Thursday, January 19, 2012

Fwd: CC News Letter, 19 Jan - CC is Back! Western Oil Firms Big Winners In Iraq



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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.

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 Countercurrents.org
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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


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