CounterCurrents Newsletter 10 March, 2010: Rachel Corrie’s (Posthumous) Day In Court
Rachel Corrie Family Finally Puts Israel In Dock By Jonathan Cook
Seven years after Rachel Corrie, a US peace activist, was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza, her family was to put the Israeli government in the dock today
http://www.countercurrents.org/cook100310.htm
Rachel Corrie’s (Posthumous) Day In Court By Amy Goodman
An unusual trial begins in Israel this week, and people around the world will be watching closely. It involves the tragic death of a 23-year-old American student named Rachel Corrie. On March 16, 2003, she was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer
http://www.countercurrents.org/goodman100310.htm
1000 Days Of The Israeli Siege On Gaza By Mohammad Badi
Today, Gaza completes the day No. 1000 of the Israeli siege and the disaster is eating the land and the citizens of Gaza. All of that was because they didn’t want to leave their lands, they didn’t give up to the settlers who wants to occupy their land, they said loudly, NO for Israel and no for the occupation!
http://www.countercurrents.org/badi100310.htm
Decade Of The Drone: America’s Aerial Assassins By Rick Rozoff
2010 is the tenth and deadliest year in Washington’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) for targeted assassinations and untargeted “collateral damage.”
http://www.countercurrents.org/rozoff100310.htm
China And India Endorse Copenhagen Climate Deal By Matthias Williams
China and India joined almost all other major greenhouse gas emitters Tuesday in signing up to the climate accord struck in Copenhagen, boosting a deal strongly favored by the United States
http://www.countercurrents.org/williams100310.htm
My Name Is Ed. I’m A Racist By Ed Kinane
In the moral calculus of white America the tens — maybe hundreds — of thousands of slain Iraqis or Afghans barely exist. Even we who actively oppose U.S. militarism in West Asia and the Mid East often ignore the racism at its heart
http://www.countercurrents.org/kinane100310.htm
Alternative Reading Of Hamas Murder By Ramzy Baroud
One can only imagine what would happen if Hamas decided to strike back, expanding the battleground from Gaza to the rest of the world. Would the EU express disapproval of Hamas’ use of fraudulent passports, but then refrain from actually naming the group – due to a fear, say, of upsetting Muslim countries? No. But when the victim is a Palestinian and the killers are Israelis – 27 of them so far – it’s an entirely different story, and an entirely different concept of justice
http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud100310.htm
Waterboarding For Dummies By Mark Benjamin
Internal CIA documents reveal a meticulous protocol that was far more brutal than Dick Cheney’s “dunk in the water”
http://www.countercurrents.org/benjamin100310.htm
Financial Transactions Tax: A Little Tax On The Big Casino By Tanya Dawkins
An Financial Transactions Tax could help with both the need to rein in speculation and the need to fund vital projects. The Center for Economic and Policy Research estimates that an FTT of only one-half of one percent would generate at least $60 billion to $100 billion dollars in the United States alone
http://www.countercurrents.org/dawkins100310.htm
Going Back To The Land In The Age Of Entitlement By Guy R. McPherson
Guy McPherson explains why he decided to leave the industrial economy and decided to live in rural farm
http://www.countercurrents.org/mcpherson100310.htm
Annie Leonard And The Story of Stuff By Umbra Fisk
An interview with Annie Leonard the maker of the hugely popular “The Story of Stuff” video and the author of an upcoming video on it
http://www.countercurrents.org/fisk100310.htm
Why Are Women Being Left Out Of Climate Decision-Making? By Elizabeth Becker & Suzanne Ehlers
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced an important new climate change financing group last week, but out of the 19 people named, no women were included. This is unfortunate because women will bear the brunt of the effects of climate change and are key to any climate solutions
http://www.countercurrents.org/ehlers100310.htm
I Withdraw My Consent For Human Violence, Including The Violence Of Nuclear Energy And Landmines By Mary Hamer
I apologize on behalf of all life on the planet Earth — for the Violence of the human race. I am sorry for nuclear weapons. I grieve about war. I am sad for abused children. I anguish over human cruelty to animals. I am sad about 9/11 and the reaction to 9/11. I also apologize to Future human, animal and plant life on Earth on behalf of 20 th and 21 st Century human destructive behavior
http://www.countercurrents.org/hamer100310.htm
Dilemma: Best Nations Really Are the Brightest By Robert S. Becker
The rapid deterioration of the American educational system and some ideas to correct it
http://www.countercurrents.org/becker100310.htm
The Way Forward For The Movement In Defense Of Public Education By Bill Leumer & Ann Robertson
On March 4, students, staff, teachers, faculty and their unions on all levels of public education created history by uniting and pouring out onto the streets to engage in what were overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations to defend public education. The movement swept through small towns and large cities with demonstrators, including young elementary school students, carrying picket signs while yelling chants expressing their determination to fight back
http://www.countercurrents.org/robertson100310.htm
Haiti’s Plight By Dr. Carl E. Briscoe Jr.
An academic and analytical examination of “The Current Haitian Crisis
http://www.countercurrents.org/briscoe100310.htm
Microfinance Also Kills By Devinder Sharma
This makes for shocking reading, especially to know how the modern Shahukars, no different from the dreaded and despised moneylenders of yesteryears, scoop down to extract their pound of flesh
http://www.countercurrents.org/sharma100310.htm
Give Thy Thoughts No Tongue… By Mir Adnan Aziz
Our political leaders should be enabling and not disabling to the people with their words an attractive and inclusive medium to bind people together
http://www.countercurrents.org/aziz100310.htm
Countercurrents And You !
Click here to find out
how you can support CC
http://www.countercurrents.org/subscription.htm
