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Israel Stole $2bn From Palestinian Workers
By Jonathan Cook

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Over the past four decades Israel has defrauded Palestinians working inside Israel of more than $2 billion by deducting from their salaries contributions for welfare benefits to which they were never entitled, Israeli economists have revealed

Israel Rewrote The Rules Of War For Gaza
By Eileen Fleming

www.countercurrents.org/fleming040210.htm

On February 3, 2010, The Independent reported that a high-ranking officer who served as a commander during Operation Cast Lead, admitted that Israel’s army went beyond its previous rules of engagement on the protection of civilian lives

Gaza And Lebanon: Beware The Iron Wall, The Coming War
By Ramzy Baroud

www.countercurrents.org/baroud040210.htm

Will it be Gaza or Lebanon first? Israel is sending mixed messages, and deliberately so. Hamas, Hizbullah and their supporters understand well the Israeli tactic and must be preparing for the various possibilities. They know Israel cannot live without its iron walls, and are determined to prevent any more from being built at their expense

The Holocaust In Israeli Political Discourse
By Yacov Ben Efrat

www.countercurrents.org/efrat040210.htm

It is taboo in Israel to compare the suffering of the Palestinians with that of the Jews in the holocaust. Anyone who does so is at once ostracized. The latest is film director and producer Yonatan Segal

Rethinking “Where Are You Going,
Where Have You Been”
By William A. Cook

www.countercurrents.org/cook040210A.htm

For as far back as the Pied Piper stalked the streets of Tucson, a series of Israeli administrations have spurned the international community, illegally stealing land, mercilessly killing Palestinians, invading neighboring states, confiscating and occupying their land, laying claim to their water, claiming immunity from international law and literally compelling the successive administrations in the United States to acquiesce to their crimes. How like the citizens of Tucson, to ignore the reality that seduced their children because their silence was “inexplicable.”

America’s Third War Revealed
By Juan Cole

www.countercurrents.org/cole040210.htm

The fragile Pakistani government of Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and President Asaf Ali Zardari was deeply embarrassed Wednesday when a massive bombing killed 3 US soldiers on the ground in that country. The Pakistani public has been increasingly upset about US military and para-military (Blackwater/ Xe) actions in their country. On Tuesday, several US drone strikes killed a total of 29 persons. The controversy over whether the US is actually fighting a third war, in Pakistan, may have been settled by the troop deaths

Haiti: Three Weeks After Earthquake,
Angry Protests Over Aid Delays
By Bill Van Auken

www.countercurrents.org/auken040210.htm

Three weeks after the January 12 earthquake leveled most of Port-au-Prince and claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, anger in Haiti over the slow pace of relief and the impotence of President Rene Preval’s government has erupted into protests

No Apology From IPCC Chief Rajendra Pachauri
For Glacier Fallacy
By David Adam & Fred Pearce

www.countercurrents.org/pearce040210.htm

The embattled chief of the UN’s climate change body has hit out at his critics and refused to resign or apologise for a damaging mistake in a landmark 2007 report on global warming

The Corporate Takeover Of U.S. Democracy
By Noam Chomsky

www.countercurrents.org/chomsky040210.htm

Jan. 21, 2010, will go down as a dark day in the history of U.S. democracy, and its decline. On that day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the government may not ban corporations from political spending on elections—a decision that profoundly affects government policy, both domestic and international

India: Descent Into Darkness
By Colin Gonsalves

www.countercurrents.org/gonsalves040210.htm

In the 61st year of the republic, surely, India has transited into Kalyug. Surveys of the Union of India as well as expert reports published by the Arjun Sengupta committee and the NC Saxena Committee appointed by the Central government reveal that almost 77 per cent of the population in India are below the poverty line in terms of the food intake minimum standard of 2,400 kilocalories (kcal) per person per day, a standard set by the Planning Commission in 1979

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