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 Obama Hardens Threat Of  War Against Iran
 By Peter Symonds

http://www.countercurrents.org/symonds050312.htm

In his most explicit threat against Iran to date, US President Obama declared yesterday that he would "not hesitate to use force" to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons. The speech was pitched not just to his immediate audience—the pro-Israeli American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)—but to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who he meets today


U.S Special Forces In India: Sovereignty Issues And The Military
 By S.G.Vombatkere

http://www.countercurrents.org/vombatkere050312.htm

Having U.S troops on Indian soil in an operational role is especially hazardous, for if any of them are killed in operations, it will form cause for USA to augment its military strength on Indian soil. These U.S troops would remain under U.S PACOM command and control, the Indian military having no say in their deployment or operational role. There have been precedents for such action in the past across the globe. Besides, the presence of foreign troops on Indian soil in an operational role is a slight on the Indian military and upon Indian sovereignty


Uneconomic Growth Deepens Depression
 By Herman Daly

http://www.countercurrents.org/daly050312.htm

Does growth now increase illth faster than wealth? This is a threatening question, because if growth has become uneconomic then the solution to poverty becomes sharing now, not growth in the future. Sharing is frequently referred to as "class warfare." But it is really the alternative to the class warfare that will result from the current uneconomic growth in which the dwindling benefits are privatized to the elite, while the exploding costs are socialized to the poor, the future, and to other species


Amory Lovins Lays Out His Clean Energy Plan
 By Fen Montaigne

http://www.countercurrents.org/montaigne050312.htm

For four decades, Amory Lovins has been a leading proponent of a renewable power revolution that would wean the U.S. off fossil fuels and usher in an era of energy independence. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he talks about his latest book, which describes his vision of how the world can attain a green energy future by 2050


Shell Wants To Sail With A Record That Is Totally Stale
 By Subhankar Banerjee

http://www.countercurrents.org/banerjee050312.htm

Shell can indeed clean up a spill in the Arctic Ocean, if and only if they employ top magicians, and also top public relations firms—Exxon did that for the Valdez spill in Alaska, and Union Carbide did that for the Bhopal kill in India. A June 25, 2010 Union of Concerned Scientists press release states that "the same PR firm that represented Exxon after the Valdez oil spill," also represented "Union Carbide after the Bhopal chemical disaster." Yes, magicians and PR people working together can clean any spill, anywhere, including in the harsh, frozen arctic seas


How To Fund An American Police State
 By Stephan Salisbury

http://www.countercurrents.org/salisbury050312.htm

The chances of an American dying in a terrorist incident in a given year are 1 in 3.5 million. To reduce that risk, to make something minuscule even more minuscule, what has the nation spent? What has it cost us? Instead of rebuilding a ravaged American city in a timely fashion or making Americans more secure in their "underwater" homes and their disappearing jobs, we have created militarized police forces, visible evidence of police-state-style funding


Comprehensive Climate Change Inaction By Pro-coal,  Pro-gas Gillard Labor Australian Government
 By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya050312.htm

Pro-coal, pro-gas Australian PM Julia Gillard has an appalling record of climate change inaction falsely dressed up as the opposite. The biggest and most outrageous untruth of Gillard Labor is that it is "tackling climate change" for a "clean energy future", as systematically set out below


The Best Reason For The Very Rich To Be Paying A LOT MORE in Taxes
 By Paul Buchheit

http://www.countercurrents.org/buchheit050312.htm

Before getting into the best reason, here are some of the usual -- and always good -- reasons. First of all, For every dollar the richest 1% earned in 1980, they've added three more dollars. The poorest 90% have added ONE CENT


Political Psychology Of Annajees
 By Anil Gokhale

http://www.countercurrents.org/gokhale050312.htm

Despite seeming decline of Annajee's movement, it has laid bare the receptivity for a 'self observing psychological totalitarian agency' within mental framework of mass of middle classes and the mass psychology for an invitation to Military dictatorship in times to come. The irrational movement of Lokpal, worked exactly in opposition to the spirit of Egyptian revolution , its forward, globalizing and upward push, which tirelessly works for overthrow of henchman of neo liberalism Hosni Mmubarak and Military Junta, both


Filming Osama And Indian Denial of Pakistan
 By Farzana Versey

http://www.countercurrents.org/versey050312.htm

Is there any difference between rightwing Hindutva and Islamist groups? Both have objected to the shooting of Kathryn Bigelow's film on Osama bin Laden. The director would, for obvious reasons, not be permitted to shoot in Abbotabad, so the natural choice seemed to be India. She chose to recreate the garrison town and other areas in Chandigarh and Patiala


Left Wing Punjabi Writer Sukhbir Singh No More
 By Vidyadhar Date

http://www.countercurrents.org/date050312.htm

It is a pity that the recent death of Mr Sukhbir Singh, a prominent progressive Punjabi writer, went virtually unrecorded in the Indian media which shows the scant respect meted out to regional language writing in the country. He actively participatated in agitations of the Communist party of India in the 1950s and was in jail with another progressive writer, Ali Sardar Jafri, in Nashik in Maharashtra


Impunity As The Flip Side Of Normalcy
 By Paramjeet Singh & Preeti Chauhan

http://www.countercurrents.org/chauhan050312.htm

Civil society is outraged at the brazen claim advanced by the Indian Army that let alone sanction for prosecution, no civil administration can even register a FIR against army personnel without sanction of the Central government

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