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Rep. Sherman Feels Heat For Reporting On Threat Of Martial Law
By David Swanson
www.countercurrents.org/swanson261008.htm
Congressman Brad Sherman said on the floor of the House that a few Congress members had been told there would be martial law in America if they did not pass Paulson’s Plunder. Sherman has not retracted that statement. He has not suggested that the Congress members who had told him that didn’t really tell him that, or weren’t honest, or didn’t take it seriously, or that it didn’t influence their votes. But he has put out a statement to the media, clearly at the instruction of the leaders of his party, attempting to backpedal
Voter Surveys And Racial Bias
By Thomas Riggins
www.countercurrents.org/riggins261008.htm
If this election, as have the last two, is stolen from the American people, you can be sure the media and the powers that be will be explaining that the illusion of an Obama victory was due to faulty polls and the “Bradley effect.”
The Obaminations Of Barack
By Niranjan Ramakrishnan
www.countercurrents.org/rama261008.htm
No presidential contender I have seen, other than Bill Clinton, has run a better campaign than Barack Obama. If nothing else, one must hand it to him for the magnificent improbability of the effort – a guy whose last name sounds like ‘Osama’ and whose middle name is the same as Saddam’s – running for president in America, where the average Joe (including the plumber, likely) doesn’t know Madrasi from Madrassa – now poised, and in the view of many, on the verge of victory!
Iraq In The Times Of Cholera… And Occupation
By Sabah Ali
www.countercurrents.org/ali261008.htm
With all the tragedies that the occupation brought to Iraq, the last thing it needs now is an epidemic, the cholera which is spreading in big numbers
Can Georgia Do Right?
By David Morse
www.countercurrents.org/morse261008.htm
Is the legal system of the state of Georgia up to the task – when the task is to rectify the flawed trial of a black man accused of killing a white police officer? The world is waiting to see if justice can prevail. Fortunately, on Friday, October 24, the U.S. Court of Appeals for Georgia’s 11th Circuit issued a stay of execution that narrowly prevented accused cop killer Troy Davis from being put to death by lethal injection the following Monday
Tracking Your Every Move: ‘Enhancing’ Driver’s Licenses At The Cost Of Privacy
By Christopher Parsons
www.countercurrents.org/parson261008.htm
The potential for ubiquitous surveillance that emerges with Enhanced Drivers Licenses (EDLs) could only be imagined by the Stasi in Communist East Germany, but is a genuinely looming specter for contemporary North American democracies. Provincial and state governments in North America are proposing to ‘enhance’ driver’s licenses in coming years by including a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips in them
Venezuela: Between Assassination Plots And Abstention
By Federico Fuentes
www.countercurrents.org/fuentes261008.htm
Talk of assassination plots and rising concerns about a high abstention rate have marked the beginning of the November 23 regional elections race
Peace, Non-Violence And Secularism In Dalit Perspective
By Ratnesh Katulkar
www.countercurrents.org/katulkar261008.htm
Ignorance and negligence of Dalit ideology by the mainstream secularists and the upper-class Muslims are harming Muslims to fall prey before Hindu fascist and it is dangerous in building the real foundation of secularism in India
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