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No Ice At The North Pole
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No Ice At The North Pole
By Steve Connor
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It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year. The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of the most dramatic – and worrying – examples of the impact of global warming on the planet. Scientists say the ice at 90 degrees north may well have melted away by the summer
Zionism’s Dead End
By Jonathan Cook
www.countercurrents.org/cook270608.htm
Separation or ethnic cleansing? Israel’s encaging of Gaza aims to achieve both
US Fed Caught In Global Turbulence
By Nick Beams
www.countercurrents.org/beams270608.htm
The US Federal Reserve Board’s decision on Wednesday to maintain its benchmark interest rate at 2 percent was not so much a policy decision as the expression of the growing paralysis in government and central banking circles in the face of the powerful forces now at work in the US and global economy
Robert McChesney’s The Political Economy Of Media (Part II)
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman270608.htm
McChesney’s book is a compilation of his best political economy of media work in the past two decades. It contains 23 separate offerings under three topic headings. In them he covers “enduring issues” and “emerging dilemmas.” Part I of this review discussed some of them. More follow below. The entire book is must reading and contains new material never before published
Iran Not Pursuing Nukes, But U.S. Will Attack Before ‘09 :Scott Ritter
By Jason Leopold
www.countercurrents.org/leopold270608.htm
Scott Ritter, who was a Marine Corps intelligence officer for 12 years, is speaking out about what he sees as history repeating itself regarding U.S. policy toward Iran and the inevitability of a U.S.-led attack on the country, which he believes will happen prior to a new president being sworn into office in January 2009
Sikh ‘Jatha’ Awaits Nod To Visit Shrine In POK
By Ashutosh Sharma
www.countercurrents.org/sharma270608.htm
With the Government mulling over weekly cross-LOC bus service in the state as part of cementing Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) between India and Pakistan, hopes have rekindled amongst odd 122 people of Sikh community, who migrated to this part of state after partition, to visit their religious shrine Gurdwara Dehri Sahib of Sant ROCHA SINGH in Rawlkote. They have been waiting since the start of bus service between the two countries to visit other side of dividing line to pay obeisance to their native place
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