Thursday, November 24, 2011

Fwd: CC News Letter, 23 Nov - Symbolic Trial Finds Bush, Blair Guilty Of War Crimes



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Subject: CC News Letter, 23 Nov - Symbolic Trial Finds Bush, Blair Guilty Of War Crimes
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Symbolic Trial Finds Bush, Blair Guilty Of War Crimes
 By Press TV

http://www.countercurrents.org/presstv231111.htm

A symbolic trial conducted by a Malaysian tribunal has found former US President George W Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair guilty of committing crimes against humanity during the Iraq war


Millions Protest To Demand Overthrow Of
 US-Backed Egyptian Junta
 By Johannes Stern

http://www.countercurrents.org/stern231111.htm

On Tuesday, millions of workers and youth staged protests and strikes all over Egypt, demanding the downfall of Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi and the US-backed Egyptian junta


Van Jones And Democratic Party Operatives:
 You Do Not Represent The Occupy Movement
 By Kevin Zeese

http://www.countercurrents.org/zeese231111.htm

 The corporate media is anointing a false leader of the Occupy Movement in Van Jones of Rebuild the Dream. The former Obama administration official is doing what Democrats always do—see the energy of an independent movement, race to the front, then lead it down a dead end and essentially destroy it


How Occupy Is Transforming
 Our National Conversation
 By Robin Broad & John Cavanagh

http://www.countercurrents.org/cavanagh231111.htm

In just two months, the Occupy movement has begun to unseat an economic narrative that held sway for thirty years

"The Degree To Which You Resist Is
 The Degree To Which You Are Free"
 By Phil Rockstroh

http://www.countercurrents.org/rockstroh231111.htm

the walls of the neoliberal prison are cracking…We are no longer isolated, enclosed in our alienation, imprisoned by a concretized sense of powerlessness; daylight is beginning to pierce the darkness of our desolate cells


Will The UN insist On Fair Trials For
 Ex-Regime Loyalists In Libya?
 By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb231111.htm

The UN Security Council must support the ICC and assure that Libyan show trials for former regime loyalist that have been indicted are avoided by conducting their trials in The Hague


Kazakhstan Now World's Largest Uranium Miner
 By John C.K. Daly

http://www.countercurrents.org/daly231111.htm

Kazakhstan produces 33 percent of world's mined uranium, followed by Canada at 18 percent and Australia, with 11 percent of global output. Kazakhstan contains the world's second-largest uranium reserves, estimated at 1.5 million tons. Until two years ago Kazakhstan was the world's No. 3 uranium miner, following Australia and Canada


A Solar-Powered Car?
 By Tom Murphy

http://www.countercurrents.org/murphy231111.htm

So solar powered cars fall solidly on the reality side of the reality-fantasy continuum. That said, pure solar transport (on board generation) will suffer serious limitations. More reliable transport comes with nuances that may be irritating to the purist. You can apply a bumper sticker that says SOLAR POWERED CAR, but in most cases, you will need to put an asterisk at the end with a lengthy footnote to explain exactly how you have realized that goal


Is It Really Possible To Decouple GDP Growth
 From Energy Growth?
 By Gail Tverberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/tverberg231111.htm

 In recent years, we have heard statements indicating that it is possible to decouple GDP growth from energy growth. I have been looking at the relationship between world GDP and world energy use and am becoming increasingly skeptical that such a decoupling is really possible


Fracking Gas = Climate Crash
 By Alex Smith

http://www.countercurrents.org/smith231111.htm

Escaped methane from gas fracking threaten to tip us into catastrophic climate change. The total impact of the shale gas industry may be worse than coal


Shale Gas And Climate Change:
 The Other Burning Issue
 By Dr. Peter Custers

http://www.countercurrents.org/custers231111.htm

If we are to avoid runaway climate change, - we need a combination of stringent prohibitions on the most destructive forms of extraction, and global policies to limit energy use. Why not buttress the demand for a ban on all drilling for tar sands oil and shale gas? Why not add the demand for a global and equitable regime of energy rationing?


Support Today's Freedom Riders
 By Ending U.S. Support For Israeli Apartheid
 By Josh Ruebner

http://www.countercurrents.org/ruebner231111.htm

If Rep. Lewis helped end the immorality of segregation in the United States, then half a century later he can also contribute to ending discrimination in Israel/Palestine by stopping U.S. weapons transfers that sustain Israeli apartheid toward Palestinians


Foreign Faculty, For What?
 By Rajesh Kumar Sharma

http://www.countercurrents.org/rksharma231111.htm

Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia stated that the Indian universities must have an international flavour, adding that "this would not happen unless the government removes the restriction on employment of international faculty". Do we really need them?


Total Muslim Reservation: A Lesson To learn
 For SP, BSP & Congress
 By Ashok Yadav

http://www.countercurrents.org/yadav231111.htm

Equipped with Bihar experience the Pasmanda may spring surprise in the coming UP elections. Beware, SP, BSP and Congress!


Marriages Of Lust And Greed !
 By Asif Iqbal

http://www.countercurrents.org/iqbal231111.htm

A bench of Justices Dalip Singh and Sajjan Singh Kothari in High Court of Rajasthan has stated that the marriages based on right to choose or generally known as love marriages are examples of "lust and greed"! The remark was one of few abhorrent statements made by the Bench on 21nd October 2011 during their ruling on hearing of a Habeas Corpus petition filed by a 34-year-old man


Dividing Uttar-Pradesh: The Opening Of
 A Pandora's Box
 By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat231111.htm

It is good that Ms Mayawati has given it a serious thought but it is equally important that the issue be debated widely and should not be resolved without a State Reorganisation Commission as the stake holders are not just in Uttar-Pradesh but also in other states



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