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Washington Lauds Pakistan’s Sham Election
By Keith Jones

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The Bush administration has lauded the sham election Pakistan’s military regime staged Saturday to extend General Pervez Musharraf’s presidential mandate till the fall of 2012

Pakistan Political Drama: So Far So Good – For US
By M B Naqvi

www.countercurrents.org/naqvi091007.htm

The Americans pretty much behave as if they own the place. Whether the Americans will finally succeed in rescuing Pakistan from the threat of Islamic extremism is a question for which there is no clear answer

We Are In A Bad Fix
By Mathew Maavak

www.countercurrents.org/maavak091007.htm

What began as sub-prime woes in the US housing sector may ripple into something we cannot yet imagine. Will there be a severe global recession, or worse? If wars are yet contained, bidding wars will yet emerge over wheat, water, fish, medicines and oil. What will the future hold in this ecology of crises?

The Big Lie: ‘Iran Is A Threat’
By Scott Ritter

www.countercurrents.org/ritter091007.htm

A careful fact-based assessment of Iran clearly demonstrates that it poses no threat to the legitimate national security interests of the United States. However, if the United States chooses to implement its own unilateral national security objectives concerning regime change in Iran, there will most likely be a reaction from Iran which produces an exceedingly detrimental impact on the national security interests of the United States, including military, political and economic

Unrepentent, Bush Denies Torture
By Marjorie Cohn

www.countercurrents.org/cohn091007.htm

Torture is a war crime. Those who commit or order torture can be convicted under the U.S. War Crimes Statute. Techniques that don’t rise to the level of torture but constitute cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment also violate U.S. law. Congress should provide for the appointment of a special independent counsel to fully investigate and prosecute all who are complicit in the torture and mistreatment of prisoners in U.S. custody

Darfur: Why Should We Care?
By Mary Shaw

www.countercurrents.org/shaw091007.htm

A symbolic Olympic torch relay is making its way around the world to call attention to the ongoing genocide in Darfur, in western Sudan, and to call on China, host of the 2008 Summer Olympics, to use its considerable influence with Sudan to end the violence there

1776.0 Americanistic Personality Disorder – A Satire
By Jason Miller

www.countercurrents.org/miller091007.htm

The essential features of Americanistic Personality Disorder include pervasive patterns of extreme self-absorption, profound and long-term lapses in empathy, a deep disregard for the well-being of others, a powerful aversion to intellectual honesty and reality, and a grossly exaggerated sense of the importance of one’s self and one’s nation. These patterns emerge in infancy, manifest themselves in nearly all contexts, and often become pathological

FDA Industry Insiders Derail Approval Of New Cancer Treatments
By Evelyn Pringle

www.countercurrents.org/pringle091007.htm

George W Bush’s FDA, stacked with insiders from the industry that literally carried him to Washington, has stooped to a new low to protect the obscene profits of the multi-billion dollar cancer industry by blocking the approval of a new class of immunotherapies that can extend the lives of dying cancer patients with minimal side effects

The Muslim Question In Gujarat
By Vidya Subrahmaniam

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By an unspoken consensus, Muslims have been excluded from the election debate in Gujarat

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