Fwd: CC Issue 15, Feb - What Big Oil Discusses Behind Closed Doors

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Subject: CC Issue 15, Feb - What Big Oil Discusses Behind Closed Doors
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Bahrain Erupts
By Al Jazeera

http://www.countercurrents.org/aljazeera150211.htm

At least one person has been killed and several others injured after riot police in Bahrain opened fire at protesters holding a funeral service for a man killed during protests in the kingdom a day earlier


Egypt's Military Declares Martial Law
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman150211.htm

So far, little in Egypt changed. Its military remains in charge, governing by martial and emergency law rule. Curfews are still enforced, shortened from 10 to six hours nightly. Diktats are being issued. No permanent Gaza border opening is planned


Civic Institutions Essential For Egypt's Revolution
By Ralph Nader

http://www.countercurrents.org/nader150211.htm

Now comes the hard part. Three "cultures" are presently the best organized—the military, commercial and religious groups. Least established is the civic culture that is now, in its revelry and formative stage, the toast of the nation


The Toxic Residue Of Colonialism
By Richard Falk

http://www.countercurrents.org/falk150211.htm

The overt age of grand empires gave way to the age of covert imperial hegemony, but now the edifice is crumbling


Peak Oil, Climate Change, Political Turmoil:
The Lesson From Egypt
By Matthew Wild

http://www.countercurrents.org/wild150211.htm

Were the Egyptian people that bravely took to the streets to overthrow a tyrannical regime taking part in the world's first peak oil revolution?


Why Mubarak Fell
By Michael Schwartz

http://www.countercurrents.org/schwartz150211.htm

Tyrants be aware that nonviolent protest has the potential to strangle even the most brutal regime, if it can definitively threaten the viability of its core industries. A mass movement equipped with fearsome weapons of mass disruption can topple a tyrant equipped with fearsome weapons of mass destruction


The Pharaohs Of India
By Satya Sagar

http://www.countercurrents.org/sagar150211.htm

When will the Indian public rise up by the millions against its corrupt rulers a la Egypt or Tunisia? When will the Indian sub-continent witness a mass upsurge against exploitation of the majority by a decadent minority elite? How long will the Indian people continue to put up with rising prices, grinding poverty, rampant disease and loot of the country by its leaders?


Arab Revolutions : A March From
WikiProtests To WikiConsciouness?
By Sadanand Patwardhan

http://www.countercurrents.org/patwardhan150211.htm

Egypt will not be same again. Yet dangers lurk, and they will be overcome only through raising the consciousness of the people about the true nature of things. WikiProtests now sorely need WikiConsciousness


Arab Street Celebrates Mubarak's Ouster
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman150211A.htm

Over the weekend, Egyptians and others globally celebrated. Today they awakened to the cold reality of a new dawn


The Coming Misery That Big Oil Discusses
Behind Closed Doors
By Steve LeVine

http://www.countercurrents.org/levine150211.htm

Three years ago, we got a glimpse into the room when Royal Dutch/Shell issued a scenario forecasting the world in 2020. Shell said that energy supplies will be so tight that they will tip the world into a full-blown crisis in which governments will force their populations to reduce driving, use less electricity, and pay an extremely steep increase for what they do consume. There will be a massive, decade-long economic slowdown, and geopolitical power will shift dramatically to energy-producing nations, the company said.Today, Shell returned with an update


Earth's Limits: Why Growth Won't Return
By Richard Heinberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/heinberg150211.htm

This article is the first excerpt from Chapter 3 of Richard's new book 'The End of Growth', which is set for publication by New Society Publishers in July 2011


Climate: Putting People Over Money
By Dahr Jamail

http://www.countercurrents.org/jamail160211.htm

Facing climate change, a social movement in El Salvador fights mass flooding and the toxic burning of cane fields


Always Do The Right Thing (Because 99 Is Not 100)
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz150211.htm

Individual lifestyle changes won't do anything to "save the planet," so why bother? "Because 99 is not 100."


An Open Letter To Sarah Palin (Past And Present)
By Gregory Vickrey

http://www.countercurrents.org/vickrey150211.htm

I know your real character - the one that still exists behind the cartoons and the cut-outs. I have witnessed your hands dirty with the earth of a dying community in Southeast Alaska. I have watched you manipulate with knowledge a massive budget so the imperative mitigation and adaptation could begin. But then, What happened?


Americans Are Being Lied To
By Timothy V. Gatto

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatto150211.htm

So celebrate the victory of the Egyptians. Just remember that we have our own variation of dictatorship at home in America. It's going to take a mass education program to educate the average American to where our nation is headed


Generations Of Resistance To War
By William T. Hathaway

http://www.countercurrents.org/hathaway150211.htm

A Granny for Peace told of finding young allies in the struggle against military recruiting. Due to the Patriot Act, she wishes to remain nameless


Abir's Extra-Judicial Killing: Police In Paradox
By William Gomes

http://www.countercurrents.org/gomes150211.htm

Kazi Imtiaz Hossain Abir was a student of higher secondary level at the Northern College at Mohammadpur was killed in so called "Cross Fire" in the capital.There were flows of news in news media on the issue. They had raised question why Abir was killed? But when I go for an in-depth investigation. I found a different queue. The question is not only why, but it's where Abir was killed?


Notion Of Freedom And Reality Of Unfreedom
By Anand Teltumbde

http://www.countercurrents.org/teltumbde150211.htm

In sum, the Indian people suffer extreme unfreedom, both in structure and processes of the State as well as civil society. All that is spoken of freedoms is reserved for a handful of elites, the people in the Constitution, who have made all others as non-people


Immediate Prosecution Of Policemen
For Fabrication of Case
By Peoples Union for Democratic Rights

http://www.countercurrents.org/pudr150211.htm

The Delhi Police should immediately register the FIR and proceed against the accused policemen in order to send a strong message to erring police officers given to the practice of staging false encounters and framing people in false cases


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