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No Bread In Gaza
By Rami Almeghari
www.countercurrents.org/almeghari261208.htm
The Gaza Strip, home to more than 1.5 million Palestinians, will soon be without its most basic commodity: bread. While families around the world celebrate Christmas, gathering around tables of abundance, Gaza parents like me will not even be able provide bread for their children unless Israel opens the commercial crossings to Gaza from the outside world

Gaza’s Hunger
By Sameh A. Habeeb
www.countercurrents.org/habeeb261208.htm
The number of Gaza bakeries is 47 but now the working ones are 14 only

Security Council Undermines Justice And UN Charter
By Hasan Abu Nimah & Ali Abunimah
www.countercurrents.org/abunimah261208.htm
The United Nations Security Council passed its first resolution on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in almost five years, on 16 December. But far from marking a break with the Council’s abdication of responsibility for the fate of the Palestinian people, United States- and Russian-sponsored resolution 1850 is the final nail in the coffin for even the pretense that international law and institutions will play any serious role in ending 60 years of dispossession and occupation, and bringing about a just peace

India’s Reckless Road To Washington Through Tel Aviv
By Vijay Prashad
www.countercurrents.org/prashad261208.htm
The costs of the Tel Aviv-New Delhi-Washington axis are too much to bear, at least for India. India cannot afford to mimic Israel’s failed neighborhood policy, nor can it follow the U. S. example that seeks to solve its problems by aerial bombardment. South Asia requires a regional solution to what is without doubt a regional problem

Mumbai Massacre Calls For A Probe Of British Role
By Ramtanu Maitra
www.countercurrents.org/maitra261208.htm
A thorough investigation of the Mumbai massacre is the only way to prevent another such attack. That must include a probe of a possible british role in the incident

The Sole Of Christmas
By Rev. William E. Alberts
www.countercurrents.org/alberts261208.htm
Journalist Muntader al-Zaidi leads us to the “sole” of Christmas. Christmas is about throwing truth at falsehood and hyprocrisy in the name of peace and love and justice. That is what Jesus was about

Unscripted: Green Zone Theater And The Shoe Drama
By Ramzy Baroud
www.countercurrents.org/baroud261208.htm
Al-Zaidi is simply an Iraqi man who has, as a journalist, highlighted the suffering of his people as politely, ‘objectively’ and ‘professionally’ as he could, and when he could no longer tolerate the lies told in the Green Zone’s ever malicious drama, he scrapped the script altogether, chucking his shoes at the main actor: This is a farewell kiss, you dog! This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq.” His words, although uttered for the first time in the Green Zone theater, echoed the voices of millions of Iraqis outside, who have chanted these words, for six long, tragic years

Climate Code Red – Telling The Truth To Power
By Bill Henderson
www.countercurrents.org/henderson261208.htm
Climate Code Red was the most important single document published on climate change in 2008. Because climate change is now understood to be of humanity threatening seriousness and a crisis that needs emergency action immediately. Climate Code Red has to be considered as the most important document on any subject published this year

Early Suspicions About Bernard Madoff
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman261208.htm
Since Ronald Reagan, and especially under Bill Clinton and George Bush, Wall Street got a free ride. Foxes guard the hen house. Regulators don’t regulate. Investigations aren’t conducted. Criminal fraud goes undetected. Little is done to eliminate it, and, except for rare instances like the Madoff scandal (that a business reversal and confession revealed), only small offenders need worry

Mickey Z: My Personal Trainer And Yours
By Susie Day
www.countercurrents.org/day261208.htm
An interview with Countercurrents writer Mickey Z

“Class Is A Dirty Word”
By Jason Miller
www.countercurrents.org/miller261208.htm
Michael Parenti interviewed by Jason Miller

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