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Action Alert

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Runaway Climate Change Is Here
By Andrew Glikson

http://www.countercurrents.org/glikson090810.htm

The spate of floods and fires around the globe are manifestations of runaway climate change


The 65th Anniversary Of USA Terrorism
Enlightened By The Wisdom Of Nonviolence
By Eileen Fleming

http://www.countercurrents.org/fleming090810.htm

This August 6th and 9th mark the 65th anniversary of the most brutal acts of terrorism upon innocent people; America's atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki


International Call For Freedom For Vanunu
Petition Campaign

http://www.countercurrents.org/vanunu090810.htm

Many hundreds of people from around the World have signed an InternationalPetition , calling on President Obama, Prime Ministers Netanyahu and Cameron, and other world leaders, to 'do all they can' to gain the release from Israel of Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear whistleblower


India's "Paid News" Scandal Blotted Out by Press Lords
By P. Sainath

http://www.countercurrents.org/sainath090810.htm

Presented with a chance to make history, the Press Council of India has made a mess instead. The PCI has simply buckled at the knees before the challenge of 'Paid News.' in its decision of July 30 to sideline its own sub-committee's report -- which named and shamed the perpetrators of paid news -- will go down as one of the sorriest chapters in its history


Competing Nationalisms And Religions
And The Kashmir Conflict
By Yoginder Sikand

http://www.countercurrents.org/sikand090810.htm

An enquiry into the Kashmir conflict and possible resolution in the light of the competing narratives of Kashmiri nationalism and religious identity


"Liberating" The Women Of Afghanistan
By Huda Jawad

http://www.countercurrents.org/jawad090810.htm

Aisha was attacked by the Taliban last year, the same time that thousands of foreign troops were running around the country under the guise of liberating it. TIME is repeating the inexcusable and now redundant mantra used by the Department of Defense and by just about every neocon politician: We're in Afghanistan to save the women. Here's the problem: as US troops remain in the country and have dominated it for the past 10 years, violence against women in Afghanistan has been increasing – not decreasing


The Elders of Anti-Zion
By Uri Avnery

http://www.countercurrents.org/avnery090810.htm

As is well-known, the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" were concocted by the secret police of the Russian Czar, based on a 19th century tract originally written against Napoleon III. The "Protocols of the Elders of Anti-Zion" are being composed these days by Binyamin Netanyahu and his cronies


The End Of Prevention
By Kurt Cobb

http://www.countercurrents.org/cobb090810.htm

For those alive today, we may be faced with something akin to dealing with a chronic disease. Fortunately, unlike actions aimed at prevention, there is no expiration date on our task. If we are at the end of prevention, then we might be fated simply to cope with the intractable problems of climate change and declining energy and resources


3 Seeds
By Charles Eisenstein

http://www.countercurrents.org/eisenstein090810.htm

Three seeds, three transmissions from the past to the future, three ways of preserving and transmitting the truth of the world, the self, and how to be human


A Call For A Democratic Economy
By Zach Carter

http://www.countercurrents.org/carter090810.htm

Raj Patel offers a stunning defense of democracy and a how-to guide for social justice activists of the next century


Ecuador To Leave Oil In Ground
By Duroyan Fertl

http://www.countercurrents.org/fertl090810.htm

On August 3, the Ecuadorian government signed a landmark deal to prevent drilling for oil in the ecologically unique Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini areas of the Yasuni National Park (Yasuni-ITT). The agreement, signed by the government of left-wing President Rafael Correa and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), guarantees that the estimated 900 million barrels of oil that lie beneath the pristine Amazonian region will remain untouched, as will the forest above


Political Platform For Klimaforum10
By Mexico's Grassroots
By Miguel Valencia

http://www.countercurrents.org/valencia090810.htm

Preparations made for Klimaforum10, parallel to the United Nations COP-16 climate conference in Cancún, Nov. 25 - Dec. 10


There Is Progress But Focus Is The Key
For A Successful Cancun Outcome
By Marianne de Nazareth

http://www.countercurrents.org/nazareth090810.htm

According to UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, governments meeting at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn (2 to 6 August) have made progress towards deciding the shape of a successful result at the November/December UN Climate Change Conference in Mexico, but now need to narrow down the many options for action on climate change presently under negotiation


How Many Iraqis Did We "Liberate"
From Life On Earth?
By Robert Naiman

http://www.countercurrents.org/naiman090810.htm

How many Iraqis did we "liberate" from the companionship of their loved ones? How many Iraqis did we "liberate" from dwelling in the houses and towns and the country of their birth? How many Iraqis did we "liberate" from life on Earth?


