Fwd: CC Issue 28 August - Checkpoint:A Video Documentary

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Subject: CC Issue 28 August - Checkpoint:A Video Documentary
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Checkpoint:A Video Documentary
By Yoav Shamir

http://www.countercurrents.org/shamir280810.htm

Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir once served his army reserve duty as a checkpoint guard, which was what inspired him to make this documentary, Checkpoint. For 80 minutes, Shamir simply shows us videotape of what happens at the various checkpoints that the Israeli government operates, which are in place to regulate the travel of Palestinians, purportedly in an effort to combat terrorism


Another 500,000 Flee Indus Breaches
Taliban Threaten Aid Workers;
Global Warming Implicated
By Juan Cole

http://www.countercurrents.org/cole280810.htm

The raging, swollen Indus River abruptly breached an embankment in the Thatta district in Sindh, Pakistan, on Wednesday evening, unexpectedly sending flood waters toward the town of Thatta and several others in the district. Panicked residents tried to flee in the thousands


How Much Proof Do The Global Warming
Deniers Need?
By Johann Hari

http://www.countercurrents.org/hari280810.htm

Everything the climate scientists said would happen - with their pesky graphs and studies and computers - is coming to pass. This is proving the hottest year eve


Plotting The Coming Oil Shock
By Matthew Wild

http://www.countercurrents.org/wild280810.htm

Forecasting World Crude Oil Production Using Multicyclic Hubbert Model, written by two Kuwait University engineers and a representative of Kuwait Oil Company predicts World production will peak in 2014 at a production rate of 79 MMSTB/D, and then it will start declining to reach about 30 MMSTB/D in 2050


To Walk Is Human
By Alan Wartes

http://www.countercurrents.org/warters2800810.htm

Walking is how we belong to the world. It's how we belong to each other. It's how we see best what's coming—for us, not for people half-way across the country or the world—and how we know what to do about it. It's how we begin tuning ourselves to the frequency of a post-oil world


New Work Centers And High-Tech Self-Providing
By Juliet Schor

http://www.countercurrents.org/schor280810.htm

The high tech self-providing economy is one that has a great deal of initial appeal, but also raises many questions. Is it really possible that people could go back to doing so much for themselves? Is it a viable option for the unemployed? What can be done to promote such a model?


US Slashes Estimate Of Second-Quarter
Economic Growth
By Barry Grey

http://www.countercurrents.org/grey280810.htm

The Commerce Department on Friday sharply cut its estimate of US economic growth in the second quarter of 2010. The department revised downward its initial estimate, issued July 30, of a 2.4 percent increase in the gross domestic product (GDP) to the even more anemic figure of 1.6 percent


How A Hero in New Orleans After
Hurricane Katrina Was Arrested,
Labeled A Terrorist And Imprisoned
By Abdulrahman Zeitoun

http://www.countercurrents.org/zeitoun280810.htm

Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a Syrian-born New Orleans building contractor, stayed in the city while his wife and children left to Baton Rouge. He paddled the flooded streets in his canoe and helped rescue many of his stranded neighbors. Days later, armed police and National Guardsmen arrested him and accused him of being a terrorist. He was held for nearly a month, most of which he was not allowed to call his wife, Kathy


In New Orleans, Kindness Trumped Chaos
By Rebecca Solnit

http://www.countercurrents.org/solnit280810.htm

Lessons of dedication, solidarity, love, and recovery, five years after Katrina


Lessons From The Gulf: How Can We
Better Prepare For Disasters?
By Chris Kromm

http://www.countercurrents.org/kromm280810.htm

Poverty and inequality magnified Hurricane Katrina's effect on the Gulf. A resilient New Orleans means addressing these social issues first


An Artist's Pledge To Boycott
By Dave Lordan

http://www.countercurrents.org/lordan280810.htm

I am proud to be among the many Irish and Ireland-based artists from across creative disciplines who have chosen to publicly support the growing campaign of boycott against apartheid Israel


Ramsey Muniz - Guilty Of Being Latino
And Activist In America
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman280810.htm

Ramiro (Ramsey) Muniz is one of the victims, imprisoned for life without parole on a bogus drug charge. Now age 67, he's been incarcerated nearly 17 years, earlier at Leavenworth, KS federal prison, the country's largest maximum security one, more recently at the US Medical Center, Springfield, MO recovering from life threatening complications from surgery


National Food Security Mission Should Be
Linked With The Proposed National
Food Security Act
By Devinder Sharma

http://www.countercurrents.org/dsharma280810.htm

Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has turned down the Supreme Court's suggestion asking the government to ensure free distribution of food grains to the hungry poor instead of allowing it to rot in the godowns of the Food Corporation of India


Land Nor Freedom
By Javed Iqbal

http://www.countercurrents.org/iqbal280810.htm

'Nahi denge zameen!' (we won't give our land) – said one villager of Lohandiguda, as over 150 villagers – Sarpanches and ward members with their families, stood up, and walked out of the meeting with government officials on the 12th of May of this year. In 2005, the villagers in Lohandiguda didn't even know their land was up for acquisition by Tata Steel – they learnt about it after they read the newspapers


Caste Census And Indian Muslims
By Khalid Anis Ansar

http://www.countercurrents.org/ansari280810.htm

A rejoinder to Abusaleh Shariff


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