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Earth Itself Has Become Disposable
By George Monbiot

www.countercurrents.org/monbiot050110.htm

Consumerism has, as Huxley feared, changed all of us – we’d rather hop to a brave new world than rein in our spending

Climate Change Has No Time For Delay Or Denial
By Rajendra Pachauri

www.countercurrents.org/pachauri050110.htm

It is becoming increasingly clear that the spread of knowledge and awareness would be a critical driver of the transformation that is required to move human society towards a pattern of sustainable development. This would also be the most effective means of thwarting the efforts of skeptics and vested interests, who will do everything possible to maintain the status quo. As the science in the IPCC Fourth Assessment report clearly demonstrates, there is no leeway for delay or denial any longer

Wars “R” Us: Making The World Safe For
American Domination
By Emily Spence

www.countercurrents.org/spence050110.htm

Wars are big business, most notably for investors and employees in the aerospace and defense industries. The related purposes, like the ones guiding most corporations, are hardly humanistic. Instead new sources of revenue, cheap resources from conquered lands, and new markets for products and services are the sine qua non

Obama Adds 675 Million Muslims
To The Ultimate US Terrorism List
By Franklin Lamb

www.countercurrents.org/lamb050110.htm

On January 3, 2010, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued new security directives to all United States and international air carriers with inbound flights to the U.S. effective January 4, 2010. At midnight Washington DC time, January 3, it went into effect and placed 675,000,000 (675 million) more Muslims and Arabs on yet another ‘Terrorism ‘list. Also added were Nigerian and Cuban Christians but they were not the target

Religious Wars: Still Fracturing A Shrinking World
By Robert S. Becker

www.countercurrents.org/becker050110.htm

Is it mere chance then our government unilaterally wars against four Muslim nations, with more coming? Did not W. represent a fearful, uninformed majority that trusts its western God to approve belligerence against infidels? As Noam Chomsky observes, “Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that — it’s astonishing. These numbers aren’t duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world.” Ditto death panels, Creationism, the Rapture, Armageddon, or the end of times

For A New Dawn In India-Bangladesh Relations
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui

www.countercurrents.org/siddiqui050110.htm

If I were Prime Minister of Bangladesh what I would have said to my counterpart in India

Israeli Use Of Painful Shackling
As A Form of Torture
By Stephen Lendman

www.countercurrents.org/lendman050110.htm

Public Committee Against Torture in Israel reviews the “serious phenomenon” of shackling Palestinian detainees “in a systematic manner and throughout all stages of detention and interrogation.” Its purpose is to dehumanize and inflict pain, suffering, punishment, intimidation, and discrimination as a way of lawlessly extracting information even though experts acknowledge that torture is ineffective, counterproductive, and, of course, illegal under all circumstances at all times with no exceptions allowed ever

Avatar: An Extension Of White Supremacy
By Frederick Alexander Meade

www.countercurrents.org/meade050110.htm

Regrettably, movie goers often fail to recognize the incessant inane and divisive ideas promoted by such productions as Avatar and subsequently are subliminally compelled to accept false notions in regard to either the superiority or inferiority of various groups and their subsequent essential value. Such has been the case far more often than the public is perhaps aware

Microfinance Meltdown In Bosnia
By Phil Cain

www.countercurrents.org/cain050110.htm

A market-led lending scheme some hoped would be the driving force behind economic revival in Bosnia after the civil war ended in 1995 is facing meltdown

Response To Microfinance Article
By Devinder Sharma

www.countercurrents.org/sharma050110.htm

Devinder Sharma’s reply to an article by Lokesh Singh, CEO of Sanchetna Microfinance, critiquing Mr. Sharma’s criticism of Microfinance

Salvador Option Fomenting Civil War In Pakistan
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali

www.countercurrents.org/ghazali050110.htm

Borrowing a page from Al-Anbar experiment, the US has advised Pakistan to enlist tribal leaders in the border areas in the fight against the Taliban, as part of a broader effort to bolster Pakistani forces. The proposal is modeled in part on a similar effort by American forces in Anbar Province of Iraq where American commanders have worked with Sunni sheiks to turn locals against the militant group. This has been hailed as a great success in fighting insurgents there

Jammu And Kashmir’s Employment Policy
Misses Viability Strategy
By Bilal Hussain

www.countercurrents.org/hussain050110.htm

The Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, Omar Abdullah, recently unveils the employment policy. The policy document gives a good reading, mentions exploitation of most economic sectors of the state and generation of huge employment. However, like most of the state’s policy documents it too misses the much needed viability strategy

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