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Action Alert
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India Employing Israeli Oppression Tactics In Kashmir
By Jimmy Johnson
http://www.countercurrents.org/johnson190810.htm
Israel's pacification efforts against Palestinians have proven valuable for the Indian police, army and intelligence services in their campaigns to pacify Jammu and Kashmir with numerous Indian military and security imports from Israel leading the way
Fresh Clashes Wound Dozens In Kashmir
While A Wounded Boy Dies
By Sheikh Imran Bashir
http://www.countercurrents.org/bashir190810.htm
Eight people including two girls got wounded one of them critical when police and CRPF troopers opened fired on a protest march at Soura on the city outskirts. Earlier in the day, eight-year-old Milat Ahmad Dar succumbed to injuries in SKIMS where he had been admitted on last Saturday in a critical condition. Reports here said the boy was playing with his friends in Harnagh village when a bullet fired by security men hit him
Kashmir Protests: What Do They Want?
By Majid Maqbool
http://www.countercurrents.org/maqbool190810.htm
Nights have become new days in Kashmir. People protest late into the nights, sleepless. On the streets, in every mosque, in the lanes and by-lanes of every locality, only one cry reverberates in the air -- Azadi!.
Why WikiLeaks Must Be Protected
By John Pilger
http://www.countercurrents.org/pilger190810.htm
In a nation that claims its constitution protects truth-tellers, the Obama administration is pursuing and prosecuting more whistleblowers than any of its modern predecessors. A Pentagon document states bluntly that US intelligence intends to "fatally marginalize" WikiLeaks. The preferred tactic is smear, with corporate journalists ever ready to play their part
10 Ways You Can Help Save Bradley Manning
By Bradleymanning.org
http://www.countercurrents.org/manning190810.htm
I'm just one person, what can I do to help save Bradley Manning? Our network is made up of people as well as organizations. Even if you are all on your own, there are many ways you can reach out in your community and beyond. Here are 10 ways people can get involved
Reflections On Humanitarianism
By Iqbal Alimohamed
http://www.countercurrents.org/alimohamed190810.htm
Today, 19th August, is World Humanitarian Day, declared by the United Nations to honor humanitarian workers who have lost their lives in the cause of duty. The Day is a tribute to the memory of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the late Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General, and 21 of his colleagues, who were killed in the tragic bombing of the United Nations Headquarters in Baghdad on 19th August, 2003
Assassination In Afghanistan And Task Force 373
By Pratap Chatterjee
http://www.countercurrents.org/chatterjee190810.htm
Task Force 373 may be a nightmare for Afghans. For the rest of us -- now that Wikileaks has flushed it into the open -- it should be seen as a symptom of deeper policy disasters. After all, it raises a basic question: Is this country really going to become known as a global Manhunters, Inc.?
The Internet Belongs To Us -- Tell The FCC To Stop
The Dangerous Google/Verizon Deal
By Amalia Deloney and Joshua Breitbart
http://www.countercurrents.org/amalia190810.htm
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski seems to see his role as a broker among corporate interests, not as their regulator. This has to change
'Iran Will Block Hormuz If Attacked'
By Press Tv
http://www.countercurrents.org/ptv190810.htm
A senior Iranian military official says Iran will take full control of the Strait of Hormuz should Washington opt to launch aggression against Iran
Playing The Never Again Card, Again
By Jeff Gates
http://www.countercurrents.org/gates190810.htm
The phony intelligence used to induce our March 2003 invasion of Iraq has been dusted off. This time it's being deployed to take us into Iran. Same scam. Same storyline. Same fraud—even featuring some of the same players
Israel Will Attack Iran: Will Israel Attack Iran?!
By Kourosh Ziabari
http://www.countercurrents.org/ziabari190810.htm
Those who mastermind the U.S.-directed psychological operation against Iran have obliviously forgotten that we're now accustomed to seeing the uninteresting, exhausting charade of "will attack Iran"; you put the subject for it, either the United States or Israel
Last Of The Combat Troops Leaving Iraq?
