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Israel’s Role In The Russia-Georgia War
By Ali Abunimah
www.countercurrents.org/abunimah150808.htm
The collapse of the Georgian offensive represents not only a disaster for that country and its US-backed leaders, but another blow to the myth of Israel’s military prestige and prowess. Worse, Israel fears that Russia could retaliate by stepping up its military assistance to Israel’s adversaries including Iran
The Neocons Do Georgia
By Paul Craig Roberts
www.countercurrents.org/roberts150808.htm
Unless enough Americans can overcome their brainwashed state and the rigged Diebold voting machines, turn out the imbecilic Republicans and hold the neoconservatives accountable for their crimes against humanity, a crazed neocon US government will provoke nuclear war with Russia
The Nuclear Showdown: Part 2- The Battle Over Enrichment
By Tim Buchholz
www.countercurrents.org/buchholz150808.htm
Why is the U.S. pushing for deals with Turkey and India and pushing for sanctions against Iran? Because they are our allies? Why does that override Iran’s right internationally to the same inspections and guidelines that will allow Turkey and India nuclear power. Is it just because India and Turkey are willing to buy it from other countries and Iran wants to make its own?
Please God Can My Son Survive Acute Myaloid Leukaemia?
By Andrew Kishner
www.countercurrents.org/kishner150808.htm
His words are also as true for Americans as they are for the British and every other group of peoples that have been plagued with nuclear fallout and government coverups. The time has come to draw the line against coverups before many more people will have to ask ‘please God can my son survive Acute Myaloid Leukaemia?’
Big Powers’ Hostility With Iran And : Thirst For Nuclear Fuel Market
By Rahil Yasin & Rudo de Ruijter
www.countercurrents.org/ruijter150808.htm
An attack would likely leave Iran angry, more nationalistic, fed up with international inspectors and nonproliferation treaties, and more determined than ever to obtain nuclear weapons
The Gray Lady Of Bagram
By Aijaz Zaka Syed
www.countercurrents.org/syed150808.htm
The Aafia Siddiqui case may have come to the world’s attention because of some conscientious activists. But what about all those innocent individuals, who have just vanished down the black hole called the Guantanamo Bay, without a trial and without anyone looking for them? And who knows how many such gulags are out there and how many innocents they have sucked into their belly? This war has turned our world into a big gulag where there are no borders, no rule of law, no courts, no justice and no rights whatsoever
‘Provincial Saddam’ Goes, Finally
By Ahmed Ali & Dahr Jamail
www.countercurrents.org/jamail150808.htm
The surprise removal of the Diyala police chief has brought new hope of a more secure future. The decision by members of the ruling council of Diyala governorate to discharge provincial police chief Ghanim al-Quraishi brought celebrations in its wake. In Baquba, 40 km northeast of Baghdad, and capital of Diyala province, Quraishi has long been a controversial figure
The Need For Real Debate On South Africa’s Future
By Raymond Suttner
www.countercurrents.org/suttner150808.htm
Why is there little real debate over the country’s problems and alternatives? How is it that no one in the alliance is debating what the Zuma phenomenon may mean as a programmatic question, and whether and how his leadership differs from that of Thabo Mbeki? Why is it that Zuma has attracted a range of people who do not have clear ideological reasons for their affiliation, but attribute “leftism” to the ANC president? Has the left project absorbed Zuma – or has the official left dissolved in the Zuma “tsunami”?
A Guest Of Eternity:
Mahmoud Darwish In Memoriam
By Raymond Deane
www.countercurrents.org/deane150808.htm
Mahmoud Darwish left no children to whom we can address our condolences. Instead, it is the Palestinian people as a whole who must receive our commiseration for the loss of their most vibrant voice at a time when so much else is being lost to them
Corporate Media Bashes New Chavez Enabling Law Decrees
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman150808.htm
Under Venezuelan constitutional law, Enabling Law power is legal but limited. So despite media and opposition claims, it doesn’t grant Chavez sweeping “rule by decree” authority or make him a “dictator.”
Pakistani Nation In anxiety –
Is It A Start Of An End
By Syed Atiq ul Hassan
www.countercurrents.org/hassan150808.htm
Pakistani nation seems to be in the state of perplexity. Is it a start of an end of a State which was the dream of millions of Muslims of Indian Subcontinent 61 years ago? Today, a common Pakistani in Pakistan and abroad is fearful when look what has been happening in the country for the last few months
Dalit Digital Media:- Shuddering The Hinduized News Media!! Part I
By Saint
www.countercurrents.org/saint150808.htm
Anyone who goes through these alternate digital news blogs and sites would appreciate the sear knowledge, straightforward analysis of events by these individual writers can stand distinctively than that of Times of India, Hindu or New York Times. Is this is the beginning of demolishing the bigotry in the established trational media in the world which is simply owned by few people and they make billions through selling news that are made up stories, to the most part, but nothing to do with helping people and uplifting the needy society?
Rethinking Kashmir Politics
By Yoginder Sikand
www.countercurrents.org/sikand150808.htm
Many Kashmiri Muslims vociferously insist that the demand for independence of Kashmir has nothing to do with religion. Instead, they argue, that the conflict in and over of Kashmir is essentially ‘political’. What is conveniently ignored by those who make this claim is that religion and politics, particularly in the case of the Kashmir dispute, involving as it does the rival claims of Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-dominated India, can hardly be separated
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