Fwd: CC Issue/ 14 Oct - Chile's Ghosts Are Not Being Rescued

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Subject: CC Issue/ 14 Oct - Chile's Ghosts Are Not Being Rescued
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Chile's Ghosts Are Not Being Rescued
By John Pilger

http://www.countercurrents.org/pilger141010.htm

The rescue of 33 miners in Chile is an extraordinary drama filled with pathos and heroism. It is also a media windfall for the Chilean government, whose every beneficence is recorded by a forest of cameras. One cannot fail to be impressed. However, like all great media events, it is a facade


Top Ten Questions About Chile Mine Collapse
By Juan Cole

http://www.countercurrents.org/cole141010.htm

The corporate mass media (especially television) did not treat the Chilean mine collapse as a labor story but rather as a feel-good human interest story. It not only avoided asking hard questions about why the near-disaster occurred and why the mine workers could be treated like guinea pigs by their employers, it actively obscured these questions


The Brave Chilean Miners
By Partha Banerjee

http://www.countercurrents.org/banerjee141010.htm

This episode unfolding in a distant corner of the world forced corporate media to tell the story to us all, as is, even though they did their best to censor some important points. It is now our role to fill people in with the missing information and analysis


We Worked: Pictures From The Biggest
Day Of Climate Action In History
By Bill McKibben

http://www.countercurrents.org/mckibben141010.htm

Amazing stories and pictures from 350.org Global Work Party


The CIA, KKK And USA
By Sherwood Ross

http://www.countercurrents.org/ross141010.htm

By assigning covert action roles to the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA), it is as if the White House and Congress had legitimized the Ku Klux Klan to operate globally. That's because the CIA today resembles nothing so much as the "Invisible Empire" of the KKK that once spread terror across the South and Midwest. Fiery crosses aside, this is what the CIA is doing globally


Israeli Forces Test Transfer Scenario
By Jonathan Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook141010.htm

Israel secretly staged a training exercise last week to test its ability to quell any civil unrest that might result from a peace deal with the Palestinian Authority requiring the forcible transfer of many Arab citizens, the Israeli media has reported


The Israeli Knesset's Anti-Democratic Agenda
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman141010.htm

The upcoming winter Knesset session promises worse, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel's Debby Gild-Hayo (ACRI) reviewing what's expected in a report titled, "Harming Democracy in the Heart of Democracy." Ahead of the upcoming session, it addressed several expected anti-democratic legislations


What Are Our Alternatives To The Corporate
Controlled Political Parties?
By Timothy V. Gatto

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatto141010.htm

Maybe it's time we all started to look at political power in a whole new way before we find ourselves incinerated or facing a nuclear winter because of the belligerent policies of Washington. We can become serfs or control our own destiny, this is the challenge


Islamic Identity In Secular India
By Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer

http://www.countercurrents.org/engineer141010.htm

In this complex web of castism, communalism and regionalism it is secularism which gives hope for unity and co-existence. Not only minorities but a large number of majority Hindus also realize this and Islamic identity in secular India faces acute crisis in certain critical phases but also guarantees their safety and security as well as progress


A Trail Of Blood Follows The Peasant Struggles
In Punjab
By Narinder Kumar Jeet

http://www.countercurrents.org/jeet141010.htm

The money-lenders are now letting loose their hired goondas to silence the farmers organizations, with full backing of the rulers


Forced Evictions Due To Commonwealth Games
Violate Human Rights
By Housing And Land Rights Network

http://www.countercurrents.org/hrln.pdf

The preparations for Delhi's Commonwealth Games (CWG) have witnessed a range of human rights violations of the city's working poor, including the homeless, beggars, street vendors, and construction workers. The process has also been marred by financial mismanagement, embezzlement of public funds, and lack of accountability. One of the least reported violations, however, has been the forced eviction and demolition of the homes of thousands of Delhi's residents

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