Only In Your Dreams
By Bill Noxid
http://www.countercurrents.org/noxid190810.htm
Watching MSNBC's coverage of 'the last combat troops leaving Iraq' for 3 hours reminded of a few brutal realities that still plague this country and this planet. The first being just how far this country remains from any semblance of reality. It's the kind of delusional denial that truly can only be believed when witnessed from within
US Claims End Of Combat Operations
As Violence Mounts In Iraq
By Bill Van Auken
http://www.countercurrents.org/auken190810.htm
The White House and the Pentagon on Wednesday declared that the departure of a Stryker Brigade from Iraq marked the end of US combat operations, despite escalating violence in the country and the continued presence of tens of thousands of American troops
As Pakistan Drowns, Washington Focuses
On Security Threats
By Patrick Martin
http://www.countercurrents.org/martin190810.htm
As the toll of death and destruction in Pakistan from unprecedented flooding continues to mount, US government officials and the American media are raising concerns not over the colossal human tragedy, but over the potential threat to political stability and US security interests in the region, the focus of American military action for nearly nine years
Victimization And A Cultural Center
By Dan Lieberman
http://www.countercurrents.org/lieberman190810.htm
The polarizing debate continues, gathering steam with political implications; mosque or no mosque on Park Place, two city blocks from 'ground zero.' Guided by emotions, all of which are not entirely clear, and by spurious concepts, which proceed from conditioned thought, the negative reactions to the construction of an Islamic complex in New York City disintegrate from the force of logic and analysis
Invitation To Join 350 EARTH:
A Global Satellite Art Project
By Bill McKibben
http://www.countercurrents.org/mckibben190810.htm
On Nov. 27 (the opening weekend of the next big U.N. climate conference, in Cancun, Mexico), in 20 places around the world, we'll be gathering huge numbers of people -- thousands at a time. Some will be in deserts, some on snowfields, some wading out into warm lagoons -- anyplace with a good background. They will use their bodies to make giant images. And our good friends at Digital Globe Satellite will take their pictures from outer space
What If There's Much Less Coal Than We Think?
By David Roberts
http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts190810.htm
The current issue of the scientific journal Energy contains "A global coal production forecast with multi-Hubbert cycle analysis," by Tad Patzek and Gregory Croft. (Just the name gives you a tingle, right?) It's somewhat technical, but the main point is fairly clear: A realistic look at coal reserves yields grim results. The global peak of coal production from existing coalfields is predicted to occur close to the year 2011
Peak Everything: Preface To The Paperback Edition
By Richard Heinberg
http://www.countercurrents.org/heinberg190810.htm
In titling this book "Peak Everything," I was suggesting that humanity has achieved an unsustainable pinnacle of population size and consumption rates, and that the road ahead will be mostly downhill—at least for the next few decades, until our species has learned to live within Earth's resource limits
The "Other" Carbon Problem — Ocean Acidification
By Dave Cohen
http://www.countercurrents.org/cohen190810.htm
Robert H. Byrne of the University of South Florida has shown that in just the past 15 years, acidity has increased 6 percent in the upper 100 meters of the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii to Alaska. Across the planet, the average pH of the ocean's surface layer has declined 0.12 unit, to approximately 8.1, since the beginning of the industrial revolution.It equates to a 30 percent increase in acidity. Values of pH measure hydrogen ions (H+) in solution
Palestine: Occupied, Divided, Isolated,
Oppressed And Unaided
By Stephen Lendman
http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman190810.htm
Palestinians live in constant fear, collectively punished, politically denied, and economically strangled in a continuing cycle of violence. Military orders deny free expression and movement, enclose population centers, close borders, and impose curfews, checkpoints, roadblocks, separation walls, electric fences, dispossessions, land seizures, and domination over all aspects of life under draconian military orders
When Settlers Attack....Today
(And Everyday) In The West Bank
By Yousef
http://www.countercurrents.org/yousef190810.htm
