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Pentagon Plans US-Backed War Against Syria
By Chris Marsden
http://www.countercurrents.org/marsden100212.htm
The Pentagon has drawn up plans for military intervention in Syria. A military strike would be coordinated with Turkey, the Gulf States and the NATO powers, according to reports that acknowledge such plans officially for the first time. The plan is described as an "internal review" by Pentagon Central Command, to allow President Barack Obama to maintain the pretense that the White House is still seeking a diplomatic solution
Western Shenanigans Against Syria, Iran
By Dr. Ismail Salami
http://www.countercurrents.org/salami100212.htm
The volatile situation in Syria generated by the Saudi-Qatar-funded Wahhabi armed group known as the Free Syrian Army and backed by the West is now an accident waiting to happen
Targeting Iran
By Ghali Hassan
http://www.countercurrents.org/hassan100212.htm
The world is witnessing the emergence of a powerful U.S.-led military force aimed at dominating the world through violence and state-sponsored terrorism. It is utmost importance to support Iran's right to self-defence and oppose any U.S.-Israel aggression
Israel Vying For War: Attacking Iran Will Not Repeat History
By Ramzy Baroud
http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud100212.htm
If history ever repeats itself, it does so only when we fail to learn its important lessons. Israel might be prepared to take such chances, but why should the rest of the world?
Three GOP Presidentials Commit Crime Against Peace Under Nuremberg Principles
By Jay Janson
http://www.countercurrents.org/janson100212.htm
Mitt, Newt, Rick vow to bomb a foreign nation, a crime against peace indictable under Nuremberg Principles, which, when they was signed automatically became part of the US constitution. At Nuremberg, Nazi media personalities were indicted for promoting war. They stood alongside Nazi officials who ordered the wars and generals who executed criminal orders
The Iraqi People: Criminally Neglectedby The International Community (PDF)
By Dirk Adriaensens
http://www.countercurrents.org/adriaensens100212.pdf
Open Letter to The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights NaviPillay
Genocidal Racist Charles Dickens , Indian Holocaust And UK - US Muslim Genocide
By Dr Gideon Polya
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya100212.htm
This week the English-speaking world is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of arguably the greatest Victorian era English novelist Charles Dickens. However ignored in the celebrations will be the reality that Charles Dickens, like many of his English and British contemporaries, was a genocidal racist
Egyptian Blood And "The Silent Hand" Of Omar Suleiman
By Thomas C. Mountain
http://www.countercurrents.org/mountain100212.htm
When Egyptian blood flows in the streets, whether from "Ultra" football cadre or Coptic Christian, or both together, there is the silent hand of Omar Suleiman behind it all, pulling the strings needed to create just enough murder and mayhem so as to legitimize continued military rule
A Ruling Class Alliance In An Agitating Egypt: One Year After Mubarak's Ouster
By Farooque Chowdhury
http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury100212.htm
Class collaboration between the Egyptian military junta and their neo-political allies, the Muslim Brotherhood, now confront the people standing for democracy. One year ago, the matrix of collusion was not evident to many. One year ago, the actors on the Egyptian political stage had different robes
Learning From La Venezuela
By David Swanson
http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson100212.htm
Cindy Sheehan has published a book. If Venezuela makes it to the top of the list for the next U.S. war, this book will be a valuable tool for confronting the propaganda. But why wait? Our government has attempted a coup and is openly funding opposition groups. Why wait to consider what it is we're paying to try to undo?
The Cycle of Civilization
By Peter Goodchild
http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild100212.htm
The main difference between ours and previous civilizations is that, from now on, the cycle of "civilization" cannot be repeated. Oil is not the only mineral that will be in short supply in the coming years
Resources And Anthropocentrism
By Guy McPherson
http://www.countercurrents.org/mcpherson100212.htm
We see finite substances and the living planet as materials to be exploited for our comfort. We treat resources as our entitlement
Why Did Palestinian Refugees Come To Lebanon?
