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For An Iraq War Memorial
By Sherwood Ross
www.countercurrents.org/ross040808.htm
Why shouldn’t there be a war memorial on the National Mall in Washington to commemorate those who have died in the Iraq war? It could be a simple concrete wall five stories high onto which the photographs of those killed in Iraq would be projected. After dark, somewhere between the illuminated Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial, the Iraq Wall would come to life. It might be a good idea to site it facing the White House so that it would always be visible to future presidents
Why Is Habeas Corpus Such A Threat To Those In Power?
By Maher Osseiran
www.countercurrents.org/osseiran040808.htm
Why is the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold habeas corpus rights for the Guantanamo detainees so scary that Senator Lindsey Graham, with the support of McCain, will “explore the possibility, if necessary, of a constitutional amendment to blunt the effect of this decision”? What is so fundamentally wrong with the Supreme Court’s decision, whose members are conservative or Bush appointees, to warrant amending our constitution? Have Senators Graham and McCain lost their minds?
The Planned Collapse Of America
By Peter Chamberlin
www.countercurrents.org/chamberlin040808.htm
We are seeing the planned collapse of America, coming down the road we are on. What are we going to do to get our nation off that highway to hell?
Shifts And Faultlines In The World Economy And Great Power Rivalry
What Is Happening and What It Might Mean
By Raymond Lotta
www.countercurrents.org/lotta040808.htm
This is a research essay about changes in global capitalist accumulation, newly emerging relations of strength among imperialist and regional powers, and the force of competitive pressures and tensions. It is about great-power rivalries in a world system based on exploitation. To use an analogy to the complex motions of large parts of the Earth’s crust and upper mantle, this is a discussion of shifting tectonic plates in the world economy: some of their longer-term movements and some of the more sudden and unexpected eruptions
A Voyage Into The Great Arctic Meltdown
By Marian Wilkinson
www.countercurrents.org/wilkinson040808.htm
The vast Arctic sea ice which spreads across the North Pole could disappear during the summer within a decade or two – or even by 2013 – leading scientists are warning
Obama Joins The Club
By Ramzy Baroud
www.countercurrents.org/baroud040808.htm
The exit of Bush from the White House is already anticipated in the Arab region with sighs of relief. But what is ahead under the next US president; more of the same, regardless of who wins, or change?
Gaza Under Siege
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman040408.htm
Gaza’s industrial production dropped 95%, and its agricultural output is about half its pre-2007 level. Nearly all construction also stopped, and according to a new UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) report, poverty tops 50% and unemployment is nearly as high. Other unofficial estimates say 80% for both is more accurate. Things are bad and worsening
“ Making News” And The Corporate Media In America
By Timothy V. Gatto
www.countercurrents.org/gatto040808.htm
It is a sad commentary that with so many technological advances that have happened since TV first came on the scene; we still see the same news on all the channels. It’s even sadder that all the news offered can be shown on a twenty minute loop. There are so many questions and so few answers. So much is happening and so little reported on
(Cast)e Abroad
By Pardeep
www.countercurrents.org/pardeep040808.htm
Castes which earlier used to exist in India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh etc countries, now these incidents show that caste has been exported from India to the many other developed countries also, which should be the area of concern to all the governments & all those who are concerned about the basic human rights, good community relationships
Some Good Amid The Bombs?
By Teesta Setalvad
www.countercurrents.org/setalvad040808.htm
The fragile peace prevalent even after the bomb blasts, hopefully, will help Gujarat and Gujaratis see the inherent values of a lasting and comfortable peace
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