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Why Israel Can’t Attack Iran
By Roni Ben Efrat
www.countercurrents.org/efrat210708.htm
Israelis like to claim that they will be the main victim of Iranian nuclear development. They hark back to the scuds of Saddam Hussein, which fell on Tel Aviv in the first Gulf War when they had no direct part in the conflict. So too, this time—Israelis say—they will be in the crosshairs, and this justifies pre-emptive action. Yet three major obstacles impede an Israeli attack
Fallujah Braces For Another Assault
By Ali al-Fadhily & Dahr Jamail
www.countercurrents.org/jamail210708.htm
U.S. and Iraqi forces are preparing another siege of Fallujah under the pretext of combating “terror”, residents and officials say
Revealing A Massacre, Or Stating The Obvious
By Ramzy Baroud
www.countercurrents.org/baroud210708.htm
Those killed in the ‘massacre of Beit Daras’, according to Palestinian accounts, were 265, largely women, children and elders. The gender and age groups of the victims were not selective nor coincidental, but related to the nature of the battle, where the fighters of Beit Daras were engaged in fighting against successive Zionist army units, first involving militants from a nearby settlement, then Haganah forces and finally Givati units. The battle for Beit Daras was long and arduous, and duly mentioned in the writings of Jamal Abd Al-Nasser, the first president of Egypt, during his military service in southern Palestine, and of David Ben Gurion’s War Diaries
Jeff Halper’s An Israeli In Palestine (Part I)
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman220708.htm
Jeff Halper is an American-born Israeli Professor of Anthropology as well as a peace and human rights activist for over three decades. In 1997, he co-founded the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions (ICAHD). ICAHD’s mission is now expanded well beyond home demolitions. It helps rebuild them and resists “land expropriation, settlement expansion, by-pass road construction, policies of ‘closure’ and ‘separation,” and much more
Who’s To Blame For Zimbabwe’s Tragedy?
By Ghali Hassan
www.countercurrents.org/hassan220708.htm
Zimbabwe’s tragedy is a Western-created tragedy. Western leaders who pretend to be committed to democracy, human rights and ending the suffering of the Zimbabwean people are crying wolf. If the U.S., Britain and their allies are as committed to democracy, human rights, the roles of international law and civilised norms as they claim to be, then they should first end their murderous Occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan
The Problem Of Patriotism
By James Rothenberg
www.countercurrents.org/rothenberg220708.htm
Race, sex, and religion do not demand your loyalty but your country does. Your village or town doesn’t. Your city doesn’t. The state you live in doesn’t. New York and California don’t care if you are loyal to them. What’s the difference? Armed force. Uncle Sam needs you. To fight
The Empire And China
By G. Asgar Mitha
www.countercurrents.org/mitha220708.htm
America has a goal of China containment because it believes that it poses a future threat to its survival as an empire. The only way for America to contain the threat is to choke the oil lifeline. Chinese leadership is not naïve and well understands the great western oil game. Central to the Chinese survival of energy security is ensuring that sea lanes from the oil producing countries are unhindered, primarily the Strait of Hormuz, Indian Ocean, the Straits of Malacca between Malaysia and Indonesia and the South China Sea
An Era Of Disparity
By Mir Adnan Aziz
www.countercurrents.org/aziz220708.htm
This staggering disparity of numbers is proof that we live in a world where all natural and human resources are exploited mercilessly, so that a small minority can consume far more than their rightful share of the world’s real wealth. Now, as we push the exploitation of the earths social and environmental systems beyond their limits of tolerance, we face the reality that the industrial era faces a burnout, because it is exhausting the human and natural resource base on which our very lives depend. We must hasten its passage, while assisting in the birth of a new civilization based on life affirming rather than money affirming values
‘Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan’ : A Burden Of Another Billion Dollars!!
By Pardeep
www.countercurrents.org/pardeep220708.htm
Receiving green signal form World Bank for the next installment of 600 million USD, Indian political leaders might have started celebrating!! Why don’t they celebrate? They have reason to celebrate, this Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan movement has made many millionaires & if not this 600 million USD will make them!! This “Education for All Children” movement has proved “Money for All Politicians” nothing else
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