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The Crisis Has Hardly Begun
By Paul Craig Roberts
www.countercurrents.org/roberts171108.htm
Any bailout has its downsides. But if America loses its auto industry, it will lose the suppliers as well and will cease to have a manufacturing sector. For years no-think economists have been writing off America’s manufacturing jobs, while deluding themselves and the public with propaganda about a New Economy based on finance. A country that doesn’t make anything doesn’t need a financial sector as there is nothing to finance

Worse Than The Great Depression?
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman171108.htm
Policy makers won’t change. “Free-market” fundamentalism won’t be tamed, and nothing in sight promises deliverance to a caring, progressive new world. Before whatever comes out of this in the end, plenty of pain will precede it, then past sins will repeat, and we’ll go through the whole cycle again – if we make it through this one

G-20 Meets, Dines In DC, Does Nothing To Save The World Economy
By Kevin Zeese
www.countercurrents.org/zeese171108.htm
People Need to Organize to Break the Bailout and Demand the Economy We Want

Yes, I Am My Brother’s Keeper
By Siv O’Neall
www.countercurrents.org/oneall171108.htm
Do we need further proof that greed is not the solution for a sound economy? Do we need further proof that capitalism is foundering? Do we need further proof that ignoring the poor is not the way to make the world go round? That selfish accumulation of wealth is not the key to peace of mind and a life worth living?

Abdicating The “A” Word, Frantically Fighting For The Familiar
By Carolyn Baker
www.countercurrents.org/baker171108.htm
But if mere physical survival is all it’s about, then we are left with nothing but doom and gloom. If, however, things like cooperation, compassion, building authentic community, and living from a new paradigm, even if only for a brief period of time, occur, then civilization will have been transcended and dealt a significant death blow

Breaking With Afghan Policy
By Tariq Ali
www.countercurrents.org/ali171108.htm
Obama would be foolish to imagine that Petraeus can work a miracle cure in Afghanistan. The cancer has spread too far and is affecting U.S. troops as well. If the American media chose to interview active-duty soldiers in Afghanistan (on promise of anonymity), they might get a more accurate picture of what is happening inside the U.S. Army there

The Real Goal Of Israel’s Blockade
By Jonathan Cook
www.countercurrents.org/cook171108.htm
The latest tightening of Israel’s chokehold on Gaza – ending all supplies into the Strip for more than a week – has produced immediate and shocking consequences for Gaza’s 1.5 million inhabitants.The refusal to allow in fuel has forced the shutting down of Gaza’s only power station, creating a blackout that pushed Palestinians bearing candles on to the streets in protest last week. A water and sanitation crisis are expected to follow

DR Congo’s Historic Urgency
By Brian McAfee
www.countercurrents.org/mcafee171108.htm
The conditions in the democratic republic of Congo are dire for millions of its people despite the fact that the Congo has more mineral wealth than any other part of the African continent. Over a quarter of a million people are displaced because of the civil war currently raging in the eastern part of the country

Sangh Parivar’s Double Talk:
Beware Perverse Patriotism
By B G Verghese
www.countercurrents.org/verghese171108.htm
What is surprising, however, is the response of the spokesmen of the Parivar. They disown any association with sadhvi Pragya and other civil suspects held for the Malegaon bombing. Yet they take the line that Hindus cannot be terrorists and that the armed forces are a part of Indian society which has been horrified by the pusillanimous and apologetic approach of the UPA government to terror attacks and cannot therefore be blamed for patriotic reactions.This apologia comes close to showing sympathy for and indirectly condoning what is undoubtedly a grave dereliction of duty and rank indiscipline

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