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IEA Says Oil Supplies May Not Keep Up With Demand
By Nick Cunningham

http://www.countercurrents.org/cunningam151114.htm

Despite what appears to be a saturated oil market in 2014, oil producers around the world will struggle to meet rising demand over the next few decades. In its latest annual World Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned that the current period of oil abundance may be fleeting, and in fact, without heroic levels of production increases, oil markets will grow dangerously tight in the coming years


Use And Abuse Of The “Natural Capital” Concept
By Herman Daly

http://www.countercurrents.org/daly1511114.htm

A monetary reform to 100% reserve requirements on demand deposits would be a good policy for many reasons, to which we can add, as a necessary supplement to a carbon tax. It would not be necessary as a supplement to cap-auction-trade, but should be adopted for independent reasons. A good symbol should not be allowed to do things that the reality it symbolizes cannot do. One hundred percent reserves would require the symbol of money to behave more like real wealth, at least in some important ways


Time To Learn The Lessons Of Failed U.S. Wars
By Gerry Condon

http://www.countercurrents.org/condon151114.htm

Like millions of veterans of too many U.S. wars, we believe it is high time for our government to learn the lessons of history. Rather than repeatedly resorting to military intervention on behalf of so-called “U.S. interests” (typically the interests of the richest 1%, purchased with the blood of the poorest 1%), we believe that showing respect for the independence of other nations is the way to a better future for all peoples, at home and abroad


The World Gets The Wars Americans Deserve
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson151114.htm

But the primary thing the U.S. government does is wage wars, and it wages them against other people who had no say in the matter. Of course I don't want wars waged against Americans either, but the general impression one gets from traveling around and speaking and answering questions at public events in the United States is not so much that people are indifferent to the destruction of the globe as long as they don't miss their favorite television show, as that people are unclear on what destruction means and can't identify a globe when it's placed in a lineup with six watermelons


Modern And Ancient Parallels Of Arabian Aristocracy
By G. Asgar Mitha

http://www.countercurrents.org/mitha151114.htm

Is it that now the few powerful royal Saudi families discern the headwinds due to their totalitarian governance, terrorism and religious Wahhabi extremism and fear the same social changes that swept ancient Arabia would strip them of their wealth and power? Islam supports social democracy and not monarchy. The Saudis fear that the headwinds will originate from Iran and they may well be correct in that assessment. History doubtlessly has an uncanny way of going around and neither has Islam condoned monarchy in the past or the present


War And Peace: Western Leaders Terrorizing The Mankind
By Mahboob A. Khawaja

http://www.countercurrents.org/khawaja151114.htm

Iraq and Syrian conflicts needs people of new vision and proactive ideas to cope with multiple scopes of the political and humanitarian crises and to seek workable solutions away from the entrenched political box of the few warmongers


Why They Would Bear The Burden Of ‘National Development’?
By Deba Ranjan

http://www.countercurrents.org/ranjