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Date: Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:26 AM
Subject: CC News Letter, 23 Nov - Symbolic Trial Finds Bush, Blair Guilty Of War Crimes
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Symbolic Trial Finds Bush, Blair Guilty Of War Crimes
By Press TV
http://www.countercurrents.org/presstv231111.htm
A symbolic trial conducted by a Malaysian tribunal has found former US President George W Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair guilty of committing crimes against humanity during the Iraq war
Millions Protest To Demand Overthrow Of
US-Backed Egyptian Junta
By Johannes Stern
http://www.countercurrents.org/stern231111.htm
On Tuesday, millions of workers and youth staged protests and strikes all over Egypt, demanding the downfall of Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi and the US-backed Egyptian junta
Van Jones And Democratic Party Operatives:
You Do Not Represent The Occupy Movement
By Kevin Zeese
http://www.countercurrents.org/zeese231111.htm
The corporate media is anointing a false leader of the Occupy Movement in Van Jones of Rebuild the Dream. The former Obama administration official is doing what Democrats always do—see the energy of an independent movement, race to the front, then lead it down a dead end and essentially destroy it
How Occupy Is Transforming
Our National Conversation
By Robin Broad & John Cavanagh
http://www.countercurrents.org/cavanagh231111.htm
In just two months, the Occupy movement has begun to unseat an economic narrative that held sway for thirty years
"The Degree To Which You Resist Is
The Degree To Which You Are Free"
By Phil Rockstroh
http://www.countercurrents.org/rockstroh231111.htm
the walls of the neoliberal prison are cracking…We are no longer isolated, enclosed in our alienation, imprisoned by a concretized sense of powerlessness; daylight is beginning to pierce the darkness of our desolate cells
Will The UN insist On Fair Trials For
Ex-Regime Loyalists In Libya?
By Franklin Lamb
http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb231111.htm
The UN Security Council must support the ICC and assure that Libyan show trials for former regime loyalist that have been indicted are avoided by conducting their trials in The Hague
Kazakhstan Now World's Largest Uranium Miner
By John C.K. Daly
http://www.countercurrents.org/daly231111.htm
Kazakhstan produces 33 percent of world's mined uranium, followed by Canada at 18 percent and Australia, with 11 percent of global output. Kazakhstan contains the world's second-largest uranium reserves, estimated at 1.5 million tons. Until two years ago Kazakhstan was the world's No. 3 uranium miner, following Australia and Canada
A Solar-Powered Car?
By Tom Murphy
http://www.countercurrents.org/murphy231111.htm
So solar powered cars fall solidly on the reality side of the reality-fantasy continuum. That said, pure solar transport (on board generation) will suffer serious limitations. More reliable transport comes with nuances that may be irritating to the purist. You can apply a bumper sticker that says SOLAR POWERED CAR, but in most cases, you will need to put an asterisk at the end with a lengthy footnote to explain exactly how you have realized that goal
Is It Really Possible To Decouple GDP Growth
From Energy Growth?
By Gail Tverberg
http://www.countercurrents.org/tverberg231111.htm
In recent years, we have heard statements indicating that it is possible to decouple GDP growth from energy growth. I have been looking at the relationship between world GDP and world energy use and am becoming increasingly skeptical that such a decoupling is really possible
Fracking Gas = Climate Crash
By Alex Smith
http://www.countercurrents.org/smith231111.htm
Escaped methane from gas fracking threaten to tip us into catastrophic climate change. The total impact of the shale gas industry may be worse than coal
Shale Gas And Climate Change:
The Other Burning Issue
By Dr. Peter Custers
http://www.countercurrents.org/custers231111.htm
If we are to avoid runaway climate change, - we need a combination of stringent prohibitions on the most destructive forms of extraction, and global policies to limit energy use. Why not buttress the demand for a ban on all drilling for tar sands oil and shale gas? Why not add the demand for a global and equitable regime of energy rationing?
