Fwd: CC Issue 13 August - 6 Million Pakistanis Need Immediate Aid

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Subject: CC Issue 13 August - 6 Million Pakistanis Need Immediate Aid
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Kashmir Erupts Again: Four More Killed
By Sheikh Imran Bashir

http://www.countercurrents.org/bashir130810.htm

In a spate of renewed violence, four people were killed on Friday when security forces fired bullets and tear-gas shells at protesters in north Kashmir's Pattan, Kupwara and Sopore areas


6 Million Pakistanis Need Immediate Aid
As 1/3 Of Country Is Submerged
By Juan Cole

http://www.countercurrents.org/cole130810.htm

I can barely believe the words I am writing are not a nightmare from which I will soon wake up. A third of Pakistan is now under water, and fresh rainfall threatens two more waves of flooding in the southern Sindh province


Why Is The World Unmoved
By The Plight Of Pakistan?
By Andrew Buncombe

http://www.countercurrents.org/buncombe130810.htm

Angry flood survivors are turning to a banned Islamist charity, reports Andrew Buncombe from central Punjab


17 Countries Experience Record Temperatures
By John Vidal

http://www.countercurrents.org/vidal130810.htm

2010 is becoming the year of the heatwave, with record temperatures set in 17 countries. Record highs have occurred in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine – the three nations at the centre of the eastern European heatwave which has lasted for more than three weeks – but also African, Middle Eastern and Latin American countries


Climate Ostriches
By Erich Pica

http://www.countercurrents.org/pica130810.htm

Why Russia's and Pakistan's extreme weather Is about to become the norm


Global Warming: How Do We Move Forward?
By Joanne Poyourow

http://www.countercurrents.org/joanne130810.htm

Global warming is not a standalone issue. At the same time as we are trying to decarbonize our entire society and cope with the erratic weather events of early climate change, we are simultaneously being hit with peak oil and economic contraction


Three Steps Toward A Politics Of Global Warming
By Bill McKibben

http://www.countercurrents.org/mckibben130810.htm

The Senate debacle taught us that making nice doesn't work. So what's next?


Trail Of Symbols: Babri Demolition
To Gujarat Holocaust!
By Anil Pundlik Gokhale

http://www.countercurrents.org/gokhale130810.htm

On 20 th August, we are approaching the 70 th anniversary of assassination of Leon Trotsky. His "What is National Socialism?" provides us enormous insights into tragic trail of historical events that followed in India since 1980's, Babri demolition till Gujarat holocaust. .The significance of these horrific events compel us to trace the origins, growth and first order symbolic triumph of Hindutwa fascism in India


Unlikely Alliances In Fight For Sacred Lands
By Tess Thackara

http://www.countercurrents.org/thackara130810.htm

Major shareholders are joining the Dongria Kondh tribe's fight to protect their homeland from mining by Vedanta Resources


Bourj el-Barajneh: Searching For Meaning
In A Refugee Camp
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud130810.htm

Here in Bourj el-Barajneh, one of a dozen Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, time seems to have stood still for years. Generation after generation, children grow up in the same desperate reality, punished for crimes they did not commit, injured by a history not of their making. They stand on dirty balconies, cracked beyond repair, watching Beirut and the world go by


Israel Releases Bogus Video To Implicate MK Zoabi
By Dr. Hanan Chehata

http://www.countercurrents.org/chehata130810.htm

The Israeli authorities have released a 2 minutes 40 seconds video clip. The Israeli authorities claim that the clip shows Knesset Member Haneen Zoabi in the presence of men from the charity group IHH armed with clubs, contradicting her claim that she did not see any flotilla members holding weapons. However, in releasing this footage it looks as if the Israelis have shot themselves in the foot once again, because the film actually shows Israeli soldiers in a far worse light than Haneen Zoabi. In fact, it goes some way towards corroborating her version of events


From Goldstone To Uribe
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman130810.htm

Contemptuous of human rights, international law and justice, former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe's appointment in the UN flotilla enquiry commission destroys its credibility, guaranteeing bias and whitewash


Gulf Health Problems Blamed On Dispersed Oil
By Dahr Jamail

http://www.countercurrents.org/jamail130810.htm

BP says it is no longer using toxic dispersants to break up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Gulf Coast residents claim otherwise, and say they have the sicknesses to prove it


Groundhog Day: The Neocon Version
By Ron Forthofer

http://www.countercurrents.org/forthofer130810.htm

We are being forced to essentially relive late 2002 and early 2003. Then the neocons and the White House made false claims about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and the threat Iraq supposedly posed. The situation is similar now except Iran has replaced Iraq as the target


There Is No "Professional Left" On Cable
By Timothy V. Gatto

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatto130810.htm

The arguments between the Progressives on the left and the Conservatives on the right are mostly straw-man arguments when it comes to cable shows. FOX News on one hand can't bash the Democrats enough, while MSNBC can't stop taking the Republicans to task. Still, the content of both cable stations is Republican against Democrat without much meaningful criticism of American polices and direction


'The Right Wing Finge' And
The Impossibility Of Kashmir
By Rahul Pathak

http://www.countercurrents.org/pathak130810.htm

Kashmir already has drained a lot of blood, no one wants more. The dialogue process has to be peaceful and there is no second opinion on that, what we can probably do is to only hope for a better sense to prevail on the ultra-violet fringes

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