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In Solidarity
Binu

Are Pakistani Nukes In
Safe Hands?
By Rahil Yasin

www.countercurrents.org/yasin020708.htm

1) There is a small but real possibility of the next India-Pakistan crisis escalating to nuclear levels. 2) Pakistan may decide, as a matter of state policy, to extend a nuclear umbrella (or engage in nuclear sharing) with one or more Middle East states, especially if Iran acquires a nuclear device. 3) There is a hard-to-quantify risk of nuclear theft. Pakistan has a home-grown personnel reliability programme, but even this could be circumvented in a determined conspiracy. 4). There is some small chance that should Pakistan unravel, that its nuclear assets will be seized by remnant elements of the army for political, strategic, or personal purposes

An Appeal To The American Conscience
By Timothy V. Gatto

www.countercurrents.org/gatto020708.htm

This nation’s biggest exports are weapons of war. We export revolution and prop up repressive regimes. We may not be as evil as some nations but that is no consolation to those left behind. We have no control over nations that export and supply those that wage war. The only government that we have any control over is our own, and everyday we have less and less control over that

An Open Letter To Senator Barack Obama
By Case Wagenvoord

www.countercurrents.org/wagenvoord020708.htm

We really shouldn’t be too hard on you, though. The truth is that even if you were serious about change, there would be little you could do if elected. A toxic, bureaucratic momentum has driven us to the precipice, and we are staring down into the abyss. It is not a conspiracy, but an accretion of forces and bad decisions driven by a toxic combination of hubris, exceptionalism and greed

Nonviolent Action And The Road To Independence
By Greg Guma

www.countercurrents.org/guma020608.htm

The movement toward independence in the “new world” actually began a decade before the “shot heard round the world” and involved thousands of people. By the time things turned violent, substitute governments and firm alliances were operating in nine colonies

Defend Freedom On September 11
By Peter Chamberlin

www.countercurrents.org/chamberlin020708.htm

I propose that we stand-up for freedom, on September 11. We must stand together, to make one last stand for freedom, before freedom swirls down the memory hole. On September 11, every American patriot must take the time to honor the martyrs for freedom that perished on that fateful day, the veterans who died for the empire and most of all for the million or more victims of the global war of aggression so far. We have to send the overseers that we will not tolerate the status quo any longer. We will not allow our government to wage nuclear war against Iran or any other country

From Canada To Iraq: The Song Remains The Same
By Jeff Berg

www.countercurrents.org/berg020708.htm

I extend a “Happy Canada Day” wish to my fellow Canadians, my deepest sympathies to the people of Iraq, and the hope that we Canadians shall remember and act over the next year on the fact that blessings are obligations

From Triumph To Torture
By John Pilger

www.countercurrents.org/pilger020708.htm

Israel’s treatment of an award-winning young Palestinian journalist is part of a terrible pattern

Political Uses Of The Official History Of Kashmir
By Mohamad Junaid

www.countercurrents.org/junaid020708.htm

The newly-formed Institute of Kashmir Studies has provoked a shrill debate among academics, and also in some sections of the civil society. The debate, despite its frequent tumble into abuses and allegations, is only a sign of how the story of Kashmir can no longer be a monologue, but must contend with a democratisation of its recitation. There are many stories of Kashmir now, all vying for validity, but none commanding authority. The history of Kashmir is no longer something which can be imposed from above: its democratisation will ensure that it will always remain in the making, and never find its conclusion. It is being created as it is spoken about

Kashmir- A Fools Paradise
By Shah Faisal

www.countercurrents.org/faisal020708.htm

The results are out and our audience,the world, is calling us communal once again. Our irrational impulsiveness is being mocked at and the world might even take a serious offense,this time. Sooner or later,Kashmiris will have to learn being hopefully humorous without being mockingly poignant,something that the residents of a paradise are supposedly popular for

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