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Subject: CC Issue 18 August - Devastating Flooding In Ladakh
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Did Lebanon Grant Palestinian Refugees
The Right To Work? Hardly
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb180810.htm

Unfortunately Lebanon did not grant its Palestinian refugees meaningful civil rights on 8/17/10 or even significantly improve their work prospects. What it did do was cancel the work permit fee ( which was never a big problem) and allow for the setting up of a private Social Security Fund (not the Lebanese National Security Fund as misreported in much of the media.) The Palestinian Private Fund was a compromise. If the Private Fund is set up it will be paid for by Palestinian workers themselves and hoped for private donations


Devastating Flooding In Ladakh
By Helena Norberg-Hodge

http://www.countercurrents.org/hodge180810.htm

Message From A Devastated Ladakh


NOMA – The Face Of Poverty
By Siv O'Neall

http://www.countercurrents.org/oneall180810.htm

Malnutrition and hunger are not only direct killers of children and adults all over the developing world. A lesser-known but horrible result of the negligence and callousness of the rich Western world is a cruelly disfiguring disease called noma , a scourge which is destroying lives in large parts of the developing nations


Collusion: The Greatest Untold Story Of Our Times
By Dan Glazebrook

http://www.countercurrents.org/glazebrook180810.htm

British state collusion with loyalist death squads in Northern Ireland. Around 1100 people have been killed by loyalists as a result of collusion with the agencies of the British state


IEA: 'Cheap Oil Is Over' As Demand
Approaches New Record
By Matthew Wild

http://www.countercurrents.org/wild180810.htm

According to the IEA's latest Oil Market Report, published August 11, global demand will reach 86.6 million barrels per day in 2010, and then 87.9 million barrels per day in 2011, assuming a continuing global economic recovery. This means demand is set to pass the all-time high of 86.9 million barrels per day established in 2008 before the global economic downturn


Death By Storytelling
By Tim Murray

http://www.countercurrents.org/murray180810.htm

If I were to write an epitaph of the human race, it would be "Death by Storytelling". For eons we sat around the campfire regaling listeners with tales---myths and legends that would entrance and beguile us. And we are still doing it. Our appetite for escapist novels, movies, heroic feats of athletic accomplishment and fairytales is insatiable. And if even a morsel of truth is to be swallowed, it must be coated in entertainment


Time To Terminate Western Civilization
Before It Terminates Us
By Guy R. McPherson

http://www.countercurrents.org/mcpherson180810.htm

This essay provides a brief overview of the dire nature of our predicaments with respect to fossil fuels. The primary consequences of our fossil-fuel addiction stem from two primary phenomena: peak oil and global climate change. The former spells the end of western civilization, which might come in time to prevent the extinction of our species at the hand of the latter. Global climate change threatens our species with extinction by mid-century is we do not terminate the industrial economy soon


Dwindling Fossil Fuels And Our Food System
By Lester R. Brown

http://www.countercurrents.org/brown180810.htm

The relationship between energy and food is unsustainable, given the prospect of peak oil production. How long can we depend on fossil fuels to facilitate the transfer of food from farm to fork?


Facebook Scandal Escalates As Group Posts New Photos
By Ma'an news

http://www.countercurrents.org/maan180810.htm

An Israeli human rights group has released pictures of Israeli soldiers and border guards alongside blindfolded and handcuffed Palestinian detainees -- some of them dead


The Israeli Images: A Brutal 'Net' Scape
By Farzana Versey

http://www.countercurrents.org/versey180810.htm

As a member of the Israeli armed force not only was Eden Abergil expected to resort to violence, but to hate the very idea of Palestine. The outrage her social networking has sparked off is merely a facile reaction. Why does a military spokesperson describe her behaviour as "disgraceful" when far worse happens on the ground?


