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The Mainstream Media Questions Delhi Encounter Killings
By L. George
www.countercurrents.org/george250908.htm
Finally it has happened: the main stream media in India has for the first time come out with something other than the ‘official version’ of the encounter killings that have taken place in the country
A Golden Future Awaits Mankind
By Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
www.countercurrents.org/nejad250908.htm
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly
Six Years In Guantanamo
By Robert Fisk
www.countercurrents.org/fisk250908.htm
Sami al-Haj, an Al Jazeera cameraman, was beaten, abused and humiliated in the name of the war on terror. He tells Robert Fisk about his struggle to rebuild a shattered life
Oh, Henry! The 700 Billion
By Niranjan Ramakrishnan
www.countercurrents.org/rama250908.htm
The 700 billion dollars will not solve the problem, just as the stimulus package did not
The Bailout Can Be Stopped: Concerted Citizen Action
Is Having A Critical Impact
By Kevin Zeese
www.countercurrents.org/zeese250908.htm
Citizens from across the political spectrum are telling Congess – No to the Bailout. When we wrote our membership thousands responded. I’m urging people to respond again to keep the pressure building. We are having an impact but it is going to take an avalanche of citizen input to re-think the bailout
Interventions The Salvation Of Capitalism
By Robert S. Becker
www.countercurrents.org/becker250908.htm
But bailouts are never about increasing opportunity but protecting what property and stock owners have now. As usual, this Congress will protect both real and “paper” assets and the more you have, the more you benefit. Capitalism answers to human nature, but that doesn’t make it fair or progressive. That’s why we really need a modern New Deal or the Bush slide into mediocrity gets worse
New Coup D’Etat Rumblings In Venezuela
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman250908.htm
With a few months left in office, the Bush administration may be unleashing its last hurrah in Latin America. A “hail Mary” effort to reclaim the region. Remove its weak democracies in countries like Bolivia and strong ones in Venezuela. And do it in the face of overwhelming domestic problems at home and lost wars abroad. Will it work? Not if Bolivians and Venezuelans have anything to say about it, and they’re saying plenty. Stay tuned
Hasn’t McCain Done Enough For The Economy?
By Mary Shaw
www.countercurrents.org/shaw250908.htm
My biggest concern is McCain’s track record on our economy. I think he’s done enough
Our Media Can’t Face The Truth
By Timothy V. Gatto
www.countercurrents.org/gatto250908.htm
The media has changed from being a stalwart defender of the public’s right to know the truth, into a timid, vacillating entity that for all intents and purposes, censors itself
Ecuador’s Constitution Gives Rights To Nature
By Cyril Mychalejko
www.countercurrents.org/mychalejko250908.htm
Jaguars, spectacled bears, brown-headed spider monkeys, and plate-billed mountain toucans may all just breathe a little easier next week if Ecuadorians approve a new constitution in a referendum on Sunday that would grant these threatened animals’ habitats with inalienable rights
Kashmir Conflict And The Emerging Political Scene In South Asia
By Shah Faisal
www.countercurrents.org/faisal250908.htm
In times to come there is going to be a lot of churning and shaking and Kashmir issue will increasingly get connected to movements on the global platform. Although no one can risk his money on betting for an early conflict resolution, the way nations are experimenting with newer power equations day in and day out, it can easily be fathomed out that the days of conflict are numbered
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