By Franklin Lamb
http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb100212.htm
In most private and public schools in Lebanon, sensitive political subjects have long been culled from textbooks by polarized confessional watchdog committees seeking a proper education for their children. UNWRA schools are forbidden to teach Palestinian history in Lebanon or even their history in Palestine lest the US Congress cut UNWRA funding
Palestine Needs A New Struggle Strategy
An Interview with Salim Nazzal
http://www.countercurrents.org/nazzal100212.htm
Palestine needs its own spring. Palestinian leadership needs to review its policy following the Arab Spring. They need to think of a new struggle strategy on light of these developments
U.S Apology For Nuclear Weapons And Open Disclosure Of Nuclear Weapons By Israel And Iran
By Mary Hamer
http://www.countercurrents.org/hamer100212.htm
The purpose of this paper is to request the U.S. , Israeli and Iranian Governments and Military-industrial complex officials for full, open disclosure regarding their nuclear agendas. Only with honest talk can these three countries secure a peaceful, diplomatic solution to the Middle East conflict
Strengthening U.S.-Canada Security Interests In North America And Around The Globe
By Dana Gabriel
http://www.countercurrents.org/gabriel100212.htm
Defense Minister Peter MacKay has also indicated that if necessary, Canada's armed forces are ready to offer assistance in Syria. More than ever, the U.S, and Canada share a more common approach to advancing security interests in not only North America, but around the globe
Elliott Abrams' Dark History In Latin America And The Struggle For Justice
By Cyril Mychalejko
http://www.countercurrents.org/mychalejko100212.htm
Elliott Abrams, a former high level State Department official during the 1980s, testified last week that the Reagan administration knew that Argentina's military junta was systematically stealing babies from murdered and jailed democracy activists and giving them to right-wing families friendly to the regime
The Framing of Kevin Cooper, On San Quentin's Death Row
By Hans Bennett, Prison Radio
http://www.countercurrents.org/bennett100212.htm
In this interview, author J. Patrick O'Connor discusses his newly released book Scapegoat: The Chino Hills Murders and The Framing of Kevin Cooper , explaining why he is convinced of Kevin Cooper's innocence. O'Connor asserts that the police and prosecution orchestrated an obvious frame-up that continues to be upheld by federal appeals courts, albeit with the blatantly unfair rulings by US District Court Judge Marilyn Huff blocking critical forensics tests that had been ordered by the US Ninth Circuit Court in 2004
Trial And Terror Of The Gujarat Pogrom Verdict
By Farzana Versey
http://www.countercurrents.org/versey100212.htm
Will the Modi government and the honourable Supreme Court order a probe, for the report does mention that people were burnt alive? How did it happen? Or did it not happen? Did Gulberg Society just disappear? There has to be other "prosecutable evidence". Whose job is it to find out – the victims, the NGOs or the intelligence agencies?
American Model Of Electoral System Detrimental For Democracy In India
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat
http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat100212.htm
India suffers from democratic deficit and true representation of its marginalized and minorities and an American model imitation would be suicidal for the very health of democracy with unfettering invisible powers in the hands of crony capitalists will only prove detrimental for the idea of India which stand for social justice and democratic values
Sri Lanka : The Agony Of Political Lies
By Nilantha Ilangamuwa
http://www.countercurrents.org/ilangamuwa100212.htm
What we are seeing today in Sri Lanka in terms of the institutional setup is the result of the cynical manipulation by the President and the members of his family. Indeed, they may be attempting to change the entire history of the Nation. Their attitude is simple. If you kneel before us then you are a patriot of the Nation; if you do not you are traitor
US Congressional Hearing On Balochistan
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali
http://www.countercurrents.org/ghazali100212.htm
The subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs held a hearing on Wednesday (2/8/2012) to discuss the target killings and human rights situation in Balochistan and termed it a matter requiring urgent attention
Kashmir: Forgive And Forget
By Burhan Majid
http://www.countercurrents.org/majid100212.htm
Ever since the third generation Abdullah rose to throne as the State's Chief Minister, he continues to bat for the setting up of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission(TRC) which, he believes, would help to find out the truth behind the widespread atrocities perpetrated, by the Government forces, in the State of Jammu and Kashmir
Gita: Not A Religious Book?
