Fwd: CC Issue 31 Dec- Thank You For 2010

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From: Countercurrents <editor@countercurrents.org>
Date: Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 2:20 AM
Subject: CC Issue 31 Dec- Thank You For 2010
To: palashbiswaskl@gmail.com



Dear Friend,

This is the last news letter of 2010. As I write it, this must be already new year in some parts of the world.
Thanks a lot for all the support you gave CC during 2010. We are entering a new decade and with it new challenges too. How should we approach it, with panic or hope? I would say both. In the meantime, we got to keep our struggle going. Our struggle is our hope! Our fight is our hope! Let's keep at it for another year, for another decade. Thank you once again for the incredible support you gave us during the past year and the past decade.


In Solidarity
Binu Mathew
Editor
Countercurrents.org


Birth Defects In Fallujah Linked To US assault
By Samira Alaani, Mozhgan Savabieasfahani ,
Mohammad Tafash & Paola Manduca

http://www.countercurrents.org/fallujah311210.htm

Since 2003, congenital malformations have increased to account for 15% of all births in Fallujah, Iraq. Congenital heart defects have the highest incidence, followed by neural tube defects. Similar birth defects were reported in other populations exposed to war contaminants. While the causes of increased prevalence of birth defects are under investigation, we opted to release this communication to contribute to exploration of these issues- The Report in PDF
 http://www.countercurrents.org/IJERPH-4930-.pdf


Commodity Price Surge Sets Stage For
Global Food Crisis In New Year
By Barry Grey

http://www.countercurrents.org/grey311210.htm

The price of traded food staples such as wheat, corn and rice soared 26 percent from June to November, nearing the peaks reached during the global food crisis of 2008, according to the Food Price Index kept by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization


Wave Of Garment-Worker Suicides In Tirupur
By M. Kailasam & K. Sundaram

http://www.countercurrents.org/sundaram311210.htm

In the environs of Tirupur, a reputed boom town in the southeast Indian state of Tamil Nadu, close to a thousand garment workers or their family members have committed suicide during the past two years


A Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Torturing Bradley Manning
By Chris Floyd

http://www.countercurrents.org/floyd311210.htm

Yet tonight, in the tenth year of the 21st century, in the United States of America, under the leadership of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama, 23-year-old Bradley Manning is being subjected to same tortures routinely inflicted on other unindicted, untried captives of the militarist state


Wikileaks Busts The Myth Of
Private Communication
By Jim Taylor

http://www.countercurrents.org/taylor311210.htm

At the turn of the year, one's thoughts naturally turn to the significant events of the past year – earthquakes, hurricanes, scandals, floods, royal engagements, tax revolts.... I suspect that the long-term significance of the Wikileaks disclosures has not been fully appreciated yet


Hope In 2011: Peoples, Civil Society Stand Tall
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud311210.htm

Words don't end wars, confront greed or slow down the devastation caused by natural disasters. People do. Let 2011 be a year of action, hope, and the uninterrupted triumph of civil society


Hail To The Chief: Spinning Obama's Presidency
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman311210.htm

Christmas came early for Obama, never mind two years delivering lumps of coal for American workers and promises for worse ahead, what media hype won't explain


Nothing Dogmatic About It
By Prabhat Sharan

http://www.countercurrents.org/sharan311210.htm

It's darkness at noon at Dharavi, the world's biggest slum. And hope trickles like wounds simmering inside the labyrinth of hopeless inner lanes


Raising Legitimate Questions Is Not
Anti-Nationalism
By Ram Puniyani

http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani311210.htm

Mr Digvijay Singh is right when he says, "If I point out that Karkare was under threat from Hindu fundamentalist organizations, I am accused of being anti-national and pro-Pakistan. However, if a former Union home minister and the shadow prime minister doubts the integrity of a police officer like Karkare, and demands a judicial probe into the ATS action against Pragya Thakur, he is a nationalist!"


Satyam's Raju And Satyam Babu
By Anand Teltumbde

http://www.countercurrents.org/teltumbde311210.htm

Rich and powerful "fraudsters" like Satyam's Ramalinga Raju will get away; the down and out like Satyam Babu, a poor dalit wrongly convicted for a murder he did not commit, will rot in jail. Caste and – its modern correlate – class matter as never before in India today


Savarkar – A Poetic Genius Or A Psychotic?
By Anil Pundlik Gokhale

http://www.countercurrents.org/gokhale311210.htm

Response to Ashok Malik's 'Savarkar the man who saw tomorrow'. Read the article in PDF
http://www.countercurrents.org/gokhale311210A.pdf

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

Action Alert

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


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