Fwd: CC Issue 10, Feb - How Minorities, Poor, Are Kept Out Of US Law Schools

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Subject: CC Issue 10, Feb - How Minorities, Poor, Are Kept Out Of US Law Schools
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Optimism In Egypt
By Al Jazeera

http://www.countercurrents.org/aljazeera100211.htm

Ruling party officials suggest Egypt's president will 'meet protesters demands', ahead of televised statement


Hypocrisy Is Exposed By The Wind Of Change
By Robert Fisk

http://www.countercurrents.org/fisk100211.htm

So when the Arabs cry out for the very future that Obama outlined, we show them disrespect


Hurriya Is Arabic For Freedom:
Just Listen To Egypt Roar
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud100211.htm

Just when we were told that a religious strife was about to engulf Egypt, and that the people were subdued to the point that there was no hope, millions of brave Egyptians declared a revolution that brought Muslims and Christians together. The courage and the bravery they displayed is enough to restore our faith in the world - in the human race, and in ourselves


The Fascination Of The Mediterranean World:
A Personal Testimony
By Gaither Stewart

http://www.countercurrents.org/stewart100211.htm

For thirty years Mubarak has deceived and deluded everyone—Europe, USA, Israel and Egyptians themselves—with the dilemma: Either I, Mubarak, or the Moslem Brotherhood. The dictator has performed in true dictator style, offering rewards to Western friends who in turn have granted him the title of "moderate" and his regime as a moderate one. The millions of Egyptians on the streets today do not agree


Egypt's Focus Largely Ignores Palestine
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman100211.htm

Whether or not Egyptians prevail, besieged Gazans face increasing hardships heading toward crisis conditions if essential supplies and services remain spotty or unaffordable. Yet media reports largely ignore them. Even Al Jazeera offers only occasional accounts


How Minorities, Poor, Are Kept Out Of
US Law Schools
By Lawrence Velvel, Michael Coyne & Sherwood Ross

http://www.countercurrents.org/ross100211.htm

If law school enrollment today is made up largely of the white and the wealthy, it is because the American Bar Association, the chief accreditor of the nation's law schools, has designed the rules that produce this outcome. It's not that minorities and students from low-income households don't want to attend law school; it's that they are being priced out by soaring tuition costs, up 267 percent since 1990, and shut out by the culturally biased Law School Admissions Test


Nobel Winners Appeal For Dr Binayak Sen's Release
By Nobel Laureates

http://www.countercurrents.org/sen100211.htm

We, the 38 undersigned Nobel Laureates, respectfully express our astonishment and dismay at the unjust life sentence handed down last month in India to a fellow scientist and human rights advocate, 61-year-old Dr. Binayak Sen


Peak oil: We Are Asleep At The Wheel
By Jeremy Leggett

http://www.countercurrents.org/leggett100211.htm

Revelations that the Saudis have overstated their oil reserves are a timely reminder of the huge threat to the global economy


Why Bradley Manning Is A Patriot, Not A Criminal
By Chase Madar

http://www.countercurrents.org/madar100211.htm

An opening statement for the defense of private Manning


From Toilet To Planet: A Brief Journey Of Survival
By Subhankar Banerjee

http://www.countercurrents.org/banerjee100211.htm

Today Representative Darrell Issa (R–California), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is starting a series of hearings to deregulate the US. Issa, Upton and their newly–elected tea–drinking GOP colleagues with their corporation–friendly agendas are planning to make the rich richer, poor poorer, and while doing so endanger public health in America and destroy a bit more of our biodiversity


War And Missiles: Obama's Requiem
For The Dead And Dying
By Larry Pinkney

http://www.countercurrents.org/pinkney100211.htm

Educate, organize, agitate! Speak truth to power! It is the corporate / military Democratic and Republican Party foxes and wolves, to whom the wars and missiles and the 'requiem for the dead' belong. Ours however, is yet to be penned, and it will be a new kind of composition - one for Mother Earth and for the living and those yet unborn! One done for and by the determined actions of everyday people!


America Is No Example Of Democracy
By Timothy V. Gatto

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatto100211.htm

So what gives us the right to interfere in the politics of another nation? The fact of the matter is that when we intervene in any nation's affairs, it's for our own interests. This is one reason why the world hates America. Our government should understand this: until we get it right in the United States, we should stay out of the affairs of other nations


Baltasar Garzón: El Juez Indomable (PDF)
By George Venturini

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

Judge Baltasar Garzón, of the Spanish Audiencia National, Fifth Chamber of the Central Criminal Court, was indicted in April 2010 for knowingly and willfully exceeding his competence when investigating crimes committed by the Franco regime which were said to be covered by an amnesty. He had - as charged in March 2010 - twisted the limits of his jurisdiction to by-pass the amnesty law enacted by the Spanish Parliament in 1977, two years after the death of the Caudillo, and thus to be able to engineer a case when there was none


No Multiculturalism Please, We're British
By Farzana Versey

http://www.countercurrents.org/versey100211.htm

It's failed and all because of Islamic terrorism. Soon after British Prime Minister David Cameron pronounced the defeat of multiculturalism, it was but a matter of time before commentators would go on their 'let's separate the wheat from the chaff' binge


U.P. Tops In Atrocities Against Dalits
By S.R.Darapuri

http://www.countercurrents.org/darapuri100211.htm

Uttar Pradesh (U.P.) has earned the dubious distinction of being a state where the highest numbers of atrocities have been committed against the Dalits (Scheduled Castes) for the last many years. It is in spite of the fact that this state is being ruled by a Dalit Chief Minister for the fourth time who is going to complete her fourth year in office. U.P. has the largest Dalit population in India numbering about 35.1 million and nearly 21.5% of total state population


Judiciary And Its Brahmanical Prejudices In India
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat100211.htm

Two Judges of Supreme court recently, for the first time in our judicial history, had the courage to challenge the religious text of the Brahmanical order. In an order favoring tribal women's land right violating which the powerful in the village termed her as witch and paraded her in the village


Remembering Shahid Azmi, The Shaheed
By Mahtab Alam

http://www.countercurrents.org/alam100211.htm

It is true that Shahid is not amongst us, and his untimely and violent death foreclosed rich possibilities that lay before all of us interested in justice


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