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World Food Prices Hit Record Highs Amid Oil Jitters
By AFP

http://www.countercurrents.org/afp030311.htm

World food prices have hit record highs and oil price spikes could push them even higher, the UN food agency warned on Thursday. The Food Price Index, which monitors average monthly price changes for a variety of key staples, rose to 236 points in February from 231 points in January, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said


US, European Officials Debate
Military Intervention In Libya
By Patrick O'Connor & Patrick Martin

http://www.countercurrents.org/martin030311.htm

At congressional hearings Tuesday and Wednesday and in statements to the media, top officials of the Obama administration and Congress are publicly debating the prospects for American military intervention in Libya, as the Pentagon moves ships and warplanes towards the North African country. The same debate is going on across the Atlantic among the European powers that have deployed their own military assets to the region


US Army Charges Bradley Manning
With Capital Offense
By Barry Grey

http://www.countercurrents.org/grey030311.htm

The United States Army late Wednesday notified Bradley Manning that it was filing an additional 22 charges against him. The new charges in Manning's court martial process include "aiding the enemy," a capital offense


Bradley Manning Could Face Death: For What?
By Glenn Greenwald

http://www.countercurrents.org/greenwald030311.htm

American political leaders responsible for grave atrocities are treated like peace-loving statesmen and honored dignitaries, while those who heroically risk their lives to expose and end that wrongdoing (Manning, and Ellsberg before him) are thrown into a cage, threatened with death, and scorned by All Decent People


Will Sweden Bring Back Death Penalty
After Over A Century?
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson030311.htm

Now, Sweden has an opportunity to punish the speech of a Nobel Peace Prize nominee with the death penalty by extraditing Julian Assange to the United States to be put on trial


The Collapse Of The Old Oil Order :
How The Petroleum Age Will End
By Michael T. Klare

http://www.countercurrents.org/klare030311.htm

Whatever the outcome of the protests, uprisings, and rebellions now sweeping the Middle East, one thing is guaranteed: the world of oil will be permanently transformed. Consider everything that's now happening as just the first tremor of an oilquake that will shake our world to its core


What If...We Stopped Using Money?
By Keith Farnish

http://www.countercurrents.org/farnish030311.htm

The route to even a 50% reduction in our use of money is via enormous changes in the way we treat each other and ourselves; the way we look at the value of all things; the scorn we will inevitably cast upon the tireless system of birth-school-work-retire-die, that forgets to include the word "live" in its lineup


The Time Machine Of The 1960s
By Ugo Bardi

http://www.countercurrents.org/bardi030311.htm

Things are starting to collapse - maybe not exactly collapsing - but surely there are all those ominous creaks that you hear when a structure is near collapse. The economy, the prices, all those things that happen


Libya: I Smell A Rat
By William Bowles

http://www.countercurrents.org/bowles030311.htm

Fertile ground for turning fiction into 'fact' and, as it has transpired, much of the current hysteria in the Western media rests on two, key rumours that surfaced almost concurrently with the uprising itself: 1. The 'African mercenaries' 2. Libyan Airforce bombing civilians. Both claims are unsubstantiated


Libya After Gaddafi, A "People's Capture" Of History?
By Dave Fryett

http://www.countercurrents.org/fryett030311.htm

Agents of international capital are already afoot in Libya while the media and governments they control gin up support for a military intervention. Fear of all that money falling into the hands of people willing to use it in the service of permanent, global, revolution is more than enough for the Lords of Capital to do their worst. And they will, they always do


Messing With American Democracy
By Mike Ghouse

http://www.countercurrents.org/ghouse030311.htm

David Yerushalmi, an Arizona-based white supremacist has called for a war on Islam and is behind the racist legislation in Tennessee. He has opened new expressions for bigots as they have been shut out from their deeply seated Anti-Semitic attitudes. These attitudes pitch one American against the other and that is not good for America, it will take the country from the path of cohesion to division


Hate Comes To Orange County
By CAIR-LA

http://www.countercurrents.org/cairla030311.htm

The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today released a video of a rally organized by anti-Muslim bigots to protest a February fundraising event held by an American Muslim relief group for relief work and charity in the U.S


Budget 2011-12 Analysis: Times Of 'Tough Love'
By Devinder Sharma

http://www.countercurrents.org/dsharma030311.htm

In 2010-11, Rs 5.02 lakh crore was provided by way of tax exemptions to industry. This is nothing but a subsidy for the rich


Godhra Verdict: Whither Justice?
Need For A CBI Investigation
By Ram Puniyani

http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani030311.htm

In this case the nature of shoddy, biased investigation done by police is very obvious. We do need an impartial investigation; a CBI inquiry into the whole thing is called for


Wetlands Are Not Wastelands!
By Marianne de Nazareth

http://www.countercurrents.org/nazareth030311.htm

With industrialization land use patterns are changing and wet and marshy lands which are considered wasteland by the common man are being dredged and built over. It is in the hands of environmentalists and the media to educate policy and decision makers about the importance of these wetlands and the need to preserve them


Activist Murdered In Jharkhand
By Twocircles.net

http://www.countercurrents.org/twc030311.htm

Murder of activist Niyamat Ali condemned, judicial probe demanded

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