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US Alliance Afghan Genocide:
Six Million Excess Deaths?
By Dr Gideon Polya

www.countercurrents.org/polya081107.htm

Post-invasion non-violent excess deaths in Occupied Afghanistan – a month on from the 6th anniversary of the war criminal US invasion and occupation on 7th October 2001 – now total an estimated 3.2 million. However comparisons with Occupied Iraq (1.5-2 million TOTAL post-invasion excess deaths, and 0.8-1.2 million or about 50% of these being VIOLENT deaths) suggest that the post-invasion violent excess deaths in Occupied Afghanistan could total 3 million

Dollar Slumps To Record On China’s Plans To Diversify Reserves
By Agnes Lovasz & Stanley White

www.countercurrents.org/white081107.htm

The dollar fell the most since September against the currencies of its six biggest trading partners after Chinese officials signaled plans to diversify the nation’s $1.43 trillion of foreign exchange reserves

The End Is Near!—Gisele Bundchen Dumps Dollar
By Paul Craig Roberts

www.countercurrents.org/roberts081107.htm

When the dollar ceases to be the reserve currency, foreigners will cease to finance the US trade and budget deficits, and the American Empire along with its wars will disappear overnight. Perhaps Bush will be able to get a World Bank loan, or maybe one from the “Chavez bank”, to bring the troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan

Seven Countries Considering
Abandoning The US Dollar
By Jessica Hupp

www.countercurrents.org/hupp081107.htm

It’s no secret that the dollar is on a downward spiral. Its value is dropping, and the Fed isn’t doing a whole lot to change that. As a result, a number of countries are considering a shift away from the dollar to preserve their assets. These are seven of the countries currently considering a move from the dollar, and how they’ll have an effect on its value and the US economy

To Free The Jena Six, The Struggle Must Continue
By Hank Brown & Alice Woodward

www.countercurrents.org/woodward081107.htm

The people must continue to build the struggle and fight on to Free the Jena Six! This is not a time to chill. The events that sparked a movement- the protest and resistance of the Black people in Jena against the hanging of the nooses, and the authorities coming down on these six youth to enforce the racist status quo- are still playing out today. Jena is a racist and segregated place, in a racist and segregated society where Black people are systematically discriminated against. There can be no “reconciliation” with this

Appeal For Support To Lawyers And Judges In Pakistan
By Asma Jahngir

www.countercurrents.org/jahangir081107.htm

Representatives of bar associations should approach their governments to pressure the government of Pakistan to release all lawyers and judges and immediately provide access to Muneer A Malik, Tariq Mahmood, Ali Ahmed Kurd and Aitzaz Ahsan. The bars are also urged to hold press conferences in their country and express their solidarity with the lawyers of Pakistan who are struggling to establish the rule of law

Pakistan: Media Muffled Under
Musharraf’s Emergency
By Zofeen Ebrahim

www.countercurrents.org/ebrahim081107.htm

Pakistan’s television industry, save for the state-controlled Pakistan Television (PTV), came to a grinding halt after the government blocked all transmission early Saturday evening, as President Gen. Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule

Our Man In Islamabad
By Stephen Lendman

www.countercurrents.org/lendman081107.htm

Musharraf portrays himself as a rock of stability so who in Washington cares how he solidifies power or if he’ll accept Bhutto as Prime Minister. For Bush and Democrats, only the “war on terror” matters so any leader backing it is an ally. Bottom line despite muted criticism – democratic credentials are not an issue. Fact is they never are

Jordan’s Electoral Festivities Drum To Different Tunes
By Dr Marwan Asmar

www.countercurrents.org/asmar081107.htm

Jordan is doing well despite different hiccups, but the Arab world in general has to pull itself by the bootstraps if it is to enter into a meaningful political era where representation, democracy, political pluralism is seen as healthy for society. Our problem now is to move faster to catch with different regions of the world and develop politically

Scapegoating US Diplomats For Failures In Iraq
By William Fisher

www.countercurrents.org/fisher081107.htm

Facing growing scrutiny of the State Department’s shortage of experienced diplomats in Iraq – and the Department’s announced intention to force Foreign Service Officers to serve in Baghdad against their will — the leader of America’s diplomatic service is charging that critics, “including people who urged the 2003 invasion,” are seeking to blame the State Department for their own failures

Robbery In The Name Of Dalits
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat & Ram Chandra Prasad

www.countercurrents.org/rawat081107.htm

Fund meant to provide the Dalits housing under Indira Awas Yojana is fraudlently withdrawn by the village Sarpanch in connivance with the bank authorities in village Anand Nagar, Ghotap, block Pathardeva, district Deoria, Uttar-Pradesh

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