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X-Rated Iraq: A Tortured
Story
By Captain Eric H. May

www.countercurrents.org/may190208.htm

An anonymous man wearing a US Special Forces T-shirt is a war criminal, if his three-minute YouTube interview is to be believed. In it, he claims to have taken part in routine torture of Iraqis — Hajji’s in soldier slang — in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison, and to have been part of a scheme with other guards to prostitute a 15-year-old Iraqi girl who later hung herself

The Lights Have Gone Out, Who Cares
By Ahmed Ali & Dahr Jamail

www.countercurrents.org/jamail190208.htm

Lack of electricity in Baquba has shattered businesses, and the lives of families. Months of power failures has darkened morale everywhere

A New Force Called Sahwa Shows Its Muscle
By Ahmed Ali & Dahr Jamail

www.countercurrents.org/ali190208.htm

The Awakening Councils in Diyala province are stepping up their protests against the government in Baghdad. The Awakening Councils, or the Sahwa as they are called, are a mostly Sunni Muslim force set up by the U.S. to draw in resistance fighters into their ranks, and then to help U.S. forces fight other anti-U.S. groups

Bush And ExxonMobil v. Chavez
By Stephen Lendman

www.countercurrents.org/lendman190208.htm

Reuters on February 7 announced: “Courts freeze $12 billion Venezuela assets in Exxon row.” Call it the latest salvo in Bush v. Chavez with ExxonMobil (EM) its lead aggressor and the long arm of the CIA and Pentagon always in the wings

F. William Engdahl’s “A Century of War” (Part II)
By Stephen Lendman

www.countercurrents.org/lendman190208A.htm

Part II continues the story of “A Century in War” in Part I. It’s breathtaking in scope and content, and a shocking and essential history of geopolitics and the strategic importance of oil. Part I covered events from the late 19th century through the end of the 1960s. Part II completes the story to the present era under George Bush

The Machine Gun Of Capitalism
By Mark Morford

www.countercurrents.org/morford190208.htm

Dead soldiers, peak oil and mind-boggling profits; praise Jesus, the machine’s still working

Not If — When
By Shirley Bianchi

www.countercurrents.org/bianchi190208.htm

A review of actions taken by this Administration that point to a possible declaration of martial law

Australian Aboriginal Genocide Continues Despite Historic Apology
By Dr Gideon Polya

www.countercurrents.org/polya190208.htm

PM Rudd’s speech and Apology was largely confined to the Stolen Generations – indeed the word “Aboriginal Genocide” was NOT used even though what happened to the Indigenous Australians has been recognized as an Aboriginal Genocide

US Elections: The Iraq Factor
By Ramzy Baroud

www.countercurrents.org/baroud190208.htm

As the race for the United States presidential nominations progresses, the stances of and attitudes towards both Republican and Democratic candidates continue to bring up causes for concern, in terms of their past behaviour, current appeal and general trustworthiness

A Children’s Story
By David Truskoff

www.countercurrents.org/truskoff190208.htm

Once upon a time, about two years ago, a balding bespectacled man who had an office in the White House in the USA. and was known as one of the most powerful man in the US, called a meeting of the Presidents top advisers

SEZs: The Problem
By Aseem Shrivastava

www.countercurrents.org/shrivastava190208.htm

It is nothing but hubris to imagine that humanity can replace ten million naturally growing trees concentrated in an ecologically sensitive area. In blindly adopting the destructive template of industrial modernity with incomparably poorer safeguards than the West, India is exposing itself to terrifying dangers in the future. Acquisition of land for SEZs is to be understood in this sobering perspective

An Invisible Refuge
By Vinod K. Jose

www.countercurrents.org/jose190208.htm

Military excesses in Myanmar are forcing thousands of ethnic Chins to flee to Mizoram, but India won’t accept

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