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Agony, Uncertainty For Sri Lanka’s War Displaced
By Mel Gunasekera
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A young mother shows a picture of her missing baby, last seen injured and screaming as her family dodged shells and bullets to escape the final battle between Sri Lankan troops and the Tamil Tigers

Millions Displaced As Pakistani Military
Extends Its Offensive
By James Cogan
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The Pakistani military is deepening its assault against Islamist militants in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) district of Swat Valley and beginning to extend its operations into other ethnic Pashtun-populated areas. The Obama administration insisted that the Pakistani government launch the offensive as part of US efforts to crush the anti-occupation insurgency over the border in Afghanistan

Tree Of Life
By David Sparenberg
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The obsessions of fundamentalism and outdated political reactions notwithstanding, gender is not an issue, sexual preference is not an issue. Even race, on this small Earth, cannot continue to be an issue. War is an issue, more so in this era of stockpiled weapons of mass destruction with capacity to transform Earth into death’s inferno and ultimately obliterate the entirety of planetary populations

U.S. Threat To Atom Bomb North Korea Never Forgotten
By Jay Janson
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On November 30, 1950, President Truman at a press conference, remarked that the use of the atomic bomb was under active consideration. Koreans heard this as menacingly foreboding apocalypse, for U.S. forces were in retreat and had suffered some serious losses subsequent to China sending ‘volunteer’ forces to help the North Koreans defend as U.S. forces neared the Chinese border some 45 days earlier

Colonizing Culture
By Dahr Jamail
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It is not difficult to see that the extent of devastation caused by the invasion and occupation of Iraq goes beyond loss of life, livelihood and property. The historical and cultural roots of the nation have been destroyed

300.org Urges Reduction Of Atmospheric CO2 To 300 ppm
By Dr Gideon Polya
www.countercurrents.org/polya280509.htm
Australia-based 300.org was launched in May 2009 and will hopefully expand throughout the World. 300.org exists to inform people about the Climate Emergency and the need to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2 ) concentration to a safe and sustainable level of about 300 ppm

Ending Today’s Economic Crisis Simply And Easily, In America And Globally
By Stephen Lendman
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Some of the best ideas are often the simplest. When applied to the global economic crisis, the solution is easier than imagined. What’s hard, in fact a Gordian Knot, is the political will to embrace it. But even matters that great can be solved by a bold stoke, and according to legend, Alexander the Great’s “Alexandrian solution” was achieved with one stroke of his sword, cutting the Knot in half. Applied to the global economic crisis, it means addressing it with effective policies, not ones wrecking America and other troubled nations worldwide

Against The Tortured Logic Of Obama’s Placebo Presidency: A Call For The Audacity Of Hopelessness
By Phil Rockstroh
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Rather than addressing the core issue, the deterioration of the rights and liberties granted by the U.S. Constitution, President Obama is wallpapering over the rot wrought by the national security state’s termite hive mind of authoritarian appetites, that has been, silently, and hidden by darkness, gnawing the house of state to sawdust

Fire At Vienna Exposes Ugly Realities Of Caste Discrimination In Punjab
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat
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Punjab is burning. The Dalits are at the street. The government is seeking peace and every one is amused why the Dalits have taken to the street. Some are amused as why attack on Sant Niranjan Dass, head of Dera Guru Ravidas Sachkhand Balan and death of Sant Ramanand could spark such violent protest in Punjab. Unfortunately, they forget to understand the first question itself as why such Deras face attack by the fundamentalist Sikh groups. Is it because these Deras have provided a glimpse of hope and identity to a massive Dalit population in Punjab? Is it also not true that these Deras are also giving the upper caste Sikhs a run for their money and power?

Identity And Religious Conversion
By Tomichan Matheikal
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Put an end to the discriminatory caste system. This would engender a sense of respectability among the adivasis and the lower castes. Then there would be no need for religious conversion as a means of attaining respectability. Give economic independence to the adivasis and the lower castes. This would put an end to the Maoist violence as well as the charm held out by poverty to Christian missionaries

Homeland Security Targets Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Who Fired Back
By Eileen Fleming
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Mairead Maguire was shot by Israeli forces during a nonviolent demonstration in Bil’in in 2007, but it was USA Homeland Security who judged her a criminal in May 2009. After hosting and attending the Nobel Womens’ Conference in Guatemala, to discuss, ‘Redefining Democracy, Human Rights and Peace’ the Nobel Peace laureate was detained for two hours, questioned, fingerprinted and photographed by Homeland Security at Houston Airport causing her to miss her flight home after the three day conference which was attended by over 150 feminist activists

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