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Date: Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 7:55 PM
Subject: CC News Letter, 19 Jan - CC is Back! Western Oil Firms Big Winners In Iraq
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Dear Friend,
CC is back after a short break. I was down with a slight fever, hope you all enjoyed this welcome break.
If you think the content of this news letter is critical for the dignified living and survival of humanity and other species on earth, please forward it to your friends and spread the word.It's time humanity should come together as one family! You can subscribe to our news letter here http://www.countercurrents.org/subscribe.htm. You can also follow us on twitter, http://twitter.com/countercurrents and on Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/countercurrents
In Solidarity
Binu Mathew, Editor,
Countercurrents.org
Educate! Organize! Agitate!
World Economy Set For Another Major Downturn
By Nick Beams
http://www.countercurrents.org/beams190112.htm
The World Bank has issued a grim forecast on the outlook for the world economy, with the potential for a crisis worse than that which followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. The warning was contained in the Bank's Global Economic Prospects report, issued yesterday
Western Oil Firms Big Winners In Iraq
By Sherwood Ross
http://www.countercurrents.org/ross190112.htm
Western oil producers have emerged as the big winners of the Iraq war. A group led by BP will receive $2 billion per year to develop Iraq's Rumalia field and a Shell-led group is to get $913 million per year. An Exxon-led group is to get $1.6 billion per year
Why I'm Suing Barack Obama
By Chris Hedges
http://www.countercurrents.org/hedges190112.htm
I suspect National Defense Authorization Act passed because the corporations, seeing the unrest in the streets, knowing that things are about to get much worse, worrying that the Occupy movement will expand, do not trust the police to protect them. They want to be able to call in the Army. And now they can
The Myth of "Isolated" Iran
By Pepe Escobar
http://www.countercurrents.org/escobar190112.htm
Following the money in the Iran crisis
U.S.-Israeli Assault On Iran Escalates –
Danger of War Grows
By Larry Everest
http://www.countercurrents.org/everest190112.htm
Ground is being laid daily in the headlines and statements by politicians of every stripe in mainstream U.S. politics calling for aggression against Iran—all justified by unsubstantiated assertions that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons
Dancing On History's Edge: Why This Is
An Amazing Time To Be Alive
By Dianne Monroe
http://www.countercurrents.org/monroe190112.htm
We live in a time when each of our voices and visions are vitally needed for earth's and humanity's future. It is a time when the question is not so much how we survive the demise of what has been, as how we each contribute to what is new and arising. Rooting ourselves in what we bring to these times and share with the future is much more than a way to anchor ourselves through the storms of this great crumbling
Global Energy And Resources
By Peter Goodchild
http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild190112.htm
Modern industrial society is composed of a triad of fossil fuels, metals, and electricity. The three are intricately connected and all three are hitting peak availability
Censorship In The Green Mountains
By Rosemarie Jackowski
http://www.countercurrents.org/jackowski190112.htm
Will the First Amendment ever be restored in Vermont ? I'm not holding my breath. Vermont has become the land of book-banning, censorship, and the arrest of those who try to make a difference. When any candidate is silenced, when any book is banned - every citizen should react
Israel As World's First Bunker State
By Jonathana Cook
http://www.countercurrents.org/cook190112.htm
The wheel is turning full circle. Last week the Israeli parliament updated a 59-year-old law originally intended to prevent hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees from returning to the homes and lands from which they had been expelled as Israel was established. The purpose of the draconian 1954 Prevention of Infiltration Law was to lock up any Palestinian who managed to slip past the snipers guarding the new state's borders
Waiting For False Prophets: The Puzzling
Matter Of The Israeli Liberals
By Ramzy Baroud
http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud190112.htm
To hold hope in the new election cycle in Israel is like waiting for false prophets. No salvation will be heralded by some imagined center-left party that will bring "an end to the ultra-rightist frenzy," as hoped by Avnery
UK TV Series "The Promise" Elicits
Zionist Defamation Of Anti-Racist Jews
By Dr Gideon Polya
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190112.htm
Decent anti-racist humanitarian Jews and indeed all decent people are obliged to speak out against the genocidal crimes of racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel . The false defamation of anti-racist humanitarian Jews as "anti-Semites" can be seen as anti-Semitism itself as can the utterly false conflation of the genocidal atrocities of Apartheid Israel with decent, anti-racist Jews
21st Century Racism
By Mary Shaw
http://www.countercurrents.org/shaw190112.htm
Bigotry has its roots in insecurity, and in fear of the unknown. Might does not make right. But I continue to shudder at the possibilities of what can happen as these frightened white men - the 1% - continue to control our country's wealth and power
Extreme Inequality or Democracy?
