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War With Iran: On, Off Or Undecided?
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman070808.htm
There’s good news and bad, mostly the latter but don’t discount the good. On May 22, (non-binding) HR 362 was introduced in the House – with charges and proposals so outlandish that if passed and implemented will be a blockade and act of war. More good news for what it’s worth. On August 2, tens of thousands across the US and Canada protested against a possible attack on Iran. On the bad side, unprecedented numbers, in vain, did as well ahead of the Iraq war, but this time influential Washington figures support them
The Lies Of Hiroshima Are The Lies Of Today
By John Pilger
www.countercurrents.org/pilger070808.htm
On the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, John Pilger describes the ‘progression of lies’ from the dust of that detonated city, to the wars of today – and the threatened attack on Iran
Working Poor Unready To Revolt
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
www.countercurrents.org/joel070808.htm
A recent survey among the lowest 40 percent of Americans that are the working poor by the Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University conducted this past June looked at the beliefs of adults aged 18 to 64 working 30 or more hours a week, not self-employed and who earned no more than $27,000 in 2007. The results show a fascinating dichotomy. Though there is widespread pain and discontent there is also a stubborn faith in the American dream despite little help from government
President Obama Up Against
The Middle East “Berlin Wall”
By Robert Weitzel
www.countercurrents.org/weitzel070808.htm
On July 24, Obama stood on the site of the former Berlin Wall and reminded the crowd that sixty years ago the Berlin Airlift saved two million Berliners. He told them that their tearing down of the Berlin Wall was a reminder to the world that walls that divide people can, and must, be torn down. The day before his speech in Berlin, he stood at the Western Wall (the holiest site in Judaism) in Jerusalem. He also stood less that two miles from the 400-mile-long apartheid wall that divides the West Bank from its freedom and from humanity’s conscience. Obama never mentioned the apartheid wall—not in Israel or the next day in Germany
Palestinians Unfairly Hit By Israeli Policy In Gaza
By Yaser Wishah
www.countercurrents.org/wishah070808.htm
Imagine if Chinese-Americans visiting relatives were prevented by the Chinese government from returning to America. Or if an American traveled to Iran and was then forbidden from reaching an airport to come home. This happened to me at the hands of Israel, supposedly America’s closest ally in the Middle East
Australian Federal Intervention In
Indigenous Communities In The Northern Territory
By Chris Wilson
www.countercurrents.org/wilson070808.htm
My time over the last six weeks has enabled me to see some of the effects of the Intervention and while I have to agree that there are some positive effects, there are huge problems and structural issues that have been completely ignored and many others that have been created as a result
Gotterdammerung Of The Generalissimos
By Gul Jammas Hussain
www.countercurrents.org/hussain070808.htm
The Turkish Constitutional Court’s ruling against a ban on the AK Party has averted a potential crisis in Turkey, but the narrow margin of the verdict — just two votes — shows how close the secularist old guard came to staging a judicial coup against the ruling party
Olympics Mark China’s Second Coming
By Muhammad Cohen
www.countercurrents.org/cohen070808.htm
Rather than a coming-out party, the Olympics signal a coming-in party for the house that Mao built as a full-fledged member of the global establishment that dismissed it as an interloper in 1997. Don’t expect anyone to be hard on a new club member and business partner for occupying Tibet or other human-rights shortcomings. Largely thanks to the accident of the economic crisis and the policies of Zhu Rongji, the puppy dog of 2001 has grown into a 70 kilogram pit bull that no one dares cross
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