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‘Judicial Activism’ Triggered Emergency Rule In Pakistan
By Beena Sarwar

www.countercurrents.org/sawar041107.htm

By taking a stand on crucial constitutional issues, implicit in cases before it, the Pakistan Supreme Court may have raised the political temperature to a point where, in order to remain in power, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf felt compelled to declare emergency on Saturday

Don’t Let Musharraf Live With What He Has Just Done
By Abid Ullah Jan

www.countercurrents.org/jan041107.htm

The Musharraf’s declaration of emergency also coincides with the US military exercises in the Gulf and Condoleezza Rice visit to China. May be the US could not afford a civilian government setting in Pakistan when it goes to war on Iran. So, the imposition of emergency in Pakistan is directed at the Supreme Court in particular and serving the US interests in the region in general

Missing Nukes: Treason Of The Highest Order
By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

www.countercurrents.org/nazemroaya041107.htm

According to a wide range of reports, several nuclear bombs were “lost” for 36 hours after taking off August 29/30, 2007 on a “cross-country journey” across the U.S., from U.S.A.F Base Minot in North Dakota to U.S.A.F. Base Barksdale in Louisiana. Reportedly, in total there were six W80-1 nuclear warheads armed on AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missiles (ACMs) that were “lost.” The story was first reported by the Military Times, after military servicemen leaked the story

America’s Road To Tyranny
By Vincent L. Guarisco

www.countercurrents.org/gaurisco041107.htm

Let’s tell our children to save us from our miserable mistakes. America’s road to tyranny is no future worth living. Let the words of Paul Wellstone echo in the youth of tomorrow: ‘If we don’t fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don’t really stand for them.’

Britain In The Collective Memory Of Iraq
By Marwan Asmar

www.countercurrents.org/asmar041107.htm

Before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I used to think about Britain regularly, having lived there in the 1970s and 1980s. After the invasion and the straddling of British and American troops on Iraqi soil, I consciously tried to blot the UK out of my collective memory

A Case For Arab Dignity
By Ramzy Baroud

www.countercurrents.org/baroud041107.htm

The ongoing socio-economic and political ills that mar potential progress in Middle Eastern countries can largely be attributed to the ill-defined foreign policy of the United States. Utterly desperate situations have arisen whereby US clients rule with an iron fist, making prospects for a meaningful democracy sit at an all-time low

Adoption And The Role Of The Religious Right
By Mirah Riben

www.countercurrents.org/riben041107.htm

Why are infants such as these are leaving the US while US couples are traveling half way around the word to meet their desire for a baby when both countries have children in foster care? The answer is that adoption is far from an altruist social program to care for needy orphans. Instead, adoption is a business; babies are priced based on age, race, ethnicity, health, and physical ability. It all sounds vulgar because it is

Islamophobia: Slogan Of Empire’s March
By Ram Puniyani

www.countercurrents.org/puniyani041107.htm

As the major goal of empire became control of oil resources, the political stage shifted to the West Asia, and Islam and Muslims came under the ideological attack

Sri Lanka: Investing In Peace?
By Chandi Sinnathurai

www.countercurrents.org/sinnathurain041107.htm

Over eighty thousands lives have perished up to now in this conflict. Many more have been injured, maimed and disappeared. Now even the Tamil chief negotiator of peace has been killed. Tragically Sri Lanka continues in its lethal folly of combating against the very peace it desperately needs

Kashmir’s Debt Trap
By Arjimand Hussain Talib

www.countercurrents.org/talib041107.htm

If the government of India gives its go ahead in the coming days, it would mean a 720 million dollar loan for constructing two hydel power projects at Karthai and Ganderbal, besides “capacity building” in power sector. This time round we are glad there has been honesty at governmental level to say it plainly that the loan would come at an interest of 6-7 per cent. But looking at the fissiparous and highly divisive regional and communal polity of the State do you see hope that this loan will achieve its objectives?

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