Support Today's Freedom Riders
By Ending U.S. Support For Israeli Apartheid
By Josh Ruebner
http://www.countercurrents.org/ruebner231111.htm
If Rep. Lewis helped end the immorality of segregation in the United States, then half a century later he can also contribute to ending discrimination in Israel/Palestine by stopping U.S. weapons transfers that sustain Israeli apartheid toward Palestinians
Foreign Faculty, For What?
By Rajesh Kumar Sharma
http://www.countercurrents.org/rksharma231111.htm
Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia stated that the Indian universities must have an international flavour, adding that "this would not happen unless the government removes the restriction on employment of international faculty". Do we really need them?
Total Muslim Reservation: A Lesson To learn
For SP, BSP & Congress
By Ashok Yadav
http://www.countercurrents.org/yadav231111.htm
Equipped with Bihar experience the Pasmanda may spring surprise in the coming UP elections. Beware, SP, BSP and Congress!
Marriages Of Lust And Greed !
By Asif Iqbal
http://www.countercurrents.org/iqbal231111.htm
A bench of Justices Dalip Singh and Sajjan Singh Kothari in High Court of Rajasthan has stated that the marriages based on right to choose or generally known as love marriages are examples of "lust and greed"! The remark was one of few abhorrent statements made by the Bench on 21nd October 2011 during their ruling on hearing of a Habeas Corpus petition filed by a 34-year-old man
Dividing Uttar-Pradesh: The Opening Of
A Pandora's Box
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat
http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat231111.htm
It is good that Ms Mayawati has given it a serious thought but it is equally important that the issue be debated widely and should not be resolved without a State Reorganisation Commission as the stake holders are not just in Uttar-Pradesh but also in other states
Countercurrents And You !
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From: Countercurrents <editor@countercurrents.org>
Date: Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:26 AM
Subject: CC News Letter, 23 Nov - Symbolic Trial Finds Bush, Blair Guilty Of War Crimes
To: palashbiswaskl@gmail.com
Dear Friend,
If you think the content of this news letter is critical for the dignified living and survival of humanity and other species on earth, please forward it to your friends and spread the word.It's time humanity should come together as one family! You can subscribe to our news letter here http://www.countercurrents.org/subscribe.htm. You can also follow us on twitter, http://twitter.com/countercurrents and on Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/countercurrents
In Solidarity
Binu Mathew, Editor,
Countercurrents.org
Educate! Organize! Agitate!
Symbolic Trial Finds Bush, Blair Guilty Of War Crimes
By Press TV
http://www.countercurrents.org/presstv231111.htm
A symbolic trial conducted by a Malaysian tribunal has found former US President George W Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair guilty of committing crimes against humanity during the Iraq war
Millions Protest To Demand Overthrow Of
US-Backed Egyptian Junta
By Johannes Stern
http://www.countercurrents.org/stern231111.htm
On Tuesday, millions of workers and youth staged protests and strikes all over Egypt, demanding the downfall of Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi and the US-backed Egyptian junta
Van Jones And Democratic Party Operatives:
You Do Not Represent The Occupy Movement
By Kevin Zeese
http://www.countercurrents.org/zeese231111.htm
The corporate media is anointing a false leader of the Occupy Movement in Van Jones of Rebuild the Dream. The former Obama administration official is doing what Democrats always do—see the energy of an independent movement, race to the front, then lead it down a dead end and essentially destroy it
How Occupy Is Transforming
Our National Conversation
By Robin Broad & John Cavanagh
http://www.countercurrents.org/cavanagh231111.htm
In just two months, the Occupy movement has begun to unseat an economic narrative that held sway for thirty years
"The Degree To Which You Resist Is
The Degree To Which You Are Free"
By Phil Rockstroh
http://www.countercurrents.org/rockstroh231111.htm
the walls of the neoliberal prison are cracking…We are no longer isolated, enclosed in our alienation, imprisoned by a concretized sense of powerlessness; daylight is beginning to pierce the darkness of our desolate cells
Will The UN insist On Fair Trials For
Ex-Regime Loyalists In Libya?