Settler violence against Palestinian civilians is a daily event in the occupied West Bank and it deserves more acute attention
Legal Victory For BDS Campaigners
By Dr. Hanan Chehata
http://www.countercurrents.org/chehata190810.htm
Charges against four Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigners have been dropped in London because of the clearly illegal activities of an Israeli cosmetics firm against which the four had been demonstrating. The case threw up some unusual and possibly ground-breaking legal arguments
Israeli Settlers Expand Campaign
To Manipulate Entries On Wikipedia
By Saed Bannoura
http://www.countercurrents.org/bannoura190810.htm
'Wikipedia' has been targeted by Israeli governmental and non-governmental partisans since its inception, who have attempted to manipulate its contents to promote a Zionist agenda. This week, Israeli settlers launched a course for right-wing Israelis interested in helping to manipulate the contents of entries on the online encyclopedia
Palestinian Female Prisoners And
The Struggle For Freedom
By Reham Alhelsi
http://www.countercurrents.org/alhelsi190810.htm
Since 1967 more than 800,000 Palestinians, including 15,000 Palestinian women, were detained by the Zionist entity
The Fire of Resistance VS Nuclear Weapons
By Eileen Fleming
http://www.countercurrents.org/fleming190810.htm
On Monday morning, August 16th, 14 nonviolent peace activists were arrested after blocking a Caterpillar truck on the site of a proposed WMD Facility in Kansas City, Missouri
Part Tinker Bell, Part Predator Drone:
The Fantasy Of The Presidency As Deus ex Machina
By Phil Rockstroh
http://www.countercurrents.org/rockstroh190810.htm
Behind the stagecraft is oligarchy. President Obama took millions from Goldman Sachs, et al. If there is a Captain Hook in this show, it is those Wall Street pirates who threw the global economy to the crocodiles for their ill-gotten gains
Raising A Child With Asperger's Syndrome
By Sherwood Ross
http://www.countercurrents.org/ross190810.htm
And if the wife is also battling skin cancer and has one child with Asperger's Syndrome, and another with anorexia, she is apt to write a book about her trials as Shonda Schilling has done, titled, "The Best Kind of Different: Our Family's Journey with Asperger's Syndrome(HarperCollins)." Fortunately, Shonda was a journalism major at Towson State College, Maryland, and knows how to tell a difficult story
Labour, Labour Everywhere, But Not A Job To Find
By Sadanand Patwardhan
http://www.countercurrents.org/patwardhan190810.htm
An Economist article advises India to do away with or at least weed away vigorously labour legislations
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From: Countercurrents <editor@countercurrents.org>
Date: Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:10 AM
Subject: CC Issue 19 August - India Employing Israeli Oppression Tactics In Kashmir
To: palashbiswaskl@gmail.com
Dear Friend,
If you think the content of this news letter is critical for the dignified living and survival of humanity and other species on earth, please forward it to your friends and spread the word.It's time humanity should come together as one family! You can subscribe to our news letter here http://www.countercurrents.org/subscribe.htm
In Solidarity
Binu Mathew
Press Release
http://www.countercurrents.org/pressrelease.htm
Action Alert
http://www.countercurrents.org/actionalert.htm
India Employing Israeli Oppression Tactics In Kashmir
By Jimmy Johnson
http://www.countercurrents.org/johnson190810.htm
Israel's pacification efforts against Palestinians have proven valuable for the Indian police, army and intelligence services in their campaigns to pacify Jammu and Kashmir with numerous Indian military and security imports from Israel leading the way
Fresh Clashes Wound Dozens In Kashmir
While A Wounded Boy Dies
By Sheikh Imran Bashir
http://www.countercurrents.org/bashir190810.htm
Eight people including two girls got wounded one of them critical when police and CRPF troopers opened fired on a protest march at Soura on the city outskirts. Earlier in the day, eight-year-old Milat Ahmad Dar succumbed to injuries in SKIMS where he had been admitted on last Saturday in a critical condition. Reports here said the boy was playing with his friends in Harnagh village when a bullet fired by security men hit him
Kashmir Protests: What Do They Want?
By Majid Maqbool
http://www.countercurrents.org/maqbool190810.htm
Nights have become new days in Kashmir. People protest late into the nights, sleepless. On the streets, in every mosque, in the lanes and by-lanes of every locality, only one cry reverberates in the air -- Azadi!.
