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Where Are The Weapons?
By Robin Davis
www.countercurrents.org/davis200109.htm
Israel’s claim to attack Gaza was that Hamas was illegally smuggling weapons into Gaza and was firing them into Israel. But from beneath the pulverised “terrorist infrastructure” of hospitals, mosques, police stations, UN aid warehouses, schools, shops, offices, orchards, farms and homes, we have yet to see evidence of anything but a modestly armed militia and the mangled corpses of ordinary human beings with nowhere to run. The so-called “war” showed that Hamas and the other Palestinian fighters are all but defenseless. The question that rings out loudly is this “Where are the weapons?”

Fascist Rule In Israel
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman200209.htm
Observers are following the rhetoric and watching as events unfold. In the meantime, jockeying and deal-making continue as Netanyahu and Livni try outmaneuvering each other to form a new government. Whoever wins, Palestinians, Israelis, and most others will be losers

A Palestinian Christian Cry for Reconciliation
By Eileen Fleming
www.countercurrents.org/fleming200209.htm
A Review of A Palestinian Christian Cry for Reconciliation by Rev. Naim Ateek

Sri Lankan War Refugees To Be Detained In 'Welfare Camps'
By Sampath Perera
www.countercurrents.org/perera200209.htm
Despite its claims to be waging a war to “liberate” the country’s Tamil population, the Sri Lankan government in Colombo has drawn up plans for detention centres to house up to 200,000 Tamil civilians currently caught in the fighting between the army and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

Is Peace Rainbow High? O, Sri Lanka!
By Chandi Sinnathurai
www.countercurrents.org/sinnathurai200209.htm
The UN is beginning to shift its blame on India, for its inaction on the plight of Tamil civilians. This is just the tip of the iceberg. But underneath it all, the international system, is drowned in political hypocrisy, lop-sided justice and bureaucratic bungling

Promises, Promises And Obamese Seduction
By Gaither Stewart
www.countercurrents.org/stewart200209.htm
Now planet earth too is rebelling against occupation by human beings. One has to conclude that, yes, there is a human stain

Holy Garb: Profane Agenda
By Ram Puniyani
www.countercurrents.org/puniyani200209.htm
Seers Demand Dropping of Word Secular from Indian Constitution

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