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California Is Broke
By Paul Craig Roberts
www.countercurrents.org/roberts290109.htm
How can President Obama even think about fighting wars half way around the world while California cannot pay its bills, while Americans are being turned out of their homes, while, as Business Week reports, retirees will work throughout their retirement (which assumes that there will be jobs), while careers are being destroyed and stores and factories shuttered

Meltdown Madness : The Human Costs Of The Economic Crisis
By Nick Turse
www.countercurrents.org/turse290109.htm
The body count is still rising. For months on end, marked by bankruptcies, foreclosures, evictions, and layoffs, the economic meltdown has taken a heavy toll on Americans. In response, a range of extreme acts including suicide, self-inflicted injury, murder, and arson have hit the local news. By October 2008, an analysis of press reports nationwide indicated that an epidemic of tragedies spurred by the financial crisis had already spread from Pasadena, California, to Taunton, Massachusetts, from Roseville, Minnesota, to Ocala, Florida

Obama’s Program Of War
By James Cogan
www.countercurrents.org/cogan290109.htm
Within days of taking power, the Obama administration has made clear that it will escalate the war to subjugate the Afghan people, intensify US military strikes on targets inside Pakistan and continue the occupation of Iraq indefinitely. What is being prepared is a brutal escalation of US military violence in Afghanistan and a widening of the conflagration in the region

For Palestinians, Obama’s Message Is Crystal Clear
By Ramzy Baroud
www.countercurrents.org/baroud290109.htm
Those who counted on Obama to bring a just peace to the Middle East must've had their hearts broken watching the man charging against Hamas' terror, as thousands of Gazans were killed and wounded, including 430 children in the matter of three weeks as a result of Israel&'s barbarous attacks, using mostly American weapons (and full, unqualified US backing.)

Palestine: The Shortcut To Peace
By Hasan Abu Nimah
www.countercurrents.org/abunimah290109.htm
There is a shortcut to calm, the elimination of violence and eventually peace. It is a lesson that should have been learned many years, and countless thousands of lives ago: justice

Iraq: Tentative Hope Rises Ahead Of Elections
By Dahr Jamail
www.countercurrents.org/jamail290109.htm
Uncertainty and tension are running high in Baghdad ahead of the provincial election due Jan. 31. But this time fears are also touched by a new hope

Future Farming: The call For A 50-year Perspective On Agriculture
By Robert Jensen
www.countercurrents.org/jensen290109.htm
As everyone scrambles for a solution to the crises in the nation's economy, Wes Jackson suggests we look to nature's economy for some of the answers. With everyone focused on a stimulus package in the short term, he counsels that we pay more attention to the soil over the long haul

Girl Child Marriage In Madhya Pradesh – Impedes Child Rights
By Seema Jain
www.countercurrents.org/seema290109.htm
Child marriages continue to be a fairly widespread social evil in Madhya Pradesh, despite a law banning it. The DLHS-3 recorded that 40.5% of boys are married below the age of 21 years and 29.2% of girls aged below 18 were married. The scenario of rural parts in the state is nastiest where about 58.5% women aged 20-24 years got married by the time they are 18 years old

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