Fwd: CC Issue Nov 23 - Shell’s Arctic Drilling Will Destroy Our Homeland

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Subject: CC Issue Nov 23 - Shell's Arctic Drilling Will Destroy Our Homeland
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Shell's Arctic Drilling Will Destroy Our Homeland And Culture
By Rosemary Ahtuangaruak

http://www.countercurrents.org/rosemary231110.htm

This week families across the country will be celebrating Thanksgiving—sharing food and telling stories. Here is my story about our food and culture that would be destroyed if Shell Oil gets the permit to drill for oil in our homeland—the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas


The Deadly Lie Of Democracy In Iraq
By Ahmed Habib

http://www.countercurrents.org/habib231110.htm

Elected officials are nothing more than glorified pimps that are holding down Iraq's head while it is being violated by dozens of dollar-driven demons. In the absence of a progressive, radical, grassroots political program, the death of Iraq will continue to evolve from one election booth to the next


Hegemony Overthrow or Political Power Seizure?
What Comes First?
By Trevor Selvam

http://www.countercurrents.org/selvam231110.htm

Those who want to change things, need to rethink their alliances, as well, and also the business of overthrow of this specific cultural hegemony that is on the build. While Gramsci talked about the need to overthrow the bourgeois consensus and create an alternate radical consensus, perhaps in this country it is necessary to overthrow the middle class consensus. Without an independent civic society movement this cannot happen


Remembering Chalmers Ashby Johnson
(8/6/31 - 11/20/10)
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman231110.htm

It's no way to begin a Sunday or any day. An email explained. My first thought was: damn, we lost another good one when we urgently need him and many others, given the state of today's America - out-of-control militarism, imperial arrogance, and homeland repression at a time of economic crisis for millions. Johnson knew the threat, challenging it brilliantly in his important writings and outspokenness. Now he's gone


Haiti's Sham Elections:
Solidifying Imperial Control
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman231110A.htm

On November 28, first round legislative and presidential elections will be held. Democracy will be absent because the nation's most popular party, Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas, and 14 others are excluded, the system rigged to install Washington's favorites


Interview With Erri De Luca
By Kourosh Ziabari

http://www.countercurrents.org/ziabari231110.htm

Erri De Luca is an internationally-renowned Italian poet and writer. "Corriere della Sera" literature critic Giorgio De Rienzo has called him "the writer of the decade"


UID//Aadhaar Scheme Is Against Civil Liberties
By Gopal Krishna

http://www.countercurrents.org/krishna231110.htm

The Unique Identity (UID) Number is a rare project which has unleashed the concept of massively organised information as means of social control, a weapon of war, and for the victimisation of ethnic groups, minorities and political adversaries


COICA Blacklisted By Senator Wyden
By Chris Pratt

http://www.countercurrents.org/pratt231110.htm

Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, said late Thursday that he would seek to block the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, or COICA, from passing through the full Senate, unless the legislation is changed."


Bush's 'Damn Right' Shallow Book
By Habib Siddiqui

http://www.countercurrents.org/siddiqui231110.htm

Bush is a wretched character who is emotionally and intellectually incapable of truthfully reassessing the past. He is delusional. His memoir miserably fails to shed any new light that would offer its readers a better appreciation of him


The New War Congress
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson231110.htm

To understand just how bad the 112th Congress, elected on November 2nd and taking office on January 3rd, is likely to be for peace on Earth, one has to understand how incredibly awful the 110th and 111th Congresses have been during the past four years and then measure the ways in which things are likely to become even worse


In Terror Prosecution Cases,
Justice Does Not Mean Convictions
By Mary Shaw

http://www.countercurrents.org/shaw231110.htm

On November 17, in federal court in New York City, Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was convicted of a single charge of conspiracy in connection with the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. He was acquitted of 284 other counts against him. Ghailani was the first Gitmo detainee to be tried in federal court rather than a military commission. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for January


Banks Too Have Social Obligations
By Bilal Hussain

http://www.countercurrents.org/hussain231110.htm

The banks here are making profits during unrest but at what cost? I believe social, which is not fine. By taxing denizens of the valley, who are already financially strained, due to continued market closures barring few days is an act of profiteering


A Swami With Terror Agenda
By M Shamsur Rabb Khan

http://www.countercurrents.org/rabb231110.htm

On 19 November 2010, the CBI arrested "Swami Asimanand", believed to be the mastermind of the Ajmer Dargah and Mecca Masjid, Hyderabad blasts -- both occurred on 11 October and 18 May 2007 respectively


Bhagwan Das: A True Inheritor Of
Ambedkar's Mission
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat231110.htm

The passing away of veteran Ambedkarite Bhagwan Das is closure of a great chapter in the contemporary Dalit movement. A close associate of Baba Saheb Ambedkar, Bhagwan Das in every sense of life lived a life of true follower of Baba Saheb


Darul Uloom Deoband Turns Into A Fatwa Factory:
Triple Talaq And Women's rights In Islam
By Adnan Alavi

http://www.countercurrents.org/alavi231110.htm

Due to Darul Uloom Deoband's historic role and its Ulama's recent social initiatives, one could have ignored a couple of controversial fatwas but the latest fatwa has once again proved that there is something seriously wrong with the seminary, especially the Darul Ifta or the 'Fatwa wing'. It is no longer an aberration when the Darul Uloom opines that even if a person has uttered the word 'talaq' thrice and his wife couldn't hear it, the divorce takes place


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