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Global Youth Unemployment Reaches Record Levels
By Jordan Shilton

http://www.countercurrents.org/shilton310810.htm

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has issued a report documenting the severe impact of the global economic crisis on employment prospects for the world's youth. The report, "Global Employment Trends for Youth", presents detailed statistics on the growing number of 15-to-24-year-olds who find themselves out of work


Pakistan Floods Displace Another Million People
By Sampath Perera

http://www.countercurrents.org/perera310810.htm

More than a million additional people fled their homes in the southern Pakistani province of Sindh over the past few days as flood waters threatened further cities and towns. While authorities reported yesterday that waters were receding at least temporarily, large areas of the country are devastated and around 20 million people displaced


Oil Addiction And Identity
By Scott Brown

http://www.countercurrents.org/brown310810.htm

Whether we continue down a path of collective suicide or change course, the psyche will be intimately involved. Lasting behavioral change begins and ends with the psyche. The big question is not who holds elected office or how effective conservation programs are, both leave the basic addiction to fossil fuels intact. The question is: What are the key elements of a resilient foundation for a sustainable and life-affirming society? One critical element, I believe, is the inner resilience that only work with the psyche can bring


Hurricane Of Inhumanity: Five Years After Katrina
By Mamoon Alabbasi

http://www.countercurrents.org/alabbasi310810.htm

Five years after hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, a natural disaster with unnatural responses, lead to the deaths of an estimated 1,800 people and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of others, the lesson has not yet been learned


Lawsuit Challenges Obama Administration's
Targeted Assassination Policy
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman310810.htm

Obama plans to speed up judgements under a ready, fire, aim policy, murdering US citizens for their justifiable outrage, showing how low American justice has sunk, hitting rock bottom under a president who promised change - in fact, delivering it, a different kind than imagined by too many Walter Lippmann once called "the bewildered herd," out of touch and supportive. Why others have to spread enlightenment before it's too late to matter


Legislation For Greater
Agribusiness Empowerment
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman3108010A.htm

Passing S. 510 and reconciling it with HR 2749 will jeopardize food safety and make it harder to buy products consumers want from sources they prefer. Defeating S. 510 is thus crucial, now at risk by the egg salmonella scare, a large hurtle essential to overcome


Ramadan : The Month Of Self-Restraint
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui

http://www.countercurrents.org/siddiqui310810.htm

Probably at no other time in America is this message of Ramadan more relevant


The Bull
By Rand Clifford

http://www.countercurrents.org/clifford310810.htm

Whether we take the bull by the tail, or by the horns, we are at a critical time because that's what we are running out of, time


Niyamgiri To Bellary, Polavaram To Konkan:
Stop All Destructive Projects Now
By Dipankar Bhattacharya

http://www.countercurrents.org/dipankar310810.htm

The cancellation of the Vedanta group's 'mining rights' in the Niyamgiri hills of Odisha's Kalahandi district surely marks a huge victory for the growing people's movement against corporate invasion and plunder


Niyamgiri: A Temporary Reprieve
By Ranjan K Panda

http://www.countercurrents.org/panda310810.htm

The Dongria Kondh know that their battle against Vedanta and for the preservation of their sacred Niyamgiri is not over in a state where money matters, people and the environment don't, reports Ranjan K Panda from Orissa


"This Son Of Gujarat" Owes
An Explanation To India
By Mustafa Khan

http://www.countercurrents.org/mkhan310810.htm

The ongoing investigation into Sohrabuddin Shaikh murder by the police of the Gujarat state is throwing up enough hints of the kind of Gujarat its chief minister Narendra Modi has created


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