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Subject: CC Issue 24 August - Nuclear Winter
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In Solidarity
Binu Mathew
Press Release
http://www.countercurrents.org/pressrelease.htm
Action Alert
http://www.countercurrents.org/actionalert.htm
US Drone Strike Destroys House Full Of Children In Pakistan
By Jason Ditz
http://www.countercurrents.org/ditz240810.htm
The Obama Administration's policy of escalating drone strikes took another hit today, after the explosion from a drone attack against the house of "suspected militants" in North Waziristan also destroyed a neighboring house full of women and children. The combined toll from the blast was 20 people killed, with at least four women and three children among the slain. At least 13 other civilians were also reported wounded, including a number of other children
Nuclear Winter
By Fidel Castro
http://www.countercurrents.org/castro240810.htm
One can imagine my surprise when I learned that a nuclear world war was not needed for our species to disappear. It would be enough to have a nuclear conflict between two of the weaker nuclear powers, such as India and Pakistan –who nevertheless have between the two of them much more than 100 weapons of this kind – and the human race would disappear
Nuclear Liability Bill Must Cover
Nuclear Submarine Too
By Dr.A.Gopalakrishnan
http://www.countercurrents.org/gkrishnan240810.htm
There should be absolutely no question of excluding nuclear submarine reactors from the purview of the nuclear liability Bill. To ensure the rights for justice and suitable compensation for the potential Indian victims who could suffer from an accident in such a reactor, legal protection under the liability Bill has to be provided to them by Parliament
Two Minutes To Midnight?: Cutting Through
The Media's Bogus Bomb-Iran Debate
By Tony Karon
http://www.countercurrents.org/karon240810.htm
America's march to a disastrous war in Iraq began in the media, where an unprovoked U.S. invasion of an Arab country was introduced as a legitimate policy option, then debated as a prudent and necessary one. Now, a similarly flawed media conversation on Iran is gaining momentum
Why The Wars Can't Be Won
By Prof. John Kozy
http://www.countercurrents.org/kozy240810.htm
The Vietnamese never broke. Now again Americans are foolishly assuming that the peoples of the Middle East will change their attitudes if enough force is imposed for a long enough time and enough promises of a better future are made. History belies this assumption
Iraq Pullout: Mission Accomplished
Or Strategic Retreat?
By Stephen Lendman
http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman240810A.htm
Echoed by shameless major media trumpeting, Obama's bravado is brazenly bogus, the staged-managed Iraq pullout more retreat than success
Awakening The Global Slave
By Bill Noxid
http://www.countercurrents.org/noxid240810.htm
It's Time for Americans to stop making false proclamations about this Country that only demonstrate their ignorance and unwillingness to face what happened yesterday, much less the historical truth of the United States. Since the brief shift of direction toward exposing truth during the end of the Bush era and 2008 Presidential campaign, this country has wildly – even spastically – swung back in the direction of madness and deception, and it is certainly no mystery why
Israelis Risk Jail To Smuggle Palestinians
By Jonathan Cook
http://www.countercurrents.org/cook240810.htm
Nearly 600 Israelis have signed up for a campaign of civil disobedience, vowing to risk jail to smuggle Palestinian women and children into Israel for a brief taste of life outside the occupied West Bank
Obama's "Mongrel" Statement: A Manifestation Of
Strategy And Indifference
By Frederick Alexander Meade
http://www.countercurrents.org/meade240810.htm
In addressing the issue of race, Obama has seemingly chosen to take the path of least resistance. The President has elected to engage in a veiled form of gamesmanship in attempt to contend with an American public still unable to emotionally grapple with this often explosively polarizing topic. Obama's political maneuvers have unfortunately now come at the expense of the African-American community
Australia: Labor And Liberal Vie
To Form Minority Government
By Patrick O'Connor
http://www.countercurrents.org/oconnor240810.htm
Negotiations have begun between the independent and Greens parliamentarians, and Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard and opposition leader Tony Abbott, for the formation of a minority government. Neither the Labor Party nor the Liberal-National coalition was able to win a majority of seats in parliament, reflecting deep hostility among voters towards both major parties
Major Elephant In The Room Issues
Ignored In Australian Elections
By Dr Gideon Polya
