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India’s 9/11. Who Was Behind The Mumbai Attacks?
By Michel Chossudovsky
www.countercurrents.org/chossudovsky011208.htm
Washington is Fostering Political Divisions between India and Pakistan

The Mumbai Cauldron: Who Pressed The Repeat Button Of History?
By Saber Ahmed Jazbhay
www.countercurrents.org/jazbhay011208.htm
Those who executed the military precision operation were certainly not amateurs but highly trained and motivated professional terrorists who were prepared to die for their cause and who, I suspect, were part of a larger geopolitical agenda and the operational nature and scale of their enterprise suggests that they were not religious zealots for at no time is there any record or indication of them chanting or exemplifying any religious fervour like those who allegedly flew their hijacked planes into the World Trade Centre

Pleas For Sanity As Sabres Rattle Over Mumbai Mayhem
By Beena Sarwar
www.countercurrents.org/sarwar011208.htm
The pattern is all too familiar. Every time India and Pakistan head towards dialogue and detente, something explosive happens that pushes peace to the backburner and drags them back to the familiar old tense relationship, worsened by sabre-rattling war cries from both sides

Terror In The Name Of God
By Yoginder Sikand
www.countercurrents.org/sikand011208.htm
According to media reports, it is possible that the recent deadly assault on Mumbai was masterminded by the Lashkar-e Tayyeba, a Pakistan-based self-styled Islamist terrorist outfit. Whether the attacks were indeed the handiwork of the Lashkar, as is being alleged, or of some other agency, such as the CIA and the Israseli Mossad, as others believe, remains to be fully investigated, but there can be no doubt that radical Islamism, like radical Hindutva, poses a major threat to peace and security in both India and Pakistan

Criminal Injustice Against
The Holy Land Foundation Charity
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman011208.htm
The Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) was the largest American Muslim charity until the Bush administration falsely declared it an enemy of the state and shut it down. On December 4, 2001, the Treasury Department declared HLF a terrorist group, froze its assets, and falsely claimed they were being used to funnel millions of dollars to Hamas. HLF appealed at the time but in court was denied

Surprise !
By David Kendall
www.countercurrents.org/kendkall011208.htm
So why is anyone even slightly “surprised” about the recent cabinet appointments by Barack Obama? And I’m not talking about regular people — the 50-percent of all American households that can’t afford Internet access, who therefore also don’t have access to “alternative news sources”. I’m talking about the extremely educated and intelligent “Harvard” and “Berkeley” people who write those alternative sources of “news” information, who now feel shocked, appalled, abandoned, betrayed, horse-whipped, cheated, swindled and — “SURPRISED” — by President-elect Barack Obama’s recent cabinet selections

George W. Bush Belongs In Prison
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
www.countercurrents.org/joel011208.htm
Electing Barack Obama president was the first step in redeeming American democracy. The second step must be indicting ex-president George W. Bush, giving him a fair trial, finding him guilty of many criminal acts and putting him in prison. Forget revenge. Think rule of law and justice

Politics And The Arts, Internationalism And Activism
By Lloyd Rowsey
www.countercurrents.org/rowsey011208.htm
An Interview With Gary Corseri

Hospitals or Hell?
By V. Sasi Kumar & Sundar Ramanathaiyer
www.countercurrents.org/sasikumar011208.htm
Mental hospitals in India are very much like hell. No one seems to be bothered about what happens there. People, even journalists, are not allowed to visit the wards. Very little news comes out of their prison-like campuses. Once in a while we even hear reports of rape and sodomy. Becoming a mental patient is often worse than death

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