Climate Disasters – Ending Congressional Stupor Now!

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Binu Mathew
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The Secret To Survival: We Need More Honesty, Harmony, And Happiness
By Lionel Anet

http://www.countercurrents.org/anet080214.htm

Those three qualities of (HHH), in individuals and therefore society, are the essence that glues people together under almost all circumstances. The importance of those assets have for us is due to their compatibility with our genes as they evolved together harmonising our interaction between ourselves and other species. Our cooperative approach combine with our body assemblage made us universally adaptable to live and be master anywhere


Climate Disasters – Ending Congressional Stupor Now!
By Ralph Nader
http://www.countercurrents.org/nader080214.htm

Omnicidal as it is, climate change has been taken off the table on Capitol Hill. Yes, there are some bills languishing in the hopper, some statements in the Congressional Record, but overall for different Democratic and Republican reasons, Congress has gone AWOL since the energy bill was blocked in the Senate seven years ago


Did The Shin Bet Just Hack My Computer?
By Jonathon Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook080214.htm

That too might help to explain the arrogance of ransacking my computer while I looked on. If they do that to a journalist who has at least the odd feeble tool (like this blog) to fight back, what are they doing to desperate, vulnerable Palestinians who need permits to get emergency medical treatment outside Gaza? I think we know the answer


Full Spectrum Peeping Tomism
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh080214.htm

A government that feels itself vulnerable will naturally increase suppression. Look for a heavy crackdown on voices of dissent as our society becomes more unstable from the impending financial collapse, and as our economy deteriorates further from its already wretched condition. That, my fellow targets, is our true state of the union


Some Reflections On The Last 100 Years
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

http://www.countercurrents.org/mwkhan080214.htm

Having been born in 1925, I have personally witnessed almost a whole century of the history of the Indian subcontinent. The last 100 years was a period of momentous developments for this part of the world. This period saw the emergence of many ‘towering’ personalities, but in terms of helping the people of the region progress on constructive lines and in a positive way, they, by and large, miserably failed


Blood At The Root: Billie Holiday And “Strange Fruit”
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz080214.htm

Holiday’s passionate interpretation of “Strange Fruit” introduced white audiences to powerful images of racism, inequality, and hate crimes… images that were now impossible to ignore


From Postmodernism To Postsecularism- Re-emerging Islamic Civilization
By Jim Miles

http://www.countercurrents.org/miles080214.htm

In his introduction, Eric Walberg states, “The main purpose of this book is to help the reader to understand the alternative map which Islam offers.” This is both a literal and figural map, an alternative to the imperial and neo-colonial boundaries that divide the Islamic world, and an alternative viewpoint to that of the imperial driver of capitalism. This offer includes “realigning ourselves with Nature, and rediscovering humanities’’ spiritual evolutionary path...without abandoning the vital role of reason.”


The Long Term Goal of P.A.D.S.
By Mukul Dube

http://www.countercurrents.org/dube080214.htm

A dozen or so people met on 20 October 2013 to speak of the recent violence against Muslims in Muzaffarnagar and to discuss the possibility of preventing such violence. That was the first meeting of what was named the People's Alliance for Democracy and Secularism or P.A.D.S. The word “democracy” was added to “secularism” because it was thought that the forces behind religious violence in India are essentially fascist; and it follows that there can be no democracy without secularism


Aam Admi And Dalits
By Rahul Sonpimple

http://www.countercurrents.org/rs080214.htm

The rhetoric of Aam Admi by AAP is limited only to urban upper caste-middle class. With such an exclusionary ideology and attitude, AAP and its leaders have already formed a Dalit-Bahujan hostile camp