Fwd: CC News Letter, 12 August - 168 Children Killed In Drone Strikes In Pakistan‎

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Subject: CC News Letter, 12 August - 168 Children Killed In Drone Strikes In Pakistan‎
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168 Children Killed In Drone Strikes
In Pakistan Since Start Of Campaign
 By Chris Woods

http://www.countercurrents.org/woods120811.htm

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has identified credible reports of 168 children killed in seven years of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas. These children would account for 44% of the minimum figure of 385 civilians reported killed by the attacks


Economic Crisis Or Nonviolent Opportunity?
 Gandhi's Answer To Financial Collapse
 By Michael Nagler

http://www.countercurrents.org/nagler120811.htm

Monday's debacle points out once again that forward-thinking people need to provide a "safe haven" – a plausible, attractive alternative – for every sector of the current system that's showing signs of potentially terrifying collapse: security, education, healthcare, and of course the economy. Gandhi had eye-opening experiments we can learn from in all these areas, and what we've just sketched out would be a great place to start


Can The Aftermath Of Disaster Be Beautiful?
 By Anne Thomas

http://www.countercurrents.org/thomas120811.htm

A letter from a Sendai teacher describes the strange and "magnificent" community that survived last spring's devastating earthquake


Brain Dead Obama
 By Joel S. Hirschhorn

http://www.countercurrents.org/joel120811.htm

Everyone who voted for Obama should feel betrayed, ashamed and disgusted. Anyone who still trusts, admires and respects Obama is a fool


Life In An Age Of Looting: "Some Will Rob You
 With A Sixgun And Some With A Fountain Pen"
 By Phil Rockstroh

http://www.countercurrents.org/rockstroh120811.htm

As the poor of Britain rise in a fury of inchoate rage and stock exchanges worldwide experience manic upswings and panicked swoons, the financial elite (and their political operatives) are arrayed in a defensive posture, even as they continue their global-wide, full-spectrum offensive vis-à-vie The Shock Doctrine


Is Britain Baffled By Berserk?
 By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury120811.htm

A single shot – Duggan's killing – ignited berserk in Britain exposing the advanced bourgeois democracy's terminus ad quem. Questions haunt the governing system baffled with teenagers' outburst of rage now impacting British political map


Transportation - 'A Need for Development'
 By Nilendu Mukherjee

http://www.countercurrents.org/Transportation.pdf

Tpromote inclusive growth in India , the need of the time is to (a) pursue infrastructure development like roads, electricity, etc., and (b) improve health and education for every section of population in the country


Indian Cricket Team's Bold Decision
 Despite The UK Riots
 By Anshul Kumar Pandey

http://www.countercurrents.org/pandey120811.htm

Amidst all the brouhaha over the rioting in London and its suburbs from the past several days, one important development that has gone quite unnoticed from the general blabber of political punditry is the Indian cricket team's decision to continue the test series in England despite the riots


Swamy's Anti-Muslim Diatribe: Recipe For Disaster
 By Yoginder Sikand

http://www.countercurrents.org/sikand120811.htm

Swamy's appeal to the Hindus and the Indian state is a sure recipe for propelling India into the throes of interminable civil war, a prospect that the radical Islamists he poses to oppose would excitedly welcome

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