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Hezbollah To Head Lebanese Government
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman260111.htm

Hezbollah-backed Najib Mikati, a Sunni billionaire, became new prime minister after getting 68 votes, a majority in Lebanon's 128-member parliament. Caretaker PM Saad Hariri got 60. As a result, Hezbollah is now in position to control Lebanon's next government. The move has set off angry protests and drew warnings from the US that its support could be in jeopardy


Tens Of Thousands March In Egypt Against Mubarak Regime
By Johannes Stern & Stefan Steinberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/steinberg260111.htm

The thirty-year-old US-backed dictatorship of President Hosni Mubarak was shaken by an unprecedented wave of mass demonstrations Tuesday demanding an end to the regime. An estimated 20,000 protesters, largely youth and young workers, defied a huge deployment of riot police and paramilitary troops in the center of Cairo, and thousands more rallied in cities across the country


The Arab Crisis: Food, Energy, Water, Justice
By Vicken Cheterian

http://www.countercurrents.org/cheterian260111.htm

A wave of self-immolation hit Arab countries from Algeria to Egypt, and from Mauritania to Saudi Arabia reveal how desperate the situation has become in the entire region. In Saudi Arabia, unemployment exceeded 10% in 2009: more evidence that rich oil deposits are not enough insurance against social malaise


Ben Ali Tunisia Was Model US Client
By Richard Falk

http://www.countercurrents.org/falk260111.htm

While scholars dispute whether Tunisia serves as model Arab world uprising, many agree that it was near-perfect US ally


Bradley Manning's Torture Commonplace
In U.S. Prisons
By Sherwood Ross

http://www.countercurrents.org/ross260111.htm

The corrosive, solitary confinement being inflicted upon PFC Bradley Manning in the Quantico, Va., brig is no exceptional torture devised exclusively for him. Some 25,000 other inmates are suffering a like fate of sadistic isolation in so-called supermax prisons, where they are being systematically reduced to veritable human vegetables


Palestine Does Not Have To Be A Lost Cause
By Alan Hart

http://www.countercurrents.org/hart260111.htm

By offering or at least indicating that it was prepared to offer such huge concessions, the PA leadership encouraged Israel's political and military leaders in their belief that if only they are intransigent, repressive and brutal enough for long enough, they can break the will of the Palestinians to continue their struggle and force them to accept a handful of crumbs from Zionism's table


Cutting Off A Vital Connection
By Ali Abunimah

http://www.countercurrents.org/abunimah260111.htm

Palestinian officials were often more concerned with applying pressure to Hamas than easing the crisis in Gaza


The Palestine Papers: Offering Palestine
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud260111.htm

The Palestine Papers are too many and represent a final indictment of the PA, and its willingness to meet, and at times, exceed the expectations of the Israeli government, at the expense of the Palestinian people


The Canadian Zionism Question
By Denis G. Rancourt

http://www.countercurrents.org/rancourt260111.htm

Israel, the modern sate that shamelessly uses the Nazi holocaust to justify overtly racist domestic and foreign national policies, stock piles nuclear weapons, incites wars on its neighbours, overtly funds propaganda in foreign countries, routinely practices international pirating, kidnappings and murders, openly performs political assassinations... and how do Canadian politicians and parliamentarians respond?


Aafia Siddiqui's Lawyer: "She Was Detained
For Five Years In A Black Site" And "Forced
To Create Documents To Incriminate Herself"
By Andy Worthington

http://www.countercurrents.org/worthington260111.htm

After her capture in Karachi in March 2003, by Pakistani forces and the CIA, she was "taken to some off-site country — a third-world nation, possibly Jordan or Afghanistan — where she was detained for five years in a black site or secret prison. Here she was forced to create documents to incriminate herself to support what we see in this war on terror. She was then dumped in Afghanistan with a bag that conveniently had incriminating documents


Preparing For Life In A Peak Oil World
By Gail Tverberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/tverberg260111.htm

We know that peak oil will be here soon, and we feel like we should be doing something. But what? It is frustrating to know where to start. In this chapter, we will discuss a few ideas about what we as individuals can do


Four Foundations Of Activism
In The Face Of Collapse
By Scott Brown

http://www.countercurrents.org/brown260111.htm

If the word activism gives you heartburn, for whatever reason, I invite you to put that aside for at least the time it takes to read this article


