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Talks Fail To End Egypt Protests
By Al Jazeera

http://www.countercurrents.org/aljazeera070211.htm

Pro-democracy protesters are continuing their sit-in in Cairo's Tahrir (Liberation) Square for the fourteenth consecutive day, showing no signs of being appeased by talks held a day earlier between the government and opposition groups


Protests Demanding Mubarak To Resign Grow Stronger, Despite Some
Government Concessions
By Sharif Abdel Kouddous & Hossam Bahgat

http://www.countercurrents.org/bahgat070211.htm

Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Hossam Bahgat, an Egyptian human rights activist speak live from Cairo


Media Crackdown In Egypt
By Sharif Abdel Kouddous

http://www.countercurrents.org/kouddous070211.htm

Democracy Now!'s Sharif Abdel Kouddous reports from Tahrir Square on the systematic targeting of journalists in Egypt


A Call From Egyptian Socialists
By Socialistworker

http://www.countercurrents.org/sw070211.htm

Revolutionary socialists in Egypt issued this statement about the Egyptian uprising and the tasks that the movement faces as the struggle continues in the coming weeks


The Arab Uprising: 12 Questions And 12 Answers
By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar

http://www.countercurrents.org/muzaffar070211.htm

Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, Professor of Global Studies and President of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST), discusses the Arab Uprising in this article presented in a Q & A format


We Are All Part Of Egypt's Revolution
By Matthew Cassel

http://www.countercurrents.org/cassel070211.htm

Even though I'm not Egyptian, I use the term "we," because at this point all of us in Egypt on the side of truth have become a part of the revolution. As the US-backed dictator and his forces try to repress all activists and journalists, just to be here and to type these words -- to witness the struggle of the Egyptian people -- is in itself an act of defiance and revolution


The Danger To Egypt's Revolution Comes From Washington
By Ali Abunimah

http://www.countercurrents.org/abunimah070211.htm

The greatest danger to the Egyptian revolution and the prospects for a free and independent Egypt emanates not from the "baltagiyya" -- the mercenaries and thugs the regime sent to beat, stone, stab, shoot and kill protestors in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities last week -- but from Washington


Egypt Eruption: Dilemma For Democracy
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury070211.htm

Two factors are now defining the character and extent of democracy with opposing goals in Egypt: the people and the external king makers. Both of the factors are maneuvering within respective limits and with respective strengths, and array of political forces are changing fast. The moves by both the factors show respective limits of strength and weakness


Egyptian Protests: A Defining Moment For Arab World
By Suhail Masoodi

http://www.countercurrents.org/masoodi0070211.htm

No matter what, there are visible signs of change, but the bigger question is: Can imposition of western model of free market liberal democracy bring justice and fulfill the people's aspirations?


Pox Americana
By Tom Engelhardt

http://www.countercurrents.org/engelhardt070211.htm

Driving through the gates of hell and other American pastimes in the greater Middle East


Swiss Miss Bush – GWB Ducks  Geneva Criminal Torture Charges
By Bill Quigley

http://www.countercurrents.org/quigley070211.htm

Justice for George W's torture violations jumped much closer this weekend. Ex-President George W Bush was supposed to fly to Switzerland to speak in Geneva February 15. But his speech was cancelled over the weekend because of concerns about protests and efforts by human rights organizations asking Swiss prosecutors to charge Bush with torture and serve him with an arrest warrant


Recognizing The Language Of Tyranny
By Chris Hedges

http://www.countercurrents.org/hedges070211.htm

Empires communicate in two languages. One language is expressed in imperatives. It is the language of command and force. This militarized language disdains human life and celebrates hypermasculinity. The other language of empire is softer. It employs the vocabulary of ideals and lofty goals and insists that the power of empire is noble and benevolent


The Shift In State Of The Atmosphere (PDF)
By Andrew Glikson

http://www.countercurrents.org/glikson070211.pdf

The release to the atmosphere and oceans of hundreds of billions of tons of carbon from fossil biospheres, at the rate of >2 ppm CO2 per year, is unprecedented in geological history of Earth, excepting events such as asteroid impacts which excavated and vaporized carbon-rich sediments, interfering with the carbon and oxygen cycles, which led to mass extinction of species


Development And Environment Issues With
Special Reference To Gandhian Perspective
By Dr. Kavita Y. Suchak

http://www.countercurrents.org/suchak070211.htm

When the basic problems of Indian economy are analyzed, the pattern of income distribution, inequality, poverty, unemployment are still existing as they were when Gandhiji advocated the spinning-wheel as a panacea for all ills. Thus, his emphasis on Khadi and village industries was not a temporary measure, but a permanent solution to overcome the root problems of poverty and unemployment from India


Fantasies Of Hyper-Globalism: The WWF's Energy Report
By Erik Lindberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/lindberg070211.htm

In a report meant to be both inspiring and reassuring, the WWF ambitiously declares that the world can switch to 95% renewable energy sources by 2050. The Scenario depends largely on increased efficiency and regulated flows of energy through a great system of interconnection. People are remarkably absent. The ostensible reason is that the report is focused on what is "technically possible," which is more about joules and btus than about human behavior


How Is An Oil Shortage Like  A Missing Cup Of Flour?
By Gail Tverberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/tverberg070211.htm

Liebig's Law of the Minimum applies in situations like this. In agriculture, it says that growth is controlled not by total resources available, but by the one in scarcest supply. If a baker does not have enough of one necessary ingredient, he will have to make a smaller batch. I wonder if it isn't a little like this with oil and the economy


Letter To The Polish Government Regarding Israel's Apartheid Policies
By Prof. Rachel Giora ,Shir Hever, Eytan Lerner,
Ofer Neiman & Emily Schaeffer

http://www.countercurrents.org/schaeffer070211.htm

We are a group of Israeli citizens who are deeply concerned about our government's policies of apartheid and occupation, and the European Union's complicity in these policies. . We are writing to you to ask that you resume your responsibility to uphold basic principles of international law and human rights in Israel/Palestine


The Case Of Golibar
By Chatura Rao

http://www.countercurrents.org/rao070211.htm

In Khar east, Mumbai, is a 140-acre slum called Golibar, second largest to Dharavi. Golibar's 46 societies are slated to be demolished under the Slum Rehabilitation Act (SRA) to make way for a project called Santa City. The people of Golibar are making a heroic resistance


More Torture Unpunished
By Mary Shaw

http://www.countercurrents.org/shaw070211.htm

In January, former Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison. He had been charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. Burge, who is white, allegedly spent decades torturing black murder suspects - shocking, burning, and suffocating them - until they confessed. While I am pleased to see Burge behind bars, I am disappointed that he was convicted not for torturing the suspects but merely for lying about the torture


A North American Security Perimeter Threatens  National Sovereignty
By Dana Gabriel

http://www.countercurrents.org/gabriel070211.htm

Canada and the U.S. have officially launched negotiations on a trade and security agreement which would take continental integration to the next level. A declaration issued by the leaders follows months of secret preliminary talks


Homage To A Humanist At Heart: Dr. Jallal Boussedra
By Mustapha Marrouchi

http://www.countercurrents.org/marrouchi070211.htm

A tribute to Dr. Jallal Boussedra


Field Notes On American-Style Democracy
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman070211A.htm

Throughout Egypt, millions courageously keep protesting for democratic freedoms, including free and open elections for candidates they choose. In contrast, old order Egyptians, imperial Washington, other Western powers, and Israel are determined to prevent it


Briana Waters: Victimized By Green Scare State Terrorism
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman070211B.htm

Briana Waters: An innocent woman, she's one of many victims of US state terrorism, in her case for courageous environmental activism



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