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Binu Mathew
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Earth Needs More Than A Day
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz220414.htm

We need a loud global alarm clock and we need it now. In fact, we could use a bunch of 'em -- tick-tick-ticking in every city and town on the planet to remind us humans that time is of the essence. Our eco-system is finite and there is a point of no return. With this in mind, we could all kick things up a notch or three in terms of urgency, solidarity, and methods


On Earth Day, An Economics For People And Planet
By Helena Norberg-Hodge

http://www.countercurrents.org/hodge220414.htm

The localization movement is beginning to bridge the divides between groups that are working to make the world a better place: environmental activists, small business owners, community leaders, educators, social justice campaigners, farmers, workers’ rights advocates, religious and spiritual groups. An exciting, once-in-a-generation coalition is emerging: a coalition that offers real hope for broad-based and lasting renewal


Food Can Be A Politically Destabilizing Issue By 2050
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc220414.htm

The world is less than 40 years away from a food shortage that will have serious implications for people and governments, said Dr. Fred Davies, senior science advisor for the US Agency for International Aid's bureau of food security


The Socialist Ecotopia
By Alan Johnstone

http://www.countercurrents.org/johnstone220414.htm

The scientists striving against the environmental destruction of the world have to start with the struggle for socialism. If they can convince people of the reality of climate change, they must also explain the economic cause and present the only feasible solution


Civil Wars: Manufactured To Reduce Global Demand For Limited Resouces?
By Daniel Gibbins

http://www.countercurrents.org/gibbins220414.htm

When available supplies of commodities are limited in terms of decades we can be sure that future holds some surprises and that we as individuals need to be prepared for an altogether different way of life


US Is Sending Forces To Poland, Says Washington Post
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc220414A.htm

Citing Poland's defense minister Tomasz Siemoniak The Washington Post has said US ground forces will be sent to Poland to expand NATO's presence there. The minister also told there is possibility of sending US troops to other Baltic states


NATO’s Military Build-Up In Poland: A Reverse Cuban Missile Crisis
By RIA Novosti

http://www.countercurrents.org/rn220414.htm

NATO’s military build-up in Poland is a dangerous and provocative development which might lead to another Cuban Missile crisis, Professor Francis Boyle told RIA Novosti Tuesday. “This is an extremely dangerous and provocative development in the crisis between the United States and Russia over Ukraine,” said Boyle, a Harvard-educated professor at the University of Illinois. “It’s just another step in the direction, I regret to say, of perhaps a reverse Cuban Missile crisis,” the expert stressed


Reflections On Laclau
By Ritchie Savage

http://www.countercurrents.org/savage220414.htm

Ernesto Laclau, who passed away on Sunday, April 13, 2014 , is known primarily as an Argentinean political theorist who wrote about populism, socialism, and political discourse. Populism is commonly referred to as a type of politics that exalts the ‘people' and pits them against the elite. Laclau's work on populism and political discourse has important ramifications for how we can reconceptualize the role of new social movements, such as Occupy


Iraq And Syria, The Need For A new Nuremberg
By Hussein Al-alak

http://www.countercurrents.org/alalak220414.htm

At the Nuremberg Trials, ignorance and claims to only be following orders, were no defence for those wanting to diminish their responsibility in the Holocaust, and ignorance to the current war crimes of Britain's Jihadists, is as inexcusable today, as NAZI crimes were to the people of Germany


Postcard From The End Of America : Bensalem
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh220414.htm

When I told my friend, Anwar, of my plan to traverse Bensalem by foot, he laughed, “You can't even walk there. There are no sidewalks!” Though this is not quite true, I did find myself mostly schlepping on edges of roads or people's lawns. To not get splattered by SUVs, sometimes I had to hop puddles or even step in mud. Covering twenty miles over two days, the only other pedestrians I encountered was a Mexican immigrant, a few derelict types, perhaps homeless, and a well-tattooed teen couple with bad skin and wearing black T-shirts. Since I didn't chatter with them, I can't tell you if they were going to their meth dealer, the Wawa or a bible study group


Six Questions For Narendra Modi
By Shamsul Islam

http://www.countercurrents.org/islam220414.htm

Narendra Modi, BJP’s nominee for prime-ministership dreams of ruling Indian polity which is constitutionally based on the principles of democracy, secularism, federalism, socialism and justice. However, there is going to be a serious conflict of interests between above mentioned fundamental principles of the Indian polity and Modi’s world-view which is controlled and dictated by the RSS, the most prominent protagonist of the politics of Hindutva. It is a critical issue as Modi publically admits that he is a member of RSS. And RSS hates and denigrates all fundamental principles of democratic-secular India. There are SIX important QUESTIONS which need urgent response from Narendra Modi so that Nation comes to know which side of the divide he stands


India And Pakistan: A Road To Peace
By Dr. Arshad M. Khan

http://www.countercurrents.org/khan220414.htm

Imagine a prosperous subcontinent freed from the fear of war and nuclear apocalypse, on its way to joining the First World. It is a vision worth fighting for and high time a worthy people rid themselves of their painful legacy of colonialism


The Surge of The Heavy Brigades
By Sazzad Hussain

http://www.countercurrents.org/hussain220414.htm

The former Cold War adversaries are making war cries at the cost of a population who would face Nazi and Fascist forces if the so called, media hyped ‘democratic regime change’ in Ukraine succeeds. Yes, it is the surge of the heavy brigade (read Russia and NATO) in Ukraine, for Crimea which can escalate into an transnational conflict in the fragile Caucasus-Caspian region—known for diversity and most importantly for its energy reserves