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Troops Deployed On U.S. Streets
By Naomi Wolf
www.countercurrents.org/wolf081008.htm
The First Brigade of the Third Infantry Division, three to four thousand soldiers, has been deployed in the United States as of October 1. Their stated mission is the form of crowd control they practiced in Iraq, subduing “unruly individuals,” and the management of a national emergency
“Invasion Of The Sea-Smurfs”
By Amy Goodman
www.countercurrents.org/goodman081008.htm
3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team will be called the chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive Consequence Management Response Force. Its acronym, CCMRF, is pronounced “sea-smurf.” These “sea-smurfs,” Gina Cavallaro of Army Times newspaper reports, have “spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle,” in a combat zone, and now will spend their 20-month “dwell time”—time troops are required to spend to “reset and regenerate after a deployment”—armed and ready to hit the U.S. streets
California Father Kills Family And Himself
By Kate Randall
www.countercurrents.org/randall081008.htm
Some time between Saturday night and Monday morning, Karthik Rajaram shot and killed his wife, Subasri, 39; his mother in law, Indra Ramasesham, 69; and his three sons—Krishna, 19, a business economics major at UCLA; Ganesha, 12; and Arjuna, 7. Rajaram was found dead in his younger sons’ bedroom, the gun still in his hand
A Futile Bailout As Darkness Falls On America
By Paul Craig Roberts
www.countercurrents.org/roberts081008.htm
The same reckless leadership that gave us expensive wars based on false premises has now concocted an expensive bailout that does not address the problem, which will fester and become worse
All Fall Down
By Jim Kunstler
www.countercurrents.org/kunstler081008.htm
Some big questions for the week: will the Euro survive as a currency? Will the rush into the US dollar continue even as the US financial system dematerializes in a Fibonacci fever of accelerating de-leveraged infinitude? Will the remaining Big Boyz, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan succumb to the counter-party hemorrhagic fever? Will great rows of lesser banking dominoes now start clacking onto their faces?
The Trade Balance And The Limits Of The Paulson Rescue Plan
By Dan Lieberman
www.countercurrents.org/lieberman081008.htm
The Paulson Rescue Plan prevents banking system nationalization but not economic catastrophe
Opportunity For China In Wall Street Distress
By Antoaneta Bezlova
www.countercurrents.org/bezlova081008.htm
The Wall Street fire-sale has prompted China economic pundits to call on Beijing to avail of the opportunity to acquire stakes in United States financial institutions and further its influence on global financial power
Voting The Fate Of The Nation
By Chalmers Johnson
www.countercurrents.org/johnson081008.htm
Will economic meltdown, race, or regional loyalty be the trump card in election 2008?
Justice For Yemini Sheik
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman081008.htm
This time is different for Yemini Sheik Mohammed Ali Hassan Al-Moayad and his assistant Mohammed Mohsen Yahya Zayed. On October 2, the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously reversed their unjustifiable convictions. More on that below
McCain v. Obama II: The Empire Strikes Back
By David Swanson
www.countercurrents.org/swanson081008.htm
The first debate after the great foreign policy debate, which focused almmost exclusively on war, shifted to a discussion devoted in large part to foreign policy and specifically war. But it began with some other topics
The Debate That Made No Difference
By Timothy V. Gatto
www.countercurrents.org/gatto081008.htm
Tonight’s debate between the two corporate candidates’ was predictable and superficial. If I were to judge the by the debates only, I would have a hard time differentiating between the two. Both Senator’s were very close to one another on most issues save healthcare which in all reality is just a “straw-man” issue that probably won’t be enacted in the next term of either candidate, but it makes good fodder for political discourse
The Parallel Streams Of Anger
By M.J. Akbar
www.countercurrents.org/akbar081008.htm
Dr Manmohan Singh said, on his return from France, that incidents in Orissa had shamed India before the world. That is important, but far less important than the fact that the violence in Orissa has shamed Indians in India. I measure what Indians do not by the standards of France, but by the values of modern India, which strengthened the spirit of our freedom movement against western colonialism and were enshrined in that noble document called the Constitution of India. The Bajrang Dal has shamed India before Indians
Alienation Of Indian Muslims
By Mushirul Hasan
www.countercurrents.org/hasan081008.htm
The extent to which the Indian society is getting polarised along religious lines is very disturbing. If this is the state of affairs almost seven decades after independence, what might happen a few decades later? This is not the time to attribute responsibility to different parties or communities. This is a moment for self-reflection and for finding out what gives rise to this mindless violence
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