By Ram Puniyani
http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani100212.htm
The Madhya Pradesh High court has ruled that "Gita is essentially a book on Indian philosophy, not book on Indian religion". This judgment gave a sanction on the decision of M.P. Government to continue with the teaching of Gita Sar (Essence of Gita) in the MP schools
Shahid Lives, Shahids' Never Die
By Subhash Gatade
http://www.countercurrents.org/gatade100212.htm
In one of his last interview Shahid Azmi told the correspondent how he grew up seeing the police barge in night and day in their slum, terrorising and kidnapping people,which bred in him a hatred — nafrat — for the police. It was noteworthy that he gave a positive direction to this hatred and went down fighting for the people
Home Ministry, UIDAI Misleading State Govts And Citizens
By Gopal Krishna
http://www.countercurrents.org/krishna100512.htm
State Govts pretend ignorance about Parliamentary Report rejecting central Govt's UID/Aadhaar
India's Affirmative Action Politics As Seen Through Tamil Nadu's Specious Quota Law (PDF)
By P Radhakrishnan
http://www.countercurrents.org/radhakrishnan100212.pdf
The report 'Justification of Reservation under the Tamil Nadu Act 45 of 1994 on Quantifiable Data' by the Tamil Nadu Backward Classes Commission, headed by retired high court judge, M S Janarthanam is fraudulent and farcical
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From: Countercurrents <editor@countercurrents.org>
Date: Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:30 AM
Subject: CC News Letter, 10 Feb - Pentagon Plans US-Backed War Against Syria
To: palashbiswaskl@gmail.com
Dear Friend,
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!
Pentagon Plans US-Backed War Against Syria
By Chris Marsden
http://www.countercurrents.org/marsden100212.htm
The Pentagon has drawn up plans for military intervention in Syria. A military strike would be coordinated with Turkey, the Gulf States and the NATO powers, according to reports that acknowledge such plans officially for the first time. The plan is described as an "internal review" by Pentagon Central Command, to allow President Barack Obama to maintain the pretense that the White House is still seeking a diplomatic solution
Western Shenanigans Against Syria, Iran
By Dr. Ismail Salami
http://www.countercurrents.org/salami100212.htm
The volatile situation in Syria generated by the Saudi-Qatar-funded Wahhabi armed group known as the Free Syrian Army and backed by the West is now an accident waiting to happen
Targeting Iran
By Ghali Hassan
http://www.countercurrents.org/hassan100212.htm
The world is witnessing the emergence of a powerful U.S.-led military force aimed at dominating the world through violence and state-sponsored terrorism. It is utmost importance to support Iran's right to self-defence and oppose any U.S.-Israel aggression
Israel Vying For War: Attacking Iran Will Not Repeat History
By Ramzy Baroud
http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud100212.htm
If history ever repeats itself, it does so only when we fail to learn its important lessons. Israel might be prepared to take such chances, but why should the rest of the world?