By Ron Forthofer
http://www.countercurrents.org/forthofer190112.htm
Given the dire straits – high levels of unemployment and underemployment, homelessness, lack of health insurance, home foreclosures, huge credit card debts and college loan debts, shortages of food - that many Americans face today, our extreme inequality is intolerable. The current situation demands a drastic overhaul of our corrupt political/economic system to end and to prevent future extreme inequality. Unless we act now, control by the wealthy and powerful will be solidified
Managing Disasters And Displacement
By S.G.Vombatkere
http://www.countercurrents.org/vombatkere190112.htm
The article presents the political and economic impacts of various kinds of natural and man-made disasters and associated displacement of populations, and argues for a wider and more inclusive definition of disasters in the interest of human rights, social justice and equity for the victims of disasters
Can We Afford Another Unquestionable Mahatma?
By Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
http://www.countercurrents.org/khurana190112.htm
A critique of the Anna Hazare movement
Tweeting Troubles: Why Kapil Sibal
Is Not An idiot!
By Samar
http://www.countercurrents.org/samar190112.htm
Kapil Sibal's rants against the social networking sites opened a new debate. They hinted of an Orwellian return into the dreaded days of emergency. What they did not hint at though was the fact that the world has changed a lot. So much so, that even an all pervasive state like China cannot effectively censor the internet. Think of that, and of the efficiency of Indian officialdom and you know what would be the future of censorship
Countercurrents And You !
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how you can support CC
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From: Countercurrents <editor@countercurrents.org>
Date: Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 7:55 PM
Subject: CC News Letter, 19 Jan - CC is Back! Western Oil Firms Big Winners In Iraq
To: palashbiswaskl@gmail.com
Dear Friend,
CC is back after a short break. I was down with a slight fever, hope you all enjoyed this welcome break.
If you think the content of this news letter is critical for the dignified living and survival of humanity and other species on earth, please forward it to your friends and spread the word.It's time humanity should come together as one family! You can subscribe to our news letter here http://www.countercurrents.org/subscribe.htm. You can also follow us on twitter, http://twitter.com/countercurrents and on Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/countercurrents
In Solidarity
Binu Mathew, Editor,
Countercurrents.org
Educate! Organize! Agitate!
World Economy Set For Another Major Downturn
By Nick Beams
http://www.countercurrents.org/beams190112.htm
The World Bank has issued a grim forecast on the outlook for the world economy, with the potential for a crisis worse than that which followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. The warning was contained in the Bank's Global Economic Prospects report, issued yesterday
Western Oil Firms Big Winners In Iraq
By Sherwood Ross
http://www.countercurrents.org/ross190112.htm
Western oil producers have emerged as the big winners of the Iraq war. A group led by BP will receive $2 billion per year to develop Iraq's Rumalia field and a Shell-led group is to get $913 million per year. An Exxon-led group is to get $1.6 billion per year
Why I'm Suing Barack Obama
By Chris Hedges
http://www.countercurrents.org/hedges190112.htm
I suspect National Defense Authorization Act passed because the corporations, seeing the unrest in the streets, knowing that things are about to get much worse, worrying that the Occupy movement will expand, do not trust the police to protect them. They want to be able to call in the Army. And now they can
The Myth of "Isolated" Iran
By Pepe Escobar
http://www.countercurrents.org/escobar190112.htm
Following the money in the Iran crisis
U.S.-Israeli Assault On Iran Escalates –
Danger of War Grows
By Larry Everest
http://www.countercurrents.org/everest190112.htm
Ground is being laid daily in the headlines and statements by politicians of every stripe in mainstream U.S. politics calling for aggression against Iran—all justified by unsubstantiated assertions that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons
Dancing On History's Edge: Why This Is
An Amazing Time To Be Alive
By Dianne Monroe
http://www.countercurrents.org/monroe190112.htm
