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Outsourcing War: A Threat To USA And The World
By Stephen Lendman

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Given the Pentagon’s transformation since 1991, the number of services it privatized, and America’s permanent war agenda, what will conditions be in another decade or a few years? How much more prominent will Private Military Contractors (PMCs) be? How much more insecurity will result? How soon will it be before hordes of them are deployed throughout America as enforcers in civilian communities outside of conflict zones, with as much unaccountability here as abroad? What will the nation be like if it happens?

The Sweet Serenity Of Modern Warfare
By Case Wagenvoord

www.countercurrents.org/wagenvoord190110.htm

A savage brutality once drove war. Now it is driven by the serene barbarity of the civilized

Your Wall Of Shame Is Complete, Mr. President
By Ershad Abubacker

www.countercurrents.org/abubacker190110.htm

An Open Letter to President Barack Obama on the first anniversary of his assumption of office

US Military To Enforce State Of Emergency In Haiti
By Tom Eley

www.countercurrents.org/eley190110.htm

The Haitian government declared a state of emergency on Monday, six days after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake laid waste to much of the nation and its capital, Port-au-Prince, killing at least 200,000, according to the latest estimate

The War Against Nature Resumes
By George Monbiot

www.countercurrents.org/monbiot190110.htm

2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity. The Welsh assembly is celebrating the occasion by launching a project to exterminate the badger. I won’t pretend that this story ranks alongside the catastrophe in Haiti or the meltdown in Afghanistan, but it casts an interesting light on humanity’s continuing impulse to conquer nature, and shows how, even when cloaked in the language of science, our relations with the natural world are still governed by irrationality and superstition

The United States, Israel And The Retreat Of Freedom
By Ali Abunimah

www.countercurrents.org/abunimah190110.htm

The world is suffering from a “freedom recession” according to a new report from the American think tank Freedom House. Freedom House’s approach to Israel provides the starkest example of the abyss into which liberal thinking has fallen on the relationship between colonialism and freedom. Israel, we are told, “remains the only country in the [Middle East] region to hold a Freedom in the World designation of Free.”

Israeli Democracy Or Hypocrisy
By Stephen Lendman

www.countercurrents.org/lendman190110A.htm

An October 2007 Haaretz editorial titled “Democracy or hypocrisy” contrasted the “occupying Land of Israel to the democratic Israel” in calling for a “debate about Israel’s control over the lives of Palestinians deprived of civil rights,” saying its democracy is flawed and not addressing it is hypocrisy

Anti-Whaling Australia Threatens Whales By Global Warming
By Dr Gideon Polya

www.countercurrents.org/polya190110.htm

Australia leads the world in condemnation of the annual killing of 1,000 whales by the Japanese. However Australia is the world’s worst annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) polluter and man-made global warming with consequent loss of Antarctic sea ice is a major threat to declining krill stocks and hence to the whales that feed on krill

Imperial Senate Foils Constitution More Than
Climate Change, Terrorism, Or Rogue Sarahs
By Robert S. Becker

www.countercurrents.org/becker190110.htm

Across all issues, the Senate now marries glaring elitism with reactionary defenses of the status quo, a greater menace to progress and humane government than terrorism, climate, or that bevy of fake rogue politicians. Any notion of Senate philosopher-kings is thwarted by crass favoritism and partiality, passions and privilege, ego and seniority, operating somewhere between a zoo and an asylum

Jyoti Basu’s Legacy
By Partha Banerjee

www.countercurrents.org/banerjee190110.htm

With demise of Jyoti Basu and his era of politics of on-the-ground coalition-building, chances to put the country back together are now ever so remote

Trade, Corporate Market And Indigenous People
By Goldy M. George

www.countercurrents.org/george190110.htm

The Copenhagen drama is over. Nothing came out of it. It was predicted the same by many expert and many intellectuals, activists, professional experts kept a distance from this proscenium. But what is that concerns the ordinary people of this nation? How does market and market values related with people at large and particularly the Dalits, Adivasis and the exploited sections of Indian society? What is the correlation between trade, corporates, market and indigenous communities of this land who still have the noble quality of surviving on a minimum basis?

Dalit: Towards The Search For
Alternative Strategies
By Rajkumar

www.countercurrents.org/rajkumar190110.htm

This paper argues for the need for some strategies that suits the emerging scenario in the given context of democratic space available in the Indian and the mass psychology. I try to portrait a frame of analysis for this argument which needs further debate and refinement at various circles and level

A Manual To Manage Drought In India
By Siba Sankar Mohanty

www.countercurrents.org/mohanty190110.htm

In a knee-jerk reaction to demands for creating interventions to face an evolving drought situation in the country, the Union Minister of Agriculture, Mr Sharad Power on 4th January, released a Drought Management Manual that is expected to prove an effective practical guideline for administrators, experts and civil society in implementing drought mitigation and relief measures and for alleviating distress of the drought affected people

Taliban Threat For Kashmir
By Zafar Iqbal

www.countercurrents.org/iqbal190110.htm

Recent surge of violence in both parts of contentious state of Jammu and Kashmir has fuelled the concerns about the expansion of Taliban network in the Himalayan region

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