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Two Senior LTTE Officials Surrender
By B. Muralidhar Reddy
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Amid a declaration by the Sri Lanka military that the number of civilians who have fled the no-fire zone (NFZ) since Monday morning has crossed the 1-lakh mark, two senior LTTE officials have surrendered to the security forces. They are Daya Master, head of the Tigers’ Media and Publicity Division, and George Master, who served as interpreter to Thamilchelvam, political head of the LTTE who was killed in an air raid by the Sri Lanka Air Force in 2007

Dr. Binayak Sen Is In Danger
By Ilina Sen
www.countercurrents.org/sen230409.htm
lina Sen’s SOS Message on Conspiracy by Chhattisgarh Administration

What Jesus Might Tell The Pope Regarding Gaza
By Eileen Fleming
www.countercurrents.org/fleming230409.htm
Pope Benedict announced that he would visit the Holy Land this May to pray “for the precious gift of unity and peace for the Middle East and for all of humanity,” but he would not be going to Gaza. Might the Pope have a heart that pulls him to go to Gaza with ears to hear and eyes to see Jesus in all the people suffering there-be they Christian, Muslim or Jew-for the Bible tells us Jesus loves them all- and we Christians are to too!

An Interview With Imran Khan
By Gul Jammas Hussain
www.countercurrents.org/hussain230409.htm
We have changed the discourse of Pakistani politics — without actually coming into power. We’re the first party that talked about an independent justice system, abuse of power by the governments, corruption in the government, of accountability. All this was brought in by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. Until then no politician talked about these issues- Imran Khan

Economics And Education
By Peter Goodchild
www.countercurrents.org/goodchild230409.htm
Education for the real world begins with the principle that every teenager, at least in rural areas (where any sensible person would be living) should know how to use a rifle and an ax, since the first might provide food and the second might provide a home. A university degree that leaves its owner many thousands of dollars in debt, on the other hand, is not providing a foundation for survival in the Age of Entropy. The corollary is that education in such real-world skills will not be acquired by sitting at a desk

“Hizzhonor:” Chicago Politics
Under Richard M. Daley
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman230409.htm
“Hizzhonor,” the most prominent of today’s big city bosses with no sign of stepping down or changing decades of Chicago-style politics

The Financial Experts: Malgudi On The Mississippi
By Niranjan Ramakrishnan
www.countercurrents.org/rama230409.htm
The hero of R. K. Narayan’s novel , “The Financial Expert”, Margayya, is often acclaimed by critics as Narayan’s most memorable character. Now the novel itself may also prove to be his most prescient — the way it captures today’s economic meltdown in the microcosm of its tragi-comic hero’s rise and fall, it might have hit the shelves this month to win plaudits for its timeliness. Actually, it was published in 1952

Business Gets Carded
By Rob Larson
www.countercurrents.org/larson230409.htm
The business world is up in arms about the Employee Free Choice Act. EFCA would make it easier for workers to unionize, by obliging companies to recognize a union once a majority of workers sign verified union cards. This would replace the more common practice of voting in union representation elections, which take several months and are conducted by secret ballot. The Wall Street Journal calls this “antidemocratic,” but it’s the employers, not union organizers, who flex the muscle in union elections. The reality lies in two words: “You’re fired.”

Are Muslims A Part Of The American Story?
By Mike Ghouse
www.countercurrents.org/ghouse230409.htm
We, the American Muslims, are not connected enough with the mainstream society for a vast majority of Americans to stand up for us, empathize with us, or even understand the truth about us that we are no different than them in our endeavors and aspirations of life. We must however express our gratitude to the millions of Americans who have stood up for us, compelled by their sense of justness and fair play

Advani As PM?
By M Shamsur Rabb Khan
www.countercurrents.org/khan230409.htm
By projecting L K Advani as the Prime Ministerial candidate for the next government, the BJP has done the biggest political blunder. With aggressive media campaign, the party is putting an all-out effort to elevate Advani to a cult figure, as if creating a new avatara by putting the leader over party but failed to grasp the fact that the bottle, like the wine, has become too old to fetch enough admirers

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