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Israeli Air Raids Kill Gazans
By Aljazeera

www.countercurrents.org/aljazeera080110.htm

Israel has launched air raids against at least seven targets in the Gaza Strip, killing three people, Palestinian medics say

A Victory For Viva Palestina
By Eric Ruder

www.countercurrents.org/ruder080110.htm

Eric Ruder reports on Viva Palestina’s success in bringing humanitarian supplies to Gaza, despite a harrowing assault by Egyptian police

“No Army, No Prison And No Wall Can Stop Us”
By Abdallah Abu Rahmah

www.countercurrents.org/aburahmah080110.htm

Whether we are confined in the open-air prison that Gaza has been transformed into, in military prisons in the West Bank, or in our own villages surrounded by the apartheid wall, arrests and persecution do not weaken us. They only strengthen our commitment to turning 2010 into a year of liberation through unarmed grassroots resistance to the occupation

My Husband: Jailed For Protesting Israel’s Wall
By Majida Abu Rahmah

www.countercurrents.org/majida080110.htm

On International Human Rights Day in 2008, my husband Abdallah Abu Rahmah was in Berlin receiving a medal from the World Association for Human Rights. Last year on the same day, 10 December, Abdallah was taken away at 2am by Israeli soldiers who broke into our West Bank home. Abdallah was arrested for the same reasons he received the prize — his nonviolent struggle for justice, equality and peace in Palestine/Israel

Is Anyone Telling Us The Truth?
By Paul Craig Roberts

www.countercurrents.org/roberts080110.htm

What are we to make of the failed Underwear Bomber plot, the Toothpaste, Shampoo, and Bottled Water Bomber plot, and the Shoe Bomber plot? These blundering and implausible plots to bring down an airliner seem far removed from al-Qaida’s expertise in pulling off 9/11

The Melting Of America
By Orville Schell

www.countercurrents.org/schell080110.htm

We Americans, too, seem to have passed a tipping point. Like the glaciers of the high Himalaya, long familiar aspects of our nation are beginning to feel as if they were, in a sense, melting away

Black America’s Economic Freefall
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

www.countercurrents.org/taylor080110.htm

The American economy has gone through what has been called the Great Recession. But the crisis in Black communities across the U.S. constitutes an outright depression—spurring desperate conditions that have gone largely unreported because of the racist indifference of the government and mass media

Letter From Climate Prisoners In Denmark
By Climate Prisoners

www.countercurrents.org/cp080110.htm

Something is rotten (but not just) in Denmark. As a matter of fact, thousands of people have been considered, without any evidence, a threat to the society. Hundreds have been arrested and some are still under detention, waiting for judgement or under investigation. Among them, us, the undersigned

Five Reasons To Be Hopeful About 2010
By Mike Gaworecki

www.countercurrents.org/gaworecki080110.htm

Despite the epic failure of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, I think there are plenty of reasons to be hopeful that 2010 will be a banner year for achieving new and lasting environmental protection. Here are the top 5 reasons why

A Farming Model To Sustain The World
By Devinder Sharma

www.countercurrents.org/sharma080110.htm

Ten years from now, in 2020, when we try to look back, Indian agriculture and for that matter global agriculture can be transformed into a healthy and vibrant system where farmer suicides have been relegated to history, where distress and despondency has been replaced by the lost pride in farming, where agriculture becomes truly sustainable in the long run, and does not add heat to the global environment

Sri Lanka Execution Video Authentic
By Aljazeera

www.countercurrents.org/aljazeera080110A.htm

A UN human rights official has urged Colombo allow an impartial investigation after he concluded that video footage allegedly showing Sri Lankan troops executing Tamil Tiger fighters last year is authentic

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