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Egypt Bans Gaza Aid Convoys
By Aljazeera

www.countercurrents.org/aljazeera090110.htm

Egyptian authorities have announced that all aid convoys travelling to Gaza will be banned from travelling across Egypt after a riot broke out at the Rafah border crossing earlier in the week

Gaza Freedom March: Detained At The US Embassy
By Ali Abunimah

www.countercurrents.org/abunimah090110.htm

Having been held hostage, we were forced to negotiate our own release. It was a lesson — if we needed one — that when it comes to the siege of Gaza, the United States government is not part of the solution, but an active part of the problem. And, the United States is not beyond relying on the repressive police tactics of the Egyptian state to protect itself from the opinions of its own citizens

Will Egypt’s Underground Wall End
The Gaza Tunnel Trade?
By Lina Attalah

www.countercurrents.org/attalah090110.htm

Self-protection is the argument in use by the Egyptian government in explaining the wall construction, besides reaffirmations that the wall is built on Egyptian land, and hence it is a sovereign act. But the Egyptian opposition and Gaza activists dubb it as “the wall of shame”

Cancer – The Deadly Legacy Of The Invasion Of Iraq
By Jalal Ghazi

www.countercurrents.org/ghazi090110.htm

Cancer is spreading like wildfire in Iraq. Thousands of infants are being born with deformities. Doctors say they are struggling to cope with the rise of cancer and birth defects, especially in cities subjected to heavy American and British bombardment

Overcoming The Copenhagen Failure
By Joseph E. Stiglitz

www.countercurrents.org/stiglitz090110.htm

Pretty speeches can take you only so far. A month after the Copenhagen climate conference, it is clear that the world’s leaders were unable to translate rhetoric about global warming into action

The Meaning Of Copenhagen
By Richard Heinberg

www.countercurrents.org/heinberg090110.htm

Copenhagen was a watershed event. Climate change has become, in many people’s minds, the central survival issue for our species, and the Copenhagen talks provided a pivotal moment for addressing that issue. The fact that the talks failed to produce a binding agreement is therefore of some significance

The Next Decade’s Top Sustainability Trends
By Warren Karlenzig

www.countercurrents.org/karlenzig090110.htm

What trends are likely the next ten years? One thing for sure, 2010 through 2019 will be one day looked at as 1.) the turning point for addressing climate change by using effective urban management strategies, or it will be remembered as 2.) the time when we collectively fumbled the Big Blue Ball

Fight Climate Change: Live The Good Life
By Colin Beavan

www.countercurrents.org/beavan090110.htm

Low-carbon living isn’t a sacrifice. Colin Beavan says it’s the good life

Is The World’s Oil Running Out Fast?
By Adam Porter

www.countercurrents.org/porter090110.htm

BBC report from the Peak Oil conference in Berlin

Complaint To ICC re US Alliance Palestinian,
Iraqi, Afghan, Muslim, Aboriginal,
Biofuel And Climate Genocides
By Dr Gideon Polya

www.countercurrents.org/polya090110.htm

The following detailed formal complaint was sent on 8 January 2010 to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over various US Alliance involvements in ongoing genocidal atrocities against Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Muslims, and Australian Aboriginals, and against the Developing World in general through the worsening Biofuel Genocide and Climate Genocide

The Mushroom Effect
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

www.countercurrents.org/ulirch090110.htm

One could be forgiven for thinking that the neoconservatives who nudge us towards war with Iran are under the effect of the magic mushroom. Obsessed with Iran, their trips take on the shape of a ‘mushroom cloud’. Christopher Hitchens is one such example. Writing for The Australian, one of Rupert Murdoch’s papers, Hitchens’ Mullahs indubitably fancy a mushroom betrays a sly mind that lacks lucidity

Yemen: A Closer Look At The “New Frontier”
By Ali Jawad

www.countercurrents.org/jawad090110.htm

As President Ali Abdallah Saleh’s control over Yemen falters with popular movements in the north and south increasingly gaining momentum, the Al-Saud royalty is acutely aware that it would be the first to feel the after-effects of its backfired policy, as it comes under increasing threat from the same quarters it once funded and used to buttress its global standing. The US is likewise very cognisant of this threat, and acknowledges that any de-stabilization of the kingdom would immediately diminish the empire’s regional coult

The Issue Of 10,000 Disappeared Persons
Haunts Pakistan Government
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali

www.countercurrents.org/ghazali090110.htm

Rocking the unpopular US-client government of President Asif Ali Zardari, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has reopened the cases of thousands of missing or disappeared persons during General Musharraf’s regime

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