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The Crisis Is Not Over
By Paul Craig Roberts

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The threats to the U.S. economy are extreme. Yet, neither the Obama administration, the Republican opposition, economists, Wall Street, nor the media show any awareness. Instead, the public is provided with spin about recovery and with higher spending on pointless wars that are hastening America’s economic and financial ruin

Obama Budget: War, Debt And Cuts In Social Services
By Patrick Martin

www.countercurrents.org/martin030210.htm

The Obama administration’s budget for the 2011 fiscal year, unveiled Monday, projects massive US government deficits for the next decade, fueled by gargantuan military spending and the impact of the financial and economic crisis of American and world capitalism. The US national debt is projected to more than double over the coming decade, increasing by $8.5 trillion

The Iraqi Oil Conundrum
By Michael Schwartz

www.countercurrents.org/schwartz030210.htm

The end is not in sight and the outcome still unclear. Will the vast Iraqi oil reserves be developed and sent into the hungry world market any time soon? If they are, who will determine the rate of flow, and so wield the power this decision-making confers? And once this ocean of oil is sold, who will receive the potentially incredible revenues? As with so much else, when it comes to Iraqi oil, the American war has generated so many problems and catastrophes — and so few answers

Is US-Iran Rivalry Driving The Exclusion Of
Candidates In Iraq? Was Allawi The Target?
By Juan Cole

www.countercurrents.org/cole030210.htm

An end-game drama is playing out in Iraq between the United States and Iran, and possibly among factions of Americans in Iraq, over the likely leader of the next Iraqi government. I am going to argue that the disqualification of 500 candidates, some of them prominent Sunni Arabs, was not a sectarian measure, but a strategic strike at a single candidate

In Port-au-Prince, Life Goes On, As Does Suffering
By Tanya Golash-Boza

www.countercurrents.org/boza030210.htm

The accumulated human suffering in Haiti is unfathomable to me. Although I have now left Haiti, images of destruction run like a slideshow through my mind. The fact that many of these deaths were preventable makes it worse. For these reasons, I am committed to doing what I can to ensure that this destruction does not reoccur. For that to happen, we cannot turn our eyes away from Haiti once the cameras are gone and the blood dries up. We must work to build a better Haiti and a better world — one in which people do not die because of poverty and inequality

Truth Amidst The Rubble In Haiti:
The U.S. Is The Problem, Not The Solution
By Li Onesto

www.countercurrents.org/onesto030210.htm

This moment in Haiti—where the whole future of the country and the people hangs in the balance—poses sharp questions. How did Haiti come to be so poor? Why was there no infrastructure in the country? Why were 2-3 million people out of a population of 9 million living in the capital city of Port-au-Prince? And will the aid and economic development that the U.S. is offering really help the people and rebuild the country?

Child Slavery In Haiti
By Stephen Lendman

www.countercurrents.org/lendman030110.htm

Pre-quake, Haiti had about 380,000 orphaned children. The number now is incalculable. Many are on their own own to find food, shelter and medical care, making them vulnerable to traffickers for profit and exploitation

Arab Politicians Face Tide Of ‘Persecution’ In Israel
By Jonathan Cook

www.countercurrents.org/cook030210.htm

Leaders of the Arab minority in Israel warned this week that they were facing an unprecedented campaign of persecution, backed by the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu, designed to stop their political activities

Obama Provokes War Against China And Iran
By Shamus Cooke

www.countercurrents.org/cooke030210.htm

The possibility of yet another U.S. war became more real last week, when the Obama administration sharply confronted both China and Iran. The first aggressive act was performed by Obama’s Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who “warned” China that it must support serious economic sanctions against Iran

Israeli Occupation Supportive Companies To Boycott
By Stephen Lendman

www.countercurrents.org/lendman030210.htm

The way to beat organized oppression is with organized boycotts against Israeli companies and global corporate giants allied with its government’s war machine

Letter To Australia re Climate Denialism,
Biofuel Genocide And Climate Genocide
By Dr Gideon Polya

www.countercurrents.org/polya030210.htm

The taxpayer-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has given extraordinary coverage to the views of a visiting UK climate change denialist Mr Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

Riffs On A Good Read
By Case Wagenvoord

www.countercurrents.org/wagenvoord030210.htm

An appreciation of Gaither Stewart’s article “Symbolism, Ideology and Revolution”

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