http://www.countercurrents.org Educate! Organize! Agitate! Countercurrents.org Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:41:23 +05-30 Super Simple RSS http://www.countercurrents.org/cook090210.htm <strong>By Jonathan Cook </strong><br>Jerusalems mayor threatened last week to demolish 200 homes in Palestinian neighbourhoods of the city in an act even he conceded would probably bring long-simmering tensions over housing in East Jerusalem to a boil Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:40:34 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/almeghari090210.htm <strong> By Rami Almeghari</strong><br>Nejoud al-Ashqar is a 30-year-old mother from the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya. Two of her sons, Bilal, 5, and Mohammad, 6, were killed during Israels invasion of Gaza last winter. Al-Ashqar also lost her right arm in the assault Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:40:01 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/auken090210.htm <strong> By Bill Van Auken</strong><br>On Sunday, Haiti saw one of its largest protests since the January 12 earthquake, as four weeks after the disaster, frustration with continuing hunger and homelessness mount Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:39:29 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/quigley090210.htm <strong>By Bill Quigley </strong><br>Some disturbing and shocking numbers about Haiti, 27 days after the quake Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:39:03 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/gatto090210.htm <strong>By John Taylor Gatto </strong><br>More and more people across America are waking up to the mismatch between what is taught in schools and what common sense tells us we need to know. What can you do about it? Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:38:30 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/hedges090210.htm <strong> By Chris Hedges</strong><br>The conviction of the Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui in New York last week of trying to kill American military officers and FBI agents illustrates that the greatest danger to our security comes not from al-Qaida but the thousands of shadowy mercenaries, kidnappers, killers and torturers our government employs around the globe Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:37:52 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts090210.htm <strong> By Paul Craig Roberts</strong><br>As our Founding Fathers and a long list of scholars warned, once civil liberties are breached, they are breached for all. Soon U.S. citizens were being held indefinitely in violation of their habeas corpus rights. Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, an American citizen of Pakistani origin, might have been the first Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:37:17 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/ratnayake090210.htm <strong> By K. Ratnayake</strong><br>Sri Lankan military police last night detained General Sarath Fonseka, the common candidate of the main opposition parties in the countrys January 26 presidential election. The arrest is a marked escalation in the governments crackdown on political opponents over the past fortnight and foreshadows widening intimidation and repression in the lead-up to parliamentary elections expected to be called this week Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:36:30 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman090210.htm <strong>By Stephen Lendman </strong><br>About 5.7 million people (or 1 in 50) get emergency food aid from the system in any given week, an increase of 27% since 2005, and one in eight Americans (37 million people, including 14 million children and three million seniors) are food insecure, meaning they dont get enough to eat. As a result, they need emergency help from food banks throughout the country Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:35:48 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud090210.htm <strong> By Ramzy Baroud</strong><br>Before we giddily gather to discuss Obamas legacy the next time another round number is celebrated on our television screens, lets remember that for an Iraqi father, frantically searching for his sons remains in a Baghdad street, numbers matter little, whether even, odd, round or in any combination. A massacre is a massacre, and a war of choice is a crime, any day, any time Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:34:54 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/jensen090210.htm <strong>By Robert Jensen </strong><br>The New York Times public editor wrestled this week with conflict-of-interest charges sparked by the revelation that Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronners son had joined the Israeli army Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:34:16 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/becker090210.htm <strong>By Robert S. Becker </strong><br>Even if McCain hadnt stayed well beyond his prime, demonstrating the unreal McCainiac was the candidate himself, I still trust historians will vilify him for picking Sarah Palin. That is even more the case if she gets within hailing distance of the White House Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:33:36 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/wagenvoord090210.htm <strong>By Case Wagenvoord </strong><br>Progressives have no imagination; the right has plenty. This is why, on every issue, the right constantly out frames the left. The left remains mired in statistics and dry facts while the right soars on imagery, and the fact that the rights imagery is grounded in distortions and falsehoods in no way diminishes its effectiveness Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:32:54 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/raoof090210.htm <strong> By KK Abdul Raoof</strong><br>The latest reports of Survival International apparently serve as death knells for the original inhabitants in several parts of the world. Modern mans selfish deeds have resulted in their near-extinction. Leading a life in harmony with nature, these exploited lots now stand to be wiped out of their own land for good Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:32:16 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/dube090210.htm <strong>By Mukul Dube </strong><br>The Central Government squarely blamed the media, and only the media, for publicising the hoax that had an obvious malign intention. The Love Jihad affair had all the marks of a farce: but we will be foolish to brush it aside with laughter Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:31:36 +05-30