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Wall Street Sit-In Goes Global Saturday
 By Alastair MacDonald

http://www.countercurrents.org/macdonald141011.htm

On Saturday around the globe from New Zealand to Alaska via London, Frankfurt, Washington and, of course, New York, people will rise up in protest


Wall Street Occupiers, The Future Depends On You
 By David Korten

http://www.countercurrents.org/korten141011.htm

 For more than 15 years, David Korten has called for an end to the Wall Street economy. Why he hopes the Occupy movement will finally change the game


Making Sense Of The Protests
 Through A Post-Growth Lens
 By James Johnston

http://www.countercurrents.org/johnston141011.htm

It's only a matter of time before confusion gives way to clarity, when we'll have to come to terms with our post growth reality. It will begin with a set of pragmatic banking reforms: a gradual increase in the fractional reserve requirement, the reconnection of investment banking to the real economy, and the regulation of derivatives. That's just the beginning


Revisiting Population Growth:
 The Impact Of Ecological Limits
 By Robert Engelman

http://www.countercurrents.org/engelman141011.htm

Demographers are predicting that world population will climb to 10 billion later this century. But with the planet heating up and growing numbers of people putting increasing pressure on water and food supplies and on life-sustaining ecosystems, will this projected population boom turn into a bust?


Toward Sino-Russian Comprehensive
 Strategic Relationship
 By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury141011.htm

Russia and China are in a chorus after their recent Libya experience. The old foes turned friends are moving toward, as Chinese president Hu Jintao said, a "comprehensive strategic relationship."


The Prisoner Swap
 By Phyllis Bennis

http://www.countercurrents.org/bennis141011.htm

The question now remains whether the deal will go through, whether 1023 Palestinian families and one Israeli family, plus all the millions on both sides waiting, waiting….will finally see their loved ones go free


US Aid Freeze Designed To Further
 Punish Palestinians
 By Michelle Gyeney

http://www.countercurrents.org/gyeney141011.htm

While Fatah, the party in control of the PA, has coolly asserted that Arab donors would cover any deficit that results from missing US funds, the PA should take the opportunity to institute internal reforms to reduce the government's extraordinary dependence on foreign aid. That is what a government that represents the best interests of the Palestinian people would and should do


The Suicide Of Liberty
 By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts141011.htm

Pat Buchanan's latest book, Suicide of a Superpower, raises the question whether America will survive to 2025. The question might strike some readers as unduly pessimistic and others as optimistic. It is unclear whether the US, as we have known it, will survive its next presidential election


Now A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) For Vehicles
 By Gopal Krishna

http://www.countercurrents.org/krishna141011.htm

After animals and human beings Government has now proposed to tag even vehicles with unique identification (UID) using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)



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