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Subject: CC News Letter, 19 June - Medical Crisis Worsening In Gaza ‎
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Medical Crisis Worsening In Gaza
 By Eva Bartlett

http://www.countercurrents.org/bartlett190611.htm

Of the limited medicines found in Gaza, many have come via the tunnels and most are too expensive for the 80% of Palestinians in Gaza dependent on food-aid to live. Other medicines are simply unavailable, particularly in hospitals


Delhi Jal Board Rocked By Another Major Scam
 By Afsar Jafri

http://www.countercurrents.org/jafri190611.htm

On 24th May 2011, the WSSDEU, an employees union, exposed a big scam of more than Rs. 200 crores in the bidding process for privatization ofDelhi Jal Board 's Bhagirathi Water Treatment Plant in East Delhi


Every Thirty Minutes: Farmer Suicides,
 Human Rights And The Agrarian Crisis
 In India (PDF)
 By Center for Human Rights and Global Justice,
 New York University School of Law

http://www.chrgj.org/publications/docs/every30min.pdf

It is estimated that more than a quarter of a million Indian farmers have committed suicide in the last 16 years—the largest wave of recorded suicides in human history. A great number of those affected are cash crop farmers, and cotton farmers in particular. In 2009 alone, the most recent year for which official figures are available, 17,638 farmers committed suicide—that's one farmer every 30 minutes


Two Capitalisms
 By Joel S. Hirschhorn

http://www.countercurrents.org/joel190611.htm

If Republican presidential hopefuls and crony capitalists cared as much about serving the public interest as serving corporate desires, than they would stop their nonsensical free market claptrap embracing selfish capitalism and seek a more patriotic form that puts the nation first


Entrapping Innocent Muslims
 By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman190611.htm

A recent New York University School of Law Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) report is titled, "Targeted and Entrapped: Manufacturing the 'Homegrown Threat' in the United States."


Who Is Undermining Parliament?
 Civil Society or Government?
 By Tapas Ranjan Saha

http://www.countercurrents.org/saha190611.htm

It is strange that the Govt which does not want civil society to dictate to Parliament, has no qualms about corporate CEOs and lobbyists as well as foreign powers dictating laws, policies and even Ministerial appointments. A glaring example was the Radia tapes revelation of how Mukesh Ambani and his lobbyist could even manage to dictate what stand the chief Opposition party will take in Parliament on a key question of energy policy


Kashmir: The Mock Election
 By Zafar Iqbal

http://www.countercurrents.org/iqbal190611.htm

In Pakistan administrated part of Kashmir three million citizens of the one half of the divided state are going to exercise a democratic right of electing their representatives in the Legislative Assembly in a few weeks. In reality, this political process is no more than a tug-of-war between local influential feudal tribes and aristocratic family structures in the pretence of democracy to retain their authority and control over the resources of the land


Shariah-Phobia In America
 By Dr. Habib Siddiqui

http://www.countercurrents.org/siddiqui190611.htm

Are Muslim Americans trying to impose a Taliban-style Shariah law in the USA ? Seemingly, the answer is 'yes', if you are a Republican politician


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