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HRW Report Exposes Sri Lankan Government’s War Crimes
By Sampath Perera
www.countercurrents.org/perera250209.htm
A report released last Friday by the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has provided a glimpse into the criminal character of the Sri Lankan government’s war against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Entitled “End ‘War’ on Civilians,” it calls on the government to “immediately cease its indiscriminate artillery attacks on civilians in the northern Wanni region and its policy of detaining displaced persons in internment camps”

How The US Economy Was Lost
By Paul Craig Roberts
www.countercurrents.org/roberts250209.htm
If incompetence in Washington, the type of incompetence that produced the current economic crisis, destroys the dollar as reserve currency, the “unipower” will overnight become a third world country, unable to pay for its imports or to sustain its standard of living

Coalition Theory
By Uri Avnery
www.countercurrents.org/avnery250209.htm
We don’t have a Julius Caesar. But we do have an Avigdor Liberman. When he announced his support the other day for the setting up of a government headed by Binyamin Netanyahu, that was the crossing of his Rubicon. I hope that this is not the beginning of the end of Israeli democracy

Targeting Israel With Boycotts, Divestment, Sanctions, And Prosecutions
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman250209.htm
Enough is enough. After 61 years of Palestinian slaughter, displacement, occupation, oppression, and international dismissiveness and complicity, global action is essential. Israel must be held accountable. World leaders won’t do it, so grassroots movements must lead the way

Aspects Of The Post-Oil Community
By Peter Goodchild
www.countercurrents.org/goodchild250209.htm
I have great hopes for the future, when the hard times are over. By the end of the present century, the human population will be much smaller than it now is. The 200-odd nations of the present day will be only a dim memory, and the major languages will have broken up into local dialects, to such an extent that a linguistic outsider will be one who lives only over the next hill. Grass will be growing everywhere, and the long miles of cracked highways will be merely a curiosity. Yet those days will not be the Dark Ages: on the contrary, starlight will once again appear over the cities at night

The California Budget And Class War
By Ann Robertson
www.countercurrents.org/robertson250209.htm
On February 19, the California legislature, after weeks of wrangling, passed a special budget to address the historically high $42 billion deficit. It represents an unadulterated washout for working people who are attacked on almost every front by the Democratic Party, which controls a broad majority in the legislature

Get Rid of Opium, Or Perish
By Ramtanu Maitra
www.countercurrents.org/maitra250209.htm
Obama must recognize that the only way Afghanistan can be stabilized, thus bringing peace to the region, is by ridding it of the menace of opium once and for all.As long as policymakers ignore this reality, the security environment in and around Afghanistan will continue to deteriorate, leading to a regional blow-up

A Spectre Haunts Imperialism…
By Kavita Krishnan
www.countercurrents.org/kavita250209.htm
The people of the US (through their vote for Obama and ‘change’) and Muntadar al-Zaidi alike may have given Bush (and all he stood for) the boot – but the Congress party of India wants to give Bush the Bharat Ratna! Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi, addressing the annual general meeting of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), declared, “Give Bharat Ratna to Bush. I don’t know what the rules are but I will officially do something.”

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