Fwd: CC Issue 21, Jan - Death And Birth In Gaza: A Story Of A Shepherd

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One Planet, Too Many People?
By Dr. Tim Fox

http://www.countercurrents.org/fox210111.htm

A groundbreaking Population report by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) has revealed the world is hurtling towards population overload placing billions at risk of hunger, thirst and slum conditions


Population Redux
By Paul Chefurka

http://www.countercurrents.org/chefurka210111.htm

NationalTotal Fertility Rate (TFR) correlates relatively poorly with GDP/capita (C = 0.47), reasonably well with life expectancy (C = 0.77) and literacy rate (C = 0.78), but very well with HDI (C = 0.89). This implies that if we want to maximize the reduction of TFR we need to concentrate on improving all three dimensions of HDI: Life expectancy (health care), knowledge (literacy and school enrollment) and income


The Interactive Ecological Predicament
By Paul Chefurka

http://www.countercurrents.org/chefurka210111A.htm

Other effects that may appear to be the result of overpopulation – such as resource shortages, energy shortages and industrial pollution – are largely the result of human activity. In fact, the majority of the damage we are doing to the planet is the result of our activity and not our numbers


Swiss Banker Jailed For Supplying
Information To WikiLeaks
By Patrick Martin

http://www.countercurrents.org/martin210111.htm

Swiss authorities arrested a former banker and whistleblower after he made a public handover of information on wealthy tax evaders to the Internet web site WikiLeaks. Rudolf Elmer was taken into custody Wednesday evening, two days after a press conference in Zürich where he delivered data on offshore bank accounts to WikiLeaks


Former Commander Of Headquarters Company
At Quantico Objects To Treatment Of
Bradley Manning
By David C. MacMichael

http://www.countercurrents.org/macmichael210111.htm

As a former regular Marine Corps captain, a Korean War combat veteran, now retired on Veterans Administration disability due to wounds suffered during that conflict, I write you to protest and express concern about the confinement in the Quantico Marine Corps Base brig of US Army Pfc. Bradley Manning


Beat Your Daisy Cutters Into Daisies
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz210111.htm

Green-spirited seed bombs and mean-spirited Daisy Cutters. Take a wild guess which one is illegal here in the land of the free. Yep, seed bombing could get you arrested or sued, but could also result in real daisies


Death And Birth In Gaza: A Story Of A Shepherd
By Mahmoud El-Yousseph

http://www.countercurrents.org/yousseph210111.htm

Two days before last Christmas, Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian shepherd in the back and injured two others. A 14 year old suffered a serious head injury and another 19 year old was injured in his hand. The 22 year old Palestinian shepherd, Salamah Abu Hashish.'s wife gave birth to their first child the night before, and the couple have not even chosen a name to their child


Gaza Family Remembers Grandfather
Killed By Israeli Bullet
By Rami Almeghari

http://www.countercurrents.org/almeghari210111.htm

On January 10, another Gaza farmer was shot dead by Israeli soldiers while working in his farmland


United Nations Security Council:
An Organization For Injustice
By Kourosh Ziabari

http://www.countercurrents.org/ziabari210111.htm

UNSC needs a drastic reformation. The veto power should be dissolved as soon as possible. There should be a permanent seat for the representative of the Islamic world with more than 1.5 billion population. The power to authorize sanctions or military expeditions should be handed over to the UN General Assembly rather than the Security Council. The members of UNSC should be held accountable for the decisions which they make


Rising Food Prices And The Importance Of
Fundamental Change
By Chandra Muzaffar

http://www.countercurrents.org/muzaffar210111.htm

The sharp increase in global food prices and their consequences raises some fundamental questions about the state of the world economy and how we organise our lives


Putting India's Food Security At Stake
By Devinder Sharma

http://www.countercurrents.org/dsharma210111.htm

India keen to dismantle its vast agricultural mandi network putting food security at stake


The Forgotten Jobless And Our Future
By Mark Vorpahl

http://www.countercurrents.org/vorpahl210111.htm

In the political theater exhibited last December where 13 months of unemployment extensions were linked to continuing tax breaks for the rich, a significant issue was left out of the drama, though it directly impacts the lives of millions. That is the fate of those who have become known as the 99ers


How The Power Of Myth Keeps Us Mired in War
By Ira Chernus

http://www.countercurrents.org/chernus210111.htm

A strong progressive myth could make it safer for a president to change course and perhaps save his presidency. Failure to stave off the bad guys destroyed Lyndon Johnson and gravely wounded George W. Bush. I suspect Obama would love to have a great progressive myth keep him from a similar fate. He won't create it, but he'd probably be delighted to see it appear on the horizon


