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Massacre In Gaza: 230 Killed
By Sameh A. Habeeb
www.countercurrents.org/habeeb281208.htm
Saturday morning started as usual but dramatically changed by 11AM. Sixty Israeli F16s bombarded around 100 police stations, civil and governmental offices across Gaza Strip. The bombardment which simultaneously took place left (at the time of writing)160 people killed and around 3 hundred wounded. A number of wounded are expected to die while many corpses still lie under the rubble of buildings

Gaza Massacres Must Spur Us To Action
By Ali Abunimah
www.countercurrents.org/abunimah281208.htm
Palestinians everywhere are asking for solidarity, real solidarity, in the form of sustained, determined political action. The Gaza-based One Democratic State Group reaffirmed this today as it “called upon all civil society organizations and freedom loving people to act immediately in any possible way to put pressure on their governments to end diplomatic ties with Apartheid Israel and institute sanctions against it.”

Gaza City Hospital A Gruesome Scene
By Ma’an news
www.countercurrents.org/maannews281208.htm
The scenes remind many Palestinians of the images that came out of the Sabra and Shatila massacres from Beirut in 1982, when thousands of Palestinians were killed by the Lebanese Phalangist militaries

Gaza Massacre In Pictures
By Uruknet
www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=49933&s2=27
A link to a number of heartrending pictures of Gaza tragedy

Dump The Israeli And Palestinian Bushes
By Mike Ghouse
www.countercurrents.org/ghouse281208.htm
This bombarding is not good for Israel’s psyche and it is not good for us to watch and do nothing about it. We Americans are consistently duped by the media, we are conditioned not even to ask the other point of view and are made to become judgmental beings. We need to know the truth, so we can live with morality

Bush’s Farewell Gift
By Nicola Nasser
www.countercurrents.org/nasser281208.htm
UN Resolution 1850 pushes Palestinian unity further from reach than ever, argues Nicola Nasser

The Coming Capitalist Consensus
By Walden Bello
www.countercurrents.org/bello281208.htm
While progressives were engaged in full-scale war against neoliberalism, reformist thinking was percolating in critical establishment circles. This thinking is now about to become policy, and progressives must work double time to engage it

Terrorism-Plus-Something Politics
By Mustafa Khan
www.countercurrents.org/khan281208.htm
Though the newly appointed home minister P.Chidambarum has laid to rest any doubt anybody, let alone AR Antulay, might have had regarding the killing of ATS chief Hemant Karkare, there are still some loose ends that need to be tied

Counter-Terrorism Must Not Kill Democracy
By Praful Bidwai
www.countercurrents.org/bidwai281208.htm
The two new laws will increase the alienation of Muslims from the Indian State given that they have been the principal victims of India’s recent anti-terrorism strategy. Many Muslims are also distressed at the alacrity with which the laws were passed — in contrast with the UPA’s failure to enact the promised law to punish communal violence and hate crimes

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