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What Does Economic “Recovery” Mean On An Extreme Weather Planet?
By Tom Engelhardt
www.countercurrents.org/engelhardt180209.htm
Once we start connecting some of today’s drought dots, wouldn’t it make sense to try to connect a few of the prospective dots as well? After all, if you begin to imagine what the worst might look like, you can also begin to think about what might be done to mitigate it. Isn’t that more sensible than looking the other way?

The Ten Principles Of Apocalyptic Financing
By Peter Goodchild
www.countercurrents.org/goodchild180209.htm
There must be survival strategies for those of us who believe every word that comes out of the TV set, for those of us whose income has half the spending power of our parents’, for those of us who bleed ourselves dry trying to educate children who will be climbing over garbage dumps in later decades

Israel Should Forget About Bombing Iran
By Gideon Levy
www.countercurrents.org/levy180209.htm
Benjamin Netanyahu, formerly “Mr. Terror,” is now “Mr. Iran,” and has declared that “Iran will have no nuclear arms.” Notwithstanding the boisterous nature of the declaration, this will hopefully be the case, but if what Netanyahu means is that Israel, under his leadership, may become embroiled in an attack on Iran, then there is room for grave concern. Now is the time to tell Netanyahu: “No bombing.” Netanyahu (and some among us) should drop any thoughts about a military option

Peak Oil: Facts At Your Fingertips
By Peter Goodchild
www.countercurrents.org/goodchild180209A.htm
The following may indicate some of the more important “names and numbers” in the complex issue of peak oil and its consequences. Besides that of oil production itself, one curve for which the numbers are significant is that of human population, since the interaction of those two curves will be momentous. Other vital sets of figures are those in the quest for alternative energy and those for post-oil survival

Eelam Tamils: Civilian Human Shield
By Chandi Sinnathurai
www.countercurrents.org/sinnathurai180209.htm
The Government is constantly accusing the Tamil Tigers that they are keeping forcibly the Tamil civilians as human shields. One thing must be said, that this matter of human shields is morally a despicable action and there is no chivalry in it. However, the important ingredient is missing

Rethinking Pasmanda Movement
By Khalid Anis Ansari
www.countercurrents.org/ansari180209.htm
Pasmanda, a word of Persian origin, literally means ‘those who have fallen behind’, ‘broken’ or ‘oppressed’. For our purposes here it refers to the ‘dalit’ and ‘backward’ caste Indian Muslims which constitute, according to most estimates, 85% of Muslim population and about 10% of India’s population

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