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India Succumbs To US Pressure: Iran Halts Oil Sales To India
By Aljazeera

http://www.countercurrents.org/aljazeera301210.htm

An oil trading dispute between India and Iran has further escalated, with Tehran refusing to sell oil to India under new rules instituted by New Delhi


The Peak Oil Crisis: 2011 – A Pivotal Year?
By Tom Whipple

http://www.countercurrents.org/whipple301210.htm

Some are already saying that the IEA's forecast of a 1.3 million b/d increase for next year is much too low. The big unknown for the coming years is the size and availability of OPEC's spare capacity. If much of the 5 or 6 million b/d of productive capacity that OPEC claims to have in reserve does not really exist or cannot be opened in a timely manner, then much higher oil prices seem likely by spring


Peak Oil, International Trade And Population
By Jason G. Brent

http://www.countercurrents.org/brent301210.htm

Humanity must plan its future on the assumption that international trade will be dramatically reduced once oil is exhausted. A dramatic reduction in international trade must be followed by a dramatic reduction in the human population and the collapse of civilization. Humanity has a choice – reduce population before international trade collapses using the intelligence of humanity or suffer the horrors of the dramatic drop in population caused by the destruction of civilization and the starvation of billions of humans


Threat To Arrest Human Rights Activists
And Journalists By Gujarat Police
By Sabrang

http://www.countercurrents.org/sabrang301210.htm

There is some suggestion and strong possibilities that the Gujarat Police may try to stage an arrest of Teesta Setalvad, journists from Sahara, NDTV, CNN-IBN in a cooked up case


Veteran Human Rights' Activist And Advocate,
K G Kannabiran Is No More
By Mahtab Alam

http://www.countercurrents.org/alam301210.htm

Veteran Human Rights' activist, lawyer and former national president of Peoples' Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL) passed away on Thursday evening around 5 pm in Hyderabad after a long ailment. He was 82 years and is survived by his wife and two children


Eight Homeless Youth Die In New Orleans Fire –
What Does It Say About Us?
By Bill Quigley

http://www.countercurrents.org/quigley301210.htm

Eight young people, who the Fire Department said were "trying to stay warm," perished in a raging fire during the night in New Orleans. The young people were squatting in an abandoned wood framed tin walled warehouse in a Ninth Ward neighborhood bordering a large train yard. The young people apparently had a barrel with wood burning in it for heat


Hillary Clinton Plays Russian Roulette With Justice
By Yvonne Ridley

http://www.countercurrents.org/ridley301210.htm

My advice to Clinton is do not lecture anyone about human rights and legal issues until you clean up your own backyard. In fact the next time she decides to open her mouth perhaps one of her aides can do us all a favour and ram in a slice of humble pie


If Obama Could Put America's Own
Real Interests First…
By Alan Hart

http://www.countercurrents.org/hart301210.htm

The headline is not meant to imply that I think he will. As things are he can't because of the stranglehold on American policy for Israel/Palestine of the Zionist lobby and its stooges in Congress, the mainstream media and many institutions of state including the Pentagon and intelligence agencies. My purpose is only to offer an answer to this question: What could happen if President Obama was able to put America's own real interests first?


The Magic of Two-Year-Olds
And Death By Cell Phone Use
By Shepherd Bliss

http://www.countercurrents.org/bliss301210.htm

The recent death of two-year-old Callie Murray hit me hard. She would have been three on the day that I began writing this, Dec. 25, the birthday of another baby. She was walking across the street hand-and-hand with her mom Ling Murray on Dec. 1. A student from Sonoma State University, where I teach, who was using a phone in her car at the time, crashed into them, killing tiny Callie and severely injuring her mother. Cars and cell phones have become two of the major addictions of our fast-moving civilization; they are both deadly


What Lies At The Core of Pattern Language,
And Why Should We Care?
By Carolyn Baker

http://www.countercurrents.org/baker301210.htm

The current collapse and transition is and will be an onerous, but perhaps ultimately joyful journey, in rediscovering and re-embracing our luminous ground. Out of this return to the mysteries of which Alexander speaks, an opportunity for unprecedented patterns of wholeness and relationship offers itself to human egos weary of pretending that disconnected matter, people, and places are humanity's final frontier


Report Reveals Deeply Divided New York City
By Billy Wharton

http://www.countercurrents.org/wharton301210.htm

For low and moderate-income New Yorkers 2010 felt every bit as terrible as 2009. Though economists pontificated about the end of the economic crisis, those surveyed in the Community Service Society's end of the year poll continue to suffer from crisis economics. The study entitled "The Unheard Third 2010," asked 1,400 New York City residents about their current economic situation as well as their thoughts about the future. It revealed a city deeply divided between rich and poor


Questioning Authority Globally And
Locally In 2011: Will We Resist
Domination By Hypocrites And Parasites?
By Tom Stephens

http://www.countercurrents.org/stephens301210.htm

Party it up. Get ready to fight. The space you occupy is liberated territory. Defend it at all costs


In Chhattisgarh, The Only Criminal Is Law
By Javed Iqbal

http://www.countercurrents.org/iqbal301210.htm

But for the adivasi in Dantewada facing brutal repression and for Binayak Sen, the Law had been abandoned a long time ago


Need Judicial Reforms And A Debate
On The Issues Of Sedition And Governance
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat301210.htm

As year 2010 is approaching to an end, the outrageous verdict pronounced by a Raipur court to Dr Binayak Sen is a reminder of how judicial system is working in India particularly the lower judiciary


Rajasthan Turns To For Profit Education
By Kranti Kapoor & B.C.Mehta

http://www.countercurrents.org/mehta301210.htm

Rajasthan government has decided to absorb about 10,000 teachers and non-academic staff of aided educational institutions (schools and colleges) into the State-run schools and colleges in Rajasthan. They will be given an option for joining a newly created rural education service cadre


Shopping Malls And The Anti-Book Culture
By Vidyadhar Date

http://www.countercurrents.org/date301210.htm

Few know that the citizens of India have a legal right to get free access to every book published in all languages in India and which is expected by law to be stocked in the four central libraries in the metro cities of Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Mumbai


America's Gulf: New Report Says It's Dying
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman301210A.htm

Concerned Citizens of Florida.com (CCF) believe efforts must be made now "to address what may very well be the greatest environmental catastrophe of North America in modern history....government (and media) cannot be relied on" for truthful information. As a result, its site is a platform for truth and accuracy on a disaster of such magnitude. On December 1, CCF published a special Dr. Tom Termotto Gulf disaster report, titled "The Gulf of Mexico is Dying."


Palestine Today: A Reality of Justice Denied
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman301210B.htm

On December 23, Israeli forces shot and killed Salama Abu Harhish without warning while herding sheep and goats in Beit Lahya. Civilized nations don't murder nonviolent civilians in cold blood, this time leaving a widow and day-old unnamed baby. What "democracy" thrives on violence, spurns peace, and wages preemptive wars like Cast Lead. Besides America, only Israel, a global menace like its Washington paymaster/partner, together with Britain the real axis of evil


Israel Hardens Repression As Palestinian
Recognition Increases
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman301210C.htm

On December 24, Ecuador became the fifth Latin American country to recognize "the Palestine state as free and independent within its borders since 1967."


America's Gulf Disaster: Accidental or Deliberate?
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman301210D.htm

Major unaddressed problems, initial explosions, subsequent small ones, intense heat, and poor evacuation drills left 11 crew members dead. Their epitaph should indict BP officials and complicit Obama officials for homicide. Justice demands holding them accountable

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