Why WikiLeaks Must Be Protected
By John Pilger
http://www.countercurrents.org/pilger190810.htm
In a nation that claims its constitution protects truth-tellers, the Obama administration is pursuing and prosecuting more whistleblowers than any of its modern predecessors. A Pentagon document states bluntly that US intelligence intends to "fatally marginalize" WikiLeaks. The preferred tactic is smear, with corporate journalists ever ready to play their part
10 Ways You Can Help Save Bradley Manning
By Bradleymanning.org
http://www.countercurrents.org/manning190810.htm
I'm just one person, what can I do to help save Bradley Manning? Our network is made up of people as well as organizations. Even if you are all on your own, there are many ways you can reach out in your community and beyond. Here are 10 ways people can get involved
Reflections On Humanitarianism
By Iqbal Alimohamed
http://www.countercurrents.org/alimohamed190810.htm
Today, 19th August, is World Humanitarian Day, declared by the United Nations to honor humanitarian workers who have lost their lives in the cause of duty. The Day is a tribute to the memory of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the late Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General, and 21 of his colleagues, who were killed in the tragic bombing of the United Nations Headquarters in Baghdad on 19th August, 2003
Assassination In Afghanistan And Task Force 373
By Pratap Chatterjee
http://www.countercurrents.org/chatterjee190810.htm
Task Force 373 may be a nightmare for Afghans. For the rest of us -- now that Wikileaks has flushed it into the open -- it should be seen as a symptom of deeper policy disasters. After all, it raises a basic question: Is this country really going to become known as a global Manhunters, Inc.?
The Internet Belongs To Us -- Tell The FCC To Stop
The Dangerous Google/Verizon Deal
By Amalia Deloney and Joshua Breitbart
http://www.countercurrents.org/amalia190810.htm
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski seems to see his role as a broker among corporate interests, not as their regulator. This has to change
'Iran Will Block Hormuz If Attacked'
By Press Tv
http://www.countercurrents.org/ptv190810.htm
A senior Iranian military official says Iran will take full control of the Strait of Hormuz should Washington opt to launch aggression against Iran
Playing The Never Again Card, Again
By Jeff Gates
http://www.countercurrents.org/gates190810.htm
The phony intelligence used to induce our March 2003 invasion of Iraq has been dusted off. This time it's being deployed to take us into Iran. Same scam. Same storyline. Same fraud—even featuring some of the same players
Israel Will Attack Iran: Will Israel Attack Iran?!
By Kourosh Ziabari
http://www.countercurrents.org/ziabari190810.htm
Those who mastermind the U.S.-directed psychological operation against Iran have obliviously forgotten that we're now accustomed to seeing the uninteresting, exhausting charade of "will attack Iran"; you put the subject for it, either the United States or Israel
Last Of The Combat Troops Leaving Iraq?
Only In Your Dreams
By Bill Noxid
http://www.countercurrents.org/noxid190810.htm
Watching MSNBC's coverage of 'the last combat troops leaving Iraq' for 3 hours reminded of a few brutal realities that still plague this country and this planet. The first being just how far this country remains from any semblance of reality. It's the kind of delusional denial that truly can only be believed when witnessed from within
US Claims End Of Combat Operations
As Violence Mounts In Iraq
By Bill Van Auken
http://www.countercurrents.org/auken190810.htm
The White House and the Pentagon on Wednesday declared that the departure of a Stryker Brigade from Iraq marked the end of US combat operations, despite escalating violence in the country and the continued presence of tens of thousands of American troops
As Pakistan Drowns, Washington Focuses
On Security Threats
By Patrick Martin
http://www.countercurrents.org/martin190810.htm
As the toll of death and destruction in Pakistan from unprecedented flooding continues to mount, US government officials and the American media are raising concerns not over the colossal human tragedy, but over the potential threat to political stability and US security interests in the region, the focus of American military action for nearly nine years
Victimization And A Cultural Center
By Dan Lieberman
http://www.countercurrents.org/lieberman190810.htm
The polarizing debate continues, gathering steam with political implications; mosque or no mosque on Park Place, two city blocks from 'ground zero.' Guided by emotions, all of which are not entirely clear, and by spurious concepts, which proceed from conditioned thought, the negative reactions to the construction of an Islamic complex in New York City disintegrate from the force of logic and analysis
Invitation To Join 350 EARTH:
A Global Satellite Art Project
By Bill McKibben
http://www.countercurrents.org/mckibben190810.htm
On Nov. 27 (the opening weekend of the next big U.N. climate conference, in Cancun, Mexico), in 20 places around the world, we'll be gathering huge numbers of people -- thousands at a time. Some will be in deserts, some on snowfields, some wading out into warm lagoons -- anyplace with a good background. They will use their bodies to make giant images. And our good friends at Digital Globe Satellite will take their pictures from outer space
What If There's Much Less Coal Than We Think?
