Fw: CC Update 04 Jan- On The Way To Copenhagen We Added A World Food Crisis

[Brian Rayner]

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Subject: CC Update 04 Jan- On The Way To Copenhagen We Added A World Food
Crisis

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> Obama's War On Yemen
> By Stephen Lendman
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> http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman040110.htm
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> Besides waging direct or proxy wars on multiple fronts in Iraq,
> Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, the Philippines, Sudan, Eastern Congo,
> elsewhere in Africa, and likely to erupt almost anywhere at any time,
> Yemen is now a new front in America's "war on terror" under a president,
> who as a candidate, promised diplomacy, not conflict, if elected
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> Questions Mount Over Attempt To Bomb
> Detroit-Bound Jetliner
> By Patrick Martin
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> http://www.countercurrents.org/martin040110.htm
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> Ten days after the failed attempt to explode a bomb onboard Northwest
> Flight 253 as it approached Detroit—an action that, if successful, would
> have killed nearly 300 people—there are mounting questions about the
> actions of US government agencies
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> What To Watch For In 2010
> By Tom Engelhardt & Nick Turse
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> http://www.countercurrents.org/turse040110.htm
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> According to the Chinese calendar, 2010 is the Year of the Tiger. We don't
> name our years, but if we did, this one might prospectively be called the
> Year of the Assassin
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>
> Obama And Iran's Opposition
> By Mark Vorpahl
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> http://www.countercurrents.org/vorpahl040110.htm
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> The Obama administration is being forced to walk a narrow path between its
> aims to put a more compliant regime in Iran and navigating away from the
> threat of a militant popular movement which will put the needs of the vast
> majority first rather than the domestic and foreign capitalist interests.
> Obama's fine words regarding the protests on December 26-27 cannot be
> taken at face value. They are an attempt to cover up an inevitable
> betrayal
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> The Chilcot Inquiry: Britain’s 9/11 Commission
> By Maidhc Ó Cathail
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> http://www.countercurrents.org/ocathail040110.htm
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> Just as the Zelikow-directed 9/11 Commission suppressed evidence that the
> main motive for the September 11 attacks was American support for Israel,
> Freedman’s presence on the Chilcot Inquiry is a clear indication that
> there will be no inquiry into the role of Zionist insiders in taking
> Britain to war against Iraq—a country that posed a threat not to British
> interests but to Israel’s regional hegemony
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> On The Way To Copenhagen We Added
> A World Food Crisis
> By Robert Palmer
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> http://www.countercurrents.org/palmer040110.htm
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> What would our economy and climate change look like today if we had not
> chosen to build, build, build the Alaska Pipe Line? Imagine if the US, the
> largest polluter in the world until 2007, had prevented billions of tons
> of CO2 from reaching the atmospher
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> Apology To The Earth For Nuclear Bombs And War
> By Mary Hamer, M.D
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> http://www.countercurrents.org/hamer040110.htm
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> This Apology to the Earth essayexplores the negative impact of humans on
> the Earth by Nuclear Technology and War
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>
> Gaza Freedom March Marches In Cairo
> Against Blockade
> By Sharat G. Lin
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> http://www.countercurrents.org/lin040109.htm
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> Delegates of the Gaza Freedom March were defeated in their desire to
> travel to Gaza, but, as a result of the struggles in the streets and
> embassies of Cairo, they were more determined than ever that the blockade
> of Gaza by both Israel and Egypt must be lifted. Bitur Nabi Tammam of
> Bahrain saw the bright side, “Even if they don't allow us to cross, I
> think it has accomplished the purpose that from all over the world you see
> people left their families, left their homes, to come here to say 'freedom
> for Gaza,' 'freedom for Palestine,' 'open the gates!'”
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> Coal And Its Ruptured Landscape;
> Navigating The Ruins Of Appalachia
> By Frank Joseph Smecker
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> http://www.countercurrents.org/smecker040110.htm
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> Along the backbone of the eastern United States, better known as
> Appalachia, a relatively new trend in coal mining is underway. Mountaintop
> removal (MTR), a process through which the ubiquitous hankering for cheap
> energy, harnessed by the coal industry and, combined with explosives to
> blow tops of mountains into a state of environmental and socio-economic
> ruin, has been plaguing Appalachia for decades. Industry giants like
> Peabody Coal Co., Horizon Resources LLC and Arch Coal Inc. (among others)
> have taken advantage of coal mining legislation to advance the efficiency
> of coal extraction through MTR
>
>
> Gilgit Baltsitan: The Dawn Of Democracy Or
> The Continuity Of Blemished Political System
> By Zafar Iqbal
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> http://www.countercurrents.org/iqbal040110.htm
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> The election of Northern Areas Legislative Assembly has completed the most
> considerable constituent of the Constitutional Package enforced by the
> Government of Pakistan to empower the local population in Pakistan
> Controlled Gilgit-Baltistan region, however, allegations of massive
> procedural irregularities, government interference and rigging have been
> levelled against the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) which emerged as
> the single largest party in the election
>
>
> Salute To Women Liberator - Savitribai Phule-
> On Birthday, 3rd January
> By Pardeep Singh Attri
>
> http://www.countercurrents.org/attri040110.htm
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> It is indeed a measure of the ruthlessness of elite-controlled
> knowledge-production that a figure as important as Savitribai Phule fails
> to find any mention in the history of modernIndia. Her life and struggle
> deserves to be appreciated by a wider spectrum, and made known to
> non-Marathi people as well
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