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US Advisers Steered Iraqi Oil Contracts To Western Firms
By Bill Van Auken

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As the Iraqi regime formally opened the bidding for foreign oil companies to resume exploitation of the country’s oil wealth, it was revealed that US “advisers” played the leading role in drafting the contracting procedures and steering preferential deals to the big US energy conglomerates

The World’s Will To Tackle Climate Change Is Irresistible
By Rajendra Pachauri

www.countercurrents.org/pachauri010708.htm

Far from stymying the environmental cause, the downturn in the world’s economies highlights just how pressing it is

Iran On The Offensive
By G. Asgar Mitha

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In the event of a war with Iran, will the American public bear with patience the sufferings from high gasoline prices or maybe even rationing? Or will the Israelis be able to withstand the barrages of katusha rockets when Hezbollah opens a second front? Could there be a third and a fourth front from al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Iraq and a fifth front for the US from Moqtada in Iraq?

Deception
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

www.countercurrents.org/ulrich010708.htm

Bush was put in the White House with the strong backing of the Evangelicals. His ‘Devotion’ to religion has cost over one million lives and should Iran be attacked, millions more will die. In a democratic society, every individual who submits to apathy is equally guilty as the man who is in command. Gone are the days when Americans were loved and welcomed, separated from their government

The Paradoxes Of Latin American Development
By Prof. James Petras

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As US hegemony in Latin America becomes less profound and pervasive, Latin America’s local brand of neo-liberalism expands and goes global. The onset of the US recession and financial crisis has little or no effect in slowing Latin America’s export boom, demonstrating the growing de-coupling of the two regions’ economies, rendering obsolete the long-standing cliché…”When the US sneezes, Latin America catches pneumonia.”

The Rise of Food Fascism:Agrarian Elite
Foments Coup In Bolivia
By Roger Burbach

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Some argue that that we are witnessing the rise of “petro-fascism” as multinational corporations and nation states struggle for control of the life-blood of the global economy. Now with the efforts of the multinational agribusiness corporations and the agrarian bourgeoisies to control the very sustenance of human life we may be facing an even more violent period of repression, conflict and upheaval

Alvaro Uribe Velez And Colombia
By David A.G. Fischer

www.countercurrents.org/fischer010708.htm

In the middle of his second consecutive term, the president is looking to overturn the constitutional law once again. Supporters of Uribe see no problem with him running for a third consecutive term. His critics, however, are up in arms. Regardless, fractions from both sides believe that he will be successful in manipulating conditions to his favor and thereby maintain his authoritarian rule over the country

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