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The Peak Oil Debate Is Over
By Dr. James Schlesinger

http://www.countercurrents.org/schlesinger011110.htm

A transcription of Dr. James Schlesinger's keynote address ASPO-Washington on Friday, October 8, 2010.: "The Peak Oil Debate is Over." Dr. Schlesinger served as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (1971-73), Secretary of Defense (1973-75), Director of the CIA and was the first Secretary of Energy (1977-79). He says peakists had won the intellectual argument, except for some minor details about precise timing. But acceptance by knowledgeable people is not enough. The political order should respond. Nonetheless, our willingness, let alone our ability, to do anything serious about the impending inability to increase oil output is still a long way off


Media, Mobs And The Search For Spectacles
By Arundhati Roy

http://www.countercurrents.org/roy011110.htm

Is a writer with unpopular views more dangerous than a suspect in a bomb blast? Or is it a question of ideological alignment?


Dr. Richard Falk Endorses One State
In Israel-Palestine
By Movement for One Democratic State in Palestine

http://www.countercurrents.org/ods011110.htm

Dr. Richard Falk's Message to the Conference on One Democratic State in Dallas, TX.


Is Rupert Murdoch Ignorant or
An Agent of Zionist Deception?
By Alan Hart

http://www.countercurrents.org/hart011110.htm

In a recent speech at an ADL (Anti-Defamation League) dinner, Rupert Murdoch, arguably the most influential mainstream media chief on Planet Earth, made some extraordinary statements which must be challenged


Election Day Thoughts
By Robert Jensen

http://www.countercurrents.org/jensen011110.htm

Election Day is far from the most important moment in our political lives. The radical changes necessary to produce a just and sustainable society are not on the table for politicians in the Republican or Democratic parties, which means we citizens have to commit to ongoing radical political activity after the election


Why Marxism Has Failed, And Why
Zombie-Marxism Cannot Die – Part 1
By Alex Knight

http://www.countercurrents.org/knight011110.htm

This essay is not meant to be an attack on any particular Marxist, or even on sectarian groups as a species of organization, but rather on a mindset, which uncritically carries forward Marx's ideas into present circumstances where they no longer fit


Food security As If WomenMattered (Part II):
Why And How It Works In Kerala
By Ananya Mukherjee-Reed

http://www.countercurrents.org/reed011110.htm

Part I of this article took us to a journey through Kerala where women are engaged to ensure food security though their group Kudumbashree. The concluding part throws light on its organisational structure , the systematic linkages it has established with administrative surroundings and how it has empowered the local women. The author asks, "As warnings about the impending food crisis pour in, are there lessons that could be learnt from Kudumbashree's women-led approach to food security"?


Empire Of Lies
By Guy R. McPherson

http://www.countercurrents.org/mcpherson011110.htm

If you're living that comfortable life in the city, regardless how much you recycle, bicycle to work, and tithe at the altar, you still haven't figured out the immorality of imperial living. Cities are the nadir of civilization, and they have an increasingly short and burning fuse. Furthermore, nothing about our survival as a species matters if we keep adhering to an irredeemable set of living arrangements, even if your city has "walkable" neighborhoods. Who wants to live as if life has no merit?


Why Aren't You Happy?
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz011110.htm

Pop songs, sit-coms, Julia Roberts movies, even commercials make it crystal clear that others have it all figured out. Love, sex, money, looks, health, and more—tied up neatly in anywhere from 30 seconds to 90 minutes. Others have it all. So, why has happiness eluded you? Could it be you have the wrong job? The wrong skin color? The wrong body? The wrong attitude? Are you just too stupid and lazy to get it?


Road to Hope Convoy Stalled At Egyptian border
Road to Hope Convoy Press Release

http://www.countercurrents.org/rth011010.htm

The Road to Hope humanitarian aid convoy continues its role in the international community's collective mission to break the illegal siege of Gaza and deliver desperately needed aid to the people of Palestine in Gaza. The convoy comprises 30 vehicles and 101 humanitarian aid workers. As it stands the convoy finds itself at a standstill, with direct communication with the outside world being limited, and access to the internet very difficult


Who Needs Stephen King When We Are
Living In A Nightmare?
By Tim Murray

http://www.countercurrents.org/murray011110.htm

Publishing trivia and avoiding inconvenient truths


COICA Kills Free Speech: Write Sen. Leahy
By Chris Pratt

http://www.countercurrents.org/pratt011110.htm

Blacklisted domains and terminated websites are both possibilities if bill S.3804 becomes law. It is called "Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act" (COICA) and it was introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy on September 20, 2010


Wall Street Philosopher King Bashes Fed Policy
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman011110.htm

Jeremy Grantham the philosopher king of Wall Street unleashes a severe critique of the Fed


Viciously Attacking Israeli Arabs
By Stephen Lendman

 http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman011110A.htm

Reminiscent of Kristallnacht violence, Israeli Arabs in Haifa District's Umm al-Fahm community were attacked by extreme rightists West Bank settlers aided by 1,500 police, including special paramilitary and undercover forces


Farooque Ahmed: Entrapped By An FBI Sting
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman011110B.htm

The story is disturbingly familiar. FBI agents arrest a suspect on terrorism related charges, nearly always a Muslim, photographed full bearded to look menacing. Media reports highlight it, headlining government charges to incite fear. Announced arrests are strategically timed, this one days before mid-term elections. The message - Obama keeps America safe, vote Democrat


Reviewing Project Censored's Top 2009-10 Stories
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman011110C.htm

The latest Censored 2011 covers the top 2009-10 stories and more in PC's richest ever volume, a collector's item like previous ones. Besides the top 25, it includes Junk Food News and News Abuse, Signs of Health, and FAIR's 10th anniversary of Fear and Favor in the News Room


