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Sovereign Debt Fears Trigger Plunge In Global Markets
By Patrick O’Connor

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Stock markets in the US, Europe and other regions plunged yesterday in response to growing fears over the size of sovereign debt in several countries. Greece is on the verge of national bankruptcy and international investors are sceptical about the government’s ability to implement the savage cuts to wages and social spending required to lower its deficit from 12.7 percent of gross domestic product to just 3 percent by 2012. Portugal and Spain face a similar situation

Haiti – Still Starving 23 Days Later
By Bill Quigley

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You can walk down many of the streets of Port au Prince and see absolutely no evidence that the world community has helped Haiti. Twenty-three days after the earthquake jolted Haiti and killed over 200,000 people, as many as a million people have still not received any international food assistance

How The U.S. Could Help Haiti
By Helen Scott

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Helen Scott, an author of numerous articles on Haitian history, looks at what the U.S. could be doing—but won't—to lift the burden for earthquake-ravaged Haitians

On Talking To Our Kids About The Future
By Nadia Herman Colburn

www.countercurrents.org/colburn050210.htm

How do I talk to my children—five and nine—about the state of the planet, about hope? The question is worth asking, and revisiting, not only for the sake of the children and the future they will both inherit and create, but also because thinking about things in ways that children can understand can open up a new clarity for ourselves, as well

Top 10 Problems With America
Assassinating Americans
By David Swanson

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The director of U.S. national intelligence told the House Intelligence Committee the government has the right to kill Americans abroad. Here are 10 problems with this

Mr. Obama, You Need To Forcefully Take The Lead
By Emily Spence

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You cannot leave critical matters for future administrations to sort out in a meaningful manner. Despite vicious backlash for your stance, you must vigorously work to change our collective course now rather than continue the same old policies that your predecessors in office had and that, obviously, do not work

Human Rights Abuses In Israel
And Occupied Palestine
By Stephen Lendman

www.countercurrents.org/lendman050210.htm

Free expression is targeted, and Israeli Arabs threatened, denied equality, education, employment, and their citizenship without “declaring loyalty” to Israel – in other words, on condition they abandon their national identity, culture, language, and historic heritage that's the equivalent of asking Jews to renounce Judaism

Meet The Radical Homemakers
By Shannon Hayes

www.countercurrents.org/hayes050210.htm

How families are achieving ecological, social, and economic transformation… starting under their own roofs

A Decade Of Denial
By Hamid Golpira

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The first decade of the twenty-first century just ended, but what just happened in those ten years? All of the analyses seem to have missed the point that it was a decade of denial

A Squeamish Surreal Charade
By Prabhat Sharan

www.countercurrents.org/sharan050210.htm

Sixty-three years of ‘Independence,’ and sixty years after declaring itself a republic state, a democratic egalitarian society continues to remain an illusion for India. A pie in the sky

Telangana State Formation:
Age-Old Demand Under Process
By Dr.K.Vidyasagar Reddy

www.countercurrents.org/reddy050210.htm

Unlike before, the other opposition parties in the parliament and state assembly have already extended their support for Telangana. The democratic component of the Telangana demand will keep the telangana movement energetic in the days to come, of course till the old state is revived once for all

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