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The Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Growing?
By Denny Burbeck
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The Antarctic ice sheet is growing in height in the central region, but making just that one point is very misleading and quite dishonest

Flames In Kenya
By Bill Fletcher, Jr.
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The recent elections and post-election riots in Kenya bring forward great sorrow and also give one pause. Is this another situation where Africans tear each other apart, one may ask? How is it that people who have lived next to one another can go after each other in what appears to be the wink of an eye?

The India-Australia Cricket Conflict: Sport, Profits And Nationalism
By Mike Head
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To boost its stocks, the BCCI needs victories too, both on and off the field. In the current clash with Australia, it is openly playing to its big business and popular constituencies, with hefty appeals to Indian nationalism

India In Denial
By Mike Marqusee
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The response of the BCCI to the cricket row in Australia illustrates the problem of entrenched racism in India

Tar Sands vs. Clean Water:
Eating The Earth For Cars
By Mark Robinowitz
www.countercurrents.org/robinowitz100108.htm
The tar sands production center in northern Alberta in Canada is one of the clearest signs that the easy-to-get oil is on the wane. Tar sands are a low grade hydrocarbon deposit that requires enormous energy input to process and convert it into something resembling petroleum

Fraud US-Style: Fake Videos And Elections
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman100108.htm
Now the January, 2008 election: dateline New Hampshire. Zogby International has a well-deserved reputation for accuracy. It’s January 5 – 7 pre-election poll numbers showed Obama at 42% v. Clinton’s 29% – an impossible gap to close in a few days or even weeks. Yet magically it happened. Clinton miraculously snatched victory from certain defeat with 39% of the vote to Obama’s 36% with the loser saying no more than “I am still fired up and ready to go.” Where to he should ask after this type reversal with obvious grim signs for his hopes

Italy, Italians And Silvio Berlusconi- A Case For Anything For Power
By Gaither Stewart
www.countercurrents.org/stewart100108.htm
I have dwelled on Moravia because he showed in his fiction that the bored indifference of the Italian people as a whole facilitated the birth and twenty-year survival of Fascism, the same political indifference that marks Italian society today in the face of the modern form of reactionary extremism that is Silvio Berlusconi

Hillary And Bush: 21st Century Democracy And USA Tax Dollars At Work
By Eileen Fleming
www.countercurrents.org/fleming100108.htm
By 2002 the costs to American Taxpayers because of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict was already $3 Trillion. The U.S. government’s financial support to Israel for the construction of the wall is $1.5 million per mile. The Wall is three times as long and twice as high as the wall that fell in Berlin. See your tax dollars at work America in this short powerful video on The Wall: On November 15, 2005, Senator Clinton stood on the Jerusalem side of The Wall and was quoted in Ha’aretz, expressing support for The Wall because it “is against terrorists” and “not against the Palestinian people.”

Bush’s Last Throw Against Iran
By M K Bhadrakumar
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The leitmotif of Bush’s high-profile tour of the Middle East is unmistakably Iran. But Washington’s Iran policy lies in tatters and it has no choice but to ratchet up anti-Iran rhetoric, though it realizes there are no takers in the Middle East for such rhetoric of fire and brimstone. The danger now is that Tehran may choose to hunker down and prefer to deal with the next US administration

Bush Has Nothing New To Offer Middle East
By Chris Gelken
www.countercurrents.org/gelken100108.htm
Lame duck President seeking last minute foreign policy success

The Realities As Put Forward
By Syed Ali Safvi
www.countercurrents.org/safvi100108.htm
US policy towards Muslim nations has always been presumptuous, currently fearless Iran takes the heat, comments Syed Ali Safvi

The Dirty Tricks Brigade
By Beena Sarwar
www.countercurrents.org/sarwar100108.htm
Already stunned at the loss of their leader, the PPP is now reeling from the registration of tens of thousands of FIRs against its workers. Its electoral candidates face charges that include attempted murder. All this only contributes towards the existing uncertainty and may generate more violence that could provide the establishment a pretext to further postpone elections. This must not be allowed to happen

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