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Chomsky, Zinn, And Obama
By Mickey Z.
www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz241008.htm
Another Election Day approaches and veterans like Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn endorse Obama for President. But Mickey Z. argues, “ a vote for either John McCain or Barack Obama is—at best—an act of criminal negligence.”

The Opium Of The Masses
By Max Kantar
www.countercurrents.org/kantar241008.htm
This November, Americans face a choice. But the choice not between John McCain or Barak Obama; it is between submitting to the will of the corporate-military establishment or taking a moral stand in boycotting their rigged institutions of fake democracy

Taking Politics Seriously:Looking Beyond
The Election And Beyond Elections
By Robert Jensen & Pat Youngblood
www.countercurrents.org/jensen241008.htm
We have nothing against voting. We plan to vote in the upcoming election. Some of our best friends are voters. But we also believe that we shouldn’t make the mistake of thinking that the most important political moment in our lives comes in the voting booth. Instead, people should take politics seriously, which means asking considerably more of ourselves than the typical fixation with electoral politics

Is America Fascist?
By Sherwood Ross
www.countercurrents.org/ross241008.htm
Americans need to keep in mind that worse than anything President Bush has inflicted upon his own citizenry is what his wars of aggression have inflicted on innocent humanity abroad. A million dead Iraqis can’t give a damn by what terminology you describe the United States. If the American people allow their government to make criminal wars to deprive innocent foreigners of their lives and liberties they do not deserve to enjoy either at home

Wrecked Iraq
By Michael Schwartz
www.countercurrents.org/schwartz241008.htm
What the good news from Iraq really means

World Food Day: Global Crises’ Double Standards
By Ramzy Baroud
www.countercurrents.org/baroud241008.htm
Whether the American, European or any other government infused bailout packages rectify the financial crisis or not, chances are that 16 October 2009 will bring similarly devastating news about the plight of the world’s poor and which is likely to remain that: mere “news” that requires little action, if any at all

Pardon Me, Congress?
By David Swanson
www.countercurrents.org/swanson241008.htm
Jerry Seib, executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal said on the Diane Rehm Show on NPR last week that he expects Bush, Cheney, and their subordinates to be prosecuted for torture. This expectation is spreading

Seyed Mousavi: Guilty Of Being Muslim In Police State America
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman241008.htm
In a climate of fear, Muslims risk harassment, prosecution and incarceration. Especially prominent ones like Mousavi. His defense will appeal and seek exoneration at the appellate court level. For now, he’s incarcerated and subjected to dehumanizing treatment. For being Muslim in America at the wrong time. Only his inner strength sustains him. And the love and admiration of his family, friends and supporters. In today’s disturbing climate, we’re all Seyed Mousavis

Isn’t This Hitler’s Tactic?
By Subhash Gatade
www.countercurrents.org/gatade241008.htm
Terror and counter-terror have virtually laid a trap for Muslims, whereas some of the evidence points to the involvement of the Muslim-bashing Bajrang Dal and other RSS siblings. When it comes to this kind of evidence the law turns lame, writes Subhash Gatade

The Struggle Of Dalitbahujan For Their Identity And In Quest Of Their Spiritual And Political Destiny
By Dr. Kancha Ilaiah
www.countercurrents.org/ilaiah241008.htm
Speech delivered on the occasion of presentation of ‘LISA Book Award – 2008 for ‘Why I am Not a Hindu’