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A New Story For A New Economy
By David Korten

http://www.countercurrents.org/korten210314.htm

David Korten's new essay (available to read as a PDF) connects the work of finding a new sacred story with the effort to build a new economy


Equity + Sustainability = Sharing Globally
By Rajesh Makwana

http://www.countercurrents.org/makwana210314.htm

At a time when the risk of civilizational collapse is widely forewarned, it is time to recognise that the call for sharing is a cause that can unite concerned citizens working on a diverse range of interconnected global issues


Defending The Earth, Even After Death: The Green Burial Movement
By Hunter Marshall

http://www.countercurrents.org/marshall210314.htm

The greenest burial places essentially transform the cemetery into a nature preserve—and a "posthumous occupation" of a $20 billion funeral industry


US Sailors And Marines Allege Fukushima Radiation Sickness
By Amy Goodman

http://www.countercurrents.org/goodman210314.htm

In an unusual development, more than 100 U.S. Marines and Navy sailors have joined a class action suit, charging TEPCO with lying about the severity of the disaster as they were rushing to the scene to provide humanitarian assistance. They were aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and other vessels traveling with the Reagan, engaged in humanitarian response to the disaster. The response was dubbed “Operation Tomodachi,” meaning “Operation Friendship.”


A 24/7 Global Holocaust
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz210314.htm

It’s been estimated that in all the wars and genocides in recorded history, a total of 619 million humans have been killed by humans. That same number -- 619 million non-humans -- are murdered every five days for “food” by an industry that consumes and destroys one-third of the planet’s land surface and is the No. 1 source of human-created greenhouse gases


The War Activists
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson210314.htm

War activists, like peace activists, push for an agenda. We don't think of them as activists because they rotate in and out of government positions, receive huge amounts of funding, have access to big media, and get meetings with top officials just by asking -- without having to generate a protest first


The Crisis That Israel Adroitly Manufactured
By Kourosh Ziabari

http://www.countercurrents.org/ziabari210314.htm

The representative of the Jewish minority in Iran’s parliament (Majlis) has recently given an extensive interview to one of Iranian news agencies and discussed his different viewpoints regarding the Israeli regime and the way the Jewish community of Iran see the entity which proclaims to be representing the global Jewry. According to Siamak Mareh Sedq who has talked to the Fars News Agency, Tel Aviv needs to create crisis in the Middle East in order to survive. “If Israel faces no threat it will be destroyed within one month. Israel needs (regional) crises in a bid to continue its existence,” he said


Manufactured Crisis. The Untold Story of The Iran Nuclear Scare
Book Review By Dr. Ludwig Watzal

http://www.countercurrents.org/watzal210314.htm

Gareth Porter’s well researched book presents readers with a clear view, so that they can see through the web of lies, deceptions and false accusations, to discover the real enemies of peace. A timely book more than worth reading


South Asia And The Alternate Sexual Life Style
By Dr. Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjee

http://www.countercurrents.org/bhattacharjee210314.htm

The issue of alternate sexual life style and nations in South Asia is governed by colonial laws, religious norms and morality and a pseudo-urban mind-set that clubs sexual offences and alternate life styles to be same. The write-up tries to briefly assess how such life style exists in the nations in South Asia and the manner in which each respective nation deals with the issue. The manner in which rights and liberties of sexual minorities are being violated and undermined remain to be a notion that is grossly similar in most of the nations, except Nepal. The question of acceptability, rationality and constitutionality of providing equal rights to all minorities has been discussed


An Open Letter To Political Parties To Take Up The Issue Of Repeal Of AFSPA
By Concerned Citizens

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc210314.htm

Democracy gives you a platform to contest between each other, but at the same time democracy wants you to be humane. Is your party a humane one? Does your party consider democracy as people's mandate or is it just another method of acquiring power? Do you support the heroic struggle by people of J&K and North East against brutal and draconian AFSPA?

20 March, 2014


US, EU Escalate War Threats Against Russia Over Crimea Annexation
By Johannes Stern & Alex Lantier

http://www.countercurrents.org/lantier200314.htm

Continuing its well-prepared campaign to exploit the Ukrainian crisis as a pretext for a vast expansion of imperialist operations in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, Washington and its European Union (EU) allies responded yesterday to Russia’s official annexation of Crimea by calling for a military buildup that would put NATO on a perpetual war footing against Moscow


Michelle Bachelet Returns To Her Old Job, Being President Of Chile
By Brian McAfee

http://www.countercurrents.org/mcafee200314.htm

Michelle Bachelet's first term as president of Chile ran from 2006 to 2010. After her term as president ended she was chosen to head "UN Women", a newly created UN entity that promotes gender equality. Bachelet accepted the presidential sash from Senate President Isabel Allende, the daughter of Chile's late Socialist President Salvador Allende. Both women have had remarkable lives given the hardships both have had to endure


The Refugees Of The Republic :Hurt, Humiliation, And Hunger
By Samar

http://www.countercurrents.org/samar200314.htm

They live in relief camps. All they have to survive against the biting cold is a plastic sheet. Luckier ones have got cots, thanks to the communitarian support offered by their religious organizations. They have seen their children and the elderly dying. They have left their graveyards behind and bury their dead kith and kin in new, makeshift cemeteries. They, more than 60000 even by the most conservative estimates, did not always live in these camps; they had brick houses and property back in the villages they have been hounded out of. They are the victims of the worst violence that rocked western Uttar Pradesh, districts Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, and Bagpat in particular, in September 2013


Symptoms Of Fascism
By Ram Puniyani

http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani200314.htm

Some say, India is a very diverse country and so fascism cannot come here? It is a good thought, and partly it has been a factor in holding back the fascist forces in India. With time many factors become evened out and the similar tendencies grow all around. So it is not ruled out, especially with the rise of the mass support for such a phenomenon. Only a concerted struggle to nurture democratic ethos, values of pluralism and correct diagnosis of fascist forces alone can save our democracy