We live in a time when each of our voices and visions are vitally needed for earth's and humanity's future. It is a time when the question is not so much how we survive the demise of what has been, as how we each contribute to what is new and arising. Rooting ourselves in what we bring to these times and share with the future is much more than a way to anchor ourselves through the storms of this great crumbling
Global Energy And Resources
By Peter Goodchild
http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild190112.htm
Modern industrial society is composed of a triad of fossil fuels, metals, and electricity. The three are intricately connected and all three are hitting peak availability
Censorship In The Green Mountains
By Rosemarie Jackowski
http://www.countercurrents.org/jackowski190112.htm
Will the First Amendment ever be restored in Vermont ? I'm not holding my breath. Vermont has become the land of book-banning, censorship, and the arrest of those who try to make a difference. When any candidate is silenced, when any book is banned - every citizen should react
Israel As World's First Bunker State
By Jonathana Cook
http://www.countercurrents.org/cook190112.htm
The wheel is turning full circle. Last week the Israeli parliament updated a 59-year-old law originally intended to prevent hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees from returning to the homes and lands from which they had been expelled as Israel was established. The purpose of the draconian 1954 Prevention of Infiltration Law was to lock up any Palestinian who managed to slip past the snipers guarding the new state's borders
Waiting For False Prophets: The Puzzling
Matter Of The Israeli Liberals
By Ramzy Baroud
http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud190112.htm
To hold hope in the new election cycle in Israel is like waiting for false prophets. No salvation will be heralded by some imagined center-left party that will bring "an end to the ultra-rightist frenzy," as hoped by Avnery
UK TV Series "The Promise" Elicits
Zionist Defamation Of Anti-Racist Jews
By Dr Gideon Polya
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190112.htm
Decent anti-racist humanitarian Jews and indeed all decent people are obliged to speak out against the genocidal crimes of racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel . The false defamation of anti-racist humanitarian Jews as "anti-Semites" can be seen as anti-Semitism itself as can the utterly false conflation of the genocidal atrocities of Apartheid Israel with decent, anti-racist Jews
21st Century Racism
By Mary Shaw
http://www.countercurrents.org/shaw190112.htm
Bigotry has its roots in insecurity, and in fear of the unknown. Might does not make right. But I continue to shudder at the possibilities of what can happen as these frightened white men - the 1% - continue to control our country's wealth and power
Extreme Inequality or Democracy?
By Ron Forthofer
http://www.countercurrents.org/forthofer190112.htm
Given the dire straits – high levels of unemployment and underemployment, homelessness, lack of health insurance, home foreclosures, huge credit card debts and college loan debts, shortages of food - that many Americans face today, our extreme inequality is intolerable. The current situation demands a drastic overhaul of our corrupt political/economic system to end and to prevent future extreme inequality. Unless we act now, control by the wealthy and powerful will be solidified
Managing Disasters And Displacement
By S.G.Vombatkere
http://www.countercurrents.org/vombatkere190112.htm
The article presents the political and economic impacts of various kinds of natural and man-made disasters and associated displacement of populations, and argues for a wider and more inclusive definition of disasters in the interest of human rights, social justice and equity for the victims of disasters
Can We Afford Another Unquestionable Mahatma?
By Sukant Khurana, Ph.D.
http://www.countercurrents.org/khurana190112.htm
A critique of the Anna Hazare movement
Tweeting Troubles: Why Kapil Sibal
Is Not An idiot!
By Samar
http://www.countercurrents.org/samar190112.htm
Kapil Sibal's rants against the social networking sites opened a new debate. They hinted of an Orwellian return into the dreaded days of emergency. What they did not hint at though was the fact that the world has changed a lot. So much so, that even an all pervasive state like China cannot effectively censor the internet. Think of that, and of the efficiency of Indian officialdom and you know what would be the future of censorship
Countercurrents And You !
Click here to find out
how you can support CC
http://www.countercurrents.org/subscription.htm
You can unsubscribe from this news letter here
http://www.countercurrents.org/subscribe.htm
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