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Politicising Gaza’s Misery
By Ramzy Baroud
www.countercurrents.org/baroud201207.htm
Intense debate over Gaza is subsiding as the status quo is delineated — predictably — by those with the bigger guns. But to what extent can human suffering be politicised, turned into an intellectual polemic that fails to affect the simplest change in people’s lives?

To Die With The Philistines?
By Uri Avnery
www.countercurrents.org/avnery201207.htm
According to the Biblical story, Samson took hold of the central pillars of the Philistine temple and brought down the whole building upon the Lords of the Philistines, the people of Gaza and himself. The teller of the story sums it all up: “So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.” A story of suffering, destruction and death. It may be about to repeat itself now, only with the roles reversed: the temple may be brought down by the Palestinians (who took their name from the Philistines), and among the dead will be the Lords of Israel

9/11 Truth Manifesto
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
www.countercurrents.org/joel201207.htm
For evidence that America’s political system is a criminal conspiracy, open your mind to piles of new analyses that prove beyond doubt that the official 9/11 story is a lie. Years of a bipartisan cover-up of 9/11 lies make it much more than one horrendous past event. It endures in infamy as a symptom of a corrupt and dishonest government

Holiday Season Hypocrisy
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman201207.htm
People take pride saying “when the going gets tough, the tough go shopping” – but not without consequences. The personal fallout is over-indebtedness millions can’t handle in the wake of unexpected medical emergencies or loss of employment. The toll: since the early 1980s one in seven families forced into bankruptcy, over 2 million in 2005 alone (30% above 2004), and millions more ahead from unchecked borrow and binge-spending made worse by the subprime crisis

President Huckabee: “No Room In The Inn”
By Stan Moody
www.countercurrents.org/moody201207.htm
By offering a solution not unlike that envisioned by 19th century Americans to the slavery question and carried out against Native Americans, Huckabee essentially dehumanizes the Palestinians in his scheme to transport them elsewhere

Beijing’s Olympics: A Marriage Of Corporate And State Abuse
By Joseph Grosso
www.countercurrents.org/grosso201207.htm
Unfortunately none of this rampant spending and multi-national business dealings reaches the people whose homes and possessions were demolished to make way for the façade. Given the state’s ability to confiscate land under the authoritarian pretext of “public interest”, residents are given far below market value for their land and threatened with violence for protesting (and there have thousands of protests that have taken different forms including numerous public suicides), Beijing’s lavish show is in a sense actually put out on the cheap

The Seduction Of Indifference, Again And Again And Again
By Gaither Stewart
www.countercurrents.org/stewart201207.htm
For me the opposite of indifference is involvement. It’s the search that leads to fulfillment, the extraordinary event we wait and hope for that interrupts the everyday flow of time. It is a kind of transcendence that points toward answers to questions like, ‘What am I as an individual?’ ‘What is my life all about?’ ‘Do I count?’

Tamils: The Prince Of Peace
By Fr Chandi Sinnathurai
www.countercurrents.org/sinnathurai201207.htm
Just for a moment, imagine the President Rajapaksha declaring that the un-declared war is over. The Tamil Tigers will be left with no option but to reciprocate such honourable gesture. Both the Tamils and the Sinhalas including all the communities in Sri Lanka can breathe a sigh of relief and celebrate Christmas with joyful peace and baila

Citizens Of Twelve Hours
By Wali Laskar
www.countercurrents.org/laskar201207.htm
Thousands of Indian citizens living in Indian soil have been deprived of their citizenship for twelve hours daily for decades. The victims are resident of villages situated in fringe area of about four thousand kilometres long India-Bangladesh International Boundary Lines

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