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Venezuela’s Social Democracy Hits A Speed Bump
By Stephen Lendman

www.countercurrents.org/lendman041207.htm

As expected, his opponents were gloating, but one pollster struck a positive note saying: “This defeat has two sides to it for Chavez. He came out the loser after a tough plebiscite campaign but he also gets rid of the accusation that he is a dictator.” Chavez earlier said and repeated he would accept the results of the vote, and he stands by his word. It proved the process is open, free and fair unlike elections in many other so-called democracies that aren’t. The struggle indeed continues with powerful popular support backing it

The Referendum Defeat In Venezuela: A Warning To The Working Class
By Bill Van Auken

www.countercurrents.org/auken041207.htm

The narrow defeat on Sunday of a constitutional reform submitted to a referendum vote by the government of President Hugo Chavez has produced a mood of right-wing triumphalism within both Venezuela’s oligarchy and the US political establishment

Will Peace Cost Me My Home?
By Ghada Ageel

www.countercurrents.org/ageel041207.htm

Any Mideast pact must give Palestinians the right to return home

Annapolis Conference:Another Palestinian Carrot
By Dr Elias Akleh

www.countercurrents.org/akleh041207.htm

Four years later Bush, again, remembered the Palestinian carrot and has used it in Annapolis to convince the Arab leaders to accept the American plans for the “New Middle East” including accepting Israel and supporting the plans of his administration to secure Iraq and to attack Iran, reminding them that refusal will lead their countries into long wars with Iraqi devastation as an example

Could Corporate Exposes Be
The Test For Class Journalists?
By Jawed Naqvi

www.countercurrents.org/naqvi041207.htm

Lawyer and financial activist Arun K. Agrawal last week came out with a detailed and a potentially brave expose in which he has sought to throw light on the complicity of India’s ruling elite – from the left to the right of parties in parliament – in a cover-up, which pertains to the naming of Ambani’s Reliance unit as a greater beneficiary in the Iraqi oil for food scam than a minister who was sacrificed. The scandal took its toll in India as nowhere else, forcing the resignation of Kunwar Natwar Singh as India’s foreign minister

What Is Progress?
By George Monbiot

www.countercurrents.org/monbiot041207.htm

The numbers show that this should be the real question at the Bali talks

Climate Change: Bangladesh
Takes Its Trauma To Bali
By Farid Ahmed

www.countercurrents.org/ahmed041207.htm

Bangladesh sees in the United Nations climate change conference, currently underway on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, an opportunity to remind the world of its special vulnerability

What We Truly Seek
By Don Hynes

www.countercurrents.org/haynes041207.htm

After two hundred years of unparalleled advance, to the pinnacle of international power following World War II, America will learn as all unbalanced ambition does, that descent will follow rise, that the worship of wealth will ultimately yield poverty, that arrogance will succumb to humility. America will contract; the only questions being the final cost and with what grace. If we choose our future as we’ve chosen our recent past we are in for a torturous descent

9/11 And What We Have Done To US
By Jeff Berg

www.countercurrents.org/berg081207.htm

The following 481 word transcription of Gwynne Dyer’s text superbly encapsulates the “Why” of the “What” that is going on today in the Middle East and should be read by every person who thinks that Middle Eastern politics are important. At the same time it also does an extremely good job of pointing where we are likely to be headed in this region in the near to mid-term at least

“In Search Of A Future:The Story Of Kashmir”
By Mohamad Junaid

www.countercurrents.org/junaid041207.htm

Book review: “In Search of a Future: The Story of Kashmir” By David Devadas

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