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya240810.htm
Australia is the world's worst per capita greenhouse gas polluter and has been involved in all post-1950 US Asian wars (excess deaths 23 million). Yet major Elephant in the Room issues such as war, climate change and human rights abuse were off the agenda in the recent spin-driven Australian federal election campaign that returned a hung parliament for the first time in 70 years
Scientist Accuses Obama Administration
And BP Of Underestimating Amount of
Oil Left In Gulf of Mexico
By Ian MacDonald
http://www.countercurrents.org/macdonald240810.htm
New evidence has badly shaken the Obama administration's rosy narrative about the alleged disappearance of most of the oil that gushed into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's blown-out well. Early this month a report by government scientists declared that three-quarters of the oil had vanished, either collected or dispersed. But numerous reports contradict the administration's sanguine picture of the cleanup effort
A Crisis Of Democracy: Real Solutions
To The BP Oil Spill
By Brooke Jarvis
http://www.countercurrents.org/jarvis240810.htm
For Gulf residents, the BP oil spill has made the problem of unchecked corporate power painfully clear. Exxon Valdez survivor Riki Ott on why this may be the moment to overcome our political divides and take back our democracy
Major Reports Point To Oil Supply Turmoil
And Price Volatility
By Matthew Wild
http://www.countercurrents.org/wild240810.htm
Major energy reports published this year are pointing to a significant rise in the price of oil due to supply constraints sometime over the next three years – the only disagreement is how soon
Community Economic Laboratories (CELs)
By Richard Heinberg
http://www.countercurrents.org/heinberg240810.htm
As America adjusts to the New Reality of tight credit, chronically less-affordable energy, high unemployment rates, rising levels of homelessness, and steeply declining tax revenues, new strategies will be needed to help swelling ranks of low-income people adjust and adapt.One strategy worth exploring is the seeding of a loosely coordinated national network of locally-based Community Economic Laboratories (CELs)
An Open Letter To Israel
By Lauren Booth, UK
http://www.countercurrents.org/booth240810.htm
By the way there are an estimated 400 laptops, 600 mobile phones plus other personal cash and effects, which your military still has not returned to the passengers of the aid flotilla. You see, when then they set sail. For some reason, those good people, didn't think the IDF would steal from them
VIDEO: "The Nakba of Palestine"
By Ilan Pappe
http://www.countercurrents.org/pappe240810.htm
Historian Dr Ilan Pappe of Exeter University discusses the people and ideology behind the crimes of the war of 1948, which he describes as the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. This speech was given at the Al-Awda Convention in 2008
Faking An Ecounter: Killing The Peace Process
By Coordination Of Democratic Rights Organizations
http://www.countercurrents.org/crdo240810.htm
Preliminary Report of the All India Fact Finding Team on the Killing of Azad and H. C Pandey. Released to the media at Hyderabad on 22 August, 2010
On The Support To Mamata Banerjee -
An Open Letter To Intellectuals
By Sumanta Banerjee
http://www.countercurrents.org/banerjee240810.htm
An open letter to Mahashweta Debi, D. Bandyopadhyay, Suvaprasanna, Sujato Bhadra and other friends…
Notes From Besieged Gaza
By Stephen Lendman
http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman240810.htm
On June 17, Israel's Cabinet issued a six point plan, agreeing to ease access for civilian goods entering Gaza without loosening inflexible security measures to restrict them. So what's changed? Not much. Increased truck traffic has been modest at best. The consumer ban was partially lifted, permitting previously prohibited items like ketchup, chocolate and children's toys
Palestine's Students Excel In New Maths Program
By Eva Bartlett
http://www.countercurrents.org/bartlett240810.htm
The Al Zahara private school in central Gaza is the first to incorporate a specialised programme for mental development based on math computations
Unjust America: Metering The Casualties
By Robert S. Becker
http://www.countercurrents.org/becker240810.htm
As rightwing distemper feeds the frenzied run-up to the midterms, 'refudiating' today's mounting degrees of American injustice is nearly impossible. Not that all injustice accrues to GOP reactionaries, only most, and certainly the most extreme wedge issues: Islamophobia, racism, nativism (especially towards Latin guest workers), threats to amend Constitutional mandates, militarized religious crusades, and the successful defamation of our Christian, American, pro-corporate president as "foreign other."
