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Iraq: Let The Numbers Speak
By Dr. Souad N. Al-Azzawi
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The numbers speak for themselves. Six. Six months is what it took for most Iraqis to realize no good could come of this war and occupation. Six years is what it has taken the rest of the world. Six years, six million Iraqis displaced inside and outside of Iraq- well over a million Iraqis dead or dying inside of the country

Global Investors Ponder Implications Of US Dollar Collapse
By Alex Lantier
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The world bourgeoisie is beginning to consider the consequences of the huge deficit spending and money-printing operations that the Obama administration is using to fund its bailouts of Wall Street and major banks. As these policies increasingly raise questions about the value of the US dollar, commentators are in particular pondering the desirability and implications of a diminished international role for the American currency

Economic Crisis: Why More Of The Same Will Not Work
By Jayati Ghosh
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There is no question that current “Northern” standards of life cannot be sustained if they were made accessible to everyone on this planet. This means that future economic growth in the developing world has to involve more equitable and sensible patterns of consumption and production

Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s Shame
By Neve Gordon
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Thanks to Binyamin Netanyahu’s overweening ambition, Israel is to be saddled with a foreign minister who is a national disgrace

Mousawi, Freeman And Galloway:
Three Musketeers Or Stooges?
By Franklin Lamb
www.countercurrents.org/lamb260309.htm
The Israel lobby has been targeting Charles Freeman, George Galloway and Dr. Ibrahim Mousawi for character assassination for several years with the Mousawi and Freeman campaigns substantially orchestrated by the Atlantic Monthly’s Aipac legman Jeffrey Goldberg. With their Freeman victory earlier this month, the Lobby intensified it slander and libel against Mousawi decided to go after Galloway

The Zionist Crusade Against Palestinians
By Mustafa Khan
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The original crusades went on for two hundred years spread over several centuries of the Middle Ages. Another such albeit inverted crusade began with the birth of Israel and its unrelenting and merciless drive against the Palestinians in order to grab their land. The Gaza aggression (2008-2009) in which nearly 1400 mostly innocent Palestinians lost their life and thousands were injured was continuation of the same

Crafting A New Praxis: The Art of Excoriating Technology For the Sake of the Natural
By Frank Smecker
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Perhaps the dominant, concerted view of expedience, tools, and appliances that beguile so many will be transformed by the concept of craft into a more sustainable and pragmatic notion of our vocations and avocations; and then the concept of technology can be replaced by the practice of art; blossoming a new praxis of engagement through arts and crafts

Why Obama Backed Down Against AIG
By Shamus Cooke
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It has already been pointed out by mainstream economists that it is senseless to leave in place CEO’s and shareholders who oversaw the bankruptcy of their corporations. It is equally-arguable that companies who are bailed out by the public should begin producing for the public, and not the profit of select individuals

Book Review: Islamisation of Pakistani Social Studies Textbooks
By Yoginder Sikand
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The current turbulent political scenario in Pakistan, in particular the rise of radical Islamist forces in the country, cannot be seen as inseparable from the narrow political agenda that the Pakistani state, ever since its formation, has consistently sought to pursue as is reflected in the social science textbooks that it has commissioned, and through which it has sought to impose its own ideology on its people

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