By David Roberts
http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts190810.htm
The current issue of the scientific journal Energy contains "A global coal production forecast with multi-Hubbert cycle analysis," by Tad Patzek and Gregory Croft. (Just the name gives you a tingle, right?) It's somewhat technical, but the main point is fairly clear: A realistic look at coal reserves yields grim results. The global peak of coal production from existing coalfields is predicted to occur close to the year 2011
Peak Everything: Preface To The Paperback Edition
By Richard Heinberg
http://www.countercurrents.org/heinberg190810.htm
In titling this book "Peak Everything," I was suggesting that humanity has achieved an unsustainable pinnacle of population size and consumption rates, and that the road ahead will be mostly downhill—at least for the next few decades, until our species has learned to live within Earth's resource limits
The "Other" Carbon Problem — Ocean Acidification
By Dave Cohen
http://www.countercurrents.org/cohen190810.htm
Robert H. Byrne of the University of South Florida has shown that in just the past 15 years, acidity has increased 6 percent in the upper 100 meters of the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii to Alaska. Across the planet, the average pH of the ocean's surface layer has declined 0.12 unit, to approximately 8.1, since the beginning of the industrial revolution.It equates to a 30 percent increase in acidity. Values of pH measure hydrogen ions (H+) in solution
Palestine: Occupied, Divided, Isolated,
Oppressed And Unaided
By Stephen Lendman
http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman190810.htm
Palestinians live in constant fear, collectively punished, politically denied, and economically strangled in a continuing cycle of violence. Military orders deny free expression and movement, enclose population centers, close borders, and impose curfews, checkpoints, roadblocks, separation walls, electric fences, dispossessions, land seizures, and domination over all aspects of life under draconian military orders
When Settlers Attack....Today
(And Everyday) In The West Bank
By Yousef
http://www.countercurrents.org/yousef190810.htm
Settler violence against Palestinian civilians is a daily event in the occupied West Bank and it deserves more acute attention
Legal Victory For BDS Campaigners
By Dr. Hanan Chehata
http://www.countercurrents.org/chehata190810.htm
Charges against four Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigners have been dropped in London because of the clearly illegal activities of an Israeli cosmetics firm against which the four had been demonstrating. The case threw up some unusual and possibly ground-breaking legal arguments
Israeli Settlers Expand Campaign
To Manipulate Entries On Wikipedia
By Saed Bannoura
http://www.countercurrents.org/bannoura190810.htm
'Wikipedia' has been targeted by Israeli governmental and non-governmental partisans since its inception, who have attempted to manipulate its contents to promote a Zionist agenda. This week, Israeli settlers launched a course for right-wing Israelis interested in helping to manipulate the contents of entries on the online encyclopedia
Palestinian Female Prisoners And
The Struggle For Freedom
By Reham Alhelsi
http://www.countercurrents.org/alhelsi190810.htm
Since 1967 more than 800,000 Palestinians, including 15,000 Palestinian women, were detained by the Zionist entity
The Fire of Resistance VS Nuclear Weapons
By Eileen Fleming
http://www.countercurrents.org/fleming190810.htm
On Monday morning, August 16th, 14 nonviolent peace activists were arrested after blocking a Caterpillar truck on the site of a proposed WMD Facility in Kansas City, Missouri
Part Tinker Bell, Part Predator Drone:
The Fantasy Of The Presidency As Deus ex Machina
By Phil Rockstroh
http://www.countercurrents.org/rockstroh190810.htm
Behind the stagecraft is oligarchy. President Obama took millions from Goldman Sachs, et al. If there is a Captain Hook in this show, it is those Wall Street pirates who threw the global economy to the crocodiles for their ill-gotten gains
Raising A Child With Asperger's Syndrome
By Sherwood Ross
http://www.countercurrents.org/ross190810.htm
And if the wife is also battling skin cancer and has one child with Asperger's Syndrome, and another with anorexia, she is apt to write a book about her trials as Shonda Schilling has done, titled, "The Best Kind of Different: Our Family's Journey with Asperger's Syndrome(HarperCollins)." Fortunately, Shonda was a journalism major at Towson State College, Maryland, and knows how to tell a difficult story
Labour, Labour Everywhere, But Not A Job To Find
By Sadanand Patwardhan
http://www.countercurrents.org/patwardhan190810.htm
An Economist article advises India to do away with or at least weed away vigorously labour legislations
Countercurrents And You !
Click here to find out
how you can support CC
http://www.countercurrents.org/subscription.htm
You can unsubscribe from this news letter here
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