Fwd: CC Issue 28/10- Fun With Arithmetic - Winning The War In Afghanistan

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Subject: CC Issue 28/10- Fun With Arithmetic - Winning The War In Afghanistan
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Two Worlds Collide At Cancun Climate Talks
By Laura Carlsen

http://www.countercurrents.org/carlsen281010.htm

Two worlds will collide in Cancun. The first is a world in denial where profits come before people and the planet, and the most threatening environmental crisis in history is viewed as a business opportunity. This world will be heavily represented by most developed country leaders and representatives of corporations hawking green projects as they continue to trash the environment and pursue unfettered access to ever-scarcer natural resources. The second is a world of small farmers, indigenous peoples, poor urban communities, and islanders that are suffering unprecedented droughts, water scarcity, and storms


Child Soldier Omar Khadr
Coerced Into Plea-Bargain
By Keith Jones

http://www.countercurrents.org/jones281010.htm

In exchange for his guilty plea, the US government has agreed that Khadr will be incarcerated for one year in solitary confinement at Guantanamo Bay, then transferred to Canada, where he was born and his family now resides, to serve out the remainder of a sentence of no more than eight years imprisonment


Fun With Arithmetic - Winning The War In Afghanistan
By Nicholas C. Arguimbau

http://www.countercurrents.org/arguimbau281010.htm

Michael Nasuti of Kabul Press recently published an article in which he calculated that killing each Taliban soldier in Afghanistan costs on average of $50 million to the US. The article, seemingly carefully. researched with all assumptions laid out so that anyone can examine them, is well worth reading


American Democracy: Pro-Israel
Tweedledum And Tweedledee
By Maidhc Ó Cathail

http://www.countercurrents.org/ocathail281010.htm

Helen Keller's pithy observation about American democracy being little more than a choice "between Tweedledum and Tweedledee" was never more true than in the upcoming midterm elections in the ninth congressional district of Illinois. Tthe central issue here is not the two wars—or is it now three?—the country is fighting, nor is it the tanking economy, in great part caused by those debt-inducing wars. No, the burning issue here is… who cares more about Israel?


Franklin Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman281010.htm

These benefits are fast eroding today, Obama administration neoliberal ideologues wanting social benefits slashed, and Social Security and Medicare privatized so Wall Street racketeers can pillage them for profit until nothing's left for the needy


Interview With Syed Ali Shah Geelani
By Yoginder Sikand

http://www.countercurrents.org/sikand281010.htm

Syed Ali Shah Geelani of the Jamaat-e Islami of Jammu and Kashmir is a veteran Kashmiri politician. Presently, he heads the Tehrik-e Hurriyat-e Jammu Kashmir. He talks about the Kashmir conflict and its possible solution in this exclusive interview with Yoginder Sikand

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