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Obama Announces US Troop Withdrawal From Iraq
 By Patrick Martin

http://www.countercurrents.org/martin241011.htm

US President Barack Obama announced Friday that the remaining US troops in Iraq would be withdrawn from the country before the end of December, following the collapse of talks with the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on extending the US presence into 2012


A Change In War Policy?
 By Mark Vorpahl

http://www.countercurrents.org/vorpahl251011.htm

After the destruction of Iraq's once strong infrastructure, the killing of an estimated million and a half Iraqis, the deaths of 4,400 Americans, and the squandering of nearly $1 trillion during a time of economic crisis, President Obama's announcement is more bitter than sweet


Afghan War Remains Endless,
 While Obama's Iraq Plan Fails
 By Jack A. Smith

http://www.countercurrents.org/smith241011.htm

This article will first discuss the situation in Afghanistan after 10 years, then take up the Iraq question and what the U.S. may do to compensate for a humiliating and disruptive rebuff


Taking Down The Curtain
 By George Capaccio

http://www.countercurrents.org/capaccio241011.htm

As self-appointed defenders of humanity against the predations of corrupt rulers, they would do well to recall that Old Testament saying: As ye sow, so shall ye reap


Occupy Wall Street And The Celebrity Economists
 By Michael Yates

http://www.countercurrents.org/yates241011.htm

Occupy Wall Street has opened up new possibilities for discussing and debating what is going on in the world and what we should do about it. We shouldn't be complaining that the occupiers haven't come up with a specific set of demands or developed a full-blown theory of social change. It is up to us, my friend says, to place our own ideas in the mix, organize around specific demands in our own locales, form our own political organizations


On Playing By The Rules –
 The Strange Success Of #OccupyWallStreet
 By David Graeber

http://www.countercurrents.org/graeber241011l.htm

If Occupy Wall Street has spread to every city in America, it's because our financial overlords have brought us to such a pass that anarchists, pagan priestesses, and tree-sitters are about the only Americans left still holding out for the idea that a genuinely democratic society might be possible


Occupiers Have To Convince The Other 99 Percent
 By Chris Hedges

http://www.countercurrents.org/hedges241011.htm

The occupation movement's greatest challenge will be overcoming the deep distrust of white liberals by the poor and the working class, especially people of color


Questions Relating To The Future Of Humankind
 By Jason G. Brent

http://www.countercurrents.org/brent241011.htm

This essay is not intended discuss or debate the advantages/disadvantages, or the problems/benefits of coercive population control. Rather, the purpose of this essay is to show that humanity must consider and evaluate coercive population control because there is a substantial, but undefined, risk that voluntary action will lead to the horrific deaths of a substantial number of human beings in the very near future----probably before the year 2050 and almost certainly before the year 2100


Australian Immigration Illegally Imprisons
 Indian Student For 509 Days
 By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya241011.htm

An Indian student who paid thousands of dollars to study in Australia was illegally detained at the Villawood detention centre, Sydney , for 18 months because of mistakes by immigration officers. The Australian Human Rights Commissioner Catherine Branson found that Prashant Cherkupalli, 31, should be paid $597,000 in compensation for the 509 days he was illegally detained between November 2004 and April 2006


Will Rick Perry Kill Another Innocent Man?
 By Mary Shaw

http://www.countercurrents.org/shaw241011.htm

Texas governor and Republican presidential contender Rick Perry has faced criticism from the left (and applause from the right) for his heavy-handed use of the death penalty. And Perry has said that he loses no sleep over the possibility that he may have executed an innocent man. This is despite the fact that it appears that Perry has done just that - and could very likely do it again very soon


Challenging The Old Boys Network In The Vatican
 By Bill Quigley

http://www.countercurrents.org/quigley241011.htm

Challenging the established order in Vatican


Weak Position Limits Cannot Tackle
 Speculation In Commodities
 By Kavaljit Singh

http://www.countercurrents.org/ksingh241011.htm

After months of delay, the US commodity regulator – Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) – finally approved new rules to limit traders' positions on 28 physical commodity futures (and swaps) contracts


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