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Can We Calculate The True Cost Of Our Dependence On Oil?
By Mark Engler

http://www.countercurrents.org/engler120810.htm

By the mid-2000s, BP was making some $20 billion per year in profits. The numbers looked good. Of course, these are not the only numbers to consider. In fact, in the wake of BP's disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, they don't seem like the right numbers at all. It's time for a different accounting: What has that catastrophic spill cost our society? What price do we pay for our dependence on oil? How do we measure these things?


Disasters Could Push Food Prices Up
By Aljazeera

http://www.countercurrents.org/aljazeera120810.htm

Fires, floods, locusts and droughts - a combination of crises that could mean higher food prices around the world over the next 12 months. The US agriculture department will release a report on Thursday assessing world grain supplies. Many analysts expect it will forecast a two-year low for wheat inventories - an estimate that would likely send wheat prices, which have climbed steadily all summer, moving even higher


Global Markets Plunge On Fears Of Deeper Slump
By Patrick O'Connor

http://www.countercurrents.org/oconnor120810.htm

Stock markets in the US and internationally closed sharply lower yesterday amid growing fears of a "double-dip" recession. A worse than expected American trade deficit, the downward revision of US gross domestic product (GDP) growth, slowing growth in China, and evidence of Federal Reserve fears of deflation all contributed to the financial markets' anxiety


Gaza, Soweto And African American Thought:
A Message Of Enlightenment
By Bishop Donald Corder

http://www.countercurrents.org/corder120810.htm

We can choose to educate ourselves or not. All do not have same access to the political apparatus and even fewer are heard and respected. But, we can touch the lives of those persons who cross our paths and maybe conversation will ensue and the rippling effects of such dialogues might just change or even save a life


Net Neutrality Threatened
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman120810.htm

Now the Internet is up for grabs, the last free expression space, threatened by profiteering predators partnered with a Capitol Hill/administration criminal class. Under Title II of the 1934 Telecommunications Act, FCC officials can stop this piracy, using its delegated authority to write rules, not pass the buck to Congress or let industry giants self-regulate. With digital democracy on the line, it's high time public outrage demanded nothing less. The stakes are that high


FAQ On Boycott, Divestment, And Sanctions
By IMEU

http://www.countercurrents.org/imeu120810.htm

What is BDS? What are the goals of BDS? Who is calling for BDS? What are some examples of how BDS was used during Apartheid in South Africa?


Resistance, Steadfastness And Pride
By Reham Alhelsi

http://www.countercurrents.org/alhelsi120810.htm

According to latest reports on Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails there are over 7200 Palestinian prisoners, including 291 children, 36 women and 203 administrative detainees. Among the over 7200 Palestinians prisoners currently in Israeli jails three have spent over 30 years in jail


U.S. Leading The Terror In Afghanistan
By Ghali Hassan

http://www.countercurrents.org/hassan120810.htm

The U.S.-led war on Afghanistan is like the U.S.-led war on Iraq; to destroy the country and to indiscriminately kill large numbers of Afghan civilians. The aim is to terrorise the civilian population into submission using the so-called "War on Terrorism" as a cover-up for a U.S.-led war of terror


U.S. Urges Allies To Crack Down On WikiLeaks
By Philip Shenon

http://www.countercurrents.org/shenon120810.htm

The Obama administration is pressing Britain, Germany, Australia, and other allied Western governments to consider opening criminal investigations of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and to severely limit his nomadic travels across international borders, American officials say


US -- Venezuela: The Empire Strikes Back (And Loses)
By James Petras

http://www.countercurrents.org/petras120810.htm

US policy toward Venezuela has taken many tactical turns, but the objective has been the same: to oust President Chavez, reverse the nationalization of big businesses, abolish the mass community and worker based councils and revert the country into a client-state


The Omar Khadr Travesty
By Glenn Greenwald

http://www.countercurrents.org/greenwald120810.htm

The commission has already ruled that confessions made by Khadr which were clearly obtained through coercion, abuse and torture will be admitted as evidence against him. Prior to the commencement of Khadr's "trial," the commission ruled in another case that the sentence imposed on a Sudanese detainee Ibrahim al-Qosi — convicted as part of a plea bargain of the dastardly crime of being Osama bin Laden's "cook" — will be kept secret until he is released. What kind of country has secret sentences?


How Green Revolution Played Havoc With
Mexican Agriculture
By Devinder Sharma

http://www.countercurrents.org/dsharma120810.htm

Mexico is the land of origin of the Green Revolution. It is here that the so called miracle seeds of dwarf wheat were first evolved. Norman Borlaug's wheat magic did cast a spell in far away India, which spread like a wild fire across the developing world. It literally sowed the seeds of what was later dubbed as the Green Revolution


The Pavlov Response And The Cordoba House
By Dan Lieberman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lieberman120810.htm

Reactions to the construction of Cordoba House reveal more than ingrained prejudice and hypocrisy; they reveal jealousy, incomprehensible attitudes of self-importance, condescension, and patronization, ignorance that emphasizes separation, and a possible conspiracy that can easily pass unnoticed


A 'Mosque' Should Be Built At Ground Zero
By Brita Rose

http://www.countercurrents.org/rose120810.htm

Almost a decade since 9/11 it is surprising how little we have learned. Still plagued by xenophobia and Islamophobia in the U.S., it is hard for many Americans to identify who the enemy actually is in this so-called 'war on terror'. Sadly nothing has brought this to light more clearly than the current controversy over the supposed Mosque to be built at Ground Zero


No Anarchy Due To Article 370
By Abdul Majid Zargar

http://www.countercurrents.org/zargar120810.htm

What Advani ji has concealed from Indian public is that there are similar articles in the Indian constitution bestowing special position to other States as well. For instance Article 371A gives special position to Naga land. Similarly Article 371B & 371C bestow special positions to Assam & Manipur.However, abolition of these articles is not in the scheme of Advani Ji's things for obvious reasons


Excuse The American Left Mr. Gibbs
By Timothy V. Gatto

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatto120810.htm

Robert Gibbs complaining about the left shouldn't come as any big surprise. The Obama administration has ignored the left since its inception and will continue to do so. So Gibbs thinks we shouldn't complain that he's too centrist? What is that, double speak for waging war in faraway places?


Signals From Vijayawada And Lalgarh:
And Challenges Before Revolutionary Communists
By Dipankar Bhattacharya

http://www.countercurrents.org/dipankar120810.htm

The CPI(M) will have to pay the price for its opportunist sins and revolutionary communists can have no sympathy for it on this score. Any meaningful defence of the legacy and gains of the Indian communist movement and resistance to the anti-Left offensive of the ruling classes necessarily calls for a firm and decisive rejection of and struggle against the CPI(M)'s opportunism


From Darkness To Light: Night School
A Ray Of Hope For The Underprivileged
By S Mani

http://www.countercurrents.org/mani120810.htm

First night school in Mumbai was opened in 1885 by noted social reformer Mahatma Jyotiba Phule. The journey since then has reached to more than 150 schools. While others were just commenting about the infrastructure 39-year-old Nikita Ketkar an Indian Civil Services decided to change the things herself. After resigning from government services, she founded MASOOM an NGO and took up job of city's night schools. Help started pouring and she now aims to adopt all night schools of the state

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