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Obama’s War On Yemen
By Stephen Lendman

www.countercurrents.org/lendman040110.htm

Besides waging direct or proxy wars on multiple fronts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, the Philippines, Sudan, Eastern Congo, elsewhere in Africa, and likely to erupt almost anywhere at any time, Yemen is now a new front in America’s “war on terror” under a president, who as a candidate, promised diplomacy, not conflict, if elected

Questions Mount Over Attempt To Bomb
Detroit-Bound Jetliner
By Patrick Martin

www.countercurrents.org/martin040110.htm

Ten days after the failed attempt to explode a bomb onboard Northwest Flight 253 as it approached Detroit—an action that, if successful, would have killed nearly 300 people—there are mounting questions about the actions of US government agencies

What To Watch For In 2010
By Tom Engelhardt & Nick Turse

www.countercurrents.org/turse040110.htm

According to the Chinese calendar, 2010 is the Year of the Tiger. We don’t name our years, but if we did, this one might prospectively be called the Year of the Assassin

Obama And Iran’s Opposition
By Mark Vorpahl

www.countercurrents.org/vorpahl040110.htm

The Obama administration is being forced to walk a narrow path between its aims to put a more compliant regime in Iran and navigating away from the threat of a militant popular movement which will put the needs of the vast majority first rather than the domestic and foreign capitalist interests. Obama’s fine words regarding the protests on December 26-27 cannot be taken at face value. They are an attempt to cover up an inevitable betrayal

The Chilcot Inquiry: Britain’s 9/11 Commission
By Maidhc Ó Cathail

www.countercurrents.org/ocathail040110.htm

Just as the Zelikow-directed 9/11 Commission suppressed evidence that the main motive for the September 11 attacks was American support for Israel, Freedman’s presence on the Chilcot Inquiry is a clear indication that there will be no inquiry into the role of Zionist insiders in taking Britain to war against Iraq—a country that posed a threat not to British interests but to Israel’s regional hegemony

On The Way To Copenhagen We Added
A World Food Crisis
By Robert Palmer

www.countercurrents.org/palmer040110.htm

What would our economy and climate change look like today if we had not chosen to build, build, build the Alaska Pipe Line? Imagine if the US, the largest polluter in the world until 2007, had prevented billions of tons of CO2 from reaching the atmospher

Apology To The Earth For Nuclear Bombs And War
By Mary Hamer, M.D

www.countercurrents.org/hamer040110.htm

This Apology to the Earth essayexplores the negative impact of humans on the Earth by Nuclear Technology and War

Gaza Freedom March Marches In Cairo
Against Blockade
By Sharat G. Lin

www.countercurrents.org/lin040109.htm

Delegates of the Gaza Freedom March were defeated in their desire to travel to Gaza, but, as a result of the struggles in the streets and embassies of Cairo, they were more determined than ever that the blockade of Gaza by both Israel and Egypt must be lifted. Bitur Nabi Tammam of Bahrain saw the bright side, “Even if they don’t allow us to cross, I think it has accomplished the purpose that from all over the world you see people left their families, left their homes, to come here to say ‘freedom for Gaza,’ ‘freedom for Palestine,’ ‘open the gates!’”

Coal And Its Ruptured Landscape;
Navigating The Ruins Of Appalachia
By Frank Joseph Smecker

www.countercurrents.org/smecker040110.htm

Along the backbone of the eastern United States, better known as Appalachia, a relatively new trend in coal mining is underway. Mountaintop removal (MTR), a process through which the ubiquitous hankering for cheap energy, harnessed by the coal industry and, combined with explosives to blow tops of mountains into a state of environmental and socio-economic ruin, has been plaguing Appalachia for decades. Industry giants like Peabody Coal Co., Horizon Resources LLC and Arch Coal Inc. (among others) have taken advantage of coal mining legislation to advance the efficiency of coal extraction through MTR

Gilgit Baltsitan: The Dawn Of Democracy Or
The Continuity Of Blemished Political System
By Zafar Iqbal

www.countercurrents.org/iqbal040110.htm

The election of Northern Areas Legislative Assembly has completed the most considerable constituent of the Constitutional Package enforced by the Government of Pakistan to empower the local population in Pakistan Controlled Gilgit-Baltistan region, however, allegations of massive procedural irregularities, government interference and rigging have been levelled against the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) which emerged as the single largest party in the election

Salute To Women Liberator – Savitribai Phule-
On Birthday, 3rd January
By Pardeep Singh Attri

www.countercurrents.org/attri040110.htm

It is indeed a measure of the ruthlessness of elite-controlled knowledge-production that a figure as important as Savitribai Phule fails to find any mention in the history of modernIndia. Her life and struggle deserves to be appreciated by a wider spectrum, and made known to non-Marathi people as well

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