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Obama Administration Backs Bill Authorizing Indefinite Military Detention Of US Citizens
 By Joseph Kishore

http://www.countercurrents.org/kishore151211.htm

The Obama administration declared Wednesday afternoon that it was abandoning its nominal threat to veto a military authorization bill that explicitly authorizes the indefinite military detention of anyone the federal government declares to be a terrorist or supporter, including US citizens


Obama's Most Fateful Decision
 By Jim Garrison

http://www.countercurrents.org/garrison151211.htm

What is a stake is nothing short of the basic fundamentals of western jurisprudence. Central to civilized law is the notion that a person cannot be held without a charge and cannot be detained indefinitely without a trial


Congressional Tyranny, White House Surrender
 By Ralph Nader

http://www.countercurrents.org/nader151211.htm

Paraphrasing Shakespeare, something is rotten in the state of Capitol Hill. A majority of Congress is just about to put the finishing touches on an amendment to the military budget authorization legislation that will finish off some critical American rights under our Constitution


Methane Time Bomb In Arctic Seas: Apocalypse Not
 By Andrew C. Revkin

http://www.countercurrents.org/revkin151211.htm

Scientists who track methane in the atmosphere in the Arctic and elsewhere around the planet see no big surge that can be pinned on such releases. Based on what we see in the atmosphere, there is no evidence of substantial increases in methane emissions from the Arctic in the past 20 years


Need To Revisit The Role Of Nuclear Power
 For India 's Energy Security
 By Buddhi Kota Subbarao Ph.D

http://www.countercurrents.org/subbarao151211.htm

A critical analysis of the Indian nuclear industry in the light of Dr. A.P.J. Abudul Kalam & Mr. Srijan Pal Singh's recent essay "Nuclear power is our gateway to a prosperous future."


Deploying Renewable Energy To Protect Us
 From Nuclear Accidents
 By Shankar Sharma

http://www.countercurrents.org/ssharma151211.htm

Is there no alternative but to consider it as the major part of the future energy policy? In view of the huge opposition going on in the country w.r.t the Koodankulam nuclear power plant, and all the proposed nuclear power parks in the country, a rational look at much benign alternatives to nuclear power has become urgent


Masked In Gaza: The Untold History Of
 Palestinian 'Militancy'
 By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud151211.htm


Chances are, the 'militants' – or fedayeen, or even 'terrorists' by the standards of Israel and its supporters – will continue to exist as long as the conflict remains unsolved per the necessary standards of justice and fairness


Recovering From Authoritarian Simpatico
 Syndrome (ASS): "Because The Cops Don't
 Need You And Man They Expect The Same"
 By Phil Rockstroh

http://www.countercurrents.org/rockstroh161211.htm

Witnessing the acts and utterances of Republican presidential candidates can be regarded as a helpful psychological exercise, a type of "exposure therapy" involving the development of methods used to bear the presence of unbearable people who insist on evincing the history of human ignorance, duplicity and insanity


The Making Of The American 99%
 And The Collapse Of The Middle Class
 By Barbara Ehrenreich & John Ehrenreich

http://www.countercurrents.org/ehrenreich151211.htm

If the "99%" is to become more than a stylish meme, if it's to become a force to change the world, eventually we will undoubtedly have to confront some of the class and racial divisions that lie within it. But we need to do so patiently, respectfully, and always with an eye to the next big action -- the next march, or building occupation, or foreclosure fight, as the situation demands


How Doctors Die
 By Ken Murray

http://www.countercurrents.org/murray151211.htm

If there is a state of the art of end-of-life care, it is this: death with dignity. As for me, my physician has my choices. They were easy to make, as they are for most physicians. There will be no heroics, and I will go gentle into that good night. Like my mentor Charlie. Like my cousin Torch. Like my fellow doctors


The Bush Administration Was An Ongoing
 Criminal Conspiracy Under International Law
 And U.S. Domestic Law
 By Professor Francis A. Boyle

http://www.countercurrents.org/murray151211.htm

Speech given by Professor Francis A. Boyle at Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal , November 17-20, 2011


War In WANA: A Threat To Humanity
 By Chandra Muzaffar

http://www.countercurrents.org/muzaffar151211.htm

Any conflict in West Asia and North Africa (WANA) is a threat to world peace. For WANA is of tremendous strategic, economic, political and religious significance to the whole of humanity. This is why it is the responsibility of the entire human family to ensure that war does not break out in that region


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