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The Death Of The Climate Bill
By David Roberts
www.countercurrents.org/droberts240710.htm

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has officially announced that there will be no climate bill this year.What’s happened is total and complete surrender. There’s no silver lining in this cloud

The Failed Presidency Of Barack Obama, Part 1
By Joe Romm
www.countercurrents.org/romm240710.htm

Obama’s legacy — and indeed the legacy of all 21st century presidents, starting with George W. Bush — will be determined primarily by whether we avert catastrophic climate change. If not, then Obama — and all of us — will be seen as a failure, and rightfully so

An Evil Atmosphere Is Forming Around Geoengineering
By Clive Hamilton
www.countercurrents.org/hamilton240710.htm

A powerful group of scientists, venture capitalists and conservative think tanks is coalescing around the idea of reproducing cooling effect by injecting sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere to counter climate change. Despite the enormity of what is being proposed – nothing less than seizing control of the climate – the public has been almost entirely excluded from the planning

Rosemary’s Baby
By Uri Avnery
www.countercurrents.org/avnery240710.htm

Uri Avnery argues that the one state solution proposed by the Israeli Right, may result in a regime that is much worse than an apartheid state

Chomsky And Palestine: Asset Or Liability?
By Jeffrey Blankfort
www.countercurrents.org/blankfort240710.htm

In a recent interview renowned linguist Noam Chomsky called the BDS campaign ‘hypocritical’. Jeffrey Blankfort, who is the author of an earlier important critique of Chomsky’s position on Palestine, responds

The CIA: Beyond Redemption And Should Be Terminated
By Sherwood Ross
www.countercurrents.org/ross240710.htm

The Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) has confirmed the worst fears of its creator President Harry Truman that it might degenerate into “an American Gestapo.” It has been just that for so long it is beyond redemption. It represents 60 years of failure and fascism utterly at odds with the spirit of a democracy and needs to be closed, permanently

Israel And Economic “Warfare”
By The Real News
www.countercurrents.org/rn240710.htm

Israeli parliament passes first of three readings illegalizing boycott activism or advocacy

Israel Gets Brutal With Media
By Mel Frykberg
www.countercurrents.org/frykberg240710.htm

Palestinian activists are being jailed, Israeli activists are under surveillance, and the Israeli military is increasingly targeting journalists who cover West Bank protests

Lalgarh – Massive Protest By Women Against Rapes Committed By Security Personnel
By Partho Sarathi Ray
www.countercurrents.org/ray240710.htm

On 20th July, around 50,000 women under the banner of “Committee to save honour of women” tried to march into Jhargram town to protest against the recent incidents of raping of women in Sonamukhi village by the joint security forces

Hungry Will Remain Hungry
By Devinder Sharma
www.countercurrents.org/dsharma240710.htm

There is no justification for India to fare below Sub-Saharan Africa in hunger and poverty rankings. Most of the African nations are torn by strife and have unstable governments. If those African countries had stable governments like India, I am sure India would have been relegated to the bottom of the pile. I don’t know how long we Indians can remain indifferent to growing hunger and malnutrition. Let us for once nip the evil in the bud

It’s A Race To Failure Between Rogue States And Global Oil Output
By Matthew Wild
www.countercurrents.org/wild240710.htm

Dwindling global oil supplies are leaving the world ever more reliant on a group of unstable countries – many of which are themselves facing major domestic problems right now

What Does King Abdullah Know?
By Jeff Rubin
www.countercurrents.org/rubin240710.htm

No matter where you look, it is becoming increasingly clear that tomorrow’s oil supply is going to come from very different places than today’s. Providing, of course, that it comes at all

Wilful Ignorance Is The Bedrock of Denialism
By Tim Murray
www.countercurrents.org/murray240710.htm

Poetic justice for the architects of the Sixth Extinction, a species that despite its vaunted intelligence, continues to undercut its own life support system like a cannibal feeding off his own limbs. The fossil record is full of failed models like ours. A Greek tragedy in the making

The Risks Of Fiddling
By Guy R McPherson
www.countercurrents.org/mcpherson240710.htm

So far, USA has been very easy on people (especially Caucasians), one of the consequences of ready access to inexpensive oil. But that’s changing, and it’s about to change much faster. You can either get in front of the changes or you can let them roll over you. Think steamroller, and you’re a duck in a leg-hold trap

Haneen Zoabi: The Largest Threat
To Zionism Is Democracy
By Max Blumenthal
www.countercurrents.org/blumenthal240710.htm

Haneen Zoabi speaks about her experience on the Mavi Marmara, the predicament of Palestinian members of the Knesset, and what she considered the fascist direction of Israeli society

Do Not Lose Hope
Elias Harb interviews Archbishop Theodosios (Atallah) Hanna
www.countercurrents.org/harb240710.htm

Interview with Archbishop Theodosios (Atallah) Hanna, Archbishop of Sebaste, Greek Orthodox Patriarchate Of Jerusalem

Women Prepared To Break The Siege Of Gaza
By Mona Alami
www.countercurrents.org/alami240710.htm