Three GOP Presidentials Commit Crime Against Peace Under Nuremberg Principles
By Jay Janson
http://www.countercurrents.org/janson100212.htm
Mitt, Newt, Rick vow to bomb a foreign nation, a crime against peace indictable under Nuremberg Principles, which, when they was signed automatically became part of the US constitution. At Nuremberg, Nazi media personalities were indicted for promoting war. They stood alongside Nazi officials who ordered the wars and generals who executed criminal orders
The Iraqi People: Criminally Neglectedby The International Community (PDF)
By Dirk Adriaensens
http://www.countercurrents.org/adriaensens100212.pdf
Open Letter to The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights NaviPillay
Genocidal Racist Charles Dickens , Indian Holocaust And UK - US Muslim Genocide
By Dr Gideon Polya
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya100212.htm
This week the English-speaking world is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of arguably the greatest Victorian era English novelist Charles Dickens. However ignored in the celebrations will be the reality that Charles Dickens, like many of his English and British contemporaries, was a genocidal racist
Egyptian Blood And "The Silent Hand" Of Omar Suleiman
By Thomas C. Mountain
http://www.countercurrents.org/mountain100212.htm
When Egyptian blood flows in the streets, whether from "Ultra" football cadre or Coptic Christian, or both together, there is the silent hand of Omar Suleiman behind it all, pulling the strings needed to create just enough murder and mayhem so as to legitimize continued military rule
A Ruling Class Alliance In An Agitating Egypt: One Year After Mubarak's Ouster
By Farooque Chowdhury
http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury100212.htm
Class collaboration between the Egyptian military junta and their neo-political allies, the Muslim Brotherhood, now confront the people standing for democracy. One year ago, the matrix of collusion was not evident to many. One year ago, the actors on the Egyptian political stage had different robes
Learning From La Venezuela
By David Swanson
http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson100212.htm
Cindy Sheehan has published a book. If Venezuela makes it to the top of the list for the next U.S. war, this book will be a valuable tool for confronting the propaganda. But why wait? Our government has attempted a coup and is openly funding opposition groups. Why wait to consider what it is we're paying to try to undo?
The Cycle of Civilization
By Peter Goodchild
http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild100212.htm
The main difference between ours and previous civilizations is that, from now on, the cycle of "civilization" cannot be repeated. Oil is not the only mineral that will be in short supply in the coming years
Resources And Anthropocentrism
By Guy McPherson
http://www.countercurrents.org/mcpherson100212.htm
We see finite substances and the living planet as materials to be exploited for our comfort. We treat resources as our entitlement
Why Did Palestinian Refugees Come To Lebanon?
By Franklin Lamb
http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb100212.htm
In most private and public schools in Lebanon, sensitive political subjects have long been culled from textbooks by polarized confessional watchdog committees seeking a proper education for their children. UNWRA schools are forbidden to teach Palestinian history in Lebanon or even their history in Palestine lest the US Congress cut UNWRA funding
Palestine Needs A New Struggle Strategy
An Interview with Salim Nazzal
http://www.countercurrents.org/nazzal100212.htm
Palestine needs its own spring. Palestinian leadership needs to review its policy following the Arab Spring. They need to think of a new struggle strategy on light of these developments
U.S Apology For Nuclear Weapons And Open Disclosure Of Nuclear Weapons By Israel And Iran
By Mary Hamer
http://www.countercurrents.org/hamer100212.htm
The purpose of this paper is to request the U.S. , Israeli and Iranian Governments and Military-industrial complex officials for full, open disclosure regarding their nuclear agendas. Only with honest talk can these three countries secure a peaceful, diplomatic solution to the Middle East conflict
Strengthening U.S.-Canada Security Interests In North America And Around The Globe
By Dana Gabriel
http://www.countercurrents.org/gabriel100212.htm
Defense Minister Peter MacKay has also indicated that if necessary, Canada's armed forces are ready to offer assistance in Syria. More than ever, the U.S, and Canada share a more common approach to advancing security interests in not only North America, but around the globe
Elliott Abrams' Dark History In Latin America And The Struggle For Justice
By Cyril Mychalejko
http://www.countercurrents.org/mychalejko100212.htm
Elliott Abrams, a former high level State Department official during the 1980s, testified last week that the Reagan administration knew that Argentina's military junta was systematically stealing babies from murdered and jailed democracy activists and giving them to right-wing families friendly to the regime
The Framing of Kevin Cooper, On San Quentin's Death Row
By Hans Bennett, Prison Radio
http://www.countercurrents.org/bennett100212.htm
In this interview, author J. Patrick O'Connor discusses his newly released book Scapegoat: The Chino Hills Murders and The Framing of Kevin Cooper , explaining why he is convinced of Kevin Cooper's innocence. O'Connor asserts that the police and prosecution orchestrated an obvious frame-up that continues to be upheld by federal appeals courts, albeit with the blatantly unfair rulings by US District Court Judge Marilyn Huff blocking critical forensics tests that had been ordered by the US Ninth Circuit Court in 2004
Trial And Terror Of The Gujarat Pogrom Verdict
By Farzana Versey
http://www.countercurrents.org/versey100212.htm
Will the Modi government and the honourable Supreme Court order a probe, for the report does mention that people were burnt alive? How did it happen? Or did it not happen? Did Gulberg Society just disappear? There has to be other "prosecutable evidence". Whose job is it to find out – the victims, the NGOs or the intelligence agencies?
