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Subject: CC Issue Dec 08- Assange Could Face Espionage Trial In US
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MasterCard Site Partially Frozen By Hackers In WikiLeaks 'Revenge'
By Esther Addley

http://www.countercurrents.org/addley081210.htm

The website of MasterCard, the international credit card, has been hacked and partially paralysed by hackers, in apparent revenge for the payment network's decision to cease taking donations to WikiLeaks


Visa And Mastercard Are Happy To Transfer
Donations To The Ku Klux Klan, But Not WikiLeaks
By War In Context

http://www.countercurrents.org/wic081210.htm

Charles Arthur, the Guardian's technology editor, points out that while MasterCard and Visa have cut WikiLeaks off you can still use those cards to donate to overtly racist organisations such as the Knights Party, which is supported by the Ku Klux Klan


Assange Case: Evidence Destroyed Over And Over Again
By Göran Rudling

http://www.countercurrents.org/rudling081210.htm

An extraordinary internet detective work by Göran Rudling one of the alleged victims of Julian Assange's sexual offence, tried to destroy evidence over and over again


Assange Could Face Espionage Trial In US
By Kim Sengupta

http://www.countercurrents.org/sengupta081210.htm

Informal discussions have already taken place between US and Swedish officials over the possibility of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange being delivered into American custody, according to diplomatic sources


When Interpol Cares About Sexual Assault
By Laura Flanders

http://www.countercurrents.org/flanders081210.htm

Tell it to hundreds of women in US jails and immigration detention centers -- who charge that they can't get justice against accused rapists -- or women in the US military (two of out three of whom allege they've experienced assault.) In Haiti hundreds of unprosecuted cases of rape in refugee camps could use some of Interpol's attention


We Will Not Be Gagged: Wikileaks
By Wikileaks

http://www.countercurrents.org/wikileaks081210.htm

Statement from Wikileaks: " We will not be gagged, either by judicial action or corporate censorship"


Cancun, Climate Change And WikiLeaks
By Amy Goodman

http://www.countercurrents.org/goodman081210.htm

Critical negotiations are under way here in Cancun, under the auspices of the United Nations, to reverse human-induced global warming. This is the first major meeting since the failed Copenhagen summit last year. As we have just learned with the release of classified diplomatic cables from WikiLeaks, the United States, the largest polluter in the history of the planet, is engaged in what one journalist here called "a very, very dirty business."


Losing Time, Not Buying Time
By Real Climate

http://www.countercurrents.org/rc081210.htm

Control of methane, soot, and other short-lived climate-forcing agents has often been described as a cheap way to "buy time" to get carbon dioxide emissions under control. But is it really?


Himalayan Glaciers Melting At Alarming Rates
By Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development

http://www.countercurrents.org/unep081210.htm

Concern for high-mountain regions of the world is rising, according to a new report released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today, which states that the Himalayas and many other glaciers are melting quickly, threatening lives by flooding, and by reducing the region's freshwater supply


New Study Puts The 'hell' In Hell And High Water
By Climateprogress.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/climateprogress081210.htm

Must-read NCAR analysis warns we risk multiple, devastating global droughts even on moderate emissions path


We Have The Technology—Let's Go
By Subhankar Banerjee

http://www.countercurrents.org/banerjee081210.htm

No matter what technology we invent (clean or dirty) our current way of life is unsustainable—there are too many of us consuming too much. It might pay off in the long run if we start learning how to live sustainably


Arrest Barkha Dutt And Vir Sanghvi: Ajit Sahi
By Afroz Alam Sahil & Md. Ali

http://www.countercurrents.org/sahi081210.htm

In a frank and straightforward interview senior journalist and former executive editor of Tehelka weekly, Ajit Sahi demanded immediate arrest of senior journalists Barkha Dutt and Vir Sanghvi for undermining the constitution by their alleged lobbying for A Raja as the Telecom Minister when Union Cabinet was being formed in 2009


Obama To Netanyahu - "You win"
By Alan Hart

http://www.countercurrents.org/hart081210.htm

With his decision to abandon efforts to persuade Israel to renew a freeze on illegal settlement building on the occupied West Bank, he has proved that the makers of American policy for resolving the conflict are Israel's leaders and their lobby in the U.S. (including its many stooges in Congress and the mainstream media), not the man who occupies the Oval Office in the White House


Mavi Marmara Returns To Istanbul Ahead Of
Leading New Gaza Flotilla
By Palestine Monitor

http://www.countercurrents.org/pm081210.htm

The Turkish ship the Mavi Marmara, on which nine activists were killed on the May 31 Flotilla Massacre, is returning to Istanbul on the anniversary of 'Operation Cast Lead'. In a ceremony organised by the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), politicians, activists and survivors will gather to mourn the losses on the flotilla and in Gaza, while reiterating their commitment to ending Israel's illegal policies


The Sounds Of Silence: Reactions
To Political Despair
By Bernard Weiner

http://www.countercurrents.org/weiner081210.htm

Action can be an effective antidote for despair. Working on behalf of others leads to more care and appreciation of one's own life-direction. The confusion of depression is a ripe time to build, to explore, to be more creative about our approaches. And above all, to organize, Organize, ORGANIZE so that when the tectonic political plates finally start to shift, the Movement is in place and ready to act


Obama Capitulates To Republicans
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman081210B.htm

Obama's "compromise" does provide a two-year expanded tax credits extension, including the Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, and American Opportunity Tax Credit as well as a 2% cut in payroll taxes in lieu of eliminating the Making Work Pay tax credit


More Fraud, Intimidation, And Illegitimacy
Assured In Haiti's Electoral Runoff
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman081210A.htm

On November 28, Haiti's first round legislative and presidential elections were so tainted, they elevated sham elections to a new level - a cruel joke, a process in name only, one fraudulent enough to make a despot blush. Now round two


North East Migration And Challenges
In Mega Cities
By Madhu Chandra

http://www.countercurrents.org/chandra081210.htm

There has been unanswered questions why has the people from North East India, particularly girls and women become vulnerable for sexual abuse in national capital city. It will be worth to look at some realities on North East Indian migration and challenges in mega cities


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