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India To Gaza Peace Convoy Announced
By India Palestine People's Solidarity Forum

http://www.countercurrents.org/ippsf200810.htm

This convoy will leave from New Delhi mid-September and will travel across Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and ultimately through the Rafah Crossing into Gaza-Palestine. The Asian convoy will be joined by delegations and vehicles in each of the nine countries through which it passes


Protests Spread In Kashmir, Death Toll Rises To 62
By Sheikh Imran Bashir

http://www.countercurrents.org/bashir200810.htm

The fresh tension erupted in Kashmir valley after the death of two civilians. One man was killed in firing in Anantnag district today and a teenager was killed in Sopore last night


Growing Role Of Defence Forces In Governance:
An Invitation For Emergency?
By Maj Gen S.G.Vombatkere (Retd)

http://www.countercurrents.org/vombatkere200810.htm

The success of US President Obama's impending India visit to strengthen India-US strategic ties may be stymied by possible outbreak of border hostilities initiated by China to divert attention from its own domestic instabilities and rebellions. On the flip side, hostilities could remedy the UPA government's precarious condition by declaration of emergency to silence the democratic dissent of India's "million rebellions" against corporate initiatives


Don't Call It Combat: US Troops Still Fighting
Iraq War In Everything But Name
By Jason Ditz

http://www.countercurrents.org/ditz200810.htm

Even Claim That Last Official Combat Troops Left Yesterday Wasn't True


Iceland Set To Become A Press Freedom Haven
By RTÉ News

http://www.countercurrents.org/rte200810.htm

On 16 June a unanimous parliament voted in favour of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, a resolution aimed at protecting investigative journalists and their sources


Criminal Neglect Of Future Generations
By Dr. Brian Moench

http://www.countercurrents.org/moench200810.htm

It's one thing to turn your back on the suffering of the masses half way across the world and rationalize that it is not your problem. But to listen to the scientists' warnings of the risk we are subjecting our own children and grandchildren to and proudly dismiss even the possibility, is criminal neglect of future generations


Confessions Of A Recovering Environmentalist
By Paul Kingsnorth

http://www.countercurrents.org/kingsnorth200810.htm

"Environmentalism, which in its raw, early form had no time for the encrusted, seized-up politics of left and right, has been sucked into the yawning, bottomless chasm of the 'progressive' left." A personal, twenty-year journey through the world's wild places and the movements to protect them is also, for Paul Kingsnorth, an education in the limits of a project that has forgotten nature and lost its soul


Ecocentrism: A Response To Paul Kingsnorth
By Andrew Dobson

http://www.countercurrents.org/dobson200810.htm

I don't believe the rift between Paul Kingsnorth and the rest of us to be as wide and deep as he makes out. But we need to recalibrate the question. It's not about nature's intrinsic value but about the human species adapting to a long era of low-energy living. This, I think, is where recovering environmentalists will meet - not (just) on the rivers of Borneo or in the mountains of Norway, but everywhere the human species is powering down to a potentially quieter, more restrained way of life


Food And Farming: The Hub Of
Planetary Transformation
Carolyn Baker Interviews Michael Brownlee

http://www.countercurrents.org/baker200810.htm

For several years, Michael Brownlee and Lynnette-Marie Hanthorn have pioneered relocalization in Boulder County, Colorado. Their latest project is the Boulder County Eat Local Campaign beginning August 28 through September 4. Last week Carolyn Baker caught up with Michael who generously gave an hour out of his packed schedule to talk about the desperate need for promoting local food and farming in our communities


Google-Verizon Deal Undermines
Push For An Open Internet
By Mike Ingram

http://www.countercurrents.org/ingram200810.htm

In its joint proposal with Verizon issued Monday August 9, Google has made a significant change in corporate policy in the direction of forestalling any government requirement to maintain "net neutrality," the open and equal access to the Internet by all web sites and content providers


Graphic Torture Video A Rare Glimpse Into
Widespread Abuses In The Philippines
By Melissa Roxas

http://www.countercurrents.org/roxas200810.htm

Graphic footage of a man being tortured by police has sparked widespread public outrage in the Philippines and a government probe. The graphic cell phone video shows a man lying naked and bloody on the floor of an alleged police precinct in Manila. A plainclothes police officer is seen whipping him and tugging at a rope tied to the victim's genitals while screams are heard