Too Much Of A Good Thing: A Warped History
By Ivan Hentschel
http://www.countercurrents.org/hentschel240810.htm
When any "entity" becomes "too much of a good thing", it becomes a bad thing. Like too much ice cream, too many French fries, too many martinis, too many sectarian branches of one idea claiming to be the one true way. And intermixing religion and politics, is simply a bad move
NORAD-Russian Joint Air Drill, Bomber Incursions
And Canada's F-35 Jet Purchase
By Dana Gabriel
http://www.countercurrents.org/gabriel250810.htm
Whether or not the majority of Canadians support the government's decision to purchase the new F-35 jets, it does represent a continued commitment to NATO and NORAD. It is also closely tied to deeper U.S.-Canada military integration and a North American security perimeter
Maulana Azad As A Role Model For
Contemporary Muslims
By Muqtedar Khan
http://www.countercurrents.org/khan240810.htm
Muslims who live as minorities need leaders like Azad who emphasize respect for pluralism, believe in democracy and eschew mental and social ghettoes
Karachi Faces Economic Losses
By Zia Ur Rehman
http://www.countercurrents.org/rehman240810.htm
The wave of political violence and targeted killings in Karachi have crippled business and inflicted economic hardship on the city's residents
Why Be So Selective About Using CBI
By Mustafa Khan
http://www.countercurrents.org/mkhan240810.htm
In the case of Amit Shah the agency collected mountains of documents and was zeroing in on Narendra Modi but then came the nuclear liability bill. For the sake of getting it through the parliament the government made a quid pro quo deal with BJP. We are in for another Rip Van Winkle sleep!
UID Meeting In Delhi On 25th August
http://www.countercurrents.org/uid240810.htm
This meeting is organised to discuss UID's lack of a feasibility study, huge cost, legality and real danger of abuse. Hence, we invite you to come for a public discussion where people from many diverse groups will express their viewpoints on the subject on - 25th August 2010 from 10.00 am to 6.00 p.m. at the Constitution Club Auditorium, Rafi Marg, New Delhi
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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From: Countercurrents <editor@countercurrents.org>
Date: Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:10 AM
Subject: CC Issue 24 August - Nuclear Winter
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
US Drone Strike Destroys House Full Of Children In Pakistan
By Jason Ditz
http://www.countercurrents.org/ditz240810.htm
The Obama Administration's policy of escalating drone strikes took another hit today, after the explosion from a drone attack against the house of "suspected militants" in North Waziristan also destroyed a neighboring house full of women and children. The combined toll from the blast was 20 people killed, with at least four women and three children among the slain. At least 13 other civilians were also reported wounded, including a number of other children
Nuclear Winter
By Fidel Castro
http://www.countercurrents.org/castro240810.htm
One can imagine my surprise when I learned that a nuclear world war was not needed for our species to disappear. It would be enough to have a nuclear conflict between two of the weaker nuclear powers, such as India and Pakistan –who nevertheless have between the two of them much more than 100 weapons of this kind – and the human race would disappear
Nuclear Liability Bill Must Cover
Nuclear Submarine Too
By Dr.A.Gopalakrishnan
http://www.countercurrents.org/gkrishnan240810.htm
There should be absolutely no question of excluding nuclear submarine reactors from the purview of the nuclear liability Bill. To ensure the rights for justice and suitable compensation for the potential Indian victims who could suffer from an accident in such a reactor, legal protection under the liability Bill has to be provided to them by Parliament
Two Minutes To Midnight?: Cutting Through
The Media's Bogus Bomb-Iran Debate
By Tony Karon
http://www.countercurrents.org/karon240810.htm
America's march to a disastrous war in Iraq began in the media, where an unprovoked U.S. invasion of an Arab country was introduced as a legitimate policy option, then debated as a prudent and necessary one. Now, a similarly flawed media conversation on Iran is gaining momentum
Why The Wars Can't Be Won
By Prof. John Kozy
http://www.countercurrents.org/kozy240810.htm
The Vietnamese never broke. Now again Americans are foolishly assuming that the peoples of the Middle East will change their attitudes if enough force is imposed for a long enough time and enough promises of a better future are made. History belies this assumption
Iraq Pullout: Mission Accomplished
Or Strategic Retreat?
