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Video Evidence Of Extra-Judicial Killings In
Sri Lanka
By Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka

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A video clip released by Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) has revealed extra-judicial killings being conducted in Sri Lanka. Although You Tube subsequently removed the video for violating terms of use, you can View the video here . You need a quicktime player to view the video

India’s UID And The Fantasy Of Dataveillance
By Binu Karunakaran

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According to one estimate Rs. 150,000 Crore (US$ 30.9 bn) of taxpayers’ money will flow out into the gargantuan task of making our lives similar to that of aquarium fish and no less secure. Imagine that kind of money and political will power going into healthcare and sanitation or basic education and poverty alleviation

The Widening Gap In America’s Two Tiered Society
By Emily Spence

www.countercurrents.org/spence260809.htm

We need not worry as much about the terrorists from abroad as the terrorists from above and the duped voters who repeatedly fall for political candidates pandering to this broadly malignant upper class. The latter bunch and their sycophantic legislative admirers, more than any foreign guerrillas, are leading the world’s wealthiest nation into ever deeper ruin

Growing Poverty And Despair In America
By Stephen Lendman

www.countercurrents.org/lendman260809.htm

Annually, two – three million Americans, including 1.3 million children, experience homelessness and many more are at risk. Most vulnerable are those losing jobs, homes, and the millions of low-income workers paying 50% or more of their income in rent so that a missed paycheck, health emergency, or unexpected financial burden makes them vulnerable to homelessness at a time government aid is being cut

Australia Absurdly Declares Methane Burning
Clean And Renewable
By Dr Gideon Polya

www.countercurrents.org/polya160809.htm

The Australian Government has succeeded in passing legislation for Renewable Energy Target Scheme that was supported by the Libs with negotiated inclusion of coal seam-derived methane as a “renewable energy source”

Indian Actor, American Character-
The Psychology Of Security Measures
By Farzana Versey

www.countercurrents.org/versey260809.htm

After the incident of Sharukh Khan, we have had a slew of reports and opinion pieces that have held forth on how icons must be treated and are treated. Some ‘balanced’ commentators have stated that it does not have to do with his being a Muslim and having a Muslim name. These could well be valid trains of thought. However, there is a more dire script lurking beneath. It has little to do with physical security and all to do with psychological security. One would have called it xenophobia, but here safety is sought on the basis of not necessarily what is foreign but what is ingrained

Army’s West Bank Tactics Imported To Negev
By Jonathan Cook

www.countercurrents.org/cook260809.htm

Amra: The inhabitants of the Bedouin village of Amra have good reason to fear that the harsh tactics used by the Israeli army against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been imported to their small corner of Israel’s Negev desert

Boycott Israel
By Neve Gordon

www.countercurrents.org/gordon260809.htm

An Israeli comes to the painful conclusion that it’s the only way to save his country

Muslim ‘Terrorists’ Manufactured By The Media
By Yoginder Sikand

www.countercurrents.org/sikand260809.htm

It is not just the ‘loony’ ‘vernacular’ media, as many are given to believe, but even the ‘respectable’, ‘mainstream’, ‘national’ English-language press in India that have sedulously cultivated the notion of ‘Islamic terrorism,’ so much so that the image of Muslims in general being either terrorists or their sympathizers enjoys wide currency today. Yoginder Sikand examines the trend in the light of a report released by a team of secular, leftist non-Muslim activists from Karnataka

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