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Death And Darkness In Gaza
People Are dying, Help Us!
By Free Gaza
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A humanitarian crisis is underway as the Gaza Strip’s only power plant began to shut down on Sunday, and the tiny coastal territory entered its third full day without shipments of vital food and fuel supplies due to Israel’s punitive sanctions

So Many Tragedies In So Little Time
By Mohammed Omer
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Where to start…, what to talk about…? The crippling electricity shortages, affecting hospitals as well as civilians? The air strikes & on-going, daily bombings by the Israeli army, their indiscriminate targeting of civilians and police stations…? Israel ’s non-accidental, enforced starvation of 1.5 million people by closing off ALL borders and not allowing in even UN aid, let alone basic medicinal, food, and construction needs…? With Some Chilling photos

Israel’s War Crimes In The Gaza Strip
By Ida Audeh
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Gaza is plunged in darkness, its power plant shut down because Israel denies it fuel. Israel is systematically destroying the Gaza Strip and the lives of the 1.5 million Palestinians who live there, but never is Israel’s collective ravaging of a civilian population denounced for what it is: a war crime

Gaza Situation Potentially Disastrous
By PCHR
www.countercurrents.org/pchr210108.htm
Israel is manufacturing a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip that is seriously deteriorating every aspect of civilian life. To date, 45 patients have died as a direct result of Israeli Occupying Force (IOF) closure and siege of the Gaza Strip

Economic Warfare In Gaza
By Yossi Wolfson
www.countercurrents.org/wolfson210108.htm
In both cases, Gaza and Lebanon, Israel has made indiscriminate war from the air on civilians while hesitating to commit ground forces. In both it has sought to destroy the economic infrastructure and reduce the civilian population to primitive conditions. By harming them, it was thought, you could get them to pressure their leaders and thus make political gains. This notion proved false in Lebanon, as in Gaza. The Israeli attacks amount to an expression of weakness, but the price will not be paid by those who launch them, rather by civilians on both sides

Systemic Collapse
By Peter Goodchild
www.countercurrents.org/goodchild210108.htm
The reason why we live in the Age of Peak Everything is that everything is connected: oil, electricity, metals, food, water, money. Everything depends on everything. And there is no redundancy. It is more cost-effective to have everything balanced on the head of a pin than to have ten pins for ten things. Redundancy is not cost-effective. That is why redundant people are laid off. Redundancy is sometimes permissible for warfare or other emergencies, but we live at the center of the civilized world, where emergencies can never happen

Global Warming – Stop Arguing – Take Action Now
By Ron Campbell
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As mankind faces the most dramatic natural disaster in history we are squabbling instead of taking action. We need to stop arguing, come up with a plan and take action NOW

Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali
www.countercurrents.org/ghazali210108.htm
Though his fight ended at the time of his death in 1968, the realm of social injustice and discrimination in our society and the battle for equality is still very real today. Dr. King’s work remains unfinished and that eliminating poverty, racial discrimination and inequality continues to be a challenge for all Americans

Book Review: Robert McChesney’s “Communication Revolution”
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman210108.htm
Robert McChesney’s newest book and subject of this review is titled Communication Revolution – Critical Junctures and the Future of Media. He believes it may be his best one, and Annenberg School of Communication Dean, Machael Delli Carpini, says it is “part media critique, part intellectual history, part personal memoir, and part manifesto.”

Horrors
By Mustapha B Marrouchi
www.countercurrents.org/marrouchi210108.htm
Why do the horror, bleakness, and backward-looking despair seem to appeal to a Western audience pleased with itself, comforted by the feeling that the future is safe, that it has nothing to learn from Africa except the price it charges for toys and luxuries that it no longer chooses or knows how to make?

Norwegian Medicine For Vedanta
By Kavaljit Singh
www.countercurrents.org/singh210108.htm
At the face of protest from the Dongria Kondh tribals of the Niyamgiri hilly region of Orissa Norwegian sovereign fund sells off its stake in Vedanta Resources which was preparing to build the upcoming $850 million aluminium refinery and bauxite mining project at Lanjigarh

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