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In Solidarity
Binu
The Bush Administration’s
Biowarfare Agenda
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman280708.htm
The Bush administration raised the stakes and threatens all humanity. Boyle believes it used 9/11 and the anthrax attacks to stampede Congress and the public into aggressive wars and a menu of repressive laws. He also thinks the FBI knows who’s behind the anthrax attacks: criminal US government elements planning a police state and another frightening enterprise – to fight and win a future biowar. A possible nuclear one as well. Boyle sounds the alarm about what may lie ahead and its potential consequences
The Military-Industrial Complex
By Chalmers Johnson
www.countercurrents.org/johnson280708.htm
Although Eisenhower’s reference to the military-industrial complex is, by now, well-known, his warning against its “unwarranted influence” has, I believe, largely been ignored. Since 1961, there has been too little serious study of, or discussion of, the origins of the military-industrial complex, how it has changed over time, how governmental secrecy has hidden it from oversight by members of Congress or attentive citizens, and how it degrades our Constitutional structure of checks and balances
Wary Of China, Russians Look West
By Dmitry Shlapentokh
www.countercurrents.org/dmitry280708.htm
Like his predecessor Vladimir Putin, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev followed his taking over the Kremlin, in May, with a visit to China. For some pundits this raised the specter of a Chinese-Russian alliance as a threat to the West. This is not the case. The Russian – both elite and popular – approach to China is often guarded. And as with all flirtation with Chinese and Asian powers, Russia continues to be West-oriented. My recent visit to Russia confirmed this
Barack Obama: The New Jimmy Carter
By Greg Guma
www.countercurrents.org/guma280708.htm
Obama – like Carter – can be useful in calming things down and re-establishing confidence in the legitimacy of the current political order. In short, he can reinforce the argument that “the system” still works. For those who want real change, he’s bound to be a disappointment. But perhaps, along the road to inevitable disillusionment, at least he may do a bit to ease the pain
Bolivia: Tensions Rising As Vote Looms
By Federico Fuentes
www.countercurrents.org/fuentes280708.htm
Tensions and uncertainties continue to rise as what some are calling a bout of “referendumitis” sweeps through Bolivia
Of Patriots And Pawns: Carolyn Baker Reviews
Mary Tillman’s “Boots On The Ground By Dusk”
By Carolyn Baker
www.countercurrents.org/baker280708.htm
True to the mother’s loyalty that exudes from every paragraph of her book, Mary Tillman does not want the focus to be on her. She’s tired of being in the media limelight and simply wants the world to know Pat’s story-who he was and how he and his family were betrayed. So after completing Mary’s book, I was drawn to focus on her process of discovering the truth about Pat’s death and the meaning of her discovery for all of us
Sentient Like Me: Ape Rights And The Myth Of Intelligence Amongst Speciesists
By Jason Miller
www.countercurrents.org/miller280707.htm
Animal liberationists are seeking an end to the abject torture the human species inflicts on billions upon billions of non-human animals simply to achieve goals and to satisfy needs that could be attained and reached by other means. There is no push for “equality” in the sense that fear-driven speciesists like Saletan and Smith assert. Animal liberation seeks to assign basic, reasonable rights to sentient non-human animals to prevent them from enduring the horrifying unnecessary suffering we humans inflict upon them for our personal gain, amusement and satisfaction
Things Go Wrong For Nepal Maoists
By Nava Thakuria
www.countercurrents.org/thakuria280708.htm
The rebellion communists of Nepal, though they won a war against the monarch, have lost an important battle of ballots in the Constituent Assembly. Loosing the ballot race for the ‘Head of the State’ and his subordinate, the rebellion communists hided their faces for few moments. A last minute emergence of a three party alliance, opposing them, even compelled the rebellion communist leader Prachanda to rethink about his next step. Prachanda, who led a bloody revolution demanding the removal of the Hindu monarchy in Nepal and later projected as the Prime Minister of the federal democratic republic at Kathmandu, finally faced the real heat of democracy
Memories Of A Black Moon –
The 1983 Riots In Sri Lanka
By Prasanna Ratnayake
www.countercurrents.org/ratnayake280708.htm
More than two and a half decades later, one of my friends has asked to interview me about the ’83 riots. I was ten years old. My family was from the Sinhala majority, with relatives who were strong figures in politics and the military. How could I reply?
Raksha Bandhan – A hindrance For Development Of Women Society?
By Pardeep
www.countercurrents.org/pardeep280708.htm
When sister ties a thread on the wrist of brother and asks him to protect her in difficulties. Don’t all you think this it’s showing or impelling that women society is not capable/eligible for protecting herself and she always needs a help. Isn’t it showing that the women society is inferior and can’t help own-self?
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