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US, Britain Step Up Plans For Military Intervention
In Libya
By Ann Talbot

http://www.countercurrents.org/talbot090311.htm

The United States and Britain took another step towards direct military intervention against Libya Tuesday, as President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron discussed coordination of an international campaign to bring down long-time Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi


Libya: WikiLeaks Cables Warn Of Extremist Beliefs
By Heidi Blake

http://www.countercurrents.org/blake090311.htm

Leaked diplomatic cables obtained by the WikiLeaks website and passed to The Daily Telegraph disclose fears that eastern Libya is being overrun by extremists intent on overthrowing Colonel Gaddafi's regime


Libya: Is This Kosovo All Over Again?
By Diana Johnstone

http://www.countercurrents.org/johnstone090311.htm

Less than a dozen years after NATO bombed Yugoslavia into pieces, detaching the province of Kosovo from Serbia, there are signs that the military alliance is gearing up for another victorious little "humanitarian war", this time against Libya. The differences are, of course, enormous. But let's look at some of the disturbing similarities


Libya And The Return Of
Humanitarian Imperialism
By Jean Bricmont

http://www.countercurrents.org/bricmont090311.htm

Twelve years later, it is Kosovo all over again. Hundred of thousands of Iraqis dead, NATO stranded in an impossible position in Afghanistan, and they have learned nothing!


What Will You Do, If Libya Repeats Itself In USA?
By Frank Scott

http://www.countercurrents.org/scott090311.htm

Imagine This: Armed Tea Party militias attack government facilities in several American cities, threaten to deport the president and abolish congress, and claim a new day for democracy. What would be the reaction from our corporate government and media? Great praise for the second amendment and the right of the people to bear arms and overthrow the government?


Listening To Life, Before It's Too Late
By Robert Jensen

http://www.countercurrents.org/jensen090311.htm

An interview with Ellen LaConte, author of "Life Rules- Why so much is going wrong everywhere at once and how Life teaches us to fix it ". LaConte offers an unflinching assessment of the problems and an honest path to sensible action


The First 9/11: Kissinger Operación Cóndor,
Pinochet (PDF)
By George Venturini

http://www.countercurrents.org/venturini090311.pdf

The first 9/11 occurred in 1973 in Santiago, Chile and places nearby. President Richard Milhous Nixon and Dr. Henry Alfred Kissinger were the instigators, General Augusto Pinochet simply the executioner


Zionist-Inflicted Crisis In Gaza
By Javier Sethness

http://www.countercurrents.org/sethness090311.htm

A review of "Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians" by Noam Chomky and Ilan Pappé


Netanyahu's Illusory Peace Plan
By Jonathan Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook090311.htm

After refusing last year to continue a partial freeze on settlement-building, a Palestinian pre-requisite for talks, he is reportedly preparing to lay out an initiative for the phased creation of a Palestinian state. Such a move would reflect the Israeli prime minister's belated recognition that Israel is facing trouble on almost every front


Why Reject Concessions In Wisconsin
By Ann Robertson & Bill Leumer

http://www.countercurrents.org/leumer090311.htm

If the rich paid their fair share in taxes and if corporate loopholes were closed, the Wisconsin deficit would disappear overnight. The rich and the corporations have consistently lobbied to keep their taxes low. And by providing generous political contributions to both Democrats and Republicans, they have succeeded


The Events in Libya in Historical Perspective...Muammar Qaddafi in Class Perspective... The Question of Leadership in Communist Perspective

http://www.countercurrents.org/lotta090311.htm

An interview with Raymond Lotta


Muammar Al Gaddafi Meets His Own Rebels
By Dan Lieberman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lieberman090311.htm

The man needs retirement and his people need democracy. But that's not the entire lesson from the latest Arab march to freedom


Costly Contradictions Over Breast-feeding --
A New Rightwing Low?
By Robert S. Becker

http://www.countercurrents.org/becker090311.htm

That rightwingers dare attack breast milk education for young, needy, often minority mothers only reinforces my fear no subject is now taboo -- even motherhood is grist for the extremist mill


African Society In A Neocolonial Framework
By Sachin Kumar Jain

http://www.countercurrents.org/jain090311.htm

Africa is now becoming a colony of newly developed countries like India and China . Walter Fernandes, a well-known social scientist from the continent and an expert on the subject of displacement caused by development, reports that the rich capitalist class and their governments are currently in the process of usurping 40 million hectares from the Saharan nations


WSF 2011: Searching For Direction
In People's Movements
By Sachin Kumar Jain

http://www.countercurrents.org/jain090311A.htm

This year's WSF organized in Senegal was significant for two reasons. First, it was organized on African soil. Second, the people's movements and activist groups who assembled in Dakar sought to understand how they could strengthen themselves for their struggle to change the political contours of the world


Where Governments Refuse To Act,
People Must: Roger Waters
By Roger Waters

http://www.countercurrents.org/waters090311.htm

Letter from Roger Waters , founder member of Pink Floyd and supporter of the rights of the Palestinian people, in support of the call for the implementation of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)


Status Of Muslim Women In Islamic Societies –
Past And Present
By Dr. M.I.H. Farooqi

http://www.countercurrents.org/farooqi090311.htm

I slam brought about liberation of women from bondage and gave her equal rights and recognized her individuality as a human being. Islam improved the status of women by instituting rights of property ownership, inheritance, education, marriage (as a contract) and divorce


Obama's Lawless Authorization Of
Military Commissions Injustice
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman090311.htm

Detaining innocent men indefinitely and consigning others to military commissions further unmasks a rogue administration pretending to be democratic


It Is "March Madness" Time In The USA
By Danny Schechter

http://www.countercurrents.org/schechter090311.htm

This is a month known in the USA for the "March madness" college basketball finals, but the madness seems now to be oozing from sports arenas to political capitols


American Buddhists Fail To Stand Up
To Islamophobia
By Dr. Lawrence P. Rockwood

http://www.countercurrents.org/rockwood090311.htm

This article intended only to describe, not necessarily criticize, a specific, tragic, and ironic episode in this link of interdependence. I am not telling American Buddhists to divest, boycott, or to self-flagellate, just awaken them to the reality that they are stakeholders in fights of which they are likely not even aware. Such awareness can only but empower, rather than impede, those sincerely dedicated to skillful peace and reconciliation


War, Prisons, And Torture In The US & UK
By Angola 3 News

http://www.countercurrents.org/haley090311.htm

An interview with Richard Haley


The Curious Case Of Commercial Surrogacy
By Sneha Banerjee

http://www.countercurrents.org/banerjee090311.htm

The curious case of commercial gestational surrogacy emerging as another kind of remunerated work that some disadvantaged women in globalised India are engaging in compels feminists and women's rights activists to grapple with the dilemma of commodification of reproductive labour on the one hand and economic agency on the other


Imperialists, Hands Off Libya!
By Mazdoor Ekta Lehar

http://www.countercurrents.org/mel090311.htm

The people of Libya will have the wisdom to sort out their internal problems while consistently opposing and blocking outside imperialist interference. The proletariat and people of our country, like those of other countries, support the struggle of the Libyan people. We therefore unequivocally oppose all foreign imperialist intervention in Libya, by the Anglo American imperialists as well as others, no matter under what guise it is carried out


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