and then
Pain In Bihar, Agony In Orissa
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat
www.countercurrents.org/rawat010908.htm
While in Orissa, the religious goons played the tandava, in Bihar, it is river Kosi which has destroyed the livelihood of millions of people. If reports are to be believed an estimated 5 million people have been displaced in this Tsunami which has uprooted people from their places and rendered them homeless
Fifty Thousand Christians Still Hiding In The Forests Of Orissa
By Citizen’s Delegation
www.countercurrents.org/cd010908.htm
A Citizens Delegation met President Pratibha Patil on Monday morning calling upon her to enforce Article 355 of the Constitution of India on Orissa so that the Chief Minister Naveen Pattnaik administration takes adequate measures to protect Christians in the state from Hindutva violence
New Orleans – One Day To Gustave
By Bill Quigley
www.countercurrents.org/quigley010908.htm
How many of us would shove some things in a pillowcase, turn out the lights, leave our home and catch a bus filled with strangers going to places unknown? In New Orleans and all along the Gulf Coast, tens of thousands are doing exactly that
One India: Two Peoples,
Holy Cows And Scapegoats
By Subhash Gatade
www.countercurrents.org/gatade010908.htm
It is difficult to say what will happen next ! Neither it is possible to predict when would the process of ‘terrorisation’ and ‘stigmatisation’ of particular communities would end nor it is possible to predict when would the division of peoples in Holy Cows and Scapegoats would end
Imagine: Lennon’s Response To McCartney’s ‘Friendship First’ Concert In Israel
By Eileen Fleming
www.countercurrents.org/fleming010908.htm
Four decades ago, Israel banned The Beatles fearing their revolutionary message of love and peace would corrupt their youth.On September 25, 2008, Sir Paul McCartney will perform his ‘Friendship First’ concert in Tel Aviv for $4.3 million and is being promoted as one of “music’s most revered stars” and a holder of “the key principals of friendship – loyalty and respect.” As I wondered what Lennon might have said to his old mate in regards to making money from an apartheid state
Stoking Tensions, Risking Confrontation: A High Stakes US Gamble with Russia
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman010908.htm
One nation above others is an obstacle to American imperial dreams – Russia. It’s powerful and can’t be intimidated like most others. It’s also dominant where Washington wants control – the Eurasian vastness with its huge oil, gas and other resources. For years, American sought dominance over it. Saw an opening when the Soviet Union dissolved. And one way or other seeks to get it. Russia has other plans, so therein lies the root of the current conflict using Georgia as a US proxy to instigate it
The Dutch Connection
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
www.countercurrents.org/ulrich010908.htm
The recent De Telegraaf article[i] ‘revealing’ the Dutch intelligence cooperation with the CIA is a propaganda piece aimed at undermining the credibility of United Nations, its specialized agency, the IAEA, and its chief Mohammad ElBaradei. It also seeks to demoralize the Iranians and undermine their resolve in confronting outside enemies
The Slow Death Of Democracy And The Rise Of The Corporate Hydra
By Siv O’Neall
www.countercurrents.org/oneall010908.htm
What has happened to the common sense of Americans? Has it completely gone down the drain with the propaganda of U.S. superiority? Don’t they see the millions and millions of people who have died and are still dying across the world, due to U.S. empire illusions and the firmly established greed and power of the Big Corporations? Don’t they see that the lone superpower as a taken-for-granted is a fiction?
Technological Fundamentalism
In Media And Culture
By Robert Jensen
www.countercurrents.org/jensen010908.htm
While media watchdogs and bloggers probe contemporary news media for signs of bias — from every angle, on virtually every issue — perhaps the most important of journalists’ biases is ignored: their routine acceptance of society’s technological fundamentalism. This devotion to the industrial world’s core delusion shows up not just in stories about science and technology but in the assumptions about science and technology that underlie virtually all reporting in the corporate commercial news media in the United States
New Phase Of Kashmiri Struggle
By Dr Shabir Choudhry
www.countercurrents.org/choudhry010908.htm
People of Jammu and Kashmir have suffered for many decades; and their struggle for right of self – determination and national identity has seen many twists and turns. The new and probably the last phase of this long struggle has begun
Peru: Indigenous Rebellion In The Amazon
By Kiraz Janicke
www.countercurrents.org/janicke010908.htm
Peruvian President Alan Garcia suffered a major political setback on August 22 after Congress voted 66-29 in favour of repealing controversial presidential decrees that would have facilitated the privatisation of communal indigenous lands
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