By Stephen Lendman
http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman240810A.htm
Echoed by shameless major media trumpeting, Obama's bravado is brazenly bogus, the staged-managed Iraq pullout more retreat than success
Awakening The Global Slave
By Bill Noxid
http://www.countercurrents.org/noxid240810.htm
It's Time for Americans to stop making false proclamations about this Country that only demonstrate their ignorance and unwillingness to face what happened yesterday, much less the historical truth of the United States. Since the brief shift of direction toward exposing truth during the end of the Bush era and 2008 Presidential campaign, this country has wildly – even spastically – swung back in the direction of madness and deception, and it is certainly no mystery why
Israelis Risk Jail To Smuggle Palestinians
By Jonathan Cook
http://www.countercurrents.org/cook240810.htm
Nearly 600 Israelis have signed up for a campaign of civil disobedience, vowing to risk jail to smuggle Palestinian women and children into Israel for a brief taste of life outside the occupied West Bank
Obama's "Mongrel" Statement: A Manifestation Of
Strategy And Indifference
By Frederick Alexander Meade
http://www.countercurrents.org/meade240810.htm
In addressing the issue of race, Obama has seemingly chosen to take the path of least resistance. The President has elected to engage in a veiled form of gamesmanship in attempt to contend with an American public still unable to emotionally grapple with this often explosively polarizing topic. Obama's political maneuvers have unfortunately now come at the expense of the African-American community
Australia: Labor And Liberal Vie
To Form Minority Government
By Patrick O'Connor
http://www.countercurrents.org/oconnor240810.htm
Negotiations have begun between the independent and Greens parliamentarians, and Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard and opposition leader Tony Abbott, for the formation of a minority government. Neither the Labor Party nor the Liberal-National coalition was able to win a majority of seats in parliament, reflecting deep hostility among voters towards both major parties
Major Elephant In The Room Issues
Ignored In Australian Elections
By Dr Gideon Polya
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya240810.htm
Australia is the world's worst per capita greenhouse gas polluter and has been involved in all post-1950 US Asian wars (excess deaths 23 million). Yet major Elephant in the Room issues such as war, climate change and human rights abuse were off the agenda in the recent spin-driven Australian federal election campaign that returned a hung parliament for the first time in 70 years
Scientist Accuses Obama Administration
And BP Of Underestimating Amount of
Oil Left In Gulf of Mexico
By Ian MacDonald
http://www.countercurrents.org/macdonald240810.htm
New evidence has badly shaken the Obama administration's rosy narrative about the alleged disappearance of most of the oil that gushed into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's blown-out well. Early this month a report by government scientists declared that three-quarters of the oil had vanished, either collected or dispersed. But numerous reports contradict the administration's sanguine picture of the cleanup effort
A Crisis Of Democracy: Real Solutions
To The BP Oil Spill
By Brooke Jarvis
http://www.countercurrents.org/jarvis240810.htm
For Gulf residents, the BP oil spill has made the problem of unchecked corporate power painfully clear. Exxon Valdez survivor Riki Ott on why this may be the moment to overcome our political divides and take back our democracy
Major Reports Point To Oil Supply Turmoil
And Price Volatility
By Matthew Wild
http://www.countercurrents.org/wild240810.htm
Major energy reports published this year are pointing to a significant rise in the price of oil due to supply constraints sometime over the next three years – the only disagreement is how soon
Community Economic Laboratories (CELs)
By Richard Heinberg
http://www.countercurrents.org/heinberg240810.htm
As America adjusts to the New Reality of tight credit, chronically less-affordable energy, high unemployment rates, rising levels of homelessness, and steeply declining tax revenues, new strategies will be needed to help swelling ranks of low-income people adjust and adapt.One strategy worth exploring is the seeding of a loosely coordinated national network of locally-based Community Economic Laboratories (CELs)
An Open Letter To Israel
By Lauren Booth, UK
http://www.countercurrents.org/booth240810.htm
