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Yes, There Is An Alternative
By Robin Broad & John Cavanagh

http://www.countercurrents.org/broad211210.htm

More and more people, communities, and nations are taking steps to reduce their vulnerability to a volatile global economy


Jafar Panahi Jailed For Six Years
By Huffington Post

http://www.countercurrents.org/hp211210.htm

Iran has sentenced two prominent opposition filmmakers to six years in jail each on vague charges of working against the ruling system, their lawyers said Monday. One of the two, internationally renowned filmmaker Jafar Panahi, has won awards at the Chicago, Cannes and Berlin film festivals. He has also been banned from shooting films or scriptwriting for 20 years and was barred from leaving the country for the same period, his lawyer Farideh Qeirat said


Extreme Cold In The UK Really Could Be
A Result Of Global Warming
By George Monbiot

http://www.countercurrents.org/monbiot211210.htm

Yes, the extreme cold in the UK right now really could be a result of global warming


Global Warming Could Cool Down
Northern Temperatures In Winter
By Science Daily

http://www.countercurrents.org/sd211210.htm

The overall warming of Earth's northern half could result in cold winters, new research shows. The shrinking of sea-ice in the eastern Arctic causes some regional heating of the lower levels of air -- which may lead to strong anomalies in atmospheric airstreams, triggering an overall cooling of the northern continents, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research


Iñupiaq People Ask: "Will We Be The Victims Of
The Next Oil Spill Disaster?"
By Harvard Ayers & Chie Sakakibara

http://www.countercurrents.org/ayers211210.htm

Is our addiction to petroleum going to drive us Americans to deprive an ancient Native culture of North America, the Iñupiat, of their heart and soul? Are our Suburbans, our Yukons and our Hummers going to demand it? Our addiction has consequences


A View From Inside A Bronx Courthouse
By Billy Wharton

http://www.countercurrents.org/wharton211210.htm

A visit to a US courthouse and some observations on the American justice system


O Little Town Of Bethlehem Today
By Ron Forthofer

http://www.countercurrents.org/forthofer211210.htm

During Christmas time, the town of Bethlehem in the West Bank, the birthplace of Jesus, comes to mind. I wonder what Jesus would think were he to return to Bethlehem and to the rest of the West Bank today. Unfortunately, he would still see a foreign military force occupying the land. Since Jesus had experienced the Roman occupation when he was alive, he might not be too surprised about the occupation


Julian Assange – A Christmas Story
By Rachel Stephens

http://www.countercurrents.org/stephens211210.htm

Rachel Stephens argues that this Christmas people should "celebrate the continuing tradition of Christ, who railed against the law makers of his time in an attempt to bring love, hope and justice", by supporting and following the example of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in vowing "to spread the truth and to work against the tendency in governments towards evil"


Slave To Shame, Whipped By Deceit
By William A. Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook211210.htm

Perhaps it's time for Israel to put aside the sword and turn its attention to plowshares that it might live in peace and justice with its neighbors rather than dominate them with the military might they've acquired from their American hosts


Rape Rampant In US Military
By Dahr Jamail

http://www.countercurrents.org/jamail211210.htm

Statistics and soldiers' testimonies reveal a harrowing epidemic of sexual assault in the US military


Australian Complicity In 20 Million Muslim
Refugees And Christmas Island Disaster
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya211210.htm

What can decent people do about Australian holocaust commission, genocide commission, holocaust ignoring and genocide ignoring? Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Decent people must (a) inform everyone they can and (b) apply and urge Sanctions and Boycotts against all people, politicians, corporations and countries complicit holocaust commission, genocide commission, holocaust ignoring and genocide ignoring. Would you buy soap made in Auschwitz?


Haiti's Raging Cholera, Electoral Fraud
And Deportations
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman2112109.htm

Haitians remains plagued by a perfect storm combination of earthquake devastation, crushing poverty, raging cholera, electoral fraud, exploitation, persecution, Obama-ordered deportations, and world indifference to their plight, with few exceptions like Cuba and Venezuela


WikiLeaks, ICRC And Kashmir
By Murtaza Shibli

http://www.countercurrents.org/shibli211210.htm

The WikiLeaks report on widespread torture employed by the Indian army and paramilitary forces in Kashmir may have come as a surprise to some people for it raises serious questions about the institutional integrity of the 'largest democracy in the world'. However, in Kashmir the leak was simply digested as a mere attestation of what has been going on for decades. This lack of any enthusiasm at the revelations may be due to the near total cynicism among Kashmiris as the world has forgotten their sufferings


Look Who's Talking (To Whom):
FBI And Special Cell
By Jamia Teachers' Solidarity Association

http://www.countercurrents.org/jtsa211210.htm

Wikileaks has exposed that there existed secret channels of communication between the US agency FBI and our very own Delhi Police Special Cell


Indian National Congress And Communalism
By Ram Puniyani

http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani21210.htm

Will Congress take up the battle against the distortion of history, the word of mouth propaganda against minorities, spreading of religious prejudices against minorities? Is it equipped to take on the multiple tasks which are needed to preserve and promote secular values? Does it train its cadres in the values of secularism and democracy?


Language Of Politics
By Nawaz Gul Qanungo

http://www.countercurrents.org/qanungo211210.htm

Is there any scope for comparison between an individual like Noor Muhammed Bhat and a state that by definition is infinitely more powerful than the individuals it is supposed to represent? If there is an element of protest and dissent in Bhat's conduct, there is also a background of the reality of Kashmir's unending suppression


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