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Crisis? What Crisis?
By Dave Fryett
www.countercurrents.org/fryett191108.htm
The economic mess that has been unfolding the last few months is not, as the right fear and the left hope, an organic collapse of the global capitalist system But rather it is, as so many so-called financial crises before it, a scam perpetrated by what Lincoln used to call the “money power.” The goals are to capture other lucrative businesses, reduce government and its ability to constrain its hegemony over capital, and to reduce union membership by creating such dire economic circumstances as to make unions powerless to save their members from hardship

Senate Hearing On US Auto Bailout Signals New Attacks On Workers
By Jerry White
www.countercurrents.org/white191108.htm
Tuesday’s Senate Banking Committee hearing on a $25 billion government bailout of the US auto industry underscored the reactionary framework of the official debate on the crisis of the Big Three auto companies. At the center of the dispute between those senators who support an emergency loan and those who oppose it is how best to impose the burden of the crisis on the backs of auto workers and the working class as a whole

The Guts Of America Falls On Hard Times
By Jim Taylor
www.countercurrents.org/taylor191108.htm
As GM goes, I fear, so goes America

As Population Grows We Fail To Protect Our Children
By John James
www.countercurrents.org/james191108.htm
Two trends are crashing against one another. Both are well-known. They are that world population is getting larger while food and water is getting less

Whither The Sanity Of Parents?
By Shobha Shukla
www.countercurrents.org/shukla191108.htm
No child asks to be born. It is a conscious decision of both the parents to become instruments of bringing God’s greatest gift to this world. But, very often, the motive behind this serious decision is either just to keep their family tree blooming, and/or else to create crutches for themselves in their time of need/old age. Is this the right attitude with which to embark upon the crucial phase of parenthood?

Schools And Hospitals Should Come First In Any Stimulus Package
By Mike Davis
www.countercurrents.org/davis191108.htm
If, after saving kindergartens and county hospitals, we someday hope to ride the fast train, then we need to rebuild the antiwar movement on broader foundations. The president-elect’s original proposal for funding domestic social investment through downsizing the empire offers a brilliant starting point for basing economic growth on an economic bill of rights (as advocated by Franklin Roosevelt in 1944) instead of imperial over-reach and Pharaonic levels of military waste

US Plans To Muscle In On Russia’s Turf
By Peter Chamberlin
www.countercurrents.org/chamberlin191108.htm
he two former superpowers are headed for a collision over this issue of central Asian pipelines, as they maneuver themselves into an advantageous position for a title fight over future energy sources. Even if one side manages to come out on top after a potential conflict, it would not be able to supply the first cubic meter of gas or oil for at least three years. We are going into a fight based on sheer speculation. The anticipation of future profits is fueling war fever right now

Extrajudicial Assassinations As Official Israeli Policy
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman191108.htm
Throughout its history, Israel willfully and systematically committed premeditated extrajudicial killings of Palestinians and other Arabs as official state policy – carried out with explicit high-level political, judicial and military authorization and allegedly in “self-defense” against individuals threatening Israeli security. Government officials even admit that certain persons are targeted, and Dan Haluts, former Israeli Army Chief of Staff, once told the Washington Post (in August 2006) that “Targeted killing is the most important method in the fight against ‘terrorism.’ “ In other words, premeditated murder is acceptable as long as it’s properly classified

Hindu Terrorism
By Badri Raina
www.countercurrents.org/raina191108.htm
I think it proper, therefore, to stick with the more direct and honest description “Hindu” terrorism, since, much against their grain, even India’s premier TV channels are now bringing us news of “Hindu” terrorism, so compelling the materials gathered by the investigating agencies thus far. This despite the fact that in my view the term “Hindu” trerrorism is as erroneous as the term “Muslim” terrorism

The Tiger Roars At White Indians
By Jasbeer Musthafa M
www.countercurrents.org/jasbeer191108.htm
A quarter century after Salman Rushdie drew the world’s attention to the story of the midnight children, and 11 years after Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things spurred interest in Indian writing in English, both in this country and elsewhere, Adiga’s tale of the son of a rickshaw-puller who dreams of escaping poverty and goes to seek his fortune in the big cities draws the world’s attention to a very different side of India

East Bound and Down: A Homeless March On Washington Part 3
By David Kendall
www.countercurrents.org/kendall191108.htm
Why is a “Homeless March on Washington” needed to force the implementation of a Basic Income Guarantee? The question is not whether Basic Income Guarantee is either possible or desirable. The question is why any kind of force should become necessary to implement such a simple and reasonable idea. The second installment of this series closed with such questions, and this final installment will outline some possible answers to the riddle

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