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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Fwd: CC News Letter, 27 June - Releasing Strategic Petroleum Reserves: Will It Work?‎



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Subject: CC News Letter, 27 June - Releasing Strategic Petroleum Reserves: Will It Work?‎
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Releasing Strategic Petroleum Reserves: Will It Work?
 By Kurt Cobb

http://www.countercurrents.org/cobb270611.htm

With no real production capacity, the world's holders of such reserves are merely draining away their rainy day fund of fuel in what is likely to turn out to be a futile effort to manipulate the oil markets and save the economy from another steep decline


Strategic Petroleum Reserve Release: A Critical Look
 By Stuart Staniford

http://www.countercurrents.org/Staniford270611.htm

If it turns out to be a bridge to nowhere, then there are going to be hard choices between stopping the flow of oil (thus sharply raising prices again), or continuing to drain the strategic reserves for an indefinite length of time


The Energy Landscape Of 2041
 By Michael T. Klare

http://www.countercurrents.org/klare270611.htm

A 30-year war for energy preeminence? You wouldn't wish it even on a desperate planet. But that's where we're headed and there's no turning back


Collapse: The Practical Paradigms
 By Peter Goodchild

http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild270611.htm

The entire global economy is collapsing, although very few people are aware of this: mainly the very rich and the highly educated. By understanding this, one becomes a member of the illuminati oneself, or if not at least an enlightened refugee


The Day The Earth Stood Nil
 By Rand Clifford

http://www.countercurrents.org/clifford270611.htm

Could human intelligence be a lethal mutation? Catastrophes spawned by Earth's most intelligent species suggest not only self-extinction, but annihilation of countless other species. Is the apparent disconnect between cleverness and wisdom primarily a human characteristic, and if so, what are the chances of human wisdom catching up with human cleverness?


Can You Pass The US Inequality Quiz?
 By Jeffrey Rudolph

http://www.countercurrents.org/rudolph270611.htm

The following quiz is intended to bring more depth to the issue of capitalism and inequality by providing historical context and international comparison. The conclusion is heartening: the US can be made both more just and more productive—indeed, it once was


US Working And Middle Class: Solidarity
 Or Competition In The Face Of Crisis?
 By James Petras

http://www.countercurrents.org/petras270611.htm

The near extinction of private sector unionism and the moribund millionaire leadership provides an opportunity to start anew with a horizontal leadership, accountable to the membership and integrated with community based co-op, ecologist, immigrant, consumer based organizations


"… America 's Singular Role In The Course Of
 Human Events"
 By William A. Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook270611.htm

In effect, Obama seeks compliance and obedience to his determination that "America's singular role in the course of human events," as determined by his administration, will be the only principled response to the world that questions America's "role" and the citizens that find this myth of America repugnant, unacceptable and destructive


One Million Post-9-11 US- And UK-Complicit
 Opiate Drug Deaths
 By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya270611.htm

Global deaths from US Alliance restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry now total about 1 million


Private Contractors Making A Killing
 Off The Drug War
 By Cyril Mychalejko

http://www.countercurrents.org/mychalejko270611.htm

As tens of thousands of corpses continue to pile up as a result of the US-led "War on Drugs" in Latin America, private contractors are benefiting from lucrative federal counternarcotics contracts amounting to billions of dollars, without worry of oversight or accountability


Back In Gaza And Little Has Changed
 By Eva Bartlett

http://www.countercurrents.org/bartlett270611.htm

A year on, in this enclosed 40-something km strip of land flanked by the Mediterranean sea, I notice some things have changed, but the big picture hasn't


Breaching Gaza's Siege
 By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman270611A.htm

Israel keeps exerting pressure to block humanitarian efforts to deliver vital to life and other essential aid to besieged Gazans. Endorsing Israeli lawlessness, the State Department issued a June 22- Travel Warning - Israel, the West Bank and Gaza


Israel Toughening Conditions For
 Palestinian Detainees
 By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman270611B.htm

Clearly, Israel, America, Greece, and perhaps other co-conspirator nations will stoop to anything to keep Gazans under siege, endorsing slow-motion genocide to ruthlessly suffocate them


Shubbak And The Mysterious
 Disappearance Of Iraq
 By Worod Al Musawi

http://www.countercurrents.org/musawi270611.htm

Iraq has been mysteriously left out from the Arab cultural festival "Shubbak" being celebrated in London


Syria: CIA, M16, French, Mossad, Saudi
 Involvement Unreported In Imperialist Media
 By Jay Janson

http://www.countercurrents.org/janson270611.htm

What is unfolding in Syria is an armed insurrection supported covertly by foreign powers including the US, Turkey and Israel. Armed insurgents belonging to Islamist organizations have crossed the border from Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. The US State Department has confirmed that it is supporting the insurgency. A monolithic unified slant media cartelrestricts reports to indiscriminate killing of civilian protesters by Syrian government


Russell, Mao And The Fate Of China
 By Thomas Riggins

http://www.countercurrents.org/riggins270611.htm

A crititique of Bertrand Russell's book "The Problem of China"


Widers's Acquittal – What Message Is Netherlands
 Sending To The World?
 By Dr. Habib Siddiqui

http://www.countercurrents.org/siddiqui270611.htm

Just as expected of a sham process, on 23 June 2011, Wilders was acquitted of all charges, with Judge Marcel van Oosten noting that his statements, although "gross and denigrating," had not given rise to hatred against Muslims, and as such were "acceptable within the context of public debate."


Police Resume Drive To Take Over Land For POSCO
 By Prashant Paikray

http://www.countercurrents.org/paikray270611.htm

Around 3 PM today, the police again gone back from the protest site. However our people are in high alert. The police may again come back tomorrow. In the morning, the administration re-deployed hundreds of policemen and staged a flag march near Govindpur village boarder


Resuming Pak-India Talks:
 A Ray Of Hope For Pacifists
 By Rahil Yasin

http://www.countercurrents.org/yasin270611.htm

Resuming foreign secretary level talks between Pakistan and India is not less than a sigh of relief for the pacifists as they know that only the continuous dialogue process can lead the two arch rivals towards resolution of the outstanding issues


SP : Legacy Of Ethics And Courage In The Media
 By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat270611.htm

Surendra Pratap Singh or SP as he was popularly known was one of the most iconic journalists of Hindi media at the time when it was opening up to new realities of television journalism. At the time when media particularly the vernacular media and its journalists were openly hobnobbing with the Hindutva lobby in the corporate and enjoyed the patronage, he was sharply different and committed to the profession of journalism

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