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Forests Losing The Ability To Absorb Carbon
By Steve Connor
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The sprawling forests of the northern hemisphere which extend from China and Siberia to Canada and Alaska are in danger of becoming a gigantic source of carbon dioxide rather than being a major “sink” that helps to offset man-made emissions of the greenhouse gas

Attacking Iran For Israel?
By Ray McGovern
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With 200-300 nuclear weapons in its arsenal, the Israelis enjoy a nuclear monopoly in the Middle East. They mean to keep that monopoly and Israel’s current leaders are pressing for the US to obliterate Iran’s fledgling nuclear program

Could Iran Redefine Euro-American Relations?
By Pablo Ouziel
www.countercurrents.org/ouziel011107.htm
As European officials express concern about the fact that the Bush administration’s designation of Iranian agencies and firms as supporters of terrorism could block relations with Tehran for years to come, President Vladimir Putin’s description of these new U.S. sanctions, as America “running around like a madman with a razor blade in his hand,” seems appropriate and worrisome

Liberals, Racism And The English Language
In 21st Century America
By Larry Pinkney
www.countercurrents.org/pinkney011107.htm
One of the most powerful and devastating forms of mental colonization in America is the English language itself—or more to the point the controlling definitions of said language. The so-called conservatives and liberals alike of white America are well aware of this, and often actually count on it. Mental colonization of we Black, Brown, and Red peoples assures the continuance of our physical subordination and control

Voting As Political Narcotic
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
www.countercurrents.org/hirschhorn011107.htm
When it comes to our nation our choice is not to love it or leave it, but to accept the painful truth and take responsibility for restoring American democracy – because we love it. Let’s move forward with this slogan: “Don’t vote—it only encourages them.”

Congressional Shame And Duplicity
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman011107.htm
The latest October Reuters/Zogby Index shows record low approval ratings for George Bush and Congress – 24% for the president that looks almost giddy compared to the bottom-scraping 11% level for the nation’s lawmakers. It’s more evidence that the criminal class in Washington is bipartisan and hoping November, 2008 will change things is pure fantasy

Jesus Rides the #7 Train
By Mickey Z.
www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz011107.htm
Nowhere else in the industrial world can such pre-Enlightenment levels as this be found. The development of highly irrational and self-destructive attitudes is one of the consequences of the growing alienation and isolation of people I am wallowing in right now on the #7. Indoctrinated to leave governing to the people who we’re told can actually “handle” it, we’ve almost given up demanding results from our leaders. Instead, we take State Department press releases and New York Times editorials at face value and end up directing our pleas for help to the heavens instead of to the people we voted into office

Manifesto For A New Constitutional Convention
By Robert S. Becker
www.countercurrents.org/becker011107.htm
The notion of periodic, systemic retooling already exists on the state level. Illinois must vote every 20 years whether to call a state Constitutional Convention. Why not make that option a first agenda item for a national convention?

Why We Torture: Martha Nussbaum On Zimbardo’s “The Lucifer Effect”
By Thomas Riggins
www.countercurrents.org/riggins011107.htm
Philip Zimbardo is the psychologist who carried out the Stanford Prison Experiment [SPE] in 1971. He has published a book about the lessons to be learned from that experiment and others. The book is “The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil”. This article is a review of the American philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s discussion of the book in the October 19, 2007 issue of the TLS

Gujarat: Silence Of The Lambs
By Shoma Chaudhury
www.countercurrents.org/chaudhury011107.htm
The real faultline in India today is not between Hindus and Muslims. It is between Hindus and Hindus. If the Hindus of Gujarat are going to re-elect Modi after being confronted with visual proof of what he stands for, we have to aggressively reclaim what being Hindu means. The problem is too few people seem to have a stomach for that fight. It is not a fight that can be won by burning and slashing. Or ducking. It requires words and eloquence and conviction

Narendra Modi And Indian Democracy: They Two Cannot Coexist
By Daya Varma & Vinod Mubayi
www.countercurrents.org/mubayi011107.htm
The hesitation of the UPA government, which survives with the support of the left parties, on the Gujarat genocide is beyond comprehension. This marriage between parliamentary democracy and feudal highhandedness must be broken if India is to emerge as a modern democratic society

Sri Lanka: “SURPRISE!”Seems To Be The Wonder Weapon…
By Chandi Sinnathurai
www.countercurrents.org/sinnathurai011107.htm
The October 23rd. attack by the Tiger Kamakazi-type commandos on the Anurathapuram air force base have proved the Government strategy and security systems to be wanting. A multi-million dollar spy fleet was totally devastated, in this dawn-combat while they were still grounded. Military analysts, both foreign and local, are of the mind that, the Tigers have effectively neutralised the intelligence gathering capabilities of the Sri Lankan armed forces

New Package For Gilgit And Baltistan: New Bottles With Old Wine
By Dr Shabir Choudhry
www.countercurrents.org/choudhry011107.htm
Islamabad has tried to show to the EU and other members of the international community that they believe in their own brand of ‘democracy’ and human rights, and they are willing to give this to people of Pakistan and people of Gilgit and Baltistan. But what they have given will not satisfy people of this area, as they know they are given old wine in new bottles; and it will not result in more political, economic, social rights for the local people. It will surely not improve status of women, stop violations of state subject law or deal with settlement of non – local people and their domination

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