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America! Be Truly Afraid
By Rand Clifford
www.countercurrents.org/clifford061008.htm
A truly frightening article, delineating a possible scenario about to be unravelled in America
A Conscience Encountered
By Dr Sandeep Pandey
www.countercurrents.org/pandey061008.htm
The UP Police in a planned joint operation with the army is likely to kill two Kashmiri youth (obviously Muslim), already picked up and in their custody somewhere in Meerut , in an `encounter’ with these `dreaded terrorists.’ The drama would be enacted in the Lucknow cantonment area, the most plausible location for an anti-national to be encountered in. Two AK-47 guns, already bought from Nepal and brought through the Bahraich route, would be shown to have been recovered from these `terrorists.’
The Fleecing Of America
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman061008.htm
Now compounded by a deepening financial crisis of unknown magnitude. The potentially catastrophic fallout from it. Rescue packages for business alone, and millions of working Americans left to fend for themselves in a very uncertain environment. The result of fleecing America. Letting greedy bankers profit from it. Commit massive fraud and get away with it. Reward them for their crimes. Looting the national treasury to pay for them. Is public anger so surprising? Only that it hasn’t boiled over on the streets of the nation’s Capitol. Maybe in time as things keep worsening and Washington only worries about Wall Street
One Nation Under Capitalism:
It’s Time For A Crucifixion
By Jason Miller
www.countercurrents.org/miller061008.htm
Motivated by pain and by the realization that our system is ecocidal, genocidal, and morally reprehensible, we of the working and middle classes can finally redeem ourselves by nailing our depraved god of American capitalism to the cross and starting to forge a just, egalitarian, democratic and humane socioeconomic order. Good for us and good for the rest of the planet!
Wall Street Panic, Main Street Pain And Policy Choices
By Ingo Schmidt
www.countercurrents.org/schmidt061008.htm
Major political reform is required to turn undo a state apparatus that is used to serve moneyed interests and build institutions of democratic self-administration. Such profound changes take time. In the meantime, labour and other social movements ought to fight against any attempts to put the burden of the crisis onto workers’ shoulders
The Bailout: How Capitalism Killed Democracy
By David Sirota
www.countercurrents.org/sirota061008.htm
We now face market forces uninhibited by democratic governance. The bailout is an aggressive attempt to trade democracy for autocracy
Palin’s Problem With Facts
By Greg Guma
www.countercurrents.org/guma061008.htm
Now that the Republican ticket is becoming truly desperate, the tactics will get increasingly vicious. The charge that Obama thinks so little of the country that he’s “palling around with terrorists who would target their own country,” leveled by Palin this weekend, is just the beginning. Truth? Facts? For Palin and McCain, they’ve become officially irrelevant
American Politics And The Gathering Storm
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
www.countercurrents.org/ulrich061008.htm
In spite of evidence to the contrary, Israel and its lobby have continuously misled Americans into believing that Iran and its peaceful nuclear technology are a threat to Israel. But as Louis Nizer said: “When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.” In the same vein, American policy makers and candidates should understand that they must put America first
Alasdair MacIntyre And Holistic Marxism
By Thomas Riggins
www.countercurrents.org/riggins061008.htm
Marxists can learn something from MacIntyre. I think his views on holism are useful, as are his remarks on the coherence of our ideas and their need for justification as well as his attempt to avoid relativism
Malegaon Bomb Blast: The Smell Of Blood Is Still In My Head
By Mubasshir Mushtaq
www.countercurrents.org/mushtaq041008.htm
Each Muslim mother in Malegaon is praying lest her son becomes a “suspect.” Things will never be the same in this forsaken corner of Maharashtra but this much is certain: Indian Muslims will not allow India to become another Pakistan
A Wednesday: Cinematic Politics
By Kamal Mohammad
www.countercurrents.org/kamal061008.htm
A critique of the bollywood film “A Wednesday”
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