By the way there are an estimated 400 laptops, 600 mobile phones plus other personal cash and effects, which your military still has not returned to the passengers of the aid flotilla. You see, when then they set sail. For some reason, those good people, didn't think the IDF would steal from them
VIDEO: "The Nakba of Palestine"
By Ilan Pappe
http://www.countercurrents.org/pappe240810.htm
Historian Dr Ilan Pappe of Exeter University discusses the people and ideology behind the crimes of the war of 1948, which he describes as the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. This speech was given at the Al-Awda Convention in 2008
Faking An Ecounter: Killing The Peace Process
By Coordination Of Democratic Rights Organizations
http://www.countercurrents.org/crdo240810.htm
Preliminary Report of the All India Fact Finding Team on the Killing of Azad and H. C Pandey. Released to the media at Hyderabad on 22 August, 2010
On The Support To Mamata Banerjee -
An Open Letter To Intellectuals
By Sumanta Banerjee
http://www.countercurrents.org/banerjee240810.htm
An open letter to Mahashweta Debi, D. Bandyopadhyay, Suvaprasanna, Sujato Bhadra and other friends…
Notes From Besieged Gaza
By Stephen Lendman
http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman240810.htm
On June 17, Israel's Cabinet issued a six point plan, agreeing to ease access for civilian goods entering Gaza without loosening inflexible security measures to restrict them. So what's changed? Not much. Increased truck traffic has been modest at best. The consumer ban was partially lifted, permitting previously prohibited items like ketchup, chocolate and children's toys
Palestine's Students Excel In New Maths Program
By Eva Bartlett
http://www.countercurrents.org/bartlett240810.htm
The Al Zahara private school in central Gaza is the first to incorporate a specialised programme for mental development based on math computations
Unjust America: Metering The Casualties
By Robert S. Becker
http://www.countercurrents.org/becker240810.htm
As rightwing distemper feeds the frenzied run-up to the midterms, 'refudiating' today's mounting degrees of American injustice is nearly impossible. Not that all injustice accrues to GOP reactionaries, only most, and certainly the most extreme wedge issues: Islamophobia, racism, nativism (especially towards Latin guest workers), threats to amend Constitutional mandates, militarized religious crusades, and the successful defamation of our Christian, American, pro-corporate president as "foreign other."
Too Much Of A Good Thing: A Warped History
By Ivan Hentschel
http://www.countercurrents.org/hentschel240810.htm
When any "entity" becomes "too much of a good thing", it becomes a bad thing. Like too much ice cream, too many French fries, too many martinis, too many sectarian branches of one idea claiming to be the one true way. And intermixing religion and politics, is simply a bad move
NORAD-Russian Joint Air Drill, Bomber Incursions
And Canada's F-35 Jet Purchase
By Dana Gabriel
http://www.countercurrents.org/gabriel250810.htm
Whether or not the majority of Canadians support the government's decision to purchase the new F-35 jets, it does represent a continued commitment to NATO and NORAD. It is also closely tied to deeper U.S.-Canada military integration and a North American security perimeter
Maulana Azad As A Role Model For
Contemporary Muslims
By Muqtedar Khan
http://www.countercurrents.org/khan240810.htm
Muslims who live as minorities need leaders like Azad who emphasize respect for pluralism, believe in democracy and eschew mental and social ghettoes
Karachi Faces Economic Losses
By Zia Ur Rehman
http://www.countercurrents.org/rehman240810.htm
The wave of political violence and targeted killings in Karachi have crippled business and inflicted economic hardship on the city's residents
Why Be So Selective About Using CBI
By Mustafa Khan
http://www.countercurrents.org/mkhan240810.htm
In the case of Amit Shah the agency collected mountains of documents and was zeroing in on Narendra Modi but then came the nuclear liability bill. For the sake of getting it through the parliament the government made a quid pro quo deal with BJP. We are in for another Rip Van Winkle sleep!
UID Meeting In Delhi On 25th August
http://www.countercurrents.org/uid240810.htm
This meeting is organised to discuss UID's lack of a feasibility study, huge cost, legality and real danger of abuse. Hence, we invite you to come for a public discussion where people from many diverse groups will express their viewpoints on the subject on - 25th August 2010 from 10.00 am to 6.00 p.m. at the Constitution Club Auditorium, Rafi Marg, New Delhi
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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