The Maryam, an all-female Lebanese aid ship, currently docked in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli, is getting ready to set sail for Gaza in the next few days. The ship, which aims to break Israel’s siege on the Palestinian territory, will carry about fifty aid workers, including some US nuns keen to deliver aid to the long-suffering women and children of Gaza

Reviewing The Apartheid Wall After Six Years: An Insight Into The Colonial Project
By Palestinian Return Centre
www.countercurrents.org/prc240710.htm

The PRC report ‘Reviewing the Apartheid Wall after Six Years, An insight into the Colonial Project’ gives useful information and analysis on the importance of the 2004 ICJ judgement, and the ongoing colonial aspirations starkly reminded to us by the Israeli decision to expel four elected MPs from East Jerusalem

Israel’s New Land Grab Master Plan
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman240710.htm

In Israel and throughout the Territories, millions of Palestinians are endangered, their lives and livelihoods threatened by Israel’s longstanding plan to Judaize all “Eretz Yisrael,” no matter that indigenous Arabs lived there for centuries and have legal right to their homes and property

Hillary: Vietnam Is A Great Nation With
No Silly Egotistical Impolite Sec. of State
By Jay Janson
www.countercurrents.org/janson240710.htm

Sec. of State Hilary insensitive and insulting remarks in her host’s face reminded the gentle Vietnamese of ancient Buddhist culture that young adolescent America, bloated into world empire, is not “on the path to becoming” civilized nation, or a kind nation, a nation capable of some repentance. Long live what there was of American solidarity with the Vietnamese!

Empowerment Strategies: Private Reservations For Dalits
By Dr. K. Vidyasagar Reddy
www.countercurrents.org/reddy240710.htm

The Dalits have been discriminated by those upper castes who were at the helm of affairs. It is only after a couple of decades of independence, that they were encouraged to use their constitutional rights. But then, they were denied any job opportunities in the private sector that was gaining strength over a period of time. Meanwhile, the demand for private reservation attracted the attention of policymakers in several states and the Central government

Odisha Poverty, Corporate Plunder And Resistance
By Prafulla Samantra & Asit Das
www.countercurrents.org/das240710.htm

Odisha has become the beacon of hope for the struggling workers and peasants of this country in their heroic struggle against the predatory mining and industrialization of the state uprooting the toilers of the soil. Massive people’s resistance is going along the length and breadth of the state. Some prominent ones are Kalinga Nagar, Niyamgiri, anti-POSCO (Korean Steel Company), and anti-Vedanta University people’s struggles

Assault On Professor Joseph, An Ode To Indian Democracy
By Avinash Pandey
www.countercurrents.org/pandey240710.htm

Rarely do individual tragedies reflect all that is wrong in a society. Even rare are occasions where their implications go beyond the lives of the individual, his family, or the neighborhood. But, when they do, they assume a significance that has bearings on the history of the community and the society. The recent attack upon a college professor in Kerala comes under the category

The Resentment Persists In Kashmir
By Raoof Mir
www.countercurrents.org/mir240710.htm

Indian Press might claim the restoration of normalcy but the anger of the people over the recent killings in Kashmir can’t be covered up. The resentment still persists. It is important for Indian state and its media to introspect and at least give a compassionate thought to the cries of pain

Humanitarian Crisis In Kashmir
By Bilal Hussain
www.countercurrents.org/hussain240710.htm

International Aid Organization’s slow response concerns experts

Amit Shah, Narendra Modi, Sohrabuddin And What Should The Youth Of India Know!
By Mustafa Khan
www.countercurrents.org/mkhan240710.htm

The youth must have a historical sense which tells them that once during electioneering Modi had asked a crowd what they would do to Sohrabuddin. They encored: “Kill him. Kill him.” Modi joined the chorus by saying that if he had done that he was ready to be hanged. His deputy home minister did just that: killed Sohrabuddin

Educational Problems Of Linguistic Minorities/ Muslims In Tamilnadu
By S. M. Abdur Raheem Patel
www.countercurrents.org/patel240710.htm

The two language formula in Tamil Nadu has created a situation that linguistic minorities ( Telugu,/ Urdu / Kannada Malayalam etc.,) had to forego their mother tongue and culture if they wanted to learn Tamil in order to be eligible for Govt. Services. Or they had to forego this opportunity of govt. service if they wanted to retain their language. As a result teaching of minority languages has been gradually declining since 1967. Anyway at least a small fraction of linguistic minorities have been clinging to their mother tongue so far

What Must Happen In Cancun At COP17 That Can Make It A Success?
By Marianne de Nazareth
www.countercurrents.org/nazareth240710.htm

Governments must set full sail ahead to capture the powerful winds of change that humanity is wanting to release. In Cancún, governments can set those sails higher

Velvet Jihad—Muslim Women’s Quiet Resistance
To Islamic Fundamentalism
By Yoginder Sikand
www.countercurrents.org/sikand240710.htm

This fascinating book provides a general picture of the status and conditions of women in Muslim communities around the world faced with the challenge of Islamic scripturalist assertion

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