Fwd: CC News Letter, 10 Oct - 5.6 Million War-related Deaths in Afghanistan

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US Afghanistan Invasion 10th Anniversary:
 5.6 Million War-related Deaths
 By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya101011.htm

As of 7 October 2011, the 10th Anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan , the human cost of the Afghan War has been estimated as about 1.4 million violent deaths and 4.2 million non-violent avoidable deaths from Occupier-imposed deprivation, a total of 5.6 million war-related deaths


Protests Building Momentum
 As They Enter Fourth Week
 By Kate Randall

http://www.countercurrents.org/randall101011.htm

The anti-Wall Street protests continued to spread over the weekend, with new protests being organized in cities across the US, including Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Philadelphia and many others. According to the web site Occupy Together, as of Sunday evening "meetups" to plan protests had been set in more than 1,100 cities


It's Now, Occupy World Wide
 By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury101011.htm

Across oceans and covering continents people around the world are struggling. There are protest marches, demonstrations, occupations. It's now global, a globalization of struggle for democracy, for a decent life. It is One Earth One Humanity One Loved, as a placard in the Occupy Wall Street Movement announces


Why The Elites Are In Trouble
 By Chris Hedges

http://www.countercurrents.org/hedges101011.htm

Even now, three weeks later, elites, and their mouthpieces in the press, continue to puzzle over what people like Ketchup want. Where is the list of demands? Why don't they present us with specific goals? Why can't they articulate an agenda? The goal to people like Ketchup is very, very clear. It can be articulated in one word—REBELLION


The Warning Occupy Wall Street Has
 For President Obama
 By Tom Engelhardt

http://www.countercurrents.org/engelhardt101011.htm

In those hours marching and at Foley Square amid the din of so many thousands of massed people, I saw one sign that said "Obama = Bush" and another that went something like "The Barack Obama we elected would be out here with us." That was it. Sayonara


We Danced Waiting For The Police
 Who Never Came
 By Kevin Zeese

http://www.countercurrents.org/zeese101011.htm

Now the police are telling the media that our permit ends today at 2:00 –the time the permit allowed for clean up. But, today at noon the Constitution will still say: "Congress shall make no law abridging" . . . and the occupation will continue. Join us


Why The Occupied Wall Street Movement
 Scares The Democratic Party
 By Mark Vorpahl

http://www.countercurrents.org/vorpahl101011.htm

We are witnessing the birth of a social movement that has the potential to win economic justice. Having only recently exploded onto the scene, there are many directions this movement may take. The only certainty is that, since the conditions that fueled it are not going away any time soon, it is, at the very least, a harbinger of larger struggles to come


A Little Off The Top—Some Clear Message
 For Occupy Wall Street
 By Rand Clifford

http://www.countercurrents.org/clifford101011.htm

The following three demands offer clear initial focus: 1) End corporate personhood 2) End the Fed 3) End military adventurism


Daly's Steady-State Economics
 By Barath Raghavan

http://www.countercurrents.org/raghavan101011.htm

A review of Herman Daly's notion of how to build a steady-state economy


The American Dream: Myth or Reality?
 By Syed Roman Ahsan

http://www.countercurrents.org/ahsan101011.htm

Is it time to end our romance with the "American Dream"? All hope is not lost though. Many American activists are themselves exposing the lies of the US government. We just need to realize that on the one hand there is falsehood promoted by the global media which is in the hands of elite forces, on the other hand we cannot ignore truth

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