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Iraq Outrage Over US Killing Video By Aljazeera
Families of Iraqi civilians, seen being shot and killed by US forces in a leaked video, are seeking justice for their deaths. Victims’ relatives have said that they want the military personnel responsible for the deaths to be taken to court
http://www.countercurrents.org/aljazeera070410.htm

Collateral Murder By Amy Goodman
We need courageous journalists and media workers, like Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh, and we need whistle-blowers and news organizations that will carefully protect whistle-blowers’ identities while bringing their exposés to public scrutiny
http://www.countercurrents.org/goodman070410.htm

“After Hiroshima And Nagasaki, There Was Fallujah” By William Blum
The United States takes the matter of three-headed babies very seriously
http://www.countercurrents.org/blum070410.htm

Sustainable Tourism: An Oxymoronic Delusion? By Tim Murray
Why “must” there be a stronger nature tourism industry, with “more people enjoying our parks”? Why does nature “need” the travel industry to survive? How does a “sensitive and well-managed tourism industry help preserve the national environment”? In fact, why does healthy biodiversity require people at all? If we were to go extinct, would not biodiversity be on the road to recovery? I know that I need to enjoy nature. But I don’t why nature needs me to enjoy it
http://www.countercurrents.org/murray070410.htm

The People Of The Brook Versus Supermarket Splendor By Jan Lundberg
The return of tribal, communal living will not be a walk in the park, but once we get there we will appreciate it as the superior, kinder culture we have sorely missed. This view is dismissed today oftentimes as romanticism, but there seems to be only one working model of sustainability to point to: living close to nature
http://www.countercurrents.org/lundberg070410.htm

The Major Jewish American Organizations Defend Israel’s Humiliation Of America By James Petras
When Israel announced a major new Jews-only building project of 1600 homes in occupied East Jerusalem, it was not only “spitting in the face” of visiting Vice President Biden, it was demonstrating its power to humiliate America and Americans. Netanyahu was sending a message to world: Israel backed by its billionaire-financed Presidents of the 51 Major American Jewish Organizations, leads the US by the nose
http://www.countercurrents.org/petras070410.htm

The Strange Love Affair Of The U.S. And AIPAC By Dan Lieberman
Why and for what reason do government officials cater to AIPAC? Don’t they know AIPAC’s inglorious history and its one-sided purpose? Actually, government officials have many reasons to distance themselves from AIPAC and no reasons to associate themselves with an organization whose thrust depends upon spurious reasoning and outrageous statements
http://www.countercurrents.org/lieberman070410.htm

“Job Creation”–Stupid Is As Stupid Does By Richard C. Cook
Today’s economic crisis is actually the mismanagement of nature’s bounty in an age where technology has solved the problem of scarcity if it is properly viewed as the heritage of all mankind, not the cartel of financiers, corporate oligarchs, military strongmen, and politicians who have the world at the throat in order to safeguard their own wealth and power. Instead they should relax their grip and realize that they too would benefit from a world where all could breathe freely in an economic environment of peace, dignity, and sharing
http://www.countercurrents.org/rccook070410.htm

Abu Zubaydah: Tortured For Nothing By Andy Worthington
When it comes to dealing with Khaldan, the stories of Abu Zubaydah and Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi not only demonstrate the Bush administration’s legacy at its most toxic and self-defeating, but also at its most cruel and pointless, from which, it seems clear, there is no easy way out
http://www.countercurrents.org/worthington070410.htm

The Sun Behind The Clouds Gives A Voice To Tibetan Dissidents By Billy Wharton
Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam’s The Sun Behind the Clouds is the latest offering in a long line of documentaries about Tibet. The distinctiveness of this edition derives from its willingness to portray the internal debates of the Tibetan movement and in the movie’s attempts to give voice to Tibetans living in Tibet
http://www.countercurrents.org/wharton070410.htm

Census, Sex aur Dhoka By Taha Mehmood
In the Indian context fingerprints originated to track and convict criminals. Numbering and profiling to contain a cold blooded murderous cult which claimed more than 50,000 lives by some accounts. Till a few years back these technologies of identification were used for the purpose of keeping troublemakers in check. Why is it then, that many people in India seems to be excited about using these technologies of identification to track, tag and measure common citizens? Why is it becoming okay for everybody to be turned into a suspect identity?
http://www.countercurrents.org/mehmood070410.htm

Implications Of Registering, Tracking, Profiling By Usha Ramanathan
Data collection, including fingerprinting, for the National Population Register has been launched alongside the 2011 Census exercise and under different statutes. This is no innocent data collection in a vacuum. Set amidst NATGRID and UID, it conjures Orwellian images of Big Brother
http://www.countercurrents.org/ramanathan070410.htm

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