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Small Scale Food Producers Are The Solution To The Global Food Crisis
By Kirtana Chandrasekaran & Martin Drago

http://www.countercurrents.org/drago171014.htm

The solution to global hunger is within our grasp, but it requires a fundamental reform of the global food system: a wholesale shift from industrial farming to agroecology and food sovereignty. It is Adolfo's knowledge, and that of millions of peasants like him that we want to celebrate today with the motto of World Food Day 2014: 'Family farming: feeding the world, caring for the Earth.'


The New Economy versus Today’s Flat Earthers
By Eric Zencey

http://www.countercurrents.org/zencey171014.htm

Only madmen and economists, Kenneth Boulding once said, believe exponential growth can go on forever


The Islamist State
By William Blum

http://www.countercurrents.org/blum171014.htm

You can’t believe a word the United States or its mainstream media say about the current conflict involving The Islamic State (ISIS). You can’t believe a word France or the United Kingdom say about ISIS. You can’t believe a word Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, or the United Arab Emirates say about ISIS. Can you say for sure which side of the conflict any of these mideast countries actually finances, arms, or trains, if in fact it’s only one side? Why do they allow their angry young men to join Islamic extremists? Why has NATO-member Turkey allowed so many Islamic extremists to cross into Syria? Is Turkey more concerned with wiping out the Islamic State or the Kurds under siege by ISIS? Are these countries, or the Western powers, more concerned with overthrowing ISIS or overthrowing the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad?


US Boosts Air War In Syria
By Peter Symonds

http://www.countercurrents.org/symonds171014.htm

In what points to an escalating US-led war inside Syria and Iraq, the US military has substantially boosted the number of its airstrikes, centred on the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane near the Turkish border. American war planes have carried out at least 54 strikes inside Syria this week, 53 of them on targets in Kobane. Since the bombing of Syria began last month, more than 180 air strikes have been carried out, more than twice the number in Iraq


“The CIA Owns Everyone Of Any Significance In The Major Media”
Eric van de Beek Interviews Udo Ulfkotte

http://www.countercurrents.org/ulfkotte171014.htm

The former editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which is one of Germany’s largest newspapers, was secretly on the payroll of the CIA and German secret service, spinning the news in a way that was positive for the United States and bad for its opponents. In his latest interview, Ulfkotte alleges that some media are nothing more than propaganda outlets of political parties, secret services, international think tanks and high finance entities. Repenting for collaborating with various agencies and organisations to manipulate the news, Ulkotte laments, "I'm ashamed I was part of it. Unfortunately I cannot reverse this."


Global Humanity In Search of Peace, Not War
By Mahboob A. Khawaja

http://www.countercurrents.org/khawaja171014.htm

Our jihadists—George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Thomas Friedman and Tommy Franks—who assured us that swift and overwhelming force in Iraq would transform the Middle East into an American outpost of progress, are no less demented than the jihadists approaching Baghdad. These two groups of killers mirror each other. This is what we have spawned. And this is what we deserve


The TTIP: A Brief History Of An Agenda For Corporate Plunder
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter171014.htm

The corporate jargon surrounding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal is about ‘protecting' investment', reducing ‘unnecessary' barriers and ‘harmonising' regulations that supposedly deter free trade between the US and the EU. In principle, the notion of trade that is free and fair sounds ideal. But, across the world, the dominant ideological paradigm allows little scope for either. Markets are rigged , commodity prices subject to manipulation and nations are coerced, destabilised or attacked [5] in order that powerful players gain access to resources and markets


Divided We Stand: Understanding The Vidarbha Question
By Atharva Pandit

http://www.countercurrents.org/pandit171014.htm

A separate state of Vidarbha would be, one hopes, economically valuable for the region to develop, but politically it isn't- not in the least for the Congress, which boasts of 24 MLAs from the region, and would have to concede a Chief Minister’s position from the region if it was to break it up. That being said, a separate state would, indeed, benefit its embattled agricultural class that has long-suffered the onslaught of parties which have promised better future, a promise they have repeatedly failed in fulfilling


Haider – Conditioned Minds And Their Repercussions
By Harmeet Singh Dhillon

http://www.countercurrents.org/dhillon171014.htm

One thing movie Haider does to a Punjabi is that it brings back the memories of militancy period of Punjab(1984-1995). Clearly there are lots of similarities