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I Am A Pacifist. But Here's Why I Want To Be
A Stone-Pelter
By Zahid Rafiq

http://www.countercurrents.org/rafiq210810.htm

A heart wrenching story from Kashmir, one of the best to have come out of Kashmir, since the recent turmoil started


A Statement To The Palestinian People
By Dr Mustafa Barghouti MP

http://www.countercurrents.org/barghouti210810.htm

In the interest of resisting external pressure aimed at imposing direct negotiations under Israeli conditions


Letter To Attorney General, Adv. Yehuda Weinstein
By Haneen Zoabi

http://www.countercurrents.org/zoabi210810.htm

Following the statement made by the Attorney General, Adv. Yehuda Weinstein, in which he would examine a request to revoke the citizenship of Member of Knesset (MK) Haneen Zoabi after the conclusion of the ongoing investigation into her for her participation in the Freedom Flotilla, MK Zoabi sent him the following outraged and sharply-worded letter


Waging Peace From Afar: Divestment
And Israeli Occupation
By Phyllis Bennis

http://www.countercurrents.org/bennis210810.htm

A growing grassroots movement is using the techniques of the anti-apartheid movement to challenge U.S. support for Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories


West Bank Boycott Campaign
Impacting Settlement Economy
By The Electronic Intifada

http://www.countercurrents.org/ei210810.htm

Grassroots Palestinian boycott campaigns across the occupied West Bank to take Israeli settlement products off the shelves of local stores have made an impact on the Israeli settlement economy, to the unease of the Israeli government, noted the Israeli daily Haaretz this week


Israeli Academic Freedom At Risk
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman210810.htm

Ben-Gurion University Professor Neve Gordon got death threats for supporting BDS, more still for criticizing the Gaza Flotilla massacre. He and many others defend speech and academic freedoms, hundreds of professors petitioning against Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar intention to punish university lecturers and institutions for freely using them


Can You Teach Emotional Intelligence?
By Katherine Gustafson

http://www.countercurrents.org/gustafson210810.htm

The value of getting students to understand and deal with their own emotions cannot be overstated. Studies show that students in SEL programs not only perform better on achievement tests, but also have significantly fewer suspensions and expulsions, better school attendance, higher grades, and decreased prevalence of high-risk behaviors such as violence and drug and alcohol use


3 Pillars Of A Food Revolution
By Anna Lappé


http://www.countercurrents.org/lappe210810.htm

As marketers learn to fake climate-friendly food, how do we spot the real thing? Anna Lappé says it's a question of values


Iraq: Torture. Corruption. Civil War.
America Has Certainly Left Its Mark
By Robert Fisk

http://www.countercurrents.org/fisk210810.htm

We should not be taken in by the tomfoolery on the Kuwaiti border in the last few hours, the departure of the last "combat" troops from Iraq two weeks ahead of schedule. Nor by the infantile cries of "We won" from teenage soldiers. They are leaving behind 50,000 men and women - a third of the entire US occupation force - who will be attacked and who will still have to fight against the insurgency


Millions Of Pakistani Flood Victims Face
Continuing Crisis
By Vilani Peiris

http://www.countercurrents.org/peiris210810.htm

After a two-day session of the UN General Assembly ended yesterday, the amount of international aid pledged for Pakistani flood victims still fell well short of the $US460 million in emergency aid that the UN has appealed for. For all of the cynical displays of concern for the fate of the Pakistani people at the UN meeting, the issue of aid was dominated by the narrow self-interest of the major powers


France Deports Roma en masse
By Antoine Lerougetel

http://www.countercurrents.org/antoine210810.htm

On Thursday, in a deliberately high-profile attack on the Roma community, the French government deported 93 Roma gypsies to Romania, their country of origin, in two flights from Paris and Lyon. A further flight with 100 deportees was due to leave on Friday and another on August 26


India Scraps Controversial Dam On
River Bhagirithi In The Himalayas
By Devinder Sharma

http://www.countercurrents.org/dsharma210810.htm

After the moratorium on Bt Brinjal -- which could have been India's first poisonous GM food crop -- the scrapping of the 600 MW Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project on Bhagirithi river in the lap of the Himalayas (in Uttarakhand State) is another firm but major decision that has been swayed by public opinion


More Than Just An Arrest
By Nagarik Mancha

http://www.countercurrents.org/mancha210810.htm

On 17th August 2010, social activist and our General Secretary, Naba Dutta, had been arrested from West Medinipur. Owing to unprecedented public outcry against the arrest, he was granted bail next day, but not before serious, and totally fabricated, criminal charges were brought against him. Why and how did this happen?


Australia's Sham Elections
By Ghali Hassan

http://www.countercurrents.org/hassan210810.htm

In a nation prides itself of being a "tolerant" and a "fair go" nation, one expects the candidates campaigning for Prime Minister position will be concerned with the Australia's complicity in illegal imperialist wars, equality and the environment. Sadly, both candidates are playing the race card, because racism is deeply-entrenched in white Australia


BJP's Theft
By Shabnam Hashmi

http://www.countercurrents.org/hashmi210810.htm

I am absolutely shocked to see a BJP advertisement issued by your party in the Indian Express on 20.8.2010 and Navbharat Times on 21.8.2010 wherein a photograph of an ANHAD demonstration at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi held on 8.7.10 has been misused


The Ayodhya Judgement And Challenges Ahead
By Rahul Pathak

http://www.countercurrents.org/pathak210810.htm

Something worth noting is brewing in the saffron cauldron and preparations are on as the date of judgement of sixty year old Ramjanambhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute is coming closer. Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has initiated a four month campaign from August 16 which will touch at least 8000 places in the country under the banner of 'Hanuman Shakti Jagran Samiti'


War Of Words: Occupation v Liberation
By Chandi Sinnathurai

http://www.countercurrents.org/sinnathurai220810.htm

The rhetoric of the Tamil diaspora is that in the North and East the Sri Lankan Armed forces are occupying Tamil territories. Hence, it is said, the Tamil population feel and see this as an act of occupation by force. If this is the case, the "Winning hearts and minds of the Tamils" campaign of the Sri Lankan state is at stake


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