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The Russians Are Back!
By Gaither Stewart
www.countercurrents.org/stewart190708.htm
Strategically located at the crossroads of Eurasia, Russia’s geographical position enhances its power and influence which again today extends over much of the planet. Its military-industrial complex equals that of America and besides it has the world’s greatest natural gas reserves. America cannot afford to underestimate Russia on the basis of the economic collapse of the Soviet Union twenty years ago. Now Russia is back and is here to stay
How To Achieve The Great Objective Of Global Peace?
By Sufi Rehman Muhaiyaddeen
www.countercurrents.org/sufi190708.htm
Although the conferences, meetings, dialogues and sessions to achieve interfaith harmony and religious peace are of great value yet more important is to firstly understand the basics of religious extremism and terrorism in depth and then to make a practical and wise strategy to combat those
Is There No Alternative?
By Gunther Ostermann
www.countercurrents.org/ostermann190708.htm
In view of the chaos on Earth, the most important questions have never been answered: are there any alternatives to plundering the Earth, making war, destroying the planet and the devastating consequences of Climate Change? Not to forget Peak Everything which simply is not reversible with any amount of money
You, Obama And The Secretary Of Transition
By Bill Henderson
www.countercurrents.org/henderson190708.htm
Except that in the real world Obama is being transformed before our eyes into a president like Clinton or Bush. In the real world we’re going to crash economically, run out of energy and go over the melting Arctic tipping point before we invoke a Secretary of Transition and it will be too late. In the real world you, we the people, are going to become more horribly divided – like cats in a sack in Monbiot’s haunting metaphor – as the problems get worse
I’m Not Barack Obama,
But I will Endorse Him
By Sameh A. Habeeb
www.countercurrents.org/habeeb190708.htm
We Palestinians and Arab Americans have to look over this race to the White House wisely. We have two choices now. Barack Obama who is slightly supporting the Palestinians and their promising state. In the other side, we have one of the biggest new Bushes, John McCain, whose stances are more extreme than Bush and all the new conservatives in the US. One of McCain’ s advisors said a couple of weeks ago that Palestinians should go to Jordan and establish their own country. Thus, McCain is so dangerous for us and his ideas are so malicious. So, let’s pick the less worse of the two…Let’s endorse Obama
Saving The South Central Farm: Listening To The Land
By Juan Santos & Leslie Radford
www.countercurrents.org/radford190708.htm
To many, it looked like the struggle to save the world’s largest urban garden -the South Central Farm in Los Angeles – was defeated, a dream buried beneath the treads of the bulldozers that plowed the Farm under following the brutal invasion of an army of L.A. County Sheriffs that crushed the resistor’s encampment, turning the land from a liberated zone into an oppressive, occupied one. But now, two years later, all that could change. Here’s why, and how you can help make it change
The Gathering Tempest
By Ayaz Amir
www.countercurrents.org/amir190708.htm
The moment the army or the state appears to be an extension of American policy, we land ourselves in trouble. The Biden aid package being pushed through the US Congress will be absolutely fatal for Pakistan for it will tie us irretrievably to American interests. We should be friends with America, not its unthinking appendage. That is, if we are to save Pakistan from the typhoon gathering along its western marches
The Bellicose Mayor Of Kabul
By Mir Adnan Aziz
www.countercurrents.org/aziz190708.htm
Public statements of faith in Afghan democracy are coupled with private expressions of despair when it comes to hopes of improving Hamid Karzai’s, also referred to globally as the mayor of Kabul, administration. Many western officials admit privately that any real hopes of creating a democratic Afghanistan are now dead
Schools, Toilets Or Temples?
By Pardeep
www.countercurrents.org/pardeep190708.htm
At every street corner we have built temples but not toilets or schools and afterwards killing each other on the name of same God!! How shameful it is!! India is the only country with so many Gods, well wishers (I’ll say fake Gods) but still poor in many fields!!
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