American Model Of Electoral System Detrimental For Democracy In India
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat
http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat100212.htm
India suffers from democratic deficit and true representation of its marginalized and minorities and an American model imitation would be suicidal for the very health of democracy with unfettering invisible powers in the hands of crony capitalists will only prove detrimental for the idea of India which stand for social justice and democratic values
Sri Lanka : The Agony Of Political Lies
By Nilantha Ilangamuwa
http://www.countercurrents.org/ilangamuwa100212.htm
What we are seeing today in Sri Lanka in terms of the institutional setup is the result of the cynical manipulation by the President and the members of his family. Indeed, they may be attempting to change the entire history of the Nation. Their attitude is simple. If you kneel before us then you are a patriot of the Nation; if you do not you are traitor
US Congressional Hearing On Balochistan
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali
http://www.countercurrents.org/ghazali100212.htm
The subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs held a hearing on Wednesday (2/8/2012) to discuss the target killings and human rights situation in Balochistan and termed it a matter requiring urgent attention
Kashmir: Forgive And Forget
By Burhan Majid
http://www.countercurrents.org/majid100212.htm
Ever since the third generation Abdullah rose to throne as the State's Chief Minister, he continues to bat for the setting up of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission(TRC) which, he believes, would help to find out the truth behind the widespread atrocities perpetrated, by the Government forces, in the State of Jammu and Kashmir
Gita: Not A Religious Book?
By Ram Puniyani
http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani100212.htm
The Madhya Pradesh High court has ruled that "Gita is essentially a book on Indian philosophy, not book on Indian religion". This judgment gave a sanction on the decision of M.P. Government to continue with the teaching of Gita Sar (Essence of Gita) in the MP schools
Shahid Lives, Shahids' Never Die
By Subhash Gatade
http://www.countercurrents.org/gatade100212.htm
In one of his last interview Shahid Azmi told the correspondent how he grew up seeing the police barge in night and day in their slum, terrorising and kidnapping people,which bred in him a hatred — nafrat — for the police. It was noteworthy that he gave a positive direction to this hatred and went down fighting for the people
Home Ministry, UIDAI Misleading State Govts And Citizens
By Gopal Krishna
http://www.countercurrents.org/krishna100512.htm
State Govts pretend ignorance about Parliamentary Report rejecting central Govt's UID/Aadhaar
India's Affirmative Action Politics As Seen Through Tamil Nadu's Specious Quota Law (PDF)
By P Radhakrishnan
http://www.countercurrents.org/radhakrishnan100212.pdf
The report 'Justification of Reservation under the Tamil Nadu Act 45 of 1994 on Quantifiable Data' by the Tamil Nadu Backward Classes Commission, headed by retired high court judge, M S Janarthanam is fraudulent and farcical
Countercurrents And You !
Click here to find out
how you can support CC
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You can unsubscribe from this news letter here
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