Educate! Organize! Agitate! Countercurrents.org Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:30:20 +05-30 Super Simple RSS http://www.countercurrents.org/wb050709.htm <strong> By World Bulletin</strong><br>Five Bahraini activists was deported on Friday but 14 international activists are still under Israeli jail, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney Sun, 5 Jul 2009 23:29:24 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/fg050709.htm <strong>By Free Gaza Team </strong><br>The Israeli authorities have tried to get us to confess that we committed a crime ... I am now known as Israeli prisoner number 88794. How can I be in prison for collecting crayons to kids? Sun, 5 Jul 2009 23:28:52 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/fgB050709.htm <strong>By Free Gaza Team </strong><br>The Israeli prison guards are denying the right for Nobel Laureate Mairead MaGuire to access her medicine. Mairead is fasting, not just for her friends incarcerated along with her, but for the 11,000 Palestinians also thrown into jail, many without benefit of trial Sun, 5 Jul 2009 23:28:19 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/fg050709A.htm <strong>By Free Gaza Team </strong><br>Testimonies from Israeli jail Sun, 5 Jul 2009 23:27:49 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/fleming050709.htm <strong>By Eileen Fleming </strong><br>I imagine the best good any of us can do at this time is be a like a gnat in the eye, a mosquito on the neck, a thorn in the side and a voice of conscience that speaks truth to power, for words can be the most powerful weapons Sun, 5 Jul 2009 23:27:16 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/sagar050709.htm <strong>By Satya Sagar </strong><br>All I wanted to say for the time being is that the Manmohan Singh and his policies are the biggest threat to the future well-being of India, the CPI (Maoist) is not as big a threat to the Indian state as it is made out to be and there are many more ways in which resistance to the Indian state can manifest itself than simply through armed struggle Sun, 5 Jul 2009 23:26:35 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/cogan050709.htm <strong>By James Cogan </strong><br>The Obama administration has ordered the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade (2 MEB) into a potentially bloody offensive in the southern province of Helmand. The objective is the suppression of the ethnic Pashtun population, which is overwhelmingly hostile to the seven-and-a-half year US and NATO occupation of the country and rejects the legitimacy of the Afghan puppet government headed by President Hamid Karzai Sun, 5 Jul 2009 23:25:48 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud050709.htm <strong>By Ramzy Baroud </strong><br>Much can be said to explain, or even justify Hamas recent political concessions, where its top leaders in Gaza and Damascus agreed in principle with a political settlement on the basis of the two-state solution Sun, 5 Jul 2009 23:25:06 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/corcoran050709.htm <strong> By Pat Corcoran </strong><br>Prof Chris Knight who is Chair of the University and College Lecturers Union (UCU) at the University of East London has been suspended from work for gross professional misconduct. His crime was to proceed with organising the Alternative G20 Summit despite the University managements decision to close down the University at the last moment. Chris now facing likely dismissal on July 10 Sun, 5 Jul 2009 23:24:20 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/alamkhan050709.htm <strong>By Dr. Shah Alam Khan </strong><br>It is wrongly felt that by legalising the LGBT community, the Delhi High Court has opened the flood gates for such relationships. - Oh my God, my son will be a gay now, screamed a man from inside his new Skoda on a TV channel. I wish I could tell him that his son will be a gay or a heterosexual not because of the High Court order but because of his sexual orientation and preferences Sun, 5 Jul 2009 23:23:35 +05-30