By Franklin Lamb
http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb231111.htm
The UN Security Council must support the ICC and assure that Libyan show trials for former regime loyalist that have been indicted are avoided by conducting their trials in The Hague
Kazakhstan Now World's Largest Uranium Miner
By John C.K. Daly
http://www.countercurrents.org/daly231111.htm
Kazakhstan produces 33 percent of world's mined uranium, followed by Canada at 18 percent and Australia, with 11 percent of global output. Kazakhstan contains the world's second-largest uranium reserves, estimated at 1.5 million tons. Until two years ago Kazakhstan was the world's No. 3 uranium miner, following Australia and Canada
A Solar-Powered Car?
By Tom Murphy
http://www.countercurrents.org/murphy231111.htm
So solar powered cars fall solidly on the reality side of the reality-fantasy continuum. That said, pure solar transport (on board generation) will suffer serious limitations. More reliable transport comes with nuances that may be irritating to the purist. You can apply a bumper sticker that says SOLAR POWERED CAR, but in most cases, you will need to put an asterisk at the end with a lengthy footnote to explain exactly how you have realized that goal
Is It Really Possible To Decouple GDP Growth
From Energy Growth?
By Gail Tverberg
http://www.countercurrents.org/tverberg231111.htm
In recent years, we have heard statements indicating that it is possible to decouple GDP growth from energy growth. I have been looking at the relationship between world GDP and world energy use and am becoming increasingly skeptical that such a decoupling is really possible
Fracking Gas = Climate Crash
By Alex Smith
http://www.countercurrents.org/smith231111.htm
Escaped methane from gas fracking threaten to tip us into catastrophic climate change. The total impact of the shale gas industry may be worse than coal
Shale Gas And Climate Change:
The Other Burning Issue
By Dr. Peter Custers
http://www.countercurrents.org/custers231111.htm
If we are to avoid runaway climate change, - we need a combination of stringent prohibitions on the most destructive forms of extraction, and global policies to limit energy use. Why not buttress the demand for a ban on all drilling for tar sands oil and shale gas? Why not add the demand for a global and equitable regime of energy rationing?
Support Today's Freedom Riders
By Ending U.S. Support For Israeli Apartheid
By Josh Ruebner
http://www.countercurrents.org/ruebner231111.htm
If Rep. Lewis helped end the immorality of segregation in the United States, then half a century later he can also contribute to ending discrimination in Israel/Palestine by stopping U.S. weapons transfers that sustain Israeli apartheid toward Palestinians
Foreign Faculty, For What?
By Rajesh Kumar Sharma
http://www.countercurrents.org/rksharma231111.htm
Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia stated that the Indian universities must have an international flavour, adding that "this would not happen unless the government removes the restriction on employment of international faculty". Do we really need them?
Total Muslim Reservation: A Lesson To learn
For SP, BSP & Congress
By Ashok Yadav
http://www.countercurrents.org/yadav231111.htm
Equipped with Bihar experience the Pasmanda may spring surprise in the coming UP elections. Beware, SP, BSP and Congress!
Marriages Of Lust And Greed !
By Asif Iqbal
http://www.countercurrents.org/iqbal231111.htm
A bench of Justices Dalip Singh and Sajjan Singh Kothari in High Court of Rajasthan has stated that the marriages based on right to choose or generally known as love marriages are examples of "lust and greed"! The remark was one of few abhorrent statements made by the Bench on 21nd October 2011 during their ruling on hearing of a Habeas Corpus petition filed by a 34-year-old man
Dividing Uttar-Pradesh: The Opening Of
A Pandora's Box
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat
http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat231111.htm
It is good that Ms Mayawati has given it a serious thought but it is equally important that the issue be debated widely and should not be resolved without a State Reorganisation Commission as the stake holders are not just in Uttar-Pradesh but also in other states
Countercurrents And You !
Click here to find out
how you can support CC
http://www.countercurrents.org/subscription.htm
You can unsubscribe from this news letter here
http://www.countercurrents.org/subscribe.htm
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