CounterCurrents: USA: Racial Divide Rules, Two More 'Police Incidents,' Shrouded In Media Euphemism, Capitalism Is In A Self-Destruct Mode

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Cleveland People Protest Over Boy Shot By Police, Protests In 12 US Cities
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc261114.htm

Several hundred people marched down an exit ramp and temporarily blocked rush-hour traffic on a busy freeway on Tuesday in Cleveland while protesting a police officer's fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy who had brandished a realistic-looking novelty gun. Demonstrators blocked the Memorial Shoreway in Cleveland , on November 25, 2014, during the protest. Meanwhile, protesting the Ferguson shooting and the grand jury decision people across America have taken to the streets. A dozen US cities have seen new protests over the decision not to charge a white policeman who shot a black teenager in Ferguson , Missouri


Two More 'Police Incidents,' Shrouded In Media Euphemism
By Janine Jackson

http://www.countercurrents.org/jackson261114.htm

That so many black people are killed by law enforcement is a painful, difficult thing to face. That we don't know how many people is a scandal in itself


USA: Racial Divide Rules
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc261114A.htm

Amid unrest, demonstration, protest across the US, tightened security in Ferguson following a night of burning of police vehicles, buildings, breaking of shops, destruction and police firing, and thousands of people protesting Ferguson decision blocked traffic in New York city the important issue of racial divide in the country has emerged


Economic Blockade of Ukrainian Rebel Regions Inflicts Mass Suffering
By David Levine

http://www.countercurrents.org/levine251114.htm

During the first half of November, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a series of executive orders that create the equivalent of an economic blockade of rebel-controlled territories in eastern Ukraine. The orders sever financial ties between the territories of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) and the rest of Ukraine, and thereby cut them off from much of the rest of the world as well


Israel’s Model of Political Despair in Jerusalem
By Jonathan Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook261114.htm

Relations between Israelis and Palestinians have descended into a dangerous melee of tit-for-tat attacks and killings, with the violence of the past few weeks centred on Jerusalem. The city, claimed by Israel as its “undivided capital”, has been torn apart by clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian residents since the summer, when 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir was burnt alive by Jewish extremists


Activism: Quality, Not Quantity
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz261114.htm

Ask yourself why you haven't taken your rebellion beyond the methods listed above. Your answer is likely the same as mine: "We got the numbers, but they got the guns." Maybe author Derrick Jensen had it right when he said: "We still think we have something to lose. That's what's stopping us. As soon as we realize we have nothing left to lose we'll be dangerous." After all, in "Five to One," Jim Morrison also sang: "No one here gets out alive."


Capitalism Is In A Self-Destruct Mode
By Lionel Anet

http://www.countercurrents.org/anet261114.htm

The harder we work the sooner we will die. That need to keep up economic growth, with an increase in world population is gradually destroying our life-supports - nature. It would look as if we are planning to have the greatest possible number of people suffering the greatest distress as possible, in the longest agonizing deaths imaginable. We can achieve that because we have no need of any plans it’s not even our decision we have a system – capitalism controlled by competition, that’s steering us to our demise and most, if not all of life


A Scope Of Green Bond For India And Pakistan
By Madhuri Mittal

http://www.countercurrents.org/mittal261114.htm

Renewable Energy Technology can be used for peace-building. This has been explored in the case of India and Pakistan. Both India and Pakistan are developing nations. The conflict has only worsened their potential to meet their domestic issues. Thus, there is an urgent need to resolve the conflict. There is a need to develop and use technology not for increasing or sustaining conflict but to resolve it. This is being realised by the Governments which have now several proposals for Energy collaborations. This has also been realised and implemented by non-Governmental forces