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Big Oil And Corporate Polluters Spent Over $500 Million
To Kill Climate Bill, Push Offshore Drilling
By Climate Progress

http://www.countercurrents.org/cp031010.htm

The entire electric utility industry spent more than $264 million on lobbying alone in 2009 and the first half of 2010. Oil and gas interests spent a record $175 million lobbying in 2009—a 30 percent increase from 2008—and have spent $75 million already in 2010. The oil, gas, and coal industries have spent over $2 billion lobbying Congress since 1999


Two Fingers
By Uri Avnery

http://www.countercurrents.org/avnery031010.htm

Ehud Olmert raised his hands before his face, two fingertips almost touching: "We were that close!" He was talking about the negotiation he had conducted personally with Mahmoud Abbas, just before he himself was forced to vacate the Prime Minister's office


Corporatism: The Cyborg Amongst Us
By Aetius Romulous

http://www.countercurrents.org/romulous031010.htm

In a world of fragile mortal beings, the corporation is a cyborg


Inside Story Of A Funding God: A Case Study
By Vibhed Dhurvey

http://www.countercurrents.org/dhurvey031010.htm

In some parts of the country now Action Aid is not known as an organization to provide support or aid for action, but now it is known as Fraction Aid, means it is using money, strategies and ideas to capture people's struggle across the country to break to process of social change and struggle


Obama's Hard Line Neo-Con Agenda
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman031010.htm

Straightaway, Obama's promised "change" and "yes we can" became hard line foreign and domestic extremism, betraying his loyal constituency and any hope for kinder, gentler policies. His populist hypocrisy now exposed, voters are losing faith, but most remain mindless about the harm he commits daily, much of it touching them directly


Bombs Over Khartoum
By Savo Heleta

http://www.countercurrents.org/heleta031010.htm

The notion of South Sudanese airplanes bombing Khartoum could make the regime of Omar al Bashir think twice before sending forces and planes to destroy the south and its population in the aftermath of the 2011 referendum on self-determination


The Age of Crises
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/c1.htm

An eight part series on the many crises that humanity faces today


The Necessary Price of Peace:
Freeze The Settlement
By Dr Islam Qasem

http://www.countercurrents.org/qasem031010.htm

Abbas now has a choice to walk out or return to the negotiation table. In truth, however, if the settlement construction in the West Bank is not frozen, there is no ground for negotiation to continue. Abbas should have no second thought about walking out


Construction Fever On The West Bank
By Khaled Amayreh

http://www.countercurrents.org/amayreh031010.htm

Israeli triumphalism at the ending of a temporary ban on settlement construction contrasts with the muted, and confused, Palestinian and Arab response, writes Khaled Amayreh from the occupied territories


An Army Too Near The Edge
By Gordon Duff

http://www.countercurrents.org/duff031010.htm

Coming home, sick, injured, unemployed, divorced, alone, angry, alienated, those staying in the military, those fit enough to remain in and the thousands, hundreds of thousands who just couldn't take it anymore are killing themselves in record numbers


We Are Never Wrong
By Peter Chamberlin

http://www.countercurrents.org/chamberlin031010.htm

We have to stop thinking of the organized effort to control society as a dark conspiracy and learn to see its very existence as a sign of hope. If a small group of evil men can figure-out a way to take control of human fate, then other groups of intelligent men and women with the best intentions should be just as capable of learning how to break their control


It Was Very Sad That Quran
Was Burnt: Craig Blomberg
By Kourosh Ziabari

http://www.countercurrents.org/ziabari031010.htm

An interview with Craig L. Blomberg, the Distinguished Professor of the New Testament


The Un-Common Wealth Games Begin:
Incredible India, It Stinks
By Partha Banerjee

http://www.countercurrents.org/banerjee031010.htm

Jim Yardley writes in New York Times today: As Global Games Begin, India Hopes for Chance to Save National Pride. Wrong title, Mr. Yardley. India doesn't hope to save national pride: it's the violent, corrupt and inefficient people on top who're trying to save their national power, with help from corporate media -- Indian and international. It's shameful


The World Of The Games: Warring Illusions
By PK Vijayan

http://www.countercurrents.org/vijayan031010.htm

A 'world class city' is coming up in India today, in the capital, where Delhi used to be. It will last from the 1st of October to the 15th of October, after which it will vanish as ephemerally as it will appear. It is as yet too early to say if Delhi, the city that resolutely refused to become 'world class', will reappear, or what else may appear in place of both Delhi and the 'world class city'. But this much is certain: the 'world' in this city will no longer be the same


The Ayodhya Verdict: A Blow
To the Spirit Of Modern India
By Dipankar Bhattacharya

http://www.countercurrents.org/bhattacharya031010.htm

30 September, 2010 will now be bracketed with 6 December, 1992. Eighteen years after the dastardly physical demolition of the Babri Masjid, we have now seen its judicial demolition, a verdict that flies in the face of the basic principles of justice and rule of law, and challenges the fundamental spirit of a secular, democratic modern India


A PIL: Mahabali vs. Indian (Brahmin-Bania) State
By Karthick RM

http://www.countercurrents.org/karthik031010.htm

Since in the RJB judgment, 'Lord' Rama is accepted as a historical character, I would like you to the consider the case of my client, King Mahabali. Since you have managed to map out Ram lalla's birth to a specific geographic region, we hope you would pay due regard to our argument of the Kerala origins of Mahabali. Sir, we want to bring to light the historical and religious injustice done to Mahabali and his followers


Monsanto Takes Over Agriculture Of
Semi-Arid Rajasthan
By Devinder Sharma

http://www.countercurrents.org/dsharma031010.htm

Monsanto has signed an agreement with the Rajasthan Government to engage in public-private partnership to develop and market hybrid seeds of maize, cotton and vegetables like hot pepper, tomato, cabbage, cucumber, cauliflower and water melon


The Bloody Streets Of Kashmir Have Spoken
By Prakash Kona

http://www.countercurrents.org/kona031010.htm

The Kashmiri on the street fights for freedom – freedom from poverty, underdevelopment and humiliation of being suspected and mistreated in the land of his or her birth. The streets have turned into oracles prophesying the doom of the exploiting classes

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