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The Methane Time Bomb
By Steve Connor
www.countercurrents.org/connor240908.htm
The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from beneath the Arctic seabed has been discovered by scientists
What If The Bailout Plan Doesn’t Work?
By Eamon Javers
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Lawmakers raised doubts Monday about what would be the largest government bailout in American history, but a bigger, more terrifying question lurked right under the surface: What if it doesn’t work?
Global Priorities: Feeding Markets, Starving The Hungry
By Devinder Sharma
www.countercurrents.org/sharma240908.htm
The one trillion dollar bailout package that President Bush is promising could have wiped out the last traces of poverty, hunger, malnutrition and squalor from the face of the Earth – if only our global leadership prioritised the poor with the same level of urgency as the financial crisis, writes Devinder Sharma
We Can Stop Paulson’s Plunder
By David Swanson
www.countercurrents.org/swanson240908.htm
The bailout can punish those responsible rather than rewarding them. It can also be done without creating new dictatorial powers for the executive branch of our government. Congress must reject Paulson’s Plunder and enact a plan with these progressive principles from the Backbone Campaign
Angels Dancing On A Pinhead
By Case Wagenvoord
www.countercurrents.org/wagenvoord240908.htm
Part of the bailout package calls for increasing our national debt from $10.6 trillion to $11.3 trillion. This would increase our need for foreign capital to keep our Ponzi scheme afloat and would bring us even closer to the junk bond status that would cut off this flow of foreign capital
There Is A Limit To Religious Freedom: VS Acharya
By Dr VS Acharya & Sanjana
www.countercurrents.org/acharya240908.htm
Karnataka Home Minister Dr VS Acharya makes a poor defence of the violence against Christians arguing that the violence was anti-conversion
Knocking On Goa’s Doors
By Vidyadhar Gadgil
www.countercurrents.org/gadgil240908.htm
The rising communal temperature in the country should come as no surprise. With the 2008 general elections approaching, calculations within the BJP suggest that it would not be able to get more than 140 seats, while it would need at least about 180 to be sure of forming a coalition government at the centre. Given this scenario, those within the BJP who have been pushing for a hard-line communal mobilisation agenda (the ‘Modi line’) have prevailed
A Forgotten Story In Gaza:
The Slaughter Of Innocents
By Sameh A. Habeeb
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Israel had announced officially that a holocaust would be on the way in Gaza and so far, at least 140 innocent people have been slaughtered. Most of them are children and civilians that have paid the price for militants firing Qasam rockets into Israel!
The Palestinians Of Sabra-Shatila: 26 Years After The Massacre: Part II
By Franklin Lamb
www.countercurrents.org/lamb240908.htm
Twenty-six years following the Sabra-Shatila Massacre and the founding of Hezbollah: Will the Party of God deliver the Palestinians from exile?
Obama – America’s “Second Chance” or Is It Its Last?
By Maher Osseiran
www.countercurrents.org/osseiran240908.htm
An Obama presidency, as I see it now, will not be a presidency of peace; it will be a presidency of wars sold as “just wars” of necessity in the Greater Middle East. After all, there is very little difference between Brzezinski’s vision and that of the neocons, the only difference is in the execution
Pakistan As “New” Front In Terror War
By Brian McAfee
www.countercurrents.org/mcafee240908.htm
The truck bomb that exploded in front of Islamabad’s Marriott hotel killing at least 53 people heralded in the latest salvo in the the U.S.’s and Mujahedin’s love/hate relationship
Book Review: “The Secret War With Iran”
By Jim Miles
www.countercurrents.org/miles240908.htm
If one knew little about the Middle East and its many strands of religious, political, military, and strategic interests, this seemingly well written work would have the reader believing that Israel is the altruistic good guy – although making tactical mistakes in its counter terrorist endeavours – and the Iranians are the cause of all the atrocities in the Middle East
Palin’s ‘Troopergate’ Battle Rages
By Jason Leopold
www.countercurrents.org/leopold240908.htm
As Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin works to derail a legislative inquiry into her firing of the public safety commissioner, state officials are vowing to finish a report on the controversy by Oct. 10 and to weigh contempt proceedings against Palin’s husband early next year
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