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$2,000 For A Dead Afghan Child, $100,000 For Any American Who Died Killing It
By Jay Janson
www.countercurrents.org/janson010709.htm
After Obama apologized for the strike which the Afghan government claimed killed well over a hundred ordinary country folk, came the report that the families of those killed, and subsequent Afghani dead falling in harms way of the US military, continuing as before, can apply to receive up to $2,000 compensation. This is the price the great United States of American puts on an Afghan or Pakistan human being, while awarding $100,000 to families of Americans who die while fighting and killing wherever
Afghanistan: No Exit Plan, No Exit, No End
By Robert S. Becker
www.countercurrents.org/becker010709.htm
There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but our government can’t find one to quit Afghanistan. Nor propose a truce. Nor, after seven brutal years, disclose an exit strategy, despite recent legislation from fed-up House Democrats
Questioning The Ethical Legitimacy Of
Drone Attacks In Pakistan And Afghanistan
By Brian McAfee
www.countercurrents.org/mcafee010709.htm
Drone or any other attacks that routinely result in civilian casualties must be curtailed or the reasons for the U.S. presence and the purpose for the ongoing war must be, and should be, questioned
Who’s A Low Level Terrorist? Are You?
By Emily Spence
www.countercurrents.org/spence010709.htm
Recently, an American Civil Liberties Union report pointed out, “Anti-terrorism training materials currently being used by the Department of Defense (DoD) teach its personnel that free expression in the form of public protests should be regarded as ‘low level terrorism’.”
The Roots Of Iran’s Revolt
By Lee Sustar
www.countercurrents.org/sustar010709.htm
Lee Sustar sets out 30 years of background to the mass demonstrations that shook Iran after the June 12 election
The Significance Of Washington’s
Coup Attempt In Honduras
By Shamus Cooke
www.countercurrents.org/cooke010709.htm
The coup is likely to crumble, and Obama’s first attempt to re-tame Latin America will have failed. The actions of the U.N. and OAS are striking examples of the shrinking international influence of the U.S., meaning that future interventions — both military and economic — are likely to be more direct to restore U.S. hegemony. Obama’s more-subtle attempts to uphold U.S. “influence” in the world will ultimately require blunter, Bush-like tactics
Refusing To Comply: The Tactics Of Resistance
In An All-Volunteer Military
By Dahr Jamail
www.countercurrents.org/jamail010709.htm
The Iraq War boils on at still dangerous levels of violence, while the war in Afghanistan (and across the border in Pakistan) only grows, as does the U.S. commitment to both. It’s already clear that even an all-volunteer military isn’t immune to dissent. If violence in either or both occupations escalates, if the Pentagon struggles to add more boots on the ground, if the stresses and strains on the military, involving endless redeployments to combat zones, increase rather than lessen, then the acts of Agosto, Bishop, and Shepherd may turn out to be pathbreaking ones in a world of dissent yet to be experienced and explored
The Spirit Of Humanity’s 21
And The Spirit That Preceded It
By Eileen Fleming
www.countercurrents.org/fleming010709.htm
On June 30, 2009 around 3:30 PM, 23 miles off the coast of Gaza, Israeli Naval Forces attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY and abducted 21 human rights workers representing 11 countries
Settlement Freeze Flap Reveals Israel
As Difficult Peace Partner
By Ira Glunts
www.countercurrents.org/glunts010709.htm
The very public disagreement about the “settlement freeze” came as a complete surprise to many observers
Michael Hudson’s “Super Imperialism:
The Economic Strategy Of Imperial America”
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman010709.htm
First written in 1972, it was updated in a 2003 edition that’s every bit as relevant now – thus this review focusing on Hudson’s new preface, introduction, and detailed account of the book’s theme
Remembering Amnon Kapeliouk
By Franklin Lamb
www.countercurrents.org/lamb010709.htm
Israeli jounalist Amnon Kapeliouk was my kind of Journalist and my kind of Jew. Sadly, he died the other day and was buried near his birth place in West Jerusalem. For more than 40 years Kapeliouk reported on Palestinian and Arab affairs for half a dozen newspapers and was an old school Robert Fisk- Janet Stevens’s type journalist
‘We Still Dream Of African Unity’
By Hamid Golpira, Gul Jammas Hussain & M.A. Saki
www.countercurrents.org/saki010709.htm
South African Ambassador Ebrahim M. Saley says that Africans still believe in the dream of a united continent. The South African ambassador to Tehran made the remarks in an interview with the Tehran Times earlier this month in which he also discussed the new South African government’s program, political developments in Africa, the war in the Congo, the Palestine issue, the prospects for Iran-South Africa trade, Iran’s nuclear program, and a number of other issues
SEZ: Corporate Statehood Defined
By C.R Bijoy
www.countercurrents.org/bijoy010709.htm
The SEZ Act ( Special Economic Zone Act ) heralds the integration of the powers of the executive, the elected institutions and the judiciary, centralisd in the SEZ Authority – the Development Commissioner (DC) and/or the developer (company) – paving the way for the creation of of a political and economic entity, separate from the Indian state. SEZs internally are structured for the establishment of authoritarian capitalism with the Indian state as an instrument of capital
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