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What Really Wiped Out The Dinosaurs?
By Sanjida O’Connell
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Did asteroids really wipe out the dinosaurs? Scientists now think rising sea-levels were to blame – and they could threaten our survival too
Riches In The Arctic:The New Oil Race
By Michael McCarthy
www.countercurrents.org/mccarthy260708.htm
New geological surveys show as much as a fifth of the world’s undiscovered but exploitable gas and oil reserves lie under the Arctic ice. As the ice melts, the pristine wilderness could become ‘the new Houston’
The Path To One Democratic State In Palestine
By Roger Tucker
www.countercurrents.org/tucker260708.htm
All that remains is the reality of a land in which reside both Israelis and Palestinians, some of the latter living as second-class citizens within Israel proper and the rest separated by the apartheid wall and imprisoned in the West Bank, and in Gaza. This situation cannot continue indefinitely. Somehow or other, one single state must emerge. The only question is what kind of state
What Obama Missed In The Middle East
By Ali Abunimah
www.countercurrents.org/abunimah260708.htm
Obama missed the opportunity to visit Palestinian refugee camps, schools and even shopping malls to witness first-hand the devastation caused by the Israeli army and settlers, or to see how Palestinians cope under what many call “apartheid.” This year alone, almost 500 Palestinians, including over 70 children, have been killed by the Israeli army — exceeding the total for 2007 and dwarfing the two-dozen Israelis killed in conflict-related violence
What’s Driving The Jerusalem Attacks
By Uri Avnery
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The attacks are the result of despair, frustration, hatred and the sense that there is no way out. Only a solution that will remove these feelings can bring security to both parts of Jerusalem
Political Parties, Corporations And The Truth
By Timothy V. Gatto
www.countercurrents.org/gatto260708.htm
Unless Americans start to look past the hype that the mainstream media provides to their myopic vision of this so-called two-party system, the future seems bleak indeed for the average middle-class citizens. To get a clear understanding of modern politics today, one needs only to follow the money in the political arena to see who will emerge as the victor in this particular election
Secret “Torture Memo” Gave Legal Cover To Interrogators Who Acted In “Good Faith”
By Jason Leopold
www.countercurrents.org/leopold260708.htm
A Justice Department legal opinion issued in August 2002 advised the CIA that its interrogators would not be prosecuted for violating anti-torture laws as long as they acted in “good faith” while using brutal techniques to obtain information from suspected terrorists, according to a previously undisclosed memo released publicly Thursday
Tears In God’s Own Country
By K.A. Shaji
www.countercurrents.org/shaji260708.htm
As the Kerala government goes on an overdrive to sell tourism, its major destinations are beginning to resemble garbage dumps
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