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NATO To Provide $500 Million To Bribe Taliban
By Juan Cole

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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown may have called the London Conference on Afghanistan for domestic political purposes, as a sort of publicity stunt. But the nearly 70 nations that gathered there unexpectedly took advantage of the meet to plot out a NATO exit strategy. Of course, how realistic it is remains to be seen

London Conference On Afghanistan:
Occupation Will Last For Years To Come
By Chris Marsden

www.countercurrents.org/marsden290110.htm

The London conference on Afghanistan laid down a scenario for the country’s military occupation stretching over at least 5 years and, according to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, as long as 15 years

Afraid Of The Dark in Afghanistan
By Anand Gopal

www.countercurrents.org/gopal290110.htm

In the secretive U.S. detentions process, suspects are usually nabbed in the darkness and then sent to one of a number of detention areas on military bases, often on the slightest suspicion and without the knowledge of their families. This process has become even more feared and hated in Afghanistan than coalition airstrikes. The night raids and detentions, little known or understood outside of these Pashtun villages, are slowly turning Afghans against the very forces they greeted as liberators just a few years ago

Israeli Militarism, Local Conflicts Driving
Palestinian Children Crazy
By Kathlyn Stone

www.countercurrents.org/stone290110.htm

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders reports that short-term psychotherapy could be an effective treatment in specific psychiatric disorders, especially in children

Hell And Hope In Haiti
By Bill Quigley

www.countercurrents.org/quigley290110.htm

Hope is found in the people of Haiti. Despite no electricity, little shelter, minimal food and no real goverment or order, people are helping one another survive

The Obama Retirement Trap Has Started!
By Ron Holland

www.countercurrents.org/holland290110.htm

Mandatory IRAs just proposed by Obama Administration on 1/25/10 is the 1st step in stealth nationalization and forced investment of our retirement benefits to support the treasury debt market!

Obama’s Outreach To Americans:
Empty Rhetoric, Business As Usual
By Stephen Lendman

www.countercurrents.org/lendman290110.htm

The response to Obama’s first State of the Union address was predictable. Democrats loved it. Republicans were skeptical to critical, while the media tried to have it both ways

Who Will Build The Ark?
By Mike Davis

www.countercurrents.org/davis290110.htm

The single most important cause of global warming—the urbanization of humanity—is also potentially the principal solution to the problem of human survival in the later twenty-first century. Left to the dismal politics of the present, of course, cities of poverty will almost certainly become the coffins of hope; but all the more reason that we must start thinking like Noah. Since most of history’s giant trees have already been cut down, a new Ark will have to be constructed out of the materials that a desperate humanity finds at hand in insurgent communities, pirate technologies, bootlegged media, rebel science and forgotten utopias

Your Disappointment In Obama
Is Your Teaching Moment
By Carolyn Baker

www.countercurrents.org/baker290110.htm

The affair is over, and you don’t know whether to cry, rage, get drunk, stay stoned, or rethink leaving the country. You’ve married a prisoner; you’ve made another bad choice. You feel bitter and perhaps a little self-loathing. In fact, you want to take a shower because you feel dirty all over

A Tribute To American People’s Historian –
Howard Zinn
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui

www.countercurrents.org/siddiqui290110.htm

With the death of Dr. Zinn there is no doubt that the anti-war and peace movement in the USA has lost one of its best activists and an honest historian that the public trusted

Saudi Arabia vs. The Houthis:
A Senseless War Winds Down
By Rannie Amiri

www.countercurrents.org/amiri290110.htm

The senseless war in Saada waged by the Saudi government was meant to send an unmistakable warning to any in the Kingdom who might espouse similar beliefs or demands as the Houthis: do so at your own peril

Avatar: A Parable About The Encounter Between
Capitalism And Indigenous Peoples
By Rohini Hensman

www.countercurrents.org/hensman290110.htm

This is not a film review of Avatar, more a comment on its politics, and on other commentaries on its politics

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