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A Small Step For Indian Justice, A Giant Leap For Binayak!
By Satya Sivaraman & Anivar Aravind
www.countercurrents.org/aravind260509.htm
The granting of bail is the first sweet victory in a much bitter battle ahead- a battle that will need all the creative energies, enthusiasm and motivation that has sustained the campaign so far. We need to see this story to its only possible end- the complete withdrawal of the false charges foisted on Dr Sen or his acquittal by the Indian courts of these charges and – may we demand -even compensation for the injustice done to him

Activism 101
By Mickey Z.
www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz260509.htm
How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight? I don’t wanna die without any scars

The Road To Two Degrees Celsius
By Andrew Glikson
www.countercurrents.org/glikson260509.htm
Ongoing global warming may lead to the release of methane from permafrost, collapse of the North Atlantic Thermohaline current, high-energy weather events and yet little-specified shifts in atmospheric states

‘The Pity Of War’
By Chandi Sinnathurai
www.countercurrents.org/sinnathurai260509.htm
The Sri Lanka War effort has annihilated lives, destroyed livelihoods, and left a deep open wound in the psyche of both the Sinhalas and the Tamils. The Tamil struggle has understandably reached a new phase. Enough is enough. From now on, there is no need of blood sacrifices of young human lives…Both sides can hopefully find a way of settling National Question through political means

Chalmers Johnson On The Cost Of Empire
By Chalmers Johnson
www.countercurrents.org/johnson260509.htm
Review of “The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts” an important collection of articles on United States militarism and imperialism, edited by Catherine Lutz

Obama And Bibi: Political Divergence,
Strategic Symbiosis
By Yacov Ben Efrat
www.countercurrents.org/efrat260509.htm
From the meeting between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on May 18, 2009, no wide-ranging agreement was to be expected. To judge from the public news conference, the encounter was a porcupine tango

Nepal’s Revolution At Crossroads
By Walter Smolarek
www.countercurrents.org/smolarek260509.htm
The events of the last month have laid bare the dictatorial character of both the feudalists and the proponents of traditional parliamentarianism. It has become even clearer that if the impoverished and exploited majorities are to live a life with dignity, a fundamentally different society under a fundamentally different system is required. This society is called New Nepal; this system is called socialism

Is Obama The Circumspect President
or Circumstantial Politician?
By Robert S. Becker
www.countercurrents.org/becker260509.htm
Who has a clue whether the circumspect president we elected will attain greatness or go down as a good but circumstantial politician, like Bill Clinton, whose achievements never quite matched the great promise?

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