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Fwd: CC News Letter, 16 May - Bloody Nakba Sunday ‎



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Israeli Troops Kill Unarmed Palestinian Protestors On Borders
 By Patrick O'Connor

http://www.countercurrents.org/oconnor160511.htm

Israeli soldiers yesterday killed at least fifteen Palestinians and wounded many more as they suppressed protests held at border posts facing Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza to mark the 63rd anniversary of the founding of the Zionist state


Nakba Sunday At Maroun al Ras
 By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb160511.htm

10 Palestinians were killed by Israeli snipers and more than 120 wounded, some critically. None of the demonstrators had weapons. Those murdered were all civilians from the camps and were shot in cold blood as they nonviolently as placed Palestinian flags at the fence and gave the peace and victory sign


Protesters Shot Dead For Shouting:
 Nakba Remembrance Day 2011
 By Brenda Heard

http://www.countercurrents.org/heard160511.htm

The Lebanese Army has confirmed that 10 protesters were shot dead and 112 wounded in Lebanon on Nakba Remembrance Day


Israeli Violence Marks Nakba Day
 By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman160511.htm

Israeli viciousness marked Nakba day commemorations, assaulting peaceful demonstrators in Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and along the Lebanese/Syrian borders. Mounting deaths, injuries and arrests were reported


The Nakba: What Does It Mean In Human Terms?
 By Sonja Karkar

http://www.countercurrents.org/karkar160511.htm

The Nakba is the Palestinian catastrophe. It means upheaval, violence and cataclysmic loss; it describes the terror, which drove almost one million people out of their homeland, as well as the perpetual terror in exile –displaced, dispossessed, stateless, lost and forbidden to return; it remains the multiplying injustice of another people's sin burgeoning in our collective silence


Israel's Attack On Humanitarian Ship To Gaza
 By Michel Chossudovsky

http://www.countercurrents.org/chossudovsky160511.htm

The Spirit of Rachel Corrie (officially known as FINCH) carrying a humanitarian cargo to Gaza was attacked by an Israeli naval patrol within the so-called Palestinian Security Zone on May 15, at 10.54pm EDT


Peak Oil: A Chance To Change The World
 By Richard Heinberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/heinberg160511.htm

Richard Heinberg's message to the students of "Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, MA "Fossil fuels made it possible to build the world you have inhabited during your childhood and throughout your years in the education system. Now it's up to you to imagine and build the world after fossil fuels. This is the challenge and opportunity of your lifetimes. I wish you good cheer and good luck as you make the most of it"


Future Of The Environment And Human Well-Being
 By Prahlad Singh Shekhawat

http://www.countercurrents.org/shekhawat160511.htm

People speculate about life in outer space and about life after death, but the question to ask is, is their future of life on planet earth? Are we swiftly moving towards a situation where global environment will degenerate irreversibly?


US/NATO Pilots Having Fun Bombing Libya
 By Jay Janson

http://www.countercurrents.org/janson160511.htm

Must be an exhilarating feeling to fly relaxed over Mediterranean Sea, countryside and towns without fear of meeting defending warplanes, and then watch your missiles explode below on target


Fukushima's Secret Radionuclides
 By Mary Hamer M.D

http://www.countercurrents.org/hamer160511.htm

The purpose of this paper is to appeal to the Japanese & U.S. authorities to release information about the Fukushima radionuclides released as a result of the Major level #7 nuclear power accident that began in March 2011


Stay Human
 By Ellen Cantarow

http://www.countercurrents.org/cantarow160511.htm

A review of Vittorio Arrigoni's "Gaza: Stay Human"


The Democrats Attack Unions Nationwide
 By Shamus Cooke

http://www.countercurrents.org/cooke160511.htm

 Obvious political truths are sometimes smothered by special interests. The cover-up of the Democrats' national anti-union agenda is possible because the truth would cause enormous disturbances for the Democratic Party, some labor leaders, liberal organizations and, consequently, the larger political system


Can America Learn From Others?
 By Dr. Habib Siddiqui

http://www.countercurrents.org/siddiqui160511.htm

 Is America ready to adjust and repair? A crucial aspect of beginning to turn things around would be for the U.S. to make an honest accounting of where it stands and what it can learn from other countries


Death Of Osama Bin Laden And Changing World
 By Ram Puniyani

http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani160511.htm

As far as India and Pakistan are concerned the whole talk of repeating Abottabad by a section in India, needs to be thrown in the dustbin. The Indian political leadership has shown political maturity and offered the dialogue table for achieving friendship with the neighbor


US Gets Bad Marks In Amnesty International Annual Report
 By Mary Shaw

http://www.countercurrents.org/shaw160511.htm

On May 12, Amnesty International (AI) released its annual report on the state of human rights in the world. The report examines the human rights records of 159 countries around in the world during 2010. The United States of America got some bad marks again this year, primarily related to human rights violations in the "war on terror" and our continued use of the death penalty

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