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US Ready To Deploy Combat Troops In Pakistan
By Bill Van Auken
www.countercurrents.org/auken260108.htm
The United States is “ready, willing and able” to deploy American combat troops in Pakistan for joint military operations in the country’s troubled border region, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday

Beirut’s Assassins Kill The Detective On Their Trail
By Robert Fisk
www.countercurrents.org/fisk260108.htm
The assassins of Beirut are getting personal. Yesterday morning, they killed the most important detective on their trail, the very man who is leading the Lebanese government’s investigations into the murder – and attempted murder – of so many of the country’s politicians, journalists and soldiers

Listening To Grasshoppers – Genocide, Denial And Celebration
By Arundhati Roy
www.countercurrents.org/roy260108.htm
An abridged version of a lecture delivered by Arundhati Roy in Istanbul on January 18, 2008, to commemorate the first anniversary of the assassination of Hrant Dink, editor of the Turkish-Armenian paper, Agos

Why The Democrats Will Not Impeach
By Joseph A. Lopisi
www.countercurrents.org/lopisi260108.htm
The Democrats know that any investigation of 9/11 will clearly implicate them. The Democrats would be implicated not for the planning and orchestration of the actual false flag attack but for the intentional cover-up and subsequent support of the Patriot Act, support for the fake war on terror to replace the Cold War, the illegal war against Iraq and Afghanistan based on obvious lies, the planned illegal attack on Iran and the illegal wiretaps. Simply put, the Democrats would be implicated in the fascist takeover of this country

The True Miracle Of Israel
By Ramzy Baroud
www.countercurrents.org/baroud260108.htm
If there is any miracle in Israel’s existence it is that the lies upon which it is founded could be perpetuated for so long, despite glaringly obvious truths to the contrary. Indeed, it is a miracle that such grave injustice could reign for so long uncontested

The Peace Maker
By Jonathan Ben Efrat
www.countercurrents.org/efrat260108.htm
Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, cannot move a finger without permission from abroad. The international community pressures him to combat Hamas and to compromise. Those who manage to finish PeaceMaker discover that the Palestinian State is tied hand and foot to Israel’s economy by free-trade agreements and joint projects. Israel supplies the capital and know-how, Palestinians supply cheap labor

Meat’s Meat….So Let’s Eat
By Jason Miller
www.countercurrents.org/miller260108.htm
We pride ourselves on our devotion to the principle of equality here in the United States, so it’s time to put our values where our mouths are, so to speak. Pigs, chickens, cows, and the like already endure abject suffering so we can consume their flesh, so it is only fair that we include “man’s best friend.” How could they better prove their deep loyalty to us than by sacrificing their lives to feed us?

The Women Of Balochistan: A Rising Political Voice?
By Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjee
www.countercurrents.org/dhrub260108.htm
The Pakistani leadership, due to the strong anti-national sentiments nurtured by the Balochis has kept them away from most of the administrative and defence mechanism of the nation. The province remains to be significantly deprived of the economic and political privileges that is enjoyed by the provinces of Sindh and Punjab, but still with the assistance of its womenfolk, Balochistan remains to be a region where political, social and economic compulsions has paved the way for a unique empowerment of women, which remains unusual for the region of South Asia

Saluting Bilkis Bano: Reflecting On Gujarat
By Ram Puniyani
www.countercurrents.org/puniyani260108.htm
The grit, determination and strength of the victim, Bilkis bano, and the support of civil rights group which supported her, are crucial factors in getting the justice. The justice in this case stands out as a small ray of respite, in the gloomy scenario of Gujarat, where by now justice for minorities is conspicuous by its absence

25 January, 2007

India-US Nuclear Deal Runs Out Of Steam
By Praful Bidwai
www.countercurrents.org/bidwai250108.htm
Has the controversial United States-India nuclear cooperation deal finally run out of steam after tough, and at times tortuous, negotiations spread over two-and-a-half years? There are several pointers that this may have happened on account of both domestic and international factors

Iraq: ‘US The Biggest Producer Of Terror’
By Ahmed Ali & Dahr Jamail
www.countercurrents.org/jamail250108.htm
Broken promises have brought a dramatic increase in anti-U.S. sentiment across the capital city of Iraq’s Diyala province. Many people in Baquba, capital of Diyala 40 km northeast of Baghdad, had supported U.S. forces when they ousted former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. But failed reconstruction projects and muddled policies mean the U.S. has lost that support

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