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NYTimes Reports US Plans For Military Escalation In Pakistan
By Barry Grey

http://www.countercurrents.org/grey221210.htm

Whether Washington is about to approve expanded ground raids or is, for the present, using the threat of such a policy shift to blackmail the Pakistani regime into extending its offensive against internal opponents of the colonial war in Afghanistan, the basic thrust of US policy is to escalate the war. The inevitable result will be the destabilization of the entire region and a far wider military conflagration


The Government's One-Way Mirror
By Glenn Greenwald

http://www.countercurrents.org/greenwald221210.htm

The special operations units deployed overseas to kill the al-Qaeda leadership drove technological advances that are now expanding in use across the United States. On the front lines, those advances allowed the rapid fusing of biometric identification, captured computer records and cellphone numbers so troops could launch the next surprise raid. Here at home, it's the DHS that is enamored with collecting photos, video images and other personal information about U.S. residents in the hopes of teasing out terrorists


Another World Is Possible
By Rebecca Solnit

http://www.countercurrents.org/solnit221210.htm

Think of those doing the research on altruism and compassion as a radical scholarly movement, one that could undermine the philosophical and political assumptions behind our current economic system, which is also our political system. These individuals and organizations are putting together the proof that not only is another world possible, but it's been here all along, as visible, should we care to look, as Nabokov's butterflies

Julian Assange Replies To
Media Smear Campaign
By Patrick Martin

http://www.countercurrents.org/martin221210.htm

In a lengthy interview with BBC News , broadcast Tuesday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange answered many of the smears directed by the media against him as part of a campaign to discredit the organization as it releases of thousands of secret US diplomatic cables


US Drops Demand For Israel
To Freeze Settlement Building
By Jean Shaoul & Ann Talbot

http://www.countercurrents.org/talbot221210.htm

The US government has dropped its demand that Israel halt the building of new Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. An editorial in the British-based Guardian noted that the Middle East "peace process died a quiet, undramatic death" with this announcement


Tell That To The Liberty's Survivors,
Mr. Lieberman
By Alan Hart

http://www.countercurrents.org/hart221210.htm

The job Mr. Lieberman wants most of all is Netanyahu's. The way things are in Israel and look like going, it's not impossible that he will get it. If he does become prime minister, I imagine that would signal a move from rhetoric to action as in the chants of his supporters – "Death to the Arabs!"


Some Bold Proposals For Middle East Peace
By Rabbi Michael Lerner

http://www.countercurrents.org/lerner221210.htm

Instead of playing to each side's elites, those who seek peace must now launch a broad educational campaign to reach ordinary citizens (if necessary, over the heads of those elites) with a message that is convincing -- a message that says, here are the terms of a fair peace agreement and here is why we believe that if each side makes the necessary compromises, it will work to meet your best interests


Spoiling For A Fight?
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman221210.htm

A charter "axis of evil" member, imperial America targets North Korea, perhaps more aggressively than earlier with help from the International Criminal Court


Yet Another Attempt To Manufacture
Muslim 'Terrorists'
By Mahtab Alam

http://www.countercurrents.org/alam221210.htm

While news is coming from Hyderabad that, the AP govt. is ready to apologise to Muslim youth and the community for its role in Macca Masjid blast case of 2007, here in the capital city of Jhakhand, the leading newspapers are hell bent to manufacture Muslim 'terrorists'


An Open Letter To The Kashmir Interlocutors
By Javed Naqi

http://www.countercurrents.org/naqi221210.htm

I want AZADI from the six months isolation during winter. I don't want to see it as a fate as it has been accepted by my people for this long. This isolation has rendered us as the most backward district in the entire country


Tiding Over Farm Woes: Reaping The Advantage
By Devinder Sharma

http://www.countercurrents.org/dsharma221210.htm

Farmers' unions, who only organise protests demanding higher prices, have failed to educate their members


Mohamed Haneef And The Middle-Class
By Farzana Versey

http://www.countercurrents.org/versey221210.htm

Mohamed Haneef will be paid compensation, reportedly worth Aus $1 million. The manner in which his inquiry was conducted, the lack of evidence or rather the wrongful use of evidence, shows that there was a vicious attempt to incarcerate him, probably also the first showpiece for its 2005 Australian Anti-Terrorism Act. Since July 2007 when he was arrested to now, he has had to fight to prove that he is innocent


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