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Obama’s Team Prepares Escalated Bloodletting In Afghanistan And Pakistan
By Patrick Martin
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Missiles fired from unmanned Predator drones struck two targets inside Pakistan Friday morning, killing at least 18 people. As is always the case with such exercises in remote-controlled murder, US officials claimed they were targeting Al Qaeda, although even US media accounts admitted that the majority of those killed were local residents

On The Wrong Side
By Uri Avnery
www.countercurrents.org/avnery250109.htm
Our leaders are now boasting about their part in the Gaza War, in which unbridled military force was unleashed intentionally against a civilian population, men, women and children, with the declared aim of ‘creating deterrence’. In the era that began last Tuesday, such expressions can only arouse shudders

Breaking Gaza’s Will: Israel’s Enduring Fantasy
By Ramzy Baroud
www.countercurrents.org/baroud250109.htm
Isn’t 60 years of suffering and survival enough to convince Olmert that the will of the Palestinians cannot be broken? How many heaps of wreckage and mutilated bodies will be enough to convince the prime minister that those who fight for their freedom will either be free or will die trying?

Israel Faces The Gaza Aftermath
By Dan Lieberman
www.countercurrents.org/lieberman250109.htm
The attack on Gaza cannot remain an isolated incident that slowly fades into history. This attack has been etched into the psyche of an embittered Arab world. Sympathy for the Palestinians has been extended worldwide. These phenomena have dictated a new look at the Middle East contestants and a new approach to resolving the conflict

How Can Your Life Go On As Normal When Gaza Burns?
By Michael Galvin
www.countercurrents.org/galvin250109.htm
As Israeli bombardments continue, the US continues to block UN resolutions, and Palestinian casualties exceed a thousand with 5 times as many wounded, passive acts of participation seem more and more superfluous

There Is No Finish Line In Life
By Aditi Munot
www.countercurrents.org/munot250109.htm
By choice, we have ceased to find joy in small day to day things. Life has become more of a goal than just life itself. We have consciously chosen to run this race. We have consciously chosen to not live life in depth, enjoy life completely. And till the time we do not chose to stop, the race will go on. In this race, there is no finish line

Absence Of Genuine Leadership And Good Governance In Pakistan
By Mehroz Siraj Sadruddin
www.countercurrents.org/sadruddin250109.htm
Pakistan at the moment needs a strong leader who is a symbol of national unity and can champion the cause of human rights for the oppressed communities and minorities. The leadership vacuum left behind by Benazir Bhutto is still very much there. However, if the current government continues along the path that it currently seems to be treading upon, then we have every reason to believe that the problems and challenges that our country today faces, both, internal aand external, would further aggravate with the passage of time

Media Persons In Northeast India: Living On The Edge
By Nava Thakuria
www.countercurrents.org/thakuria250109.htm
Media persons in Assam and Northeast India have to perform their deities under tremendous work load but with low return in terms of salary and other legitimate facilities. The trouble torn region has witnessed a media boom in the last decade, but the media persons including the journalists continued to be the victim of exploitation by their respective employers. Many times, the low patronage from the management put the journalists in most vulnerable situation

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