Are US-Israel Intelligence Agencies Blocking
Palestinian Civil Rights To Weaken Hezbollah?
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb090810.htm

Part X of a series on securing Civil Rights for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon


Uribe's Appointment To Flotilla Probe
Guarantees Its Failure
By José Antonio Gutiérrez and David Landy

http://www.countercurrents.org/landy090810.htm

The appointment of outgoing President of Colombia Álvaro Uribe Vélez to a UN-commissioned inquiry into the massacre by Israel of human rights activists aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla makes a mockery of the investigation


Throughout Israel, Palestinians
Are Being Suffocated
By Ben White

http://www.countercurrents.org/white090810.htm

Whether under military rule in the West Bank, or as citizens in Israel, Palestinian communities' ability to grow naturally is compromised by laws, "zoning" plans and permit systems designed to enforce a regime of separation and inequality


'All Aboard the Mavi Marmara'
David Rovics' New Song
Video

http://www.countercurrents.org/rovic090810.htm


Israeli Attacks On Emergency Workers
Still Affecting Gaza's Safety
By Eva Bartlett

http://www.countercurrents.org/bartlett090810.htm

Over a year after the last Israeli war on Gaza, the Civil Defence still lacks not only the stations, trucks and spare parts, but also protective clothing, fire- fighting equipment, and basic tools vital to rescue work


Verizon And Google Enter Reported Deal For Tiered Internet Use, Is Net Neutrality In Jeopardy?
By Josh Silver

http://www.countercurrents.org/silver090810.htm

The internet and telecom giants Verizon and Google have reportedly reached an agreement to impose a tiered system for accessing the internet. The deal would enable Verizon to charge for quicker access to online content over wireless devices, a violation of the concept of net neutrality that calls for equal access to all services. The deal comes amidst closed-door meetings between the Federal Communications Commission and major telecom giants on crafting new regulations


Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind
(Even when it's not out of sight)
By Dahr Jamail

http://www.countercurrents.org/jamail090810.htm

Two captains of so-called "vessels of opportunity" helping with the cleanup recently told Times-Picayune reporter Bob Marshall that they saw more oil at South Pass on Tuesday than they have during the entire crisis. "I don't know where everyone else is looking, but if they think there's no more oil out there, they should take a ride with me," charter captain Mike Frenette said


Political Prisoners In America
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman090810.htm

Over 2.4 million prisoners are held in federal and state facilities, local jails, Indian, juvenile, and military ones, US territories, and numbers held by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), half for nonviolent offenses, many for political activism, the Truth & Justice Foundation (the National Innocence Project) estimating up to 15% wrongfully convicted overall


Joota Khapay – Shoe Rule
By Dr Shabir Choudhry

http://www.countercurrents.org/choudhry090810.htm

The man behind the incident, Sardar Shameem Khan thinks people should not tolerate this corruption and looting by those who hold public office, and they must be held accountable for their actions. He says best way forward is that public should take off their shoes and discipline these leaders who have looted the public funds. He says like the slogan, 'Pakistan khapay' we should say 'Joota Khapay'; and this campaign against these leaders must continue until they change themselves and become servants of the people in real sense


President Zardari Of Pakistan Is Pelted With Shoes
At The UK Rally
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali

http://www.countercurrents.org/ghazali090810.htm

Taking cue from the Iraqi journalist, Muntadhar al-Zaidi Shamim Khan from Azad Kashmir hurled both of his shoes at Pakistan's unpopular President Asif Ali Zardari who was addressing a community gathering in Brimingham, UK on Saturday


HC Verdict On Khairlanji:
Diluting The Design Justice
By Anand Teltumbde

http://www.countercurrents.org/teltumbde090810.htm

While commuting the death sentence of the six convicts in the Khairlanji dalit killings case to imprisonment for 25 years, the high court did not think there was a caste angle or any planning or outraging modesty of women was involved in the crime. The whole episode reveals, in a microcosm, the character of the state vis-à-vis dalits


Modi's Method
By Sadiq Naqvi

http://www.countercurrents.org/naqvi090810.htm

After the genocide in 2002 and a string of fake encounters targeting Muslims, the 'Hindutva lab' is again active. Now, secular social activists are being branded as Maoists and jailed


Judging Deoband's Latest Fatwa On Women Judges
By Zareena Shah

http://www.countercurrents.org/shah090810.htm

Coming close on the heels of a barrage of fatwas that Muslim women's groups were quick to condemn as aimed at curtailing their freedoms and even their Quranically-granted rights, the Dar ul-Ulum at Deoband, India's largest and most influential madrasa, recently issued a fatwa declaring that appointing a woman as a judge was 'near haram', or, in other words, reprehensible


Another Murder Victim's Family
Opposes Death Penalty
By Mary Shaw

http://www.countercurrents.org/shaw090810.htm

In maintaining the death penalty here in the U.S., we align ourselves with the other executing nations of the world such as Afghanistan, China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe, and a handful of other countries known for their systematic violations of human rights


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