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Messy Elections: Can We Trust The Results?
By Kevin Zeese
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The U.S. can be the greatest democracy on earth, but rright now it is far from it

The Cost Of Slumber
By Dahr Jamail
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We must each ask ourselves, during this week before the election, what, precisely, we will be willing to do to bring about the change necessary to end all the illegalities being carried out in our name. For this question shall, of course, persist long after November 4

War Or Peace?: The World After The 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
By Richard C. Cook
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With the presidential election only a week away, the financial crisis has been dominating the news, but behind it is an even larger question of war vs. peace

Confronting Presidential “Meltdowns”
By Robert S. Becker
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If our democracy is to be made whole, we must find ways to return quality to government and government to the sovereignty to the people – and that, paradoxically, begins by returning greatness to the White House. Great nations cannot long suffer a train of mediocre leaders who cannot transcend their own parties or mindsets when problems are larger than both

American Priorities
By Mickey Z.
www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz281008.htm
Mickey Z. observes some American priorities

Peak Oil And The Systemic Collapse Of Modern Civilization
By Peter Goodchild
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Systemic collapse has ten principal parts, each with a somewhat causal relationship to the next. Fuel, metals, and electricity are a tightly-knit group, since no industrial civilization can have one without the others. As those three disappear, food and fresh water become scarce. Matters of infrastructure then follow: transportation and communication. Social structure fails: government, finance, and education. After these ten, there is psychic breakdown: madness and chaos

Sticking It To The Man,’ 21st Century Style…
By Jason Miller
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An interview with Captain Paul Watson, animal defender extraordinaire, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and courageous practitioner of extensional self defense on behalf of marine animals

Girl Thrown To Dogs Was Pregnant
By Rauf Klasra
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There is more to the bone-chilling account of the 17-year-old Taslim Solangi of Khairpur who was thrown to dogs — she was 8-month pregnant and was forced to give birth to her baby prematurely. The baby was immediately thrown into the nearby Ubhal Wah canal after her killer father-in-law passed a judgement that the child was illegitimate and did not deserve to be allowed to live

US Military Forces Attack
Syrian Village, Killing Eight
By Patrick O’Connor
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A ground assault conducted Sunday by the US military on a Syrian village saw eight people shot dead, four of them reportedly children, and others wounded. The raid has all the earmarks of a calculated provocation by the outgoing administration of US President George Bush aimed at derailing moves by the European powers to normalise relations with the Syrian government

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