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Bush’s Speech Overshadowed
By Deepening Crisis
By Bill Van Auken

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George W. Bush used his eighth and final State of the Union speech Monday night to outline an agenda of continuing wars of aggression abroad together with social reaction and political repression at home that is certain to continue well past his leaving office a year from now, no matter which party wins the 2008 election. Yet the ritualistic annual affair was overshadowed by the deepest crisis confronting US and world capitalism since the Great Depression of the 1930s

Politicized Power Cuts Behind Deadly Riots?
By IRIN

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Deadly Shia riots in southern Beirut protesting over power and water cuts have occurred because these basic services have become part of the country’s increasingly tense political stand-off, said protesters and analysts

Beware The Internet’s Looming Class Divide
By Johann Hari

www.countercurrents.org/hari290108.htm

As the internet reshapes our minds and souls in ways we are only beginning to comprehend, we have to fight to keep it equally open to everyone. Otherwise, Tomorrow’s World will become a corporate-controlled world, with inequality built into the cables that connect us all

Why The Right Loves A Disaster
By Naomi Klein

www.countercurrents.org/klein290108.htm

Every crisis is an opportunity; someone will exploit it. The question we face is this: Will the current turmoil become an excuse to transfer yet more public wealth into private hands, to wipe out the last vestiges of the welfare state, all in the name of economic growth? Or will this latest failure of unfettered markets be the catalyst that is needed to revive a spirit of public interest, to get serious about the pressing crises of our time, from gaping inequality to global warming to failing infrastructure?

Suharto, The Model Killer,
And His Friends In High Places
By John Pilger

www.countercurrents.org/pilger290108.htm

To understand the significance of Suharto, who died on Sunday, is to look beneath the surface of the current world order: the so-called global economy and the ruthless cynicism of those who run it. Suharto was our model mass murderer

Saying Goodbye To The Oil Age
By Peter Goodchild

www.countercurrents.org/goodchild290108.htm

What matters is not to wait unthinkingly for the onslaught of hunger and cold, but to form communities that can build houses and plant crops. Like the phoenix, we must rise from the ashes — the ashes of the Age of Excess. We must learn to step outside our plastic-and-metal cocoons and see what is happening with our neighbors, and with all the rest of dirty, sweaty humanity

Eating As If The Climate Mattered
By Bruce Friedrich

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It requires exponentially more resources to eat chickens, pigs, and other animals, because most of what we feed to them is required to keep them alive, and much of the rest is turned into bones and other bits we don’t eat; only a fraction of those crops is turned into meat. So you have to grow all the crops required to raise the animals to eat the animals, which is vastly wasteful relative to eating the crops directly

Traffic Jam On The Highway To Hell
By Sheila Samples

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Our refusal to address the mounting list of Bush-Cheney war crimes could be because we cannot force ourselves to admit our “one nation under God” spies upon its citizens, imprisons them without due process, engages in grotesque acts of torture and delights in mass murder. And so we stand here on the precipice of our own destruction, waiting for evil to run its course

Travels In A Militarised Society:Part 1
By Prasanna Ratnayake

www.countercurrents.org/ratnayake290108.htm

A journey through war torn Sri Lanka

India In Outer Space – Emerging Concerns
By Rizwana Abbasi

www.countercurrents.org/abbasi290108.htm

The Chinese / Indian power play in space and with regard to weapons in orbit threatens to turn space into a new sphere of military rivalry and a race toward the application of advanced technologies

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