Fwd: CC Issue 16, Jan - What Now For Lebanon?

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What Now For Lebanon?
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb170111.htm

The White House has made it plain that America expects Saad Hariri to be returned to his Prime Ministerial post. That event is unlikely to occur. Yet, the Hezbollah led opposition might allow Hariri to be a caretaker until the 2013 elections—but only if he fulfills their earlier demands and withdraws Lebanon from any association with the STL


The Crown And The Coals
By Uri Avnery

http://www.countercurrents.org/avnery160111.htm

The Americans resemble – and even upstage – the Israelis in their arrogance and ignorance, which border on fatal irresponsibility. Their intervention this week, emanating from a frivolous contempt for the incredible complexity that is called Lebanon, may bring about a civil war and/or a conflagration that may involve Israel


Turmoil In Lebanon
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman160111.htm

America and Israel view a Hezbollah-led government a strategic threat. In 2009, conflict might have followed if it won. Both Washington and Tel Aviv back a Hariri caretaker government, and following Hezbollah's pullout, Haaretz Service, on January 13 headlined, "IDF troops on alert following collapse of Lebanon government"


MLK Injustice Index 2011: Racism,
Materialism And Militarism In The US
By Bill Quigley

http://www.countercurrents.org/quigley160111.htm

Here are some of the facts about racism, materialism and militarism in the US which we should reflect on as we decide how best to carry on the radical struggle for justice of Dr. King


King Would Have Stopped Vietnam And
Today's Wars As He Stopped Segregation!
By Jay Janson

http://www.countercurrents.org/janson160111.htm

Martin Luther King, today, would be fighting against the wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen and a war on Iran. Blacks would be in the forefront with him


Shot In The Head: Giffords, Hurndall
And Palestinian Children
By Alison Weir

http://www.countercurrents.org/weir160111.htm

It is too late for Akabar, Diya, Mohammed, Tom, and the multitude of others. But there is hope that Gabrielle Giffords is going to survive. Let us pray that she recovers fully, that she is able to return to Congress, and that she then works to prevent others – including Palestinians – from being shot in the head


Israel's Orthodox Rabbis:
'Palestinians To The Ovens!'
By Richard Silverstein

http://www.countercurrents.org/silverstein160111.htm

Back in the days of the Shoah, one of the slogans of the Jew haters was: "Jews to the Ovens." Now, it causes me anguish to say, we have Israeli Orthodox rabbis saying the same about the Palestinians


5 Children Injured Following Israel's Demolition Of
El Araqib Village For Ninth Time
By Recognition Forum

http://www.countercurrents.org/araqib160111.htm

Israeli authorities demolished the Bedouin village of El Araqib Sunday morning (16 January) for the ninth time in the past six months, and bulldozers from the Jewish National Fund (JNF) remain on the villager's land, even though the demolitions are completed


When Generosity, Love, And Kindness Are
Public Policy, The Violence We Saw In Arizona
Will Dramatically Diminish
By Michael Lerner

http://www.countercurrents.org/lerner160111.htm

Anything short of that societal transformation toward the Caring Society is actually utopian and fanciful, and leads to blaming each other or some group or policy option for the irrational behaviors that are tearing our society apart


America's Self-Appointed Vigilantes
By Jim Taylor

http://www.countercurrents.org/taylor160111.htm

Actions speak louder than words. When will America wake up and realize that its greatest threats to freedom are its own right wing extremists?


AARP's "The Magazine" Plays Softball
In The Bush League
By Sherwood Ross

http://www.countercurrents.org/ross160111.htm

In what must rank as one of the most dubious magazine interviews ever published, AARP's "The Magazine," circulation 24-million, devotes its January/February cover to a propaganda makeover in behalf of ex-president George W. Bush


Verdict On Binayak Sen:
Protest To show We Are Alive
By Dr. Shah Alam Khan

http://www.countercurrents.org/alamkhan160111.htm

In a country which ignores hunger deaths, genocide criminals, millions of malnourished children (more than Sub Saharan Africa) and a defunct political class, people like Dr Binayak Sen are the only hope and a selfish state has no right to take these symbols of hope from us. Scream, shout, protest and wriggle out of the iron grip of injustice. As common people we need to show signs of life


South Waziristan: Fear At Home
By Zia Ur Rehman

http://www.countercurrents.org/rehman160111.htm

Although the government claims military offensive against Taliban in South Waziristan has succeeded in securing the area, the displaced people are reluctant to go back to their homes, saying militants had only dispersed, not wiped out, during the operation

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