Interpreting Jon Stewart's Politics
By Shamus Cooke

http://www.countercurrents.org/cooke011110.htm

Sides must be taken in this battle. But instead, Stewart preaches from the sidelines with a message that says, "No such battle is taking place." Unfortunately for Stewart, the politicians and mainstream media that he regularly thrashes fully embrace this perspective, for their own benefit


Let's Rally To Restore Peace
By Marjorie Cohn

http://www.countercurrents.org/cohn011110.htm

In their Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert effectively demonstrated how the media hypes fear. They brought out Kareem Abdul Jabbar to show that not all Muslims are terrorists. A couple of musical numbers dealt with the wars we are fighting. But neither Stewart nor Colbert mentioned Iraq or Afghanistan and how they are allowed to continue by the hyping of fear


It's Jobs or Wars, Not Both
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson011110.htm

The Washington Post's David Broder thinks more war will bring us more jobs. Unlike in Germany, where the president was forced out of office earlier this year for suggesting that war in Afghanistan could benefit the German economy, Americans don't seem to have serious moral qualms about slaughtering human beings for no good reason


David Broder: Symbol of Major Media Depravity
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman011110D.htm

"Here is where Obama is likely to prevail. With strong Republican support in Congress for challenging Iran's ambition to become a nuclear power (suggesting weapons with no proof), he can spend much of 2011 and 2012 orchestrating a showdown with the mullahs. This will help him politically because the opposition party will be urging him on. And as tensions rise and we accelerate preparations for war, the economy will improve."


What We Face In The United States
By Timothy V. Gatto

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatto011110.htm

I want to clarify just what I know to be true in the United States today and a little about my background


What Were They Thinking?
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb011110.htm

What were the International Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) investigators imagining as they walked into Dr. Iman Charara's private obstetrics and gynecology clinic this week demanding personal information on her patients? 


Stupid Economics: Blaming The Poor
And Hungry For Food Inflation
By Devinder Sharma

http://www.countercurrents.org/dsharma011110.htm

Obsessed with the growth figures, the planners have tried but failed to hide the ugly underbelly of India's economic growth


But Some Animals Are More Equal
Than Others...
By Karthick RM

http://www.countercurrents.org/karthik011110.htm

For the past 110 days, a man called Seeman, leader of the Naam Tamizhar Iyakkam, is languishing in a prison in Tamil Nadu, arrested under the NSA. He voiced his opinions on the plight of the Eelam Tamils in pretty strong words, supporting their right to self-determination. And he was booked under a variety of charges, including for talking against 'national integrity'. And not a single 'radical intellectual' (read as Delhi based intellectuals who make statements on a variety of prominent issues) condemned it


The Ugly Face of Media
By Prabhat Sharan

http://www.countercurrents.org/sharan011110.htm

Greed for profits the sole motive of Indian press barons


Mines: Ethical Diamond, Fair Trade Gold,
Frail Hands
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury011110.htm

Miners, working in many cases without natural light or ventilation, "creating voids in the earth by removing material and trying to ensure that there will be no immediate reaction from the surrounding strata", produce wealth worth of billions of dollars. As prices of these commodities soar, as poverty increases, persons accept this merciless working condition. Mining capital finds easy ways to dig profit


Ayodhya Verdict 2010:
Whither Indian Constitution!
By Ram Puniyani

http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani011110.htm

The verdict given by Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court (Sept 2010) has been a landmark of sorts. On one hand it is culmination of the process of demolition of Babri Masjid, now that illegal act of demolition has got a legal sanction. On the other this judgment is the one based on every other consideration than the legal one. It has no rooting in the values of Indian Constitution, no guidance from the directive principles of the Constitution and no grounding in the law of the land


Role of Religions In Promoting Non-Violence:
Islam's Valuable Resources For Peacemaking
By Sultan Shahin

http://www.countercurrents.org/shahin011110.htm

Full Text of a Speech delivered by Sultan Shahin, Editor, New Age Islam on 28 September 2010 at a parallel seminar organised by Al-Hakim Foundation and Himalayan Research in the UN Human Rights Council's September 2010 session at Geneva: International Day of non-violence: 28 September 2010


Human Rights Whitewash On Ethiopian Genocide
By Thomas C. Mountain

http://www.countercurrents.org/mountain011110.htm

Human Rights Watch has just released an over 100 page "human rights" report on Ethiopia that whitewashes the crimes against humanity and genocide being committed by the Ethiopian regime


Dancing Under Siege
By Eva Bartlett

http://www.countercurrents.org/bartlett011110.htm

Story of an amazing dance group in Gaza


President Obama, India And Kashmir
By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai

http://www.countercurrents.org/fai011110.htm

We trust that President Obama during his forthcoming visit to India will bring its influence to bear on both India and Pakistan to initiate peace process with witch the United Nations as well as the people of Jammu and Kashmir will be associated so as to ensure that settlement arrived at will be based on the principle of justice


Plight of Kashmiri Militants in 'Azad Kashmir'
By Dr Shabir Choudhry

http://www.countercurrents.org/choudhry011110.htm

Story of Kashmiri struggle is a long and tragic story of suffering of human beings on both sides of the forcibly divided State of Jammu and Kashmir. During our study tour of Azad Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan, I met a 'leader' of Kashmiri militants who still live in Azad Kashmir. Before giving details of their plight it is imperative to give short summary to the on going armed struggle


India's Arundhati Roy Moment
By Tariq Shah

http://www.countercurrents.org/shah011110.htm

India's post- partition generation may find it hard to let go Kashmir, India's gene-next, however, has no time or patience, much less need, for retaining an appendage that it can do easily, and arguably profitably, without

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