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Iraq: Massive Fraud And Corruption In Higher Education
By Dirk Adriaensens

www.countercurrents.org/adriaensens170909.htm

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told a group of educators in Washington on 25 July that his country plans to send over 50.000 students abroad over the next 5 years. A noble initiative at first sight, until you look further behind the official smokescreen

War Is Peace
By Tom Engelhardt

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Most of us are peaceably watching our TV sets or computer screens or iPhones, we Americans are also — always — marching as to war. We may not all bother to attend the church of our new religion, but we all tithe. We all partake. In this sense, we live peaceably in a state of war

Holocaust: The Glory Of The Well Adjusted
By Case Wagenvoord

www.countercurrents.org/wagenvoord170909.htm

Holocaust was not an aberration; the mindset that made it possible is permeates Western society

Global Warming – Can Self-interest
And Science Save Australia, US And The Planet?
By Dr Gideon Polya

www.countercurrents.org/polya170909.htm

The World is facing a Climate Emergency but you wouldn’t think so from the response by governments. Carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the atmosphere is 390 parts per million (ppm), well outside the range of 180-300 ppm over the last 600,000 years during which Man (Homo sapiens) finally evolved

Glenn Beck’s Demagoguery, Right Wing Extremism,
And Racism
By Stephen Lendman

www.countercurrents.org/lendman170909.htm

The Internet’s power is real and proves when enough committed people back progressive issues, constructive change follows. If if works against Glenn Beck and Fox News, why not in a campaign to reclaim the kind of America people deserve and can have if they work hard enough for it

Lebanon’s Palestinians 27 Years After
The Sabra Shatila Massacre
By Franklin Lamb

www.countercurrents.org/lamb170909.htm

Pressure is building this hot summer and fall in Lebanon’s refugee camps with warnings coming from Palestinian, that 27 years after the Sabra Shatila massacre, explosive conditions exist in nearly all of Lebanon’s camps

How US Tax Breaks Fund Israeli Settlers
By Jonathan Cook

www.countercurrents.org/cook170909.htm

Israeli peace activists are planning to ratchet up their campaign against groups in the United States that raise money for settlers by highlighting how tax exemptions are helping to fund the expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank

Perpetual Grief Over September 11th
By Ramzy Baroud

www.countercurrents.org/baroud170909.htm

We must embrace again the anguish of what happened on 9/11, ever aware that the body count grows even today. And although the wreckage of that horrible day was cleared away years ago, the lessons of that day are still buried beneath our anger, frustration, and prejudice

Corporate Corruption Killing America
By Joel S. Hirschhorn

www.countercurrents.org/hirschhorn170909.htm

Anyone smart and strong enough to fight delusional thinking and who pays attention to current events should clearly see that corporate corruption of the US political system is so pervasive and powerful that there will be no genuine reform of both the health care and financial sectors

Beyond Statecraft; Navigating The Collapse Of
Industrial Civilization
By Frank Joseph Smecker

www.countercurrents.org/smecker170909.htm

An Interview With Carolyn Baker. In this interview she talks about the collapse of industrial civilization — what it may look like, reasons for its occurrence, the effects of collapse and, how to relocalize and create sustainable communities in the throes of collapse

Call Out The NIA
By Firdaus Ahmed

www.countercurrents.org/ahmed170909.htm

While the RK Raghavan led Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team would likely throw up more light on this angle as it culminates by end this year, the National Investigation Agency, set up with considerable fanfare in wake of 26/11, should be put to work on this case. What requires probing is the manner the intelligence bureau advisory on terror has been taken by the Gujarat police as rationale for the killings of Ishrat Jahan and three others

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