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Can The World Afford The Tata Nano?
By Andrew Buncombe
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It’s either the start of a people’s revolution or the trigger for social and environmental headaches across the globe. The Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car, was unveiled with great fanfare in the Indian capital yesterday amid bright lights and blaring music

Bush Exploits Strait Of Hormuz Incident To Threaten Iran
By Peter Symonds
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Five days after Sunday’s encounter between US warships and Iranian boats in the Strait of Hormuz, details of what took place remain in dispute. What is clear, however, is that the US administration, at the very least, deliberately inflated the incident on the eve of President Bush’s visit to the Middle East to menace Iran and raise the political temperature in the volatile region

Official Version Of Naval Incident Starts To Unravel
By Gareth Porter
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Despite the official and media portrayal of the incident in the Strait of Hormuz early Monday morning as a serious threat to U.S. ships from Iranian speedboats that nearly resulted in a “battle at sea”, new information over the past three days suggests that the incident did not involve such a threat and that no U.S. commander was on the verge of firing at the Iranian boats

Is Bush Losing His Grip On The Military?
By Chris Gelken
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The U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet has released a statement saying it cannot say with any certainty that threats to blow up its vessels actually came from Iranian Navy speedboats in Sunday’s Straits of Hormuz incident.The revelation tacitly supports the Iranian version of events, in that it was a normal challenge by Iranian naval officials for the American vessels to identify themselves, and at no time was there any serious danger of an escalation or any hostile action

The “Good Good War” Is A Bad War
By John Pilger
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John Pilger describes how the invasion of Afghanistan, which was widely supported in the West as a ‘good war’ and justifiable response to 9/11, was actually planned months before 9/11 and is the latest instalment of ‘a great game’

What Does Obama Actually Stand For?
By Lance Selfa
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Those who are counting on Obama’s promises to “reach across the aisle” to get things done might take a look at Obama’s record on health care reform in the Illinois General Assembly

How Peak Oil Changed My Life
By Aaron Wissner
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Peak oil drives me to share what I know, and to go further, to illuminate the fundamental failure of our global culture to plan and prepare for its own future. The bleak reality is this: peak oil is not really about the decline of our most precious energy resource. Peak oil is one symptom of our civilization’s inability to find and follow a cultural vision of sustainability

What’s The Real Source Of Kenya’s Violence?
By Lee Sustar
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The class polarization—along with an increase in police violence in the name of fighting gangs in the slums—set the stage for the explosion of political violence. The Kikuyu, who are disproportionately represented in business and commercial life, became the scapegoats for class inequality

“What Is The Lesson To Be Learned From The Holocaust?”
By Silvia Cattori & Hedy Epstein
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An interview with Hedy Epstein, who advocates for a better understanding of the Palestinian conflict and shows great concern about the humanitarian situation in the Gaza strip

Levite Be Gone: Releasing The Samaritan Within
By Jason Miller
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It’s time to abandon the childish notion that it is “all about me.” The world is in flames, in large part because of us. We need to be Samaritans, not Levites

Human Rights In The West And The Rest
By Samir Naim-Ahmed
www.countercurrents.org/ahmed110108.htm
The world by the end of the 20th century is still sharply divided into the humanized minority in the west and the dehumanized majority in the rest. The debate over such issues as the universality or particularity of human rights or the priority of economic, social, and cultural rights over the civil and political rights should be kept in abeyance until the lines separating the humans and non humans have been erased and universal minimal standards of human living conditions have been attained by human beings world-wide

Pakistan: Campaigns Of Mass Deception
By Mehroz Siraj Sadruddin
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The future, however does not bode well for the PPP, neither for Nawaz Sharif, but certainly it would bode well for democracy in Pakistan. This should only happen if the media and the lawyers’ community continue their credible protests and struggle for the establishment of the rule of law, supremacy of the constitution, as it stood in 1973 and freedom of speech, action, expression and the media in this country. It is only then that the Army, through massive pressure can be forced back to the barracks, where it truly belongs

Children Speak Up
By Monideepa Sahu
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The Karnataka government has passed an order making it mandatory for panchayats in the state to offer children a platform to voice their concerns and problems, through special children’s gram sabhas

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