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Obama Budget Projects Record Deficits And Borrowing
By Patrick Martin
www.countercurrents.org/martin270209.htm
Under the budget outline issued by the Obama administration Thursday, the US government will run a $1.75 trillion deficit during the current fiscal year, which ends September 30, nearly four times the largest previous federal deficit

U.S. To Leave Residual Force Of 50,000 In Iraq After ‘Pullout’
By Anne Gearan
www.countercurrents.org/gearan270209.htm

Some of the U.S. forces likely to remain in Iraq after President Barack Obama fulfills his pledge to withdraw combat troops would still have a combat role fighting suspected terrorists, the Pentagon said Wednesday

How Credit Unions Survived The Crash
By Ralph Nader
www.countercurrents.org/nader270209.htm
While the reckless giant banks are shattering like an over-heated glacier day by day, the nation’s credit unions are a relative island of calm largely apart from the vortex of casino capitalism

Israel’s Lurch To The Right Could Be Far Indeed
By Helena Cobban
www.countercurrents.org/cobban270209.htm
The continuing efforts by Israel’s presumptive next prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, to assemble a rightwing-dominated government have sparked serious concern about the effects such a government might have on peace efforts with the Palestinians

Israel’s Military Mephistopheles
By Jonathan Cook
www.countercurrents.org/cook270209.htm
Officials claim unelected former general “running the country”

Teacher And Student: A New Class Struggle?
By Niranjan Ramakrishnan
www.countercurrents.org/rama270209.htm
At the end of his elegantly phrased and superbly delivered speech, what did Barack Obama convey?

Obama Embraces Bush’s “War On Terror” Policy Without Naming It So
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali
www.countercurrents.org/ghazali270209.htm
Not surprisingly, the Obama administration, siding with the Bush White House, contended on February 20 that detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights. In a two-sentence court filing, the Justice Department said it agreed that detainees at Bagram Airfield cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their detention

New York City: An Apple Of Contradiction
By Joseph Grosso
www.countercurrents.org/grosso270209.htm
The essay gives an overview of New York’s historic contraditions and segways into present day conflicts. It shows that in many ways New York is not the center for progressive politics that it is often alleged to be and numbers show an overcrowded, very expensive city. The essay ends on a hopeful note that national politics is leaning leftward and this could soon have positive effects

US Discriminatory Immigration Policies Toward Haitians
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman270209.htm
It’s a familiar story for Haitians – last in, first out for the hemisphere’s poorest, least wanted, and most abused people here and at home. Most recently it was highlighted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials announcing the resumption of over 30,000 deportations to a nation reeling from poverty, repression, despair, the devastation from last summer’s storms, and occupation by UN paramilitary Blue Helmets – since 2004, illegally there for the first time ever to support and enforce a coup d’etat against a democratically elected president, at the behest of Washington

The Facade Of Sectarianism
By Ali Jawad
www.countercurrents.org/jawad270209.htm
‘Sectarian’ clashes in the second-most holiest site in Islam can only serve to achieve one forbidding outcome. The sight of bloodshed and hostilities in the near vicinities of this sacred site is tantamount to sacrilege in the hearts and minds of Muslims all across the globe

Let’s Talk About The Real Thing
By Aditi Munot
www.countercurrents.org/munot270209.htm
There is a whole lot of talk about public health and thus a ban on smoking in public places for the sake of this public health. But there is no discussion on reduction in emissions from automobiles and mines and factories for the betterment of public health

Crimes Against Conscience
By Chandi Sinnathurai
www.countercurrents.org/sinnathurai270209.htm
The writing is on the wall for all the communities in Sri Lanka. It is time to wage not war, but honourable peace for all

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