Fwd: CC Issue 17, Feb - Dying Education In Iraq

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Subject: CC Issue 17, Feb - Dying Education In Iraq
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Police Attack Bahrain Protest Site
By Al Jazeera

http://www.countercurrents.org/aljazeera170211.htm

At least two pro-reform protesters have been killed and dozens more injured after hundreds of Bahraini riot police, armed with tear gas, rubber bullets and clubs, stormed their makeshift encampment in the main traffic circle in the capital, Manama, while they slept


Middle East Protests Continue
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman170211.htm

They continue in Egypt, Yemen, Algeria, Tunisia, and most recently in Iran and Bahrain


Dying Education In The "Blossoming" Iraqi Democracy
By Dirk Adriaensens

http://www.countercurrents.org/adriaensens170211.htm

One of the best means of bringing closer an end to their suffering is to participate in efforts to propose, map, plan and outline the steps necessary for rehabilitating Iraq's educational system. Saving Iraqi academics is a keystone in stemming any further destruction of Iraq and its people, and to rebuilding what remains


Samir Amin Speaking About The Egyptian Revolution
By Samir Amin

 http://www.countercurrents.org/amin170211.htm

The military as well as the Muslim Brotherhood accept the hegemony of the United States in the region and peace with Israel as it is. They all continue to show the kind of complacency that allows Israel to continue the colonization of what remains of Palestine


Backward Arabs Or Navel Gazing Empire Loyalists?
By Trevor Selvam

http://www.countercurrents.org/selvam170211.htm

This was really MORE of a revolt against the twenty or more years of the post Berlin wall era of pompous neo-liberalism, that spawned joblessness, hunger, environmental cataclysms---it was a revolt against tin-pot dictators aided and abetted by Washington DC who siphoned off the wealth of nations, food chains that disappeared, wars that were started on spurious grounds and police states who upheld the West's cynical notions of stability, while protecting their geo-political strategies


How To End US Reliance On Dictators
By Steve Breyman

http://www.countercurrents.org/breyman170211.htm

Might the crack opened by young Arabs in their decades-old American-backed regimes open a crack in public understanding of US foreign policy? Stranger things have happened lately


Learning To Live With Food Crisis,
Not Overcoming It
By Devinder Sharma

http://www.countercurrents.org/dsharma170211.htm

The food crisis continues to grow, and with each passing month it is in fact getting worse. Perhaps you will hear about it again when some major newspaper has a lead story of the food prices spiralling somewhere where it makes more political sense


Science And Equality Dictate Eco-Socialism,
Climate Socialism And Green Socialism
To Save Humanity And Biosphere
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170211.htm

Equality and Science in the face of a worsening Climate Emergency and Climate Genocide dictate Eco-Socialism, Climate Socialism and Green Socialism to save Humanity and the Biosphere. Unaddressed man-made climate change is set to kill 10 billion people this century


Palestinian September 2011 Deadline Doomed
By Nicola Nasser

http://www.countercurrents.org/nasser170211.htm

The international Quartet of the US, EU, UN and Russia on Middle East peace and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) seem set on an agenda that perceives September 2011 as an historical political watershed deadline


Obama's Anti-Populist Budget
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman170211A.htm

That's Obama's real agenda - soaking working households and the poor, transferring greater wealth to America's super-rich already with too much, and continuing lawless imperial rampaging for unchallengeable global dominance


CIA And Pentagon Officials Knew Their
Interrogation Methods Were "Torture"
By Sherwood Ross

http://www.countercurrents.org/ross170211.htm

The CIA and Pentagon used "enhanced interrogation techniques"(EIT) on Middle East prisoners knowing they were illegal and considered to be torture by the United Nations, according to an article published in the January issue of the American magazine "Science


A Raja, Nandan Nilekani And Sam Pitroda
Undermine Parliament And Citizens Rights
By Gopal Krishna

http://www.countercurrents.org/krishna170211.htm

If tagging of Indian students with Radio Collar in US is deemed an assault on human rights and is deemed offensive, which it indeed it is, how are proposals of Sam Pitroda, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations and Nandan Nilekani's UID Number/Aadhaar project that intends to tag all Indian residents acceptable? Both Pitroda and Nilekani work from the premises of Planning Commission of India


Mr Bhagwat, It's Time For An Apology
By Subhash Gatade

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatade170211.htm

How RSS dreads the terror tag


India Waits For Its Mubarak Moment
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat170211.htm

There is everything for a revolution here but there are so many Mubaraks in our society that it looks difficult that India will have its 'Mubarak' day soon as it would the elimination of varnashram dharma and none seems to be interested in its annihilation as those we believe fighting against it have got their own world in it and therefore denying us the Mubarak day


Boost To Farming: Agriculture Budget
By Devinder Sharma

http://www.countercurrents.org/dsharma170211A.htm

Karnataka has announced a separate budget for agriculture. Considering that agriculture continues to be the largest employer, and with a terrible agrarian crisis sweeping the state, agriculture does merit special focus


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