Class War And Violence Belie
Obama's Tattered Unity Myths
By Robert S. Becker

http://www.countercurrents.org/becker210111.htm

Had the president politicized his Tucson memorial, say, by implicating reckless gun sellers, he'd have faced his own media crosshairs, even uncivil crossfire. Taking no chances, however, meant Mr. Bipartisanship missed a big teaching moment about the complex world of a very violent America. That omission offset what was done well


Microcredit: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
By David Korten

http://www.countercurrents.org/korten210111.htm

Unraveling the confusion behind microcredit: how some models help alleviate poverty, while others exploit the poor to make the rich richer


Generalizing Tunisia: Context Overrides Story
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud210111.htm

One must not let confusing media headlines sideline the fact that neither the US nor the UK had Tunisia on their radar for circumventing democracy or violating human rights. Ben Ali was celebrated as an icon of moderation, notwithstanding his atypical Arab stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict


United States Has A Choice In Tunisia
By Nicola Nasser

http://www.countercurrents.org/nasser210111.htm

The U.S. decision makers however still seem deaf to what Ghannouchi told the Financial Times: "Democracy should not exclude communists … it is not ethical for us to call on a secular government to accept us, while once we get to power we will eradicate them." This is the voice of Arab homemade democracy; it has nothing to do with the U.S. - exported democracy


Let Aristide Return!
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman210111A.htm

Washington has full control as colonial occupier, denying Haitians all rights, including sovereignty, democratic elections with all legitimate parties participating, and the right of their beloved leader to return in any capacity. He only wishes to as a private citizen for health reasons and to provide whatever help he can. No longer should he be denied. Let Aristide return!


Obama Challenges China On Human Rights
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman210111B.htm

Washington often chides other nations about their abuses and injustices at home and abroad. In fact, no other nation matches America's disdain for human and civil rights


Duvalier In The Dock
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman210111C.htm

Expecting prosecutorial justice and stolen millions recovered is practically nil. Whitewash is more likely, except for minor slaps on the wrist, keeping Baby Doc's dirty linen safely hidden with most of his loot


Will India Ever Deliver Justice To
Human Rights Violations In Kashmir?
By Fahad Shah

http://www.countercurrents.org/shah210111.htm

Even though United Nations rapporteur on human rights violations Margaret Sekaggya visited Kashmir on January 19, India has failed to deliver justice to human rights violation victims in the Kashmir valley since the armed rebellion erupted twenty years ago


Shaking Hands With Sworn Enemy
By Syed Junaid Hashmi

http://www.countercurrents.org/hashmi210111.htm

History of electoral politics of Jammu and Kashmir is replete with instances where sworn enemies have shook hands for petty political gains and political stalwarts from both Jammu Kashmir regions preferring share of power over dignity empowerment and welfare of the people. One such instance, which comes to mind, is the support extended by the corporators of National Conference to the RSS backed candidate in 1980


The Chronology of Conflict: Kashmir
By Naveed Qazi

http://www.countercurrents.org/qazi210111.htm

Kashmir wasn't always dyed in blood. Here is a chronology of the conflict


The Literary Slumdog Millionaires
By Farzana Versey

http://www.countercurrents.org/versey210111.htm

One fine day somebody wakes up to the fact that William Dalrymple is a Scot and he has taken over the Jaipur Literary Festival like one of the White Mughals he wrote about. There is the cry about racism. It is a bit surprising because Mr. Dalrymple has been 'doing' India since 1984. His work is not superficial; the adulation he has been receiving all these years is


A Dissenting Voice On Pakistan's Blasphemy Law
By Yoginder Sikand

http://www.countercurrents.org/sikand210111.htm

Probably the only Islamic scholar of note on either side of the border to have condemned the brutal murder in no uncertain terms, and to have insisted that it had no sanction whatsoever in Islam, was the New Delhi-based Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. He immediately responded to the murder in an article published in the Times of India, insisting that the punishment of death for blasphemy, as prescribed in Pakistan's anti-blasphemy law, had no sanction in Islam at all


Governance, An Alien Concept
To The Pakistan People's Party—I
By Mehroz Siraj Sadruddin

http://www.countercurrents.org/sadruddin210111.htm

Scandals, instability, political assassinations, targeted killings, socio-economic mismanagement and corruption have been some of the major hallmarks of the near three year rule of the Pakistan People's Party in the country, since the party assumed power in February 2008. As the party is about to complete three years in power it is important to analyse the issues on which the administration has miserably failed


Ghulam Mohammad Vastanvi And Rumblings
In The 'Fortress Of The Faith'
By Yoginder Sikand

http://www.countercurrents.org/sikand210111A.htm

No sooner had Ghulam Mohammad Vastanvi been appointed as the new head of the Dar ul-Uloom, Deoband, India's most influential madrasa and nerve-centre of the global Deobandi movement, than he found himself in the thick of controversy, which only seems to be getting even more embarrassing and convoluted with every passing day

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