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US Vows To Veto Palestinian Statehood Bid At UN
 By Arshad Mohammed

http://www.countercurrents.org/mohammed090911.htm

The United States said explicitly for the first time on Thursday it would veto a Palestinian bid for full U.N. membership, drawing an immediate rebuff from the Palestinians who vowed to press ahead


The PA Doesn't Represent Me;
 Why Should I Trust Its Statehood Bid?
 By Sameeha Elwan

http://www.countercurrents.org/elwan090911.htm

An average Palestinian might in fact be the least interested in whether a state would be declared in September. Yet he or she will be the one will be the one whose life will be most profoundly impacted by any hasty act of folly by the PA. This has been demonstrated by a long history of disappointing actions by the PA


Peak Oil, Debt, And The Concentration Of Power
 By Charles Eisenstein

http://www.countercurrents.org/eisenstein090911.htm

What is money? The conversion of nature into goods, and relationships into services. But this conversion cannot proceed much farther, due to resource depletion and the inability of society and biosphere to sustain more damage


Shifting Direction: From Global to Local (PDF)
 By Helena Norberg-Hodge

http://www.countercurrents.org/hodge090911.pdf

Economic localisation implies an adaptation to cultural and biological diversity; therefore, no single 'blueprint' is appropriate everywhere. The range of possibilities for local grassroots effort is as diverse as the locales in which they would take place


Taking A Path Toward Sustainability
 While There Is Still Time
 By Steve Salmony

http://www.countercurrents.org/salmony090911.htm

The family of humanity appears not to have much more time, perhaps a couple of decades if we are lucky, in which to make necessary changes in our conspicuous overconsumption/hoarding lifestyles, the endless expansion of overproduction by big-business enterprises, and its unbridled overpopulation activities. Humankind may not be able to protect life as we know it or preserve the integrity of Earth, even during the years many of us are alive


Bolivia: Amazon Protest -- Development
 Before Environment?
 By Federico Fuentes

http://www.countercurrents.org/fuentes090911.htm

The decision by leaders of the Sub Central of the Indigenous Territory and National Isiboro Secure Park (TIPNIS), to initiate a 500-kilometre protest march on Bolivia's capital of La Paz capital has ignited much debate about the nature of Bolivia's first indigenous led-government


Humanity's Fatal Distraction
 By Chris Clugston

http://www.countercurrents.org/clugston090911.htm

Metaphorically, our well is running dry, yet we insist on tinkering with the pump



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