CounterCurrents Newsletter 11 March, 2010 – Gaza’s Tunnel Industry
UN To Review IPCC Report On Himalayan Glaciers By Suzanne Goldenberg
The UN called in the world’s top scientists today to review a report by its climate body, four months after public confidence in the science of global warming was shaken by the discovery of a mistake about the melting rates of Himalayan glaciers
http://www.countercurrents.org/goldenberg110310.htm
Two Humiliations – Can Obama Live With A Third? By Alan Hart
I am inclined to the view that after the mid-term elections of a second term, Obama could indeed be the president to do whatever is necessary to bring Zionism to heel in order to best protect America’s own real interests. But the prospects of him winning as second term don’t look very good at the moment
http://www.countercurrents.org/hart110310.htm
Welcome To The World’s First Murdochracy By John Pilger
In 1983, there were 50 major corporations dominating the world’s media. By 2002, this had been reduced to nine. Rupert Murdoch says that eventually there will be three, including his own. If we accept this, media and information control will be the same, and we shall all be citizens of a murdochracy
http://www.countercurrents.org/pilger110310.htm
An Angry Woman By Malalai Joya
Malalai Joya is an angry woman. She’s angry about the war being carried out by the international coalition in her country, Afghanistan, angry about the UN bombs that are killing civilians in their villages, angry about calls for reconciliation with the Taliban and the war lords. “Stop the massacres in my country. Withdraw your foreign troops so we can stop Talibanization,” is what the young Afghan deputy tells Western public opinion
http://www.countercurrents.org/joya110310.htm
Gaza’s Tunnel Industry By Jody McIntyre
The siege on Gaza is tightening as the Egyptian government continues construction of an underground steel wall at the Rafah border with Gaza to block the tunnel trade. The tunnels, which journalist Robert Fisk has described as “the lung through which Gaza breathes,” are the only means in which most basic goods like food and medicine reach the besieged population in Gaza. Jody McIntyre spoke with Abu Hanin, a Palestinian laborer from Gaza who works in one of the tunnels at the border with Egypt
http://www.countercurrents.org/mcintyre110310.htm
Zionism Unmasked: The Dark Face Of Jewish Nationalism By Dr. Alan Sabrosky
Zionism is a real witches’ brew of xenophobia, racism, ultra-nationalism, and militarism that places it way outside of a “mere” nationalist context
http://www.countercurrents.org/sabrosky110310.htm
An Oscar For America’s Hubri By Robert Scheer
What a shame that the one movie about the Iraq war that has a chance of being viewed by a large worldwide audience should be so disappointing. According to press reports, members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences finally found a movie about the Iraq war they liked because it is “apolitical.” Actually, “The Hurt Locker” is just the opposite; it’s an endorsement of the politically chauvinistic view that the world is a stage upon which Americans get to deal with their demons no matter the consequence for others
http://www.countercurrents.org/scheer110310.htm
The Hebronisation Of Jerusalem By Mick Dumper
Growing Israeli and settler control has set Jerusalem on the same path as the West Bank’s most divided city
http://www.countercurrents.org/dumper110310.htm
Kairos And Lent In The ‘Holy Land’ By Timothy Seidel
Experiencing the Lenten season in Palestine is unique. It carries with it incredible feelings of closeness and concreteness as one visits sites such as the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City of Jerusalem—the site where Christians believe Jesus Christ was crucified, buried and resurrected. Yet, those feelings of closeness are easily swallowed up by a sense of separation and forsakenness as one considers the current situation
http://www.countercurrents.org/seidel110310.htm
Truth In Labeling: EU Court Challenges “Made In Israel” By Phon van den Biesen & Adri Nieuwhof
On 25 February, the European Court of Justice ruled that imports manufactured in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank shouldn’t benefit from a trade agreement between Israel and the European Union. The ruling follows protests of Israel’s export of products from the illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) to the EU and Switzerland labeled as “Made in Israel.” Products labeled as such benefit from favorable import taxes under the EU-Israel Association Agreement of 2000
http://www.countercurrents.org/biesen110310.htm
Brutalizing Palestinian Children By Stephen Lendman
Children 12 – 15 have been targeted, arrested, detained, and savagely beaten following complaints by Jewish settlers who usually take the law into their own hands using weapons they’re allowed to carry
http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman110310.htm
Lebanon, Libya, And A Lingering Question By Rannie Amiri
It took no longer than the announcement that Libya would host this year’s Arab League summit in late March for controversy to ensue. One of the League’s 22 member states has already threatened to boycott and, some would say, with good cause. It is the one Arab country in which Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi has not dared set foot for the past 32 years
http://www.countercurrents.org/amiri110310.htm
We Are All Accountable By Timothy V. Gatto
We not only occupied Iraq, but we have poisoned the soil and made the place uninhabitable because of our use of depleted uranium in our munitions. We can deny that depleted uranium is harmless, but the facts coming in about the deformed babies being born in Iraq says otherwise. We must all come to the conclusion that not only was the invasion of Iraq a crime against humanity, but turning Iraq, Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia into a radioactive wasteland are even larger crimes against humanity
http://www.countercurrents.org/gatto110310.htm
Investigation Agencies Washing Dirty Linen In Public! By Mustafa Khan
Will the modern day Neros now in Delhi fiddle away precious time as the country is inching towards disaster one after another? The same kind of handling of investigation by the local police and then the ATS and then the CBI that leads to prolonging the agony of the innocents rubbing their heels away in gruel pain and ad absurdum waiting in prisons across the country. The classic example of Samjhauta express blast 2007investigation has become a kind of archetype pattern
http://www.countercurrents.org/khan110310.htm
Religion And Terrorism By Dr Shabir Choudhry
Presentation made by Dr Shabir Choudhry at a Seminar arranged by Interfaith International during 13th Session of the UN Humans Rights Council in Geneva
http://www.countercurrents.org/choudhry110310.htm
Reflections On The ‘Muslim Reservation’ Debate By Khalid Anis Ansari
The tabling of the Report of the National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities (NCRLM), popularly called the Ranganath Mishra Commission report, in the Parliament recently has led to animated debates and mobilisations around the issue of reservations for the Muslim community
http://www.countercurrents.org/ansari110310.htm
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