CounterCurrents Newsletter 16 March, 2010: Iraq Election Entrenches Communalist Divisions
Clashes Break Out In East Jerusalem By Aljazeera
Palestinians have clashed with Israeli police in two areas of occupied East Jerusalem after Palestinian groups called for a “day of rage” over the reopening of a synagogue in the Old City. At least 90 people were wounded in the clashes, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, with around 15 people seriously hurt by rubber-coated steel bullets, teargas inhalation and some beaten by Israeli police
http://www.countercurrents.org/aljazeera160310.htm
Iraq Election Entrenches Communalist Divisions By James Cogan
With still less than 50 percent of the votes counted in the March 7 election in Iraq, initial reports indicate that none of the major political coalitions has won an outright majority in the parliament. Instead, the election has underscored the extent of the ethno-communal divisions that the US occupation has fomented and exploited to control the country
http://www.countercurrents.org/cogan160310.htm
America’s Secret Prisons By Stephen Lendman
Besides Guantanamo, Afghanistan and Iraq, UN Human Rights Council said the CIA runs scores of offshore secret prisons in over 66 countries worldwide for dissidents and alleged terrorists – in Egypt, Algeria, Jordan, Morocco, Syria, Libya, Tunisia, India, Pakistan, Russia, Uzbekistan, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Ethopia, Djibouti, Kenya, Poland, Romania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Thailand, Diego Garcia, and elsewhere
http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman160310.htm
Swindle In The Name Of Charity By Emily Spence
Charity CEO’s get rich by taking from the poor
http://www.countercurrents.org/spence160310.htm
Water Wisdom By Vandana Shiva
Since 1966 – and as a consequence of the introduction of the Green Revolution model of water-intensive, chemical farming – India has over-exploited her groundwater, creating a water famine
http://www.countercurrents.org/shiva160310.htm
The Armenian, Assyrian And Greek Genocides: An Inconvenient Truth By Lucine Kasbarian
Recent articles in the mainstream media would have us believe that governments around the world somehow question the factuality of the 1915 Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides committed by Turkey. These articles would also have us believe that the Turkish government’s latest temper tantrums over these genocides are justified. The issue has never been about whether the Turkish regime carried out genocide. Rather, it has always been about when Turkey would be punished and deliver reparations and restitution to the rightful, indigenous inhabitants
http://www.countercurrents.org/kasbarian160310.htm
Israeli Crackdown Puts Liberal Jews On The Spot By Chris Hedges
The Israeli government, its brutal war crimes in Gaza exposed in detail in the U.N. report by Justice Richard Goldstone, has implemented a series of draconian measures to silence and discredit dissidents, leading intellectuals and human rights organizations inside and outside Israel that are accused-often falsely-of assisting Goldstone’s U.N. investigators
http://www.countercurrents.org/hedges160310.htm
A Matter Of Timing By Uri Avnery
The Government of Israel has insulted the Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, one of the greatest “friends” of Israel (meaning: somebody totally subservient to AIPAC) and spat in the face of President Barack Obama. So what? It’s all a matter of timing
http://www.countercurrents.org/avnery160310.htm
Anti-Semitism – Zionist Myth v Truth And Reality By Alan Hart
There are two definitions of anti-Semitism in its Jewish context. One was born in real history and represents a truth. The other is part and parcel of Zionist mythology and was invented for the purpose of blackmailing non-Jewish Europeans and North Americans into refraining from criticising Israel or, to be more precise, staying silent when its leaders resort to state terrorism and demonstrate in many ways their absolute contempt for international law
http://www.countercurrents.org/hart160310.htm
Who’s To Blame For The Iraq War? By Maidhc Ó Cathail
Maidhc Ó Cathail presents a detailed 20 question quiz with answers at the end. This quiz clarifies many points about the Iraq War
http://www.countercurrents.org/ocathail160310.htm
Children of Gaza: Scarred, Trapped, Vengeful By Rachel Shields
1,000 days into the Israeli blockade and Palestinian youngsters are denied medical help, education and any hope of a decent future
http://www.countercurrents.org/shields160310.htm
1,000 Days Have Passed … But It’s Tomorrow That Counts By Ayman Mohyeldin
For 1,000 days, one Palestinian has died every other day as result of having no access to need medical care – 500 in total since the beginning of the siege, according the Palestinian Campaign to Break the Siege on Gaza
http://www.countercurrents.org/mohyeldin160310.htm
The Maoists And Us By PK Vijayan
Could the cry of “Maoist terrorists” be the Congress led UPA governmet’s equivalent of the cry of “Islamic terrorists” during the BJP led NDA government? — asks PK Vijayan
http://www.countercurrents.org/vijayan160310.htm
Free Buzzy By Rosemarie Jackowski
Now we have the interesting case of the hungry pharmacist, Roland ‘Buzz’ Roy. He lived 67 years as a law abiding citizen but then on February 6, 2010 he walked across the border to the pizza shop. Yep, you guessed it. He was frisked, handcuffed, and fined. Early reports said that he was fined $5000. That amount has now been reduced to $500. That’s a lot to pay for a pizza – even a pizza with ‘the works’, loaded with all of the good stuff
http://www.countercurrents.org/buzzy160310.htm
American Democracy: No More Illusions By Sean Fenley
We’ve passed the point of no return, where we can hold on to the naive belief system that the U.S. still has the best system as compared to all the others that have been attempted!
http://www.countercurrents.org/fenley160310.htm
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