CounterCurrents: Paul Krugman And The Tortoise: Why The Limits To Growth Are Real, ‘Forest Man’ From Kerala, Poison First, Regulate Later: The Criminality of The GMO Biotech Industry

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Obama Doubles US Troop Strength In Iraq
By Patrick Martin

http://www.countercurrents.org/martin091114.htm

The Pentagon announced Friday that President Obama has approved sending another 1,500 troops to Iraq, effectively doubling the size of the US deployment there. The move is part of a rapid escalation of the war in Iraq and Syria, and comes only days after the US midterm elections


‘Forest Man’ From Kerala
By Roshan Shah

http://www.countercurrents.org/shah091114.htm

Almost 40 years ago, Abdul Kareem bought five acres of land in what was then a sparsely inhabited area in Kasargod district in Malabar, northern Kerala. Shortly after, he bought some more land, and in just a few years, his 30-odd acres were transformed into a thick, vibrant forest, making Abdul Kareem one of the few people in India to have actually created a forest—and that too almost single-handedly!


In Singapore , Afghanistan And The Arena Of Ideas
By Dr Hakim / Dr Teck Young, Wee

http://www.countercurrents.org/hakim091114.htm

The unsustainable politics of concentrated wealth and power in the hands of a few can be replaced by genuinely democratic, non-corporatized governance where the people, and not the ‘central governments' of today, decide how they can resolve all human conflicts without war


Paul Krugman And The Tortoise: Why The Limits To Growth Are Real
By Ugo Bardi

http://www.countercurrents.org/bardi091114.htm

Paul Krugman seems to have created some kind of a similar paradox with a recent New York Times article (“Slow Steaming and the Limits to Growth”) where he sets out to demonstrate that the world's gross domestic product (GDP) can continue growing even while reducing energy production. He does that by means of the example of “slow steaming.”


Poison First, Regulate Later: The Criminality of The GMO Biotech Industry
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter091114.htm

The GM Contamination Register database has been run by Genewatch and Greenpeace for about ten years and contains cases dating from 1997 to the end of 2013 . The authors of a new paper, published in the International Journal of Food Contamination, analysed the 400 or so cases in the database by crop and country


Bonfire Night
By Gaither Stewart

http://www.countercurrents.org/stewart091114.htm

Guy Fawkes, vilified in the English world, was a man unimpressed by royal rank. He plotted a regicide. He could have been the forerunner of Cromwell, and later the American and French Revolutions


Should India Legalize Sex Work?
By Kandathil Sebastian

http://www.countercurrents.org/sebastian091114.htm

A recent remark made by Lalitha Kumaramangalam, chairperson of the National Commission for Women in India about the need for legalization of sex work invited a huge controversy. Currently a special panel appointed by the Supreme Court of India is preparing potential amendments in the existing Indian laws to make sex work safe. There are many Indians - not just the moral right wing extremists but even the socialist feminists expressed concern about legalizing prostitution in India. This essay will examine their concerns and arguments to finally arrive at an opinion on what should be the best possible option ahead to protect the human rights of this hugely marginalized section of Indians


Inequality: Food Follows Class-line
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury091114.htm

Class doesn't allow anyone and anything to get out of its clutch. Food and health are not class-neutral areas. These, rather, have to faithfully follow class-line. Inequality is one of its outcomes. It's a fact not only from one or two countries like the UK and the US , but from scores of advanced capitalist countries, and the fact has emerged over a period of decades


Revoke Capital Punishment To Indian Fishermen In Sri Lanka
By Concerned Citizens

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc091114.htm

With the disturbing reports of the capital punishment awarded to Indian Fishermen in Sri Lanka, we all who believe and work for South Asian regional cooperation, coordination and harmony believe that Government of Sri Lanka must take concern of the fact that such punishment is not only a barrier and setback towards the larger objective of cooperation but also a setback in larger goal of humanity and justice