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Subject: CC Issue 03, Jan - Asian Aid Convoy Reaches Gaza Strip
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2011: The Year We'll Hit 7 Billion
By Lisa Hymas

http://www.countercurrents.org/hymas030111.htm

Sometime in the latter half of this year, the world population will hit a new milestone: 7 billion people. Already? Didn't we just hit 6 billion? Yep, a mere dozen years ago -- and that's probably the last time you heard much about population


The Real Population Problem
By Jay Kimball

http://www.countercurrents.org/kimball030111.htm

Population has grown beyond the Carrying Capacity of the earth. Increasing demand for critical resources (energy, water, food, land, …) reduces Carrying Capacity further, and accelerates decline exponentially. Climate is changing, pollution growing, species extinction accelerating. And our ability to work cooperatively to meet these challenges is failing. This is not sustainable. How do we break the vicious spiral?


Carrying Capacity and Limiting Factors(PDF)
By Randolph Femmer

http://randolph-femmer.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/pdf_6_carrying_capacity.pdf

This document addresses carrying capacities and limiting factors. Imagine our planet as a global bus. If a bus has enough seats for fifty passengers, we would all agree that we could crowd a few extra persons on board in an emergency. But how many extras could the vehicle accommodate? What if 291 passengers climb aboard, or 937, or 7428?


Living Better In 'The Finite World'
By Craig A. Severance

http://www.countercurrents.org/severance030111.htm

Nobel winning economist Paul Krugman posted a tantalizing New York Times column this week entitled The Finite World. I say "tantalizing" because Krugman came very close to challenging the economic profession's central dogma -- the assumption of endless and infinite economic growth -- but in the end he backed away


Asian Aid Convoy Reaches Gaza Strip
By Press TV

http://www.countercurrents.org/asia030111.htm

An aid convoy carrying food and medical supplies for the besieged Palestinians, as part of an Asian aid mission, has arrived in the Gaza Strip. The Asia to Gaza Solidarity Caravan, (Asia 1) entered the coastal strip through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on Monday


"Greatest Nation" Rhetoric Roars Back
By Robert Jensen

http://www.countercurrents.org/jensen030111.htm

This expression of American exceptionalism is unexceptional in U.S. political history, but it roared back stronger than ever in 2010, especially in the rhetoric of the Tea Party movement. As it becomes harder to ignore the United States' decline as an economic power -- which will limit the capacity for imperial marauding around the world -- the inclination of most mainstream politicians to assert our greatness will intensify


Wikileaks: Israel Plans Total War On Lebanon, Gaza
By Juan Cole

http://www.countercurrents.org/cole030111.htm

The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten has summarized an Israeli military briefing by Israeli Chief of Staff Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi of a US congressional delegation a little over a year ago. The paper says that US cables quote Ashkenazi telling the US congressmen, "I'm preparing the Israeli army for a major war, since it is easier to scale down to a smaller operation than to do the opposite."


Lucasville Five Hunger Strike Begins
By Angola 3 News

http://www.countercurrents.org/a3n030111.htm

An interview with author Staughton Lynd


Islamophobia In Western Media
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman030111.htm

Post-9/11, Western media, especially in America and Britain, describe Muslims as fundamentalists, extremists, terrorists, and fanatics. Throughout the West, Islam is identified with violence, when, in fact it has common roots with Christianity and Judaism. Their tenets are based on love, not hate; peace, not violence; charity, not exploitation; and a just, fair society for people of all faiths. You'd never know it from Islamophobic media reports


'Backward Muslims Are Not Creating Any
New Caste Divisions': Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz
By Mohd. Noor Hasan Azad & Khalid Anis Ansari

http://www.countercurrents.org/ansari030111.htm

Mohammad Noor Hasan Azad, one of the founding members of the All India Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz, discusses the contemporary lower caste movement among Indian Muslims


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