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The Mumbai Terror Attacks: Need For A Thorough Investigation
By R.H.
www.countercurrents.org/rh081208.htm
In all the confusion and horror generated by the ghastly terrorist attacks in Bombay, a dimension which has not received the attention it deserves is the circumstances surrounding the death of Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare and two of his colleagues, encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar and Additional Commissioner of Police Ashok Kamte

Mumbai Tragedy – Can Peace Follow?
By Q. Isa Daudpota
www.countercurrents.org/daudpota081208.htm
It may seem strange to talk about these larger issues when people are still hurting from the current tragedy. Pakistan too has barely recovered from the Marriott bombing. But it is precisely when a family is hurt due to a death within that warring factions often come together and adopt a reconciliatory approach to each other

The Global Economic Crisis: Bad And Worsening
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman081208.htm
In a new article, economics professor Richard Wolff explains the current crisis in Marxian terms. It “emerged from the workings of the capitalist class structure. Capitalism’s history displays repeated boom-bust cycles punctuated by bubbles. They range unpredictably from local, shallow and short to global, deep and long.” Clearly we’re now in one of the latter and potentially the worst ever

It’s Not Just The Economy Stupid
By Bill Henderson
www.countercurrents.org/henderson081208.htm
The economy is just one of a multiplying series of crises that each need urgent action from governments. The economy is just our major preoccupation. Overwhelming preoccupation with the need for government action on the economy is clearly interfering with government action on climate change, peak oil, the global food crisis, ecosystem and biodiversity loss, and the deteriorating international rule of law (aggression, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, failed states, etc.)

Obama Will Not Prosecute Bush And Cheney
By Joseph A. Lopisi
www.countercurrents.org/lopisi081208.htm
Mark my words. President Obama will follow in the footsteps of his predecessors by not holding his predecessor, George W. Bush and members of his administration, liable for violating the United States Constitution and criminally responsible for treason, 9/11, financial fraud, mass murder and war crimes

Signify’in: The Obama Story
By Mustapha B. Marrouchi
www.countercurrents.org/marrouchi081208.htm
The Obama victory is a sign of history in the triple sense of Kant’s signum rememorativum, demonstrativum, prognosticum.It is an act in which the memory of the long past of slavery and struggle for its abolition reverberates; a happening which now demonstrates a change; a hope for future achievements

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