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Food Crisis Under The Spotlight
By Joyce Mulama
www.countercurrents.org/mulama190209.htm
Worldwide demand for food is expected to grow steadily over the next 40 years, but 25 percent of the world’s food production may be lost to ‘environmental breakdowns’ by 2050 unless urgent action is taken

U.N. Seeks A Green Revolution In Food
By Thalif Deen
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The food crisis that spilled over from last year could take a turn for the worse in the next decade if there are no explicit answers to a rash of growing new problems, including declining agricultural production, a faltering distribution network and a deteriorating environment worldwide

Still Homeless In Baghdad
By Dahr Jamail
www.countercurrents.org/jamail190209.htm
“We only want a normal life,” says Um Qasim, sitting in a bombed out building in Baghdad. She and others around have been saying that for years. Um Qasim lives with 13 family members in a brick shanty on the edge of a former military intelligence building in the Mansoor district of Baghdad. Five of her children are girls. Homelessness is not easy for anyone, but it is particularly challenging for women and girls

President Of Special Interests
By Paul Craig Roberts
www.countercurrents.org/roberts190209.htm
The Bush/Obama bailout/stimulus plans are not going to work. Both are schemes hatched by a clique of financial insiders. The schemes will redistribute income and wealth from American taxpayers to the shyster banksters

Reflections On The Concept Of A ‘Green New Deal’
By Peter Custers
www.countercurrents.org/custers190209.htm
It is high time a transition be staged away from the present economy of capital accumulation – towards an economy which is stationary, which refuses to grow. This transition, moreover, needs to be staged at the world level, and needs to be strategized in a manner which will protect the global South. At present, the given perspective may sound very utopian, exactly the way the concept of a Green New Deal would have sounded utopian if proposed a few years back. Yet it is truly important that climate activists and environmentalists start discussing the given perspective, as part of their struggle to defend planet earth. In a period of economic crisis such as now exists, when dramatic changes and transformations are inevitable, we need a new vision, one that helps protect all forms of life on planet earth

The Future Appears Bleak
By Frank Joseph Smecker
www.countercurrents.org/smecker190209.htm
What will happen to radical scholars, activists, and unionists in the ensuing years in the wake of the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007? Why am I nervous? There are soooooo many question I’ve got shootin’ around in my head. Anyhoo, the future appears bleak if you want to look at things through this sort of lens

Israel’s Naked Zionfascism
By Ghali Hassan
www.countercurrents.org/hassan190209.htm
Israel’s Zionfascism is the greatest threat to world peace and security. Its real aim has always been military domination and the obliteration of the Palestinian nation. It is time for people to stop acting like outsiders. The alternative is the global resistance campaign that includes boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) to defeat Zionfascism in pursuit of peace and Palestinian independence

The Roots Of Hatred In The Zionist Ideology
By Salim Nazzal
www.countercurrents.org/nazzal190209.htm
The fact that Hitler was democratically elected by the German people did not legitimize his policy of mass murder; in the same way the Israeli election of fascists and war criminals should not legitimate the Zionists’ policy of mass murder. However, if Hitler is the starkest model of the democratic electoral system that brought Nazism to power in Germany, the recent Israeli election is a more recent example of an election that brought another known fascist, Avigdor Lieberman, widely viewed as the Israeli duplicate of contemporary European fascists like Jorg Haider or Jean Marie Le Pen, to power

Fearing A ‘One State Solution’, Israel’s President Serves Pabulum To Washington
By Franklin Lamb
www.countercurrents.org/lamb190209.htm
Israel’s President urges the American people and government to, “commit our most concerted effort to allow two states to flourish.” Unless he and his fellow leaders of Israel are prepared, without further delay, to commit to a complete withdrawal to the June 4, 1967 armistice line, in a serious effort at peace, Israel will continue to lose American and International support and One State is the likely future for Palestine

Obama , British Empire Worse Than Al-Qaeda!
By Nu’man Abd al-Wahid
www.countercurrents.org/wahid190209.htm
There are now roughly 250 million Arabs, a billion Muslims and the new President of the United States claims he wants a new relationship with these peoples, based on “mutual respect.” This “mutual respect” will never develop if President Obama, like his predecessors, continues to play the British concocted evil game in the Middle East. A barbaric game, which has reaped millions and billions in subsidies for the British state (under the fig leaf of “investments” and “trade” from the Gulf statelets it created), fanatical murderous wrath for the Americans and ethnic cleansing, division and war for the indigenous Arabs

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