The Global Elite Is Insane

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Binu Mathew
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Myth Of Clean Chit: Gujarat Carnage And Narendra Modi
By Ram Puniyani

http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani050214.htm

There has been some justice in few cases of Gujarat. And that is due to yeomen struggle for justice launched by the victims and human rights defenders. The process of justice needs to be pursued. The state of Gujarat has created all possible obstacles in the justice being given to the victims. The claims of clean chit hold no water, we need to look beyond the propaganda and the truth will show the blood tainted hands of Modi


Salt And Terror In Afghanistan
By Kathy Kelly

http://www.countercurrents.org/kelly050214.htm

Panic and revenge among far more prosperous people in the U.S. helped to drive the U.S. into a war waged against one of the poorest countries in the world. Yet, my Afghan friends, who've borne the brunt of war, long to rise above vengeance and narrow self-interest. They wish to pursue a peace that includes ending hunger


Cornering A Brave Palestinian Man Of Peace
By Nicola Nasser

http://www.countercurrents.org/nasser050214.htm

Unmercifully pressured by both Israeli negotiators and American mediators, the elusive cause of peace stands about to loose in Abbas a brave Palestinian man of peace-making of an historical stature whose demise would squander what could be the last opportunity for the so-called two-state solution


Making Iowa Into A War Zone - National Guard Poised To Attack From Des Moines Airport
By Brian Terrell

http://www.countercurrents.org/terrell050214.htm

Drone warfare is based on the lie that war can be made more exact, limited and humane through technology. Our civilian and military authorities, by bringing drones to Des Moines , are acting recklessly and in defiance of domestic and international law. They are acting without regard for the safety and wellbeing of our troops, of the people of Iowa or of people in faraway places who otherwise would mean us no harm. Rather than being an answer, drones perpetuate and multiply the horrors of war and bring them home into our communities


‘Declaring Victory Wherever We Can'
By Robert Jensen

http://www.countercurrents.org/jensen050214.htm

An Interview With Cynthia Kaufman On Getting Past Capitalism: History, Vision, Hope


Edge-Dwelling: A Social Ecology For Our Times; Part 3: Middle School, Misfits, And The Milky Way
By Dianne Monroe

http://www.countercurrents.org/monroe050214.htm

This work of re-visioning our humanity and our place within the web of life (as part of rather than in control of) is already begun. Joanna Macy calls it The Great Turning. Thomas Berry calls it The Great Work. We each have only to add our unique voice to visioning and building the bridge that can bring us from now to the regeneration that can arise beyond our crumbling civilization’s far edge


Boredom Is Counter-Revolutionary
By Mickey Z

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz050214.htm

Imagine if the majority of us woke tomorrow morning and suddenly recognized all forms of life – including ourselves – as part of one collective soul. If so, how could we not defend that collective soul… by any means necessary? With all due respect to the Situationists, I’ll let you in on the real secret: All our grievances and all our solutions are connected – and we are the ones the planet has been waiting for


Egypt's Dictatorship For The Digital Age
By Justin Podur

http://www.countercurrents.org/podur050214.htm

Seven months later, we have the new Egyptian dictatorship’s answer to the internet: monitor its users, jail its journalists in Egypt, and use it to broadcast messages of hate and misinformation about political opponents. So far, it is working, but it won’t work forever. Not because of the internet, but because of the people. Dictatorships are overthrown when people lose their fear, and the Egyptians have lost their fear more than a few times in recent years


The Global Elite Is Insane
By Robert J. Burrowes

http://www.countercurrents.org/burrowes050214.htm

As anyone who pays even the slightest realistic attention to the global elite already knows, the elite's efforts to maximise its political and economic clout, and hence its wealth, at the expense of everyone else and the Earth itself, are carefully crafted. And this is not going to change on our recommendation or because we talk to them, or even because we listen to them. Moreover, the reason is simple. The global elite is insane. And it is incredibly violent


O! Teacher Stop Teaching
By Mirza Yawar Baig

http://www.countercurrents.org/baig050214.htm

Our present methods of teaching which are inflicted on by far the vast majority of children the world over are the single biggest cause for killing the imagination that every child is born with and making them into square blocks which fit our own frightened, constrained and slavish worldview. Those who comply we ‘pass’ and those who challenge it and refuse to succumb, we ‘fail’. The occasional among those we ‘fail’, go on to great fortune. The vast majority disappear, never to be heard from again. Destroyed by the education system they didn’t deserve or ask for


The Lynching Of Nido Taniam
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat050214.htm

This is not the first incident of racial violence against the people from North East and Delhi is not the only state where such incidents are happening and despite all the media coverage and importance being given to the incident, this would not be the last of its kind as prejudices in our minds against those who do not look like us and have same kind of ‘characteristics’ are rampant. Frankly speaking, it is not just a law and order issue, it reflect the deep-rooted prejudices in our mind and need a long term solution


Documenting Causes
Acceptance speech By Anand Patwardhan

http://www.countercurrents.org/patwardhan050214.htm

Anand Patwardhan was awarded the V Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award at the Mumbai International Film Festival today. Here is his acceptance speech


Reverencing The Past
By Anitha.S

http://www.countercurrents.org/anitha050214.htm

The crescent moon and the stars, the bats flying overhead, the feelings of all those who joined in the signature campaign all echoed one thing- Let this green lung be conserved for posterity, for children to play and learn, for the public to breathe in pure air and let us be a generation that has reverence to the past


We Want Peace: Condemnation Of The Protest Against Pakistani Band In Mumbai
By Aaghaz-e-Dosti

http://www.countercurrents.org/aed050214.htm

It has been reported that a group of 50 people hailing from political party Shiv Sena had barged into the press conference of Pakistani Sufi band Mekaal Hasan held in the Mumbai Press Club today and demanded that the musicians return immediately to their country. They were carrying placards with anti-Pakistani slogans and saffron flags