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Biofuels Make Climate Change Worse
By Steve Connor

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Scientists have produced damning evidence to suggest that biofuels could be one of the biggest environmental con-tricks because they actually make global warming worse by adding to the man-made emissions of carbon dioxide that they are supposed to curb. Two separate studies published in the journal Science show that a range of biofuel crops now being grown to produce “green” alternatives to oil-based fossil fuels release far more carbon dioxide into the air than can be absorbed by the growing plants

Slumping Sales Signal US Recession; Slowdown Spreads To Europe
By Barry Grey

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Extremely weak retail sales reports on Wednesday and Thursday provided additional evidence that the US economy is sliding rapidly into recession. The indicators of falling consumer spending were joined by reports that the US housing slump continues to deepen. At the same time, the downturn that began in the US is spreading inexorably to Europe, where housing sales and prices are falling in most Euro Zone countries and the United Kingdom, and service industries grew last month at the slowest rate in four years

Top US Lawyer And UNICEF Data Reveal Afghan Genocide
By Dr Gideon Polya

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What is happening in Afghanistan is an Afghan Holocaust. One sees that post-invasion under-5 infant deaths in Occupied Afghanistan (2.3 million) vastly exceeds the number of Jewish children murdered by the Nazis in World War 2 (1.5 million). The upper estimate of post-invasion violent and non-violent excess deaths in Occupied Afghanistan (6.6 million out of an average 2001-2008 Afghan population of about 25 million) exceeds the number of Jews murdered by the Nazis in World War 2 ( 5.6 million out of 8.2 million Jews in German-occupied Europe in the period 1941-1945

Going Bankrupt: The US’s Greatest Threat
By Chalmers Johnson

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Some of the damage done can never be rectified. There are, however, some steps that this country urgently needs to take. These include reversing Bush’s 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for the wealthy, beginning to liquidate our global empire of over 800 military bases, cutting from the defense budget all projects that bear no relationship to the national security of the United States, and ceasing to use the defense budget as a Keynesian jobs program. If we do these things we have a chance of squeaking by. If we don’t, we face probable national insolvency and a long depression

Some Of The Outrageous Lies About 9/11
By Joseph A. Lopisi

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We must not vote for anyone who does not speak out about the lies and deceptions regarding 9/11, the removal of all electronic voting machines from the election process and the termination of the Federal Reserve Bank. Of course, there must be term limits and only public financing of national elections

Lies, Damn Lies And The Murdoch Empire
By Stephen Lendman

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Corporate media control is the core issue of our time along with overall corporate dominance with governments as their handmaiden. Democracy and a free society are impossible unless that changes. It’s we the people vs. the Murdochs of the world, and we’ve only just begun fighting back

Life In Occupied Gaza
By Stephen Lendman

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The plight of Palestinians won’t change as things continue lurching from one crisis to another the way they have for decades. It won’t end until world leaders buckle to growing world sentiment that no longer will injustices this grave be tolerated. How much more suffering must be endured, how many more deaths are acceptable, when will justice finally be served? People of conscience want answers. It’s about time they got them

The Illusion Of The ‘Palestinian State’
By Ghali Hassan

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As people stood in the way of Hitler’s colonial project, so are the Palestinian people. The day will come when Jabotinsky’s “Iron Wall” will fall and with it Palestinians dispossession and victimisation will end, and Palestinian liberation will be achieved

People’s Power In Gaza
By Ramzy Baroud

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Palestinian people have succeeded where politics and thousands of international appeals have failed. They took matters into their own hands and they prevailed. While this is hardly the end of Gaza’s suffering, it’s a reminder that people’s power to act is just too significant to be overlooked

Jonathan Cook’s “Israel And The Clash Of Civilisations”
By Stephen Lendman

www.countercurrents.org/lendman080208B.htm

Jonathan Cook’s newest book, just published, is called “Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East.” It’s the subject of this review in the wake of advance praise. Noted author John Pilger calls it “One of the most cogent understandings of the modern Middle East I have read. It is superb, because the author himself is a unique witness” to events and powerfully documents them. This review covers them in-depth along with some of this writer’s reflections on the region from America

Compromise And Commitment
By Gaither Stewart

www.countercurrents.org/stewart080208.htm

Ignorance of politics that conditions everything in life is lethal for a writer, but in that context her words, “They pay me,” were vile. She did not comprehend that journalism is compromised when it loses its autonomy and is subjugated to political power

“Why The Myth Of The Model Minority Is Harmful To The Oppressed”
By Max Kantar

www.countercurrents.org/kantar080208.htm

The model minority argument is one based on ignorance, not evidence, in a nasty attempt to negatively classify Blacks and Latinos as products of their own unwillingness to work hard or assimilate. This false classification has far reaching consequences that threaten to keep black and brown people economically impotent and politically disintegrated for several more generations

The Threat Of Section 1222
By James Rothenberg

www.countercurrents.org/rothenberg080208A.htm

The President is claiming that Section 1222 could inhibit his ability to defend the Constitution, so he claims the right to ignore it. The drafters of the bill were also sworn to defend the Constitution. What are the requirements in 1222 that the White House finds so inhibiting?

Mukasey Evasive On Waterboarding
By Chris Gelken

www.countercurrents.org/gelken080208.htm

Attorney General effectively protects Vice President Cheney from war crimes charges

Five Years Later, Direct Action To Stop The War Reemerges
By Scott Campbell

www.countercurrents.org/campbell080208.htm

With the fifth anniversary of the war and occupation of Iraq looming, several Bay Area activists began having informal conversations about creating an action that was something more than what much of anti-war activism in the U.S. has been reduced to – a police-facilitated march and rally. These conversations quickly turned into a packed, 50+ person meeting at AK Press in Oakland on January 6, where the group decided to take on the name Direct Action to Stop the War

The Evolution Of Evil
By Joel S. Hirschhorn

www.countercurrents.org/hirschhorn080208.htm

Perhaps a global political apocalypse has already arrived

Set Pervez Free
By Kim Sengupta

www.countercurrents.org/sengupta070208.htm

A young man, a student of journalism, is sentenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report from the internet. The sentence is then upheld by the country’s rulers. This is Afghanistan – not in Taliban times but six years after “liberation” and under the democratic rule of the West’s ally Hamid Karzai

India Alarmed As Chinese Built Gwadar Port Of Pakistan Becomes Operational
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali

www.countercurrents.org/ghazali080208.htm

The Chinese role in the Hambantota project is not just about influence in Sri Lanka, it is about China’s presence close to Indian shores, which has implications for India’s security. With Hambantota, Chinese presence in the Indian Ocean has been further consolidated

Good Water, Bad Cola?
By C.R. Bijoy

www.countercurrents.org/bijoy080208.htm

A TERI reports says water used to make Coke is free of pesticides. CR BIJOY puts the report under the scanner

An Excess Of Civility
By James Rothenberg

www.countercurrents.org/rothenberg080208.htm

“The Iraqi people quickly realized that something dramatic had happened. Those who had worried that America was preparing to abandon them instead saw tens of thousands of American forces flowing into their country.” (On the recent “surge” of American forces into Iraq) These words were uttered by Bush with a marked degree of solemnity. Nobody laughed, even if they got the joke

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