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Georgia On Our Mind
By Jeff Berg
www.countercurrents.org/berg120808.htm
Georgia has no significant oil or gas reserves of its own but it is a key transit point for oil from the Caspian and central Asia destined for Europe and the US. Crucially, it is the only practical route from this increasingly important producer region that avoids both Russia and Iran. It is however those matters that are outside of the question of energy that are leading this relatively banal struggle for economic advantage to turn violent
Its Oil Again Stupid
By David Truskoff
www.countercurrents.org/truskoff120808.htm
For the first time the world is learning of Israelis’ involvement in Georgia. Including the sale of Advanced weapons to Georgia and the training of the Georgian army’s infantry forces. I wonder who paid for that? OK so what is the military action really about?
Bush’s War In Georgia
By Mike Whitney
www.countercurrents.org/whitney120808.htm
Washington’s bloody fingerprints are all over the invasion of South Ossetia. Georgia President Mikhail Saakashvili would never dream of launching a massive military attack unless he got explicit orders from his bosses at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. After all, Saakashvili owes his entire political career to American power-brokers and US intelligence agencies
United By Misery: Two Boys From Gaza And Nilin
By Ramzy Baroud
www.countercurrents.org/baroud120808.htm
Ahmed Moussa was a 12-year-old Palestinian boy from the West Bank village of Nilin, near Ramallah. Mohamed Bahloul is a 12-year-old Palestinian boy from Gaza City. The former was shot and killed 29 July by Israeli forces following a peaceful protest against the Israeli apartheid wall. The latter is awaiting death in a dilapidated hospital in Gaza
The Olympics As A Diversion
By Ghali Hassan
www.countercurrents.org/hassan120808.htm
The current anti-Chinese propaganda, masquerading as anti-repression and pro-human rights protests is a classic Western hypocrisy and designed to advance U.S.-Western imperialist agenda. When did Western-based human rights organisations have seriously and impartially protested against Western-perpetuated human rights abuses and war crimes except the usual and confused rhetoric? They have become the West’s most useful tools deflecting attention from U.S./Israel criminal wars. The anti-Chinese protesters at the Olympics have missed great opportunity
Targeting Immigrants – The Largest Ever US ICE Raid
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman120808.htm
On May 12, 2008, ICE agents conducted their largest ever terror raid against workers in Postville, IA. In an early report that day, the Des Moines Register called it the “largest workplace raid in Iowa history (resulting) in the arrest of more than 300 people (in fact, 389).””As two law enforcement helicopters hovered overhead, dozens (in fact, around 900) federal (ICE) agents descended on Agriprocessors Inc., the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse” employing 968 workers. The number arrested was more than three times higher than those seized “18 months ago at the Swift (Marshalltown) plant.”
See No Hemp, Hear No Hemp,
Speak No Hemp, Part I
By Rand Clifford
www.countercurrents.org/clifford120808.htm
If we rally the intelligence, dedication, and some of the spirit that got America going in the first place…nothing like hemp offers so much in reducing Big Oil and their Empire of CorpoGov and Industrial Military Complex and Global Predatory Capitalism. This is the only reason hemp remains banned in America… Regional economies, wealth enriching its actual producers, healing of the planet’s life-support systems—even if we find the spirit, do we still have time?
Five Years After Blackout, Power Grid Still In ‘Dire Straits’
By Jason Leopold
www.countercurrents.org/leopold120808.htm
The 2003 blackout led to calls for spending of up to $100 billion to reduce severe transmission bottlenecks and increase capacity so the transmission lines can carry additional electricity from power plants to homes and businesses.But investment in the grid has lagged, and progress has been slow
Technological Titans, Moral Midgets: The Death Of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
By Niranjan Ramakrishnan
www.countercurrents.org/rama120808.htm
Somehow it seemed only fitting that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn should breathe his last just as the celebration of technical wizardry was to reach its crescendo in Beijing; if the 21st century has any unifying allegiance, it is to the Diocese of Technology, and indirectly, to its Major Sponsor, the Church of Globalization
The SIMI Fictions: The Kafka Project
By Ajit Sahi
www.countercurrents.org/sahi120808.htm
In a crucial investigation over three months, Editor-at-Large AJIT SAHI of Tehelka tracked the SIMI fictions across 11 cities —Trivandrum, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Udaipur, Bhopal, Mumbai, Delhi, Aurangabad, Ahmedabad and Gorakhpur. His findings are alarming and distressing. They demand urgent introspection and corrective action
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