Oil Decline Rate And Population
By Peter Goodchild

http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild260111.htm

The annual rate of population decline, in a civilization in which fossil fuels are by far the most important sources of energy, must roughly equal the 3-percent (if not greater) annual rate of fossil-fuel decline. If we allow the loss of petroleum to take its course, a decline of 3 percent would result in a drop in world population to half its present level, i.e. to 3.5 billion, by about the year 2030. The only means, however, would be a rather grim one: famine


Obama's Corporate State Of The Union
By Shamus Cooke

http://www.countercurrents.org/cooke260111.htm

Obama's state of the union speech was the culmination of months of right-wing policies that began in earnest after the mid-term election, where his fake liberal garb was completely shed. Now, the naked, corporate President presides unhindered by any pretense to help working people


State of the Union Speech Reflects U.S. Plutocracy
By Ron Forthofer

http://www.countercurrents.org/forthofer260111.htm

It is not shocking President Obama's State of the Union address offered few if any proposals that threatened the interests of the rich and powerful. In reality, Obama, as is his custom, offered few specifics on most of his ideas or vision. This lack of specifics allowed viewers to put their own interpretation on his words. As a result, the speech resonated with many


Human Rights In The Rear View Mirror:
Colombian Commandos Training
Mexican Military And Police
By Cyril Mychalejko

http://www.countercurrents.org/mychalejko260111.htm

In another misstep of the historic failure of Plan Colombia and the US supported War on Drugs, Colombia is training thousands of Mexican soldiers, police and court officials in an effort to boost Mexico's fight against drug cartels


Artists Demand Justice For Binayak Sen
By Sharmila Tagore & Others

http://www.countercurrents.org/tagore260111.htm

We, the undersigned, wish to express our deep concern at the victimisation and unjust imprisonment of well-known humanitarian and human rights defender Dr Binayak Sen, in Chhattisgarh


'Ramchandra Guha's Sholay' : A Nation
Comforted By The State
By Sadanand Patwardhan

http://www.countercurrents.org/patwardhan260111.htm

Ramachandra Guha wrote a monograph – A Nation Consumed by the State – in the latest issue of Outlook India. He sees a vision of India that is inclusive but unbounded. Following blog post is inspired by the reading of his monograph


Trade Invaders- India EU Free Trade Negotiations
By Syed Ali Mujtaba

http://www.countercurrents.org/mujtaba260111.htm

At a time when the entire nation's attention is focused on different scams that's hogging the media headlines, little attention is being paid to the new trade deal negotiated between India and the European Union (EU)


The Tamil "Diaspora" V The Sinhala State:
Is that An Oxymoron?
By Chandi Sinnathurai

http://www.countercurrents.org/sinnathurai260111.htm

The war and its despicable exploitation of humanity have taught all valuable lessons. The destruction and the waste of war must be avoided at all cost. Any right thinking person will support that view


Save The Life Of A Baloch Journalist
By Zaffar Baloch

http://www.countercurrents.org/baloch260111.htm

Mr. Rehan has sent out an S.O.S. message to the international community, human rights bodies, and organizations for the protection of journalists to save his life. The message indicated that the paramilitary forces have surrounded the coastal town of Gwadar, controlling all the points of entry and exit. He desperately said in the message, "There is nowhere to hide or escape, the circle of death is closing upon me and the Pakistani security hounds are after my blood."


Thirty Korean Rights Organizations
Demand Immediate Release Of Mishu
By William Gomes

http://www.countercurrents.org/gomes260111.htm

Korean Rights organization, Korean House for International Solidarity (KHIS) arranged a demonstration outside of the Embassy of the People's Republic of Bangladesh in Seoul, Korea on demand of urgent release of labor rights activist on Wednesday


Olbermann's Sacking Shifts US Media Further Right
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman260111A.htm

Olbermann's gone, leaving left-of-center hosts Rachael Maddow, Ed Schultz and Lawrence O'Donnell, filling his vacated time slot. Key, however, is NBC's power shift right, likely portending two choices for remaining hosts - softened rhetoric or new employment, but expect new corporate bosses to offer little, if any

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