Kindly forward this newsletter to your friends and encourage them to join this mailing list. www.countercurrents.org/subscribe.htm. And also visit this url and do what you can to popularise CC countercurrents.org/poster.htm

Iran Intelligence Report: Another Psychological Warfare?
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
www.countercurrents.org/ulrich051207.htm

The NIE claims that ‘Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003’. This report now in circulation, and being repeated by every media outlet, and as importantly, by way of word of mouth, is giving credibility to the warmongers that Iran actually had a nuclear weapons program, with the idea that ‘repetition begets belief’. Drumming home a false message, the White House will get the justification it needs to impose further sanctions, with the idea of escalating into a war

Alternative Energy And The Pollyanna Principle
By Peter Goodchild
www.countercurrents.org/goodchild051207.htm

The problem of explaining “peak oil” does not hinge on the issue of peak oil as such, but rather on that of “alternative energy.” Most people now have some idea of the concept of peak oil, but it tends to be brushed aside in conversation because of the common incantation: “It doesn’t matter if oil runs out, because by then everything will be converted to [whatever] power.” Humanity’s faith in what might be called the Pollyanna Principle — everything will work out right in the end — is eternal.The critical missing information in such a dialogue, of course, is that “alternative energy” will do little to solve the peak-oil problem, although very few people are aware of the fact

Wars And Climate Change: National Interests
Versus Global Emergency
By Abdul Basit
www.countercurrents.org/basit051207.htm

This is an appeal to World Leaders and Scientific Community, who have gathered in Bali, Indonesia for the United Nations Climate Change Conference

Impeach Pelosi
By Niranjan Ramakrishnan
www.countercurrents.org/rama051207.htm

Nancy Pelosi’s ‘impeachment is off the table’ stance is not only laughable, it is also criminal. To leave unchallenged the deliberate misleading of the country to war (and the effort to do the same a second time) makes her party an accessory to the same misdeeds. Congress has an equal duty to protect the Constitution as the President. Each day of equivocation is one more day steeped in the crimes of the Bush administration

Enough Heroes To Fill A Book
By David Swanson
www.countercurrents.org/swanson051207.htm

More than a few serve the state and resist its abuses, at significant risk to themselves. But very few of us know all of their stories. Resisters of the occupation of Iraq in the U.S., British, and Australian governments and militaries are plentiful enough to fill a book, and they’ve filled a good one.”Dissent: Voices of Conscience: Government Insiders Speak Out Against the War in Iraq” is the forthcoming work of U.S. Army Colonel (Ret.) Ann Wright and Susan Dixon forthcoming after a long delay imposed by the State Department

Gibbons, A Bear, Britain And Sudan
By Sukant Chandan
www.countercurrents.org/chandan051207.htm

This whole incident is another example of how Western policies and attitudes towards Islam and Muslims are tragically turning relatively mundane misunderstandings into an international political spectacle, and where prejudices against Muslims are easily and unnecessarily inflamed

Ambedkar As A Human Rights Defender
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat
www.countercurrents.org/rawat051207.htm

Ambedkar championed the cause of the down trodden. But to confine him to mere as a leader of Dalits will do him great injustice. He was the most accompalished political leader and philosopher among his contemporaries.No human rights discourse in India could be complete with out detailed discussion on the outstanding work of Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar

India’s Forgotten Children Of War
By Meha Dixit
www.countercurrents.org/dixit051207.htm

Although, International agencies like the United Nations do claim the existence of child soldiers in several parts of India, there are hardly any government documents and reports accessible to the public on the recruitment of children as soldiers in India. Now, to begin with, its time for a public discourse on the plight of child soldiers in India, particularly in certain Naxal strongholds and the Northeast of India

Pakistan: Politics Of Boycott
By M B Naqvi
www.countercurrents.org/naqvi051207.htm

If the idea of a boycott means boycotting the election and going home to sleep, it would surely leave the field to all others no matter if they were opportunists. To be significant, the boycott should accompany a fierce popular agitation for democratic freedoms, beginning with the restoration or the Supreme Court and High Courts as they existed on November 2 last and the Constitution being rescued from the deforming amendments that have been forced by successive generals to make the President all powerful at the expense of a show boy Prime Minister, including what this latest PCO has done

Sri Lankan Military Conducts Massive Anti-Tamil Sweep Through Colombo
By K. Ratnayake
www.countercurrents.org/ratnayake051207.htm

The Sri Lankan government unleashed the largest-ever cordon-and-search operation in Colombo on Sunday, detaining hundreds of people, mainly Tamils, and heightening communal tensions throughout the country. The immediate pretext for the operation was to “flush out” Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fighters blamed for last week’s bomb blasts in Colombo and nearby Nugegoda

An Appeal for Support

countercurrents.org/subscriberprogramme.htm

Your Support
Is Absolutely
Necessary
For Our
Survival