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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Fwd: CC Issue 24, Jan - Rocky Times Ahead: Are You Ready?



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From: Countercurrents <editor@countercurrents.org>
Date: Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:51 AM
Subject: CC Issue 24, Jan - Rocky Times Ahead: Are You Ready?
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"We Need To Stop This Culture Before It Kills The Planet"
By Mickey Z. & Derrick Jensen

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz240111.htm

As you begin reading this interview, take a look at the nearest clock. Now, dig this: Since yesterday at the same exact time, 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed, over 100 plant and animal species have gone extinct , 13 million tons of toxic chemicals were released across the globe, and 29,158 children under the age of five died from preventable causes


Driving Straight Into Catastrophe
By Julio Godoy

http://www.countercurrents.org/godoy240111.htm

Despite repeated warnings by environmental and climate experts that reduction of fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions is fundamental to forestalling global warming, disaster appears imminent. According to the latest statistics, unprecedented climate change has Earth hurtling down a path of catastrophic proportions


The Year Of Living Dangerously
By Michael T. Klare

http://www.countercurrents.org/klare240111.htm

Rising commodity prices and extreme weather events threaten global stability


Where Liberals Go To Feel Good
By Chris Hedges

http://www.countercurrents.org/hedges240111.htm

If the liberal class remains gullible and weak, if it continues to speak to itself and others in meaningless platitudes, it will remain as responsible for our enslavement as those it pompously denounces


The Illusion Of Money
By David Korten

http://www.countercurrents.org/korten240111.htm

Real wealth or phantom assets? David Korten explores the difference between the kind of wealth that makes life better and the phantom wealth created by financial speculation


Rocky Times Ahead: Are You Ready?
By Sarah Byrnes & Chuck Collins

http://www.countercurrents.org/collins240111.htm

You must not face the future alone. Find your own "reality support group" (we'll tell you how below). This year, make a resolution to deepen your relationships with people around you with whom you can face what's coming down the pike


Would The Isolation Of America
Persuade Obama Not To Veto?
By Alan Hart

http://www.countercurrents.org/hart240111.htm

Despite strong U.S. opposition, a proposed resolution condemning Israeli settlements on the occupied West Bank did make it to the UN Security Council. There is a case for wondering if President Obama can remain Zionist-like in his own implicit defiance of international law on Israel's behalf


Obama Embraces Military Commissions Injustice
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman240111.htm

The rule of law is null and void. Whatever the president says goes. No one any longer is safe. America is a police state, making everyone potentially vulnerable


Gaza Flotilla Massacre: Whitewash Absolves Israel
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman240111A.htm

Murdering unarmed, nonviolent humanitarian activists trying to deliver essential aid compounds Israel's culpability. Ongoing without letup or accountability, Turkel's whitewash commission absolved it


Hu's Visit – It's Economics, Stupid!
And Not Human Rights!
By Habib Siddiqui

http://www.countercurrents.org/siddiqui240111.htm

These trade deals speak voluminously about the world we live in, as hypocritically scripted by our world leaders. Long gone are the days of ideology and human rights! It is economics, stupid! And not human rights that matters!


Tunisia's Old Guard Sing To A Different Tune
By Marwan Asmar

http://www.countercurrents.org/asmar240111.htm

If they point to anything, the self burning show the desperate measures people are prepared to go throw to reflect their desperate situations in their own countries. If anything it should make leaders heed to the calls of their people because it should tell of the simmering time bombs


Why Illinois Governor Should Sign
Death Penalty Abolition Bill
By Mary Shaw

http://www.countercurrents.org/shaw240111.htm

On January 11, the Illinois state legislature passed a bill abolishing the death penalty in that state. The bill was then sent to Governor Pat Quinn's desk. Whether or not he will sign it into law, however, is still uncertain


Paid News A Full Blown Media Cancer
By Nava Thakuria

http://www.countercurrents.org/thakuria240111.htm

The Indian media in particular and Indian people in general have started talking about the 'paid news syndrome' officially. The bygone year had witnessed a series of discussions on the paid news culture in the mainstream Indian media among civil society groups, parliamentarians, the media watchdog and also the election commission of the country


Deoband Chief Faces Continued Opposition
Despite Clarification On Modi
By Yoginder Sikand

http://www.countercurrents.org/sikand240111.htm

Faced with fierce condemnation from his fellow Deobandi mullahs and other Muslim 'leaders', the newly-appointed rector of the Deoband madrasa, Ghulam Mohammad Vastanvi, has been forced to issue a clarification about his comments, as reported by the Times of India, about Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Vastanvi now claims that the newspaper had distorted his remarks and insists that Modi cannot be 'given a clean chit'

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