Fwd: CC News Letter, 21 Nov - Ten Things You Should Know About UC Davis Police Violence

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Subject: CC News Letter, 21 Nov - Ten Things You Should Know About UC Davis Police Violence
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Egyptian Military Junta Carries Out Deadly Crackdown On Protesters
 By Johannes Stern

http://www.countercurrents.org/stern211111.htm

The US-backed military junta in Egypt carried out a violent crackdown on protesters over the weekend, killing several and injuring over 700. The repression was in advance of the November 28 parliamentary elections


Rich Nations 'Give Up' On New Climate Treaty
 Until 2020
 By Fiona Harvey

http://www.countercurrents.org/harvey201111.htm

Ahead of critical talks and despite pledge for new treaty by 2012, biggest economies privately admit likelihood of long delay


Article 32 Hearing Of Bradley Manning
 To Begin on December 16
 By David E. Coombs

http://www.countercurrents.org/coombs211111.htm

The Article 32 hearing for PFC Bradley Manning will begin on December 16, 2011 at Fort Meade, Maryland. The hearing is expected to last approximately five days


Ten Things You Should Know About Friday's UC Davis Police Violence
 By Angus Johnston

http://www.countercurrents.org/johnston211111.htm

The most widely distributed video of the incident begins just moments before Lt. Pike begain spraying, but another video, which starts a few minutes earlier, shows Pike chatting amiably with one activist, even patting him casually on the back. The pat on the back occurs just two minutes and nineteen seconds before Pike pepper sprayed the student he had just been chatting with and all of his friends


How The 99% Won In The Fight For Worker Rights
 By Andy Kroll

http://www.countercurrents.org/kroll211111.htm

Occupy Wall Street has already won its first victory its own way -- in Ohio, when voters repealed Republican governor John Kasich's law to slash bargaining rights for 350,000 public workers and gut what remained of organized labor's political power


Occupy With A Vengeance! Change
 Is A Messy Affair,But It Has To Be Done
 By Vincent L. Guarisco

http://www.countercurrents.org/guarisco211111.htm

Spread the word, our numbers are our strength. Tell others to join us! Stand proud. Have no fear. Stay the course. Because if we keep pounding them hard like we did at Oakland's port, and if we keep dissolving our bank accounts -- we can level the playing field for our salvation. Failure is not an option for those who cherish freedom


The Downside Of The Resilience Discourse
 By Dr Chris James

http://www.countercurrents.org/james211111.htm

Resilience has strong connections with positive psychology and behavioural modification. In this respect resilience is being offered as an alternative to resistance . Resilience places the responsibility for a sick world onto the individual. Once resilient behaviour is learned it is not always easy to 'bounce back'. Does this mean we must accept poverty, exploitation, violence, slavery, war and the rest?


All Those Republican Candidates:
 Can They Be Taken Seriously?
 By Dr. Habib Siddiqui

http://www.countercurrents.org/siddiqui211111.htm

Funny that these warmongers and morally bankrupt politicians talk about American exceptionalism! Is water-boarding a symbol of American exceptionalism and is it going to raise our moral standing in the world? Is it a value that we can all cherish and export?


The Politics Of Gas Pipelines In Asia
 By Abdus Sattar Ghazali

http://www.countercurrents.org/ghazali211111.htm

On November 14, Pakistan and Turkmenistan signed an agreement to build the $7.6 billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project under which Pakistan will get 1.3 billion cubic feet per day of gas. The agreement was signed during a visit by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov of Turkmenistan to Islamabad


Bolivia: Rumble Over Jungle Far From Over
 By Federico Fuentes

http://www.countercurrents.org/fuentes21111.htm

Despite the government reaching an agreement with indigenous protesters on all 16 demands raised on their 10-week march onto the capital, La Paz, the underlying differences are far from resolved


14,231 Persons Died In police And Judicial Custody
 In India From 2001 To 2010
 By Suhas Chakma

http://www.countercurrents.org/chakma211111.htm

"Torture in India 2011" states that a total of 14,231 persons i.e. more than four persons per day died in police and judicial custody in India from 2001 to 2010. This includes 1,504 deaths in police custody and 12,727 deaths in judicial custody from 2001-2002 to 2009-2010 as per the cases submitted to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)



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