Afghan Women Have Already Been Abandoned
By Ann Jones

http://www.countercurrents.org/jones180810.htm

The Taliban do terrible things. Yet the problem with demonizing them is that it diverts attention away from other, equally unpleasant and threatening facts. Let's not make the common mistake of thinking that the devil we see is the only one


Israel: An Apatheid State
By Francis A. Boyle

http://www.countercurrents.org/boyle180810.htm

There are roads in the West Bank for Jews only. Palestinians can't ride there and now they're introducing new legislation that Jews cannot even ride Palestinians in their cars. Israeli apartheid against the Palestinians is worse than the apartheid that the Afrikaners inflicted on the Blacks in South Africa


And The State, Is It Loyal?
By Neve Gordon

http://www.countercurrents.org/gordon180810.htm

The demand of a loyalty oath in Israel has ominous similarities to the demands made by Mussolini's Italy


The Secrets In Israel's Archives
By Jonathan Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook180810.htm

Evidence of ethnic cleansing kept under lock and key


Impact Of Israeli Military Order No. 1650
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman180810.htm

Order No. 1650 (Prevention of Infiltration) and Order No. 1949 (Security Provisions) were issued in October 2009 as amendments to a 1969 Order No. 329 . Potentially, all West Bank and East Jerusalemites risk dispossession and expulsion, part of Israel's longstanding policy to seize all parts of Palestine it wishes, removing indigenous Arabs from their homeland illegally, controlling those remaining under an oppressive apartheid system critics call worse than South Africa's with good reason


Scientists Estimate Nearly 80 Percent Of Oil
Remains A Threat
By David Walsh

http://www.countercurrents.org/walsh180810.htm

One of the studies out this week, organized by the Georgia Sea Grant, "strongly contradicts" reports suggesting that only 25 percent of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill remains. The Georgia study, released in a 5-page memo Tuesday, accepts the NIC claim that some 10 percent of the spilled oil was either burned or skimmed. "Thus," writes the team, "90% of the oil that entered the Gulf of Mexico has not been recovered."


The Magnitude Of the Pakistan Floods
Is Unprecedented
By John Holmes & Mosharraf Zaidi

http://www.countercurrents.org/zaidi180810.htm

The United Nations is warning millions of Pakistanis are at risk of deadly waterborne diseases more than two weeks since Pakistan's worst-ever flooding began. The World Health Organization says around six million people—over half of them children—face the threat of cholera and dysentery, as well as typhoid and hepatitis. The flooding has killed over 1,600 people and displaced 20 million—nearly 12 percent of Pakistan's population. We speak to UN Humanitarian Chief John Holmes and Pakistani analyst Mosharraf Zaidi


Is Kashmir An Integral Part Of India?
By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai

http://www.countercurrents.org/fai180810.htm

Dr. Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India's assertion that "Kashmir is an integral part of India" needs to be supplemented by some observations from the viewpoint of the people of Kashmir. This deserves to be borne in mind by all those who wish the conflict to be justly resolved once and for all


Campus Woes
By Bhat Iqbal

http://www.countercurrents.org/iqbal180810.htm

Few days back when in the campus of India's most democratic institutions, a student wing of Bharatiya Janata party organized a protest . Their protest was somewhat different in colour as well as creed. Their slogans were something which any human conscience can never expect. They were uttering out words like long live CRPF, Kashmir protests down down..and so on. No where a single mention of killing of innocent children as a concern of human rights was there in the slogans


Going Republican
By Robert S. Becker

http://www.countercurrents.org/becker180810.htm

Obama did promise miracles and amazing change: Yes, he can go Republican, in spirit if not in letter


Sri Lanka: Losers And Winner
By Nilantha Ilangamuwa

http://www.countercurrents.org/ilangamuwa180810.htm

Who are the real losers and winners in Sri Lanka? Why, after crushing the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May, 2009, does the tear drop shaped country remain in a state of pathetic instability?


Is Abinav Bharat Behind Karkare's Assassination?
By Mustafa Khan

http://www.countercurrents.org/mkhan180810.htm

The ghosts of Hemant Karkare, Ashok Kamte and Vijay Salaskar refuse to rest in the grave. They have come to haunt the governments and the courts now with a petition in the Bombay High Court on August 17, 2010 alleging that Abhinav Bharat got Karkare killed and not Ajmal Kasab or Ismail and hence the need to make inquiry through a commission. The Government in Delhi may dismiss the idea but the recent times have seen disturbing revelations since what happened on 26/11. Were there two parallel operations then?


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