Fighting Expulsion And Western Hypocrisy
In Jerusalem
By Rahela Mizrahi

http://www.countercurrents.org/mizrahi200810.htm

Earlier this summer, Israel arrested Muhammad Abu Tir, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) and Hamas. Israel also ordered two other PLC members, Muhammad Totah and Ahmad Attoun and the Palestinian Authority's (PA) former minister of Jerusalem affairs Khaled Abu Arafeh to leave their home town of Jerusalem. Rather than comply with the order, the three men have sought sanctuary in the Red Cross compound in occupied East Jerusalem


Al-Araqib Residents Fear Fourth Demolition
By Jerrold Kessel & Pierre Klochendler

http://www.countercurrents.org/kessel200810.htm

On the eve of the start of Ramadan last week, Israeli police demolished the Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the Negev desert. It was the third time within two weeks that the village had been razed. Unfazed, the Bedouin villagers immediately began rebuilding


1948 And Israel's Deceptive Bargaining Position
By Ben White

http://www.countercurrents.org/white200810.htm

The refrain from Israeli politicians and the country's allies and apologists is familiar: There can be no peace deal until the Palestinians "recognize" Israel as "a Jewish state." While this can sound reasonable to the casual listener in the West, this demand actually points to critical flaws in the "peace process" and the way in which the international community approaches the Palestine/Israel question


Israel's Bogus Construction Moratorium
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman200810.htm

Despite announcing "a suspension of new permits and new construction in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) for a period of ten months," construction never stopped. Israel's land grab continues. Thousands of new units have been approved


Trapped At Ground Zero
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud200810.htm

The controversy over the right of Muslim Americans to build community center and mosque a short distance from the site of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is both strange and outright inappropriate. It should never be necessary for law-abiding Americans to justify exercising their right to freely practice their own religion


A Rejoinder To Jug Suriya
By Abdul Majid Zargar

http://www.countercurrents.org/zargar200810.htm

In a combo pack of rage & satire, Jug Suriya, noted Journalist,Colouminst & Associate editor Times of India, has delivered a sermon exhorting Kashmiris to Go to Pakistan in his Editorial Piece titled " Kashmir Wool" published in TOI of 11th August 2010. In a true Jug Suriya Style, he has mocked Kashmiris for opting Pakistan on the basis of its shoddy Democracy & lop-sided Development


Who Is Asking The Sikhs In Kashmir To Convert?
By Farzana Versey

http://www.countercurrents.org/versey200810.htm

Who is asking the Sikhs in Kashmir to convert? It must be noted that these are unsigned letters. Whose evil designs are these? If members of the community do decide to convert, will it not alert the authorities? Will their converting to Islam not become an even greater hindrance to the civilian war taking place?


Bolton Beats The War-Drum And
Mordechai Vanunu's Third Coming
By Eileen Fleming

http://www.countercurrents.org/fleming200810.htm

On August 16, 2010, G.W. Bush's Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security from 2001-2005, John Bolton, now employed by FOX News as a commentator called on Israel to attack Iran "now" and said Israel had "eight days" left to launch a military strike against Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility before Iran injects enriched uranium obtained from Russia into it. Bolton warned that after August 21 it "will be too late for Israel to launch a military strike against the facility because it would spread radiation and affect Iranian civilians."


Mississippi Shrimpers Refuse To Trawl,
Fearing Oil, Dispersants
By Dahr Jamail

http://www.countercurrents.org/jamail200810.htm

The U.S. state of Mississippi recently reopened all of its fishing areas. The problem is that commercial shrimpers refuse to trawl because they fear the toxicity of the waters and marine life due to the BP oil disaster


National People's Tribunal on Kandhamal

http://www.countercurrents.org/npt200810.htm

National People's Tribunal on Kandhamal will be held in New Delhi on 22 nd , 23 rd and 24 th August, 2010 Venue: Speaker's Hall, the Constitution Club, New Delhi


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