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The Rise Of The Shoe-cide Bomber
By P. Sainath
http://www.countercurrents.org/sainanth090409.htm
Jarnail Singh is a reporter of considerable experience and generally, his colleagues say, very mild-mannered. He certainly chose a good place to put his foot down and his shoe up. This was a press conference with the nation's home minister, bursting with TV cameras. Jarnail Singh has since made it clear that he bore no personal animus towards the minister. He was just registering his anguish -- and that of his community. He even wants to meet the home minister and make that clear. After all, only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches. At the press conference, though, it was hell for leather
When Justice Fails, Shoes Are Bound To Hurl!
By Bradhi
http://www.countercurrents.org/bradhi080409.htm
The Forty year old Jarnail Singh, who has been a respected journalist for the past 15 years, probably decided to understate. So he was merely throwing it towards the dais but clearly away from the Minister. He was protesting the home Minister's justification of the CBI giving clean chit to Jagdish Tytler, so as to enable Tytler to get a party ticket in the forthcoming elections
Iraqi Shoes And The Demotivated Media
By Guy Gabriel
http://www.countercurrents.org/gabriel090409.htm
It is these sins of omission, and countless others like it, that help to explain why the motivation of al-Zaidi in throwing his shoes was absent in a large part of the reporting in the British media. Perhaps if the media was to take a more frank look at itself and its conduct surrounding the Iraq war, then the impressions of humour that met al-Zaidi's act would fade as the full details and extent of his motivation become clearer. This is a debate that is yet to take place
Commodifying Children: The Forgotten Crisis
By Henry A. Giroux
http://www.countercurrents.org/giroux090409.htm
The current financial crisis offers an opportunity to question the corruption of children's culture by rampant commercialisation, commodification and consumption. A road to recovery cannot be simply about returning to a re-established, bankrupt consumer society, argues Henry A. Giroux
Israel's Arab Students Cross To Jordan
By Jonathan Cook
http://www.countercurrents.org/cook090409.htm
Obstacles to Israel's Arab minority participating in higher education have resulted in a record number of Arab students taking up places at universities in neighbouring Jordan, a new report reveals
Palestinian Nationalism
By Dan Lieberman
http://www.countercurrents.org/lieberman090409.htm
The Palestinians need a state not just to live within borders. They need a state that all peoples claim, especially those who are dispossessed, to assure ontological security and live healthy lives
"So Let Me Be Clear…"
By Jim Miles
http://www.countercurrents.org/miles090409.htm
This is quoting Obama's comment that "North Korea broke the rules." In order to be clear, I would need to know what rules are being referred to. Are they rules established under international law? Are they rules for the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty to which they never belonged? Or are they the continuing neocon rules that the 'axis of evil' should not be allowed to have nuclear weapons while the U.S. works towards first strike capability, helped in part by expanding its anti-missile 'defences'?
Let's Talk About Israel's Nukes
By Jeremy Scahill
http://www.countercurrents.org/scahill090409.htm
Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, gives the full context to U.S. condemnations of North Korea's rocket launch
30,000 Gather In Strasbourg, France To Say
'Destroy Nato, Yes We Can'
By Michael Galvin
http://www.countercurrents.org/galvin090409.htm
A report on the Strasbourg protest against Nato
Why The World Should Not Be Controlled By The Zionist Jews?
By Mustafa Khan
http://www.countercurrents.org/khan090409.htm
India was developing its own missile technology but opted to buy Israeli missiles because of the monetary consideration. The current government signed 10, 000 crore dollar deal with Israel on the sly even when there was CBI inquiry going on. Moreover, Akash surface to air missile was better than the ones Israel has. It was this fact which made the defence ministry official cry out in anguish: "What do we do when we are neck deep with the Israelis?"
Eelam Tamils: A Question Of Pressure And Strategy
By Chandi Sinnathurai
http://www.countercurrents.org/sinnathurai090409.htm
Over 100,000 Tamil civilians are trapped within an ever shrinking 14 Sq km pocket of land in the Vanni. The Sri Lankan war has been rightly dubbed by the Media as the War on Civilians. Reports from the ground has emerged that the indiscriminate killings of Tamils is yet to cease. Thousands have lost their lives and multitudes are maimed for life. Both sides, the Tamil Tigers and the State Forces have traded blame
Pardon Us, If This Is The Ram Rajya
By Aleem Faizee
http://www.countercurrents.org/faizee090409.htm
One needs to ask the BJP leaders what kind of Ram Rajya they intend to bring to the country. For not very long ago we had seen them endorsing the demolition of the Babri Masjid and blissfully dancing as the errant mob pulled down the historic mosque brick by brick. Before that the Prime Ministerial candidate of the party, which is assuring to bring Ram Rajya, riding on the Rath was spurting venom in the whole country. Ram Rajya as far as we have learnt is supposed to provide safety, equality and justice to everyone and respect to every religion and every cast. How then the BJP leaders justify their leading and encouraging the mob to demolish a religious site?
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