obvious, the less visible but also long-lasting psychological, community and personal impacts could be worse, according to social scientists, psychologists and psychiatrists


An Interview With Dahr Jamail
By Frank Joseph Smecker

http://www.countercurrents.org/smecker060810.htm

War of the World: How the American Empire Project Trashed a Planet for Profit, While Selling the Public Lies


Environment Ministry Directs Orissa Government
To Stop Work On The POSCO Project
By Campaign for Survival And Dignity

http://www.countercurrents.org/csd060810.htm

The Environment Ministry today finally issued a welcome but ambiguous order directing the Orissa government to stop work on the POSCO project and the illegal process of forest land takeovers that is taking place. While giving some immediate relief by stopping the illegal land grabbing that the Orissa government started last week, the order is silent on the basic issue: the illegal forest clearance granted by the Ministry on December 29, 2009


Kashmir: Peaceful Protests Continues,
Five Wounded In Sopore
By Sheikh Imran Bashir

http://www.countercurrents.org/bashir060810.htm

After seven days of consistent news of deaths and violence, the Kashmir Valley on Friday witnessed less-violent protests amid rains and strict imposition of curfew. One youth was, however, critically injured in security forces' action in north Kashmir


Maut ka Saudagar And His World!
By Mustafa Khan

http://www.countercurrents.org/mkhan060810.htm

The arrest trail of the holygrail that is Swami Asimanand in the Dangs and the rigmarole over the bail of Babu Bajrangi, and Abhay Chaudasma's claim that he had saved Sohrabuddin from getting mired into Haren Pandya murder show new evidence that the parent body of the sangh family RSS has birthed so many


Should India Set Up A Sovereign Wealth Fund?
By Kavaljit Singh

http://www.countercurrents.org/ksingh060810.htm

New Delhi's proposal to establish a $10-billion sovereign wealth fund should be treated with caution. The necessary preconditions for setting up a SWF are squarely lacking in India. Besides, the purported objectives of the fund to pursue strategic investment opportunities abroad are highly debatable


60 Years Of Constitutional Rights Denied To
20 Millions Indian Dalit Christians
By Madhu Chandra

http://www.countercurrents.org/chandra060810.htm

A million dollar worth question in the minds of Indian Dalit Christians is "Will the Government of India take up Dalit Christian issue this time?" The Supreme Court of India has informed on February 16, 2010 in hearing of Dalit Christian reservation case that Government of India is considering implementing the recommendation of Misra Commission. The commission report has suggested to De-link Religion from Scheduled Caste and Dalits who, irrespective of their religion, suffer caste stigma and Scheduled Caste status to should be given all Dalits irrespective of their religions


Learning To Fly? Iran's Protest On
Pink Floyd Wings
By Farzana Versey

http://www.countercurrents.org/versey060810.htm

"Hey Ayatollah, Leave Those Kids Alone!" sing two Iranian-born brothers. Their band is named Blurred Vision. Some thoughts


Is Muslim Majority Bangladesh Poised
To Convert Into A Secular Nation?
By Saleem Samad

http://www.countercurrents.org/samad060810.htm

The Bangladesh Supreme Court in its landmark verdict forbids political parties which advocates Islamic philosophy. The apex court also asked to reinstate the four key principles in the constitution which existed 38 years ago


Hawkins Campaign Hits 15,000 As Cuomo Sweats
By Billy Wharton

http://www.countercurrents.org/wharton060810.htm

For the last three weeks, a motley crew of volunteers and campaign workers have spread out across New York State, petitions in hand, intent on placing the name Howie Hawkins – Green Party on the ballot. Restrictive ballot access laws make this a challenge. Not only does the campaign need 15,000 signatures, 25,000 to be safe, from registered voters, these have to come from one-half of the congressional districts in the state. No easy task for an underdog third party

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