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Solar Power Breakthrough
By ENS

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Within 10 years, homeowners could power their homes in daylight with solar photovoltaic cells, while using excess solar energy to produce hydrogen and oxygen from water to power a household fuel cell. If the new process developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finds acceptance in the marketplace, electricity-by-wire from a central source could be a thing of the past

Pressures Mount Over Arctic Energy Resources
By Niall Green

www.countercurrents.org/green050808.htm

Across the globe, reserves of oil and gas that were previously regarded as uneconomical are being actively explored and developed. From the Arctic to East Asia to the South Atlantic, untapped billions of barrels of oil are attracting the interests of energy companies and speculative finance capital, seeking to take advantage of the high price of crude oil

What Caused WTO Collapse?
It Was Cotton Subsidies, Stupid?
By Devinder Sharma

www.countercurrents.org/sharma050808.htm

But did the talks actually fail when India refused to compromise over a proposal – special safeguard mechanism – that is supposed to protect poor farmers from a flood of imports? Or were it because of something more sinister, cleverer, and a crafty masterstroke that in reality protected American agriculture? Does it mean that two emerging economic giants – India and China – who many believe are likely to tilt the geopolitical balance, walked straight into a well-laid out trap?

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/lotta050808.htm

China’s capitalist development and China’s rise in the world imperialist system, its nature and implications

Olmert’s Exit
By Uri Avnery

www.countercurrents.org/avnery050808.htm

The final summing-up of the Olmert era: not the smallest real step toward peace has been taken. The historic peace initiative of the Arab League has been buried. The secular, peace-seeking Palestinian leadership has been almost destroyed, paving the way for the Hamas takeover in the Gaza strip, and perhaps also in the West Bank. Not one single hut in a settlement was dismantled, and the settlements have been enlarged everywhere

Muslim Women: The Dangerous Triangle
By Nigar Ataulla

www.countercurrents.org/ataulla050808.htm

Think of a Muslim woman and the things that immediately flash across in the minds of many Muslims and non-Muslims alike are triple talaq, polygamy and the veil. Is that all a Muslim woman is known for? Does not a Muslim woman have her own identity, her own individuality? Why cannot society look upon a Muslim woman as just another human being, like everybody else, and not a marked out, exoticised or specially branded creature?

The Formula For Winning In November
By Timothy Gatto

www.countercurrents.org/gatto050808.htm

I see no negatives in voting for McKinney. I also see no good results if Obama wins because of the fear mongering by Democrats. An Obama win without a strong dissenting vote for McKinney would cement their view that they can always count on those that decry the loss of our constitutional freedoms to fall into line. Sometimes we must suffer a defeat in order to obtain a victory. A Democratic loss because of a strong showing by McKinney would change the way the Democrats do business forever. This is something we must do in order to bring this nation back to the people, and convict the corporate duopoly that we must not be taken for granted

Slow Food Nation Gains Momentum
By Shepherd Bliss

www.countercurrents.org/bliss050808.htm

Slow Food was started by the Italian Carlo Petrini in l986 to protest McDonald’s and its fast food culture. It advocates traditional agriculture and food preparation and consumption, which differ from how many in the U.S. deal with food. SFN is the first such large gathering in the U.S.; it is modeled after events in Europe that have drawn thousands to Terra Madre gatherings

Combating Terrorism
By Ram Puniyani

www.countercurrents.org/puniyani050808.htm

The role which communal violence has played during last two and a half decades, of dividing the nation, gets a deeper strength due to these blasts as by now despite the most immediate protests by most of the Muslim groups, coming out with severest condemnation of these dastardly acts, the ‘social common sense’ that ‘all terrorists are Muslims’ does get a shot in the arm

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