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Don’t be angry with me, if on the anniversary of 9/11 I wish you HAPPY ONAM! Onam is the festival of universal peace and harmony we Keralites celebrate. It is a memory of a world where there was no injustice,or the memory of a day when a life of peace and harmony was permanently banished from the world! I’m taking a few days off and go visiting my parents and siblings in the hills. Hopefully, CC will be back on the 15th, provided the revelling Keralite drivers don’t kill me on the road! To know more about onam vist en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onam
In Solidarity
Binu
9/11 And The Great American Decline
By Glen Ford
www.countercurrents.org/ford110908.htm
In its convulsive “response” to 9/11 – the worldwide “War on Terror” – the United States seized the opportunity to put in motion planetary aggressions that already existed in the blueprints of the neo-con’s Project for a New American Century (PNAC). In effect, Washington was claiming revenge as the motive for crimes that it had long been planning to commit
Arrogance, Ignorance, And Cowardice: Lessons From 9/11
By Robert Jensen
www.countercurrents.org/jensen110908.htm
Given the disastrous decisions made by U.S. officials in the seven long years since September 11, 2001, it would be easy simply to catalog those many mistakes and condemn the bipartisan depravity of the Republican and Democratic politicians who — starting almost immediately after the towers fell — manipulated people’s anger and fear to build support for illegal and immoral wars of aggression in Afghanistan and Iraq
September 11, 2008
By Mickey Z.
www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz110908.htm
After 9/11, normal also came to mean a perpetual war on terror. You know what? Maybe a war on terror is precisely what we need
Temporary Respites From Permanent Decline
By Paul Craig Roberts
www.countercurrents.org/roberts110908.htm
To keep the recycling going, the US Treasury took the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under its wing in order to reassure foreign investors. According to a September 8 Reuters report from Beijing, “China owned $376 billion of debt issued by US government agencies, principally Fannie and Freddie, as of mid-2007.”
US ‘In Need of Rebellion’
By Al Jazeera
www.countercurrents.org/zinn110908.htm
This is an empire which is on the one hand the most powerful empire that ever existed; on the other hand an empire that is crumbling – an empire that has no future … because the rest of the world is alienated and simply because this empire is top-heavy with military commitments, with bases around the world, with the exhaustion of its own resources at home
Record Corporate Bailout Reveals The Bankruptcy Of American Capitalism
By Barry Grey
www.countercurrents.org/grey110908.htm
The US government takeover of the mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has dealt a shattering blow to the ideology of market capitalism, which has been used for decades to justify a relentless assault on the working class and a vast transfer of wealth to the American ruling elite
Who Lost Iraq?
By Michael Schwartz
www.countercurrents.org/schwartz110908.htm
Is the Maliki Government Jumping Off the American Ship of State?
The Red White And Blue Roots Of Terrorism
By Peter Chamberlin
www.countercurrents.org/chamberlin110908.htm
As far as I know, nobody has focused upon the real roots of the war on terror, which are also the solution to it—American-sponsored terrorism. Paid military extremist types, trained by us to carry-out attack missions upon civilians are terrorists, our terrorists. They attack civilians, often women and children, as an indirect method of warfare, to topple governments who oppose American expansion. Has anybody questioned what military challenge the world would face today, if the US suddenly stopped all of these covert programs that perpetrate most of the world’s “terrorism”?
It Is All About Obama
By Ghali Hassan
www.countercurrents.org/hassan110908.htm
Since his first day of campaigning in the primaries for the Democratic nomination, Senator Barack Obama has been the preferred boxing bag by the so-called “progressive” and “liberal” media. While rational criticism is necessary and legitimate, the well-orchestrated attack on Obama (as a person) is designed to deflect attention away from an imperialist system controlled by a small powerful ruling class
Independent Voters! You Have
The Power! (and they know it)
By Timothy V. Gatto
www.countercurrents.org/gatto110908.htm
Everyone that calls themselves an “Independent” should be pleased to know that this is now the largest sector of the voting public. We are larger than the Democrats, larger than the Republicans
Twenty Questions
By Bill Quigley
www.countercurrents.org/quigley110908.htm
Social Justice Quiz 2008
Victims Of India’s ‘War On Terror’
By Yoginder Sikand
www.countercurrents.org/sikand110908.htm
In a development of far-reaching and frightening implications for the stature of the Indian judiciary, Bar Associations in several parts of the country are effectively banning advocates from defending Muslim youth branded as ‘terrorists’, many of them who may well be wrongly accused. A chilling indicator of how deeply-rooted anti-Muslim prejudice has now become
Commonwealth Games And A Beggar Free Delhi
By Loveleen Kaur
www.countercurrents.org/karur110908.htm
The government along with the civil society has to take comprehensive steps to provide the beggars basic amenities and alternative life support systems so that they can also be discouraged from begging and thereby have their share in the development of the country. There can be sensitising programmes for the police department, schools and Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs). A joint venture of the Delhi Government and the people of the city would bring about real changes in the society and an inclusive and authentic face-lift for the city
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