Fwd: CC News Letter, 04 June - Tar Sands Pipeline: Silence Is Deadly By James E. Hansen‎

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Subject: CC News Letter, 04 June - Tar Sands Pipeline: Silence Is Deadly By James E. Hansen‎
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Tar Sands Pipeline: Silence Is Deadly
 By James E. Hansen

http://www.countercurrents.org/hansen040611.htm

The U.S. Department of State seems likely to approve a huge pipeline, known as Keystone XL to carry tar sands oil (about 830,000 barrels per day) to Texas refineries unless sufficient objections are raised. The scientific community needs to get involved in this fray now. If this project gains approval, it will become exceedingly difficult to control the tar sands monster


Profit, Pollution And Poor
 By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury040611.htm

For having a dignified human existence, a vibrant ecology is common persons' requirement. For their survival, they have to stand for it. Communities of common persons have to take initiative identifying sources of environmental crisis, fighting the crisis out, regenerate environment


Dear Stephen King: An Open Letter
 To One American Who Really Could Scare
 The Rest Of Us Into Action
 By Ellen LaConte

http://www.countercurrents.org/laconte040611.htm

And it seems to me that, given your influence and the speed with which you can turn out a blockbuster, you might take my feeble attempt to point out the error of our ways, turn the truth of it into fiction and a few million Americans into Committees of Correspondence, planners of a new Declaration of Independence, this time from the global economy and the Powers that run it and get the lion's share of the benefit out of it


Israelis Rush For Second Passports
 By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb040611.htm

Several studies in Israel and one conducted by AIPAC and another by the Jewish National Fund in Germany show that perhaps as many as half of the Jews living in Israel will consider leaving Palestine in the next few years if current political and social trends continue. A 2008 survey by the Jerusalem-based Menachem Begin Heritage Center found that 59% of Israelis had approached or intended to approach a foreign embassy to inquire about or apply for citizenship and a passport. Today it is estimated that the figure is approaching 70%


A State For Jews
 By William James Martin

http://www.countercurrents.org/martin040611.htm

Why are we providing almost incalculable support and sustenance to a state – Israel- which is a state "for Jews", and exclusively for Jews, at the expense of the indigenous native Palestinians


Disastrous US Jobs Report
 Points To Deepening Slump
 By Barry Grey

http://www.countercurrents.org/grey040611.htm

US payrolls grew by a paltry 54,000 in May and the official unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent, an increase of 0.3 percent since March, according to the monthly employment report released Friday by the Labor Department


Fear And Loathing In The Housing Market–
 The Greedy And The Clueless Flail Around
 Looking For Answers
 By William Hicks

http://www.countercurrents.org/hicks040611.htm

Continuing the recent run of bad economic news, an S&P/Case Shiller report on Tuesday confirmed that U.S. home prices in most major markets have resumed falling after stabilizing for a couple of years


Sufferings Of Resident Aliens In The United States:
 Cases Of Krittika Biswas And Vikram Buddhi
 By B.K. Subbarao. Ph.D.

http://www.countercurrents.org/subbarao040611.htm

Under this 'rule of law', at present the resident aliens in the United States suffer as much as the native Indians in the past. The law enforcing agencies in the United States violate with complete impunity the legal rights and Constitutional rights of resident aliens in the United States . In many cases even the Courts fail to secure prompt justice to the innocent victims


Imperial Justice And Indian Frenzy
 By Anand Teltumbde

http://www.countercurrents.org/teltumbde040611.htm

The killing of Osama Bin Laden evoked most farcical reaction in India. Beyond approval of this imperial arrogance, the media created a nationalist hysteria that the US should declare Pakistan as a terrorist state; that India should carry out similar surgical operation to kill the likes of Dawood Ibrahim and Hafeez Saeed, hiding in Pakistan. If one went by the TV shows, there appeared complete consensus among the neoliberal generation assembled there. There was not the slightest qualm about the right or wrong or even the consideration of consequence


America's Addiction: Waging Illegal Wars
 By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman040611A.htm

With regard to war, international and constitutional laws are clear. Under the Constitution's Article I, Section 8, only Congress may declare war, not the president. That, in fact, last happened on December 8, 1941 after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. As a result, all subsequent US wars have been illegal, including Obama's against Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya


I Am A Dissident
 By Timothy V. Gatto

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatto040611.htm

America was an idea and an ideal. The ideal of America is dead and buried, but the idea of America can live on. They can kill an ideal, but they can't kill an idea. The idea of America is still carried by those who remember what we originally set out to do, to create a nation "By the people and for the people". Let us hope that idea never dies


We Must Forget Bitterness Of The Past
 By Dr Shabir Choudhry

http://www.countercurrents.org/choudhry050611.htm

Since 1947 all ethnic groups of the State of Jammu and Kashmir have suffered; and there is bitterness and anger. Those who want to keep us divided they keep on pouring fuel on fire, and devise new strategies to promote hatred among different ethnic communities that we hold each other responsible for our miseries


Kashmir's Freedom In Making
 By Inshah Malik

http://www.countercurrents.org/malik040611.htm

To understand Kashmir's liberation struggle as only about suppressed nationalism is a flawed understanding. The cultural nationalism is intertwined with the 'question of justice' and upholding 'morality of human self'. The state they aspire sounds one of those ideal democracies which haven't been theorized by modern theorists yet. One wonders if Kashmir has learnt from the 'failed neighboring states' much faster than what they were supposed to?


Travesty Of Social Justice: The Curious Case Of
 The Inclusion Of Upper Caste Syed 'Mallicks'
 In Bihar Backward Classes List
 By Ashok Yadav & Khalid Anis Ansari

http://www.countercurrents.org/ansari040611.htm

The inclusion of upper caste Syed Mallicks in the Backward Classes list (Annexure II) in Bihar by Nitish Kumar government in 2008, in a bid to appease the Muslim leadership and dilute the Saffron charge against himself due to his alliance with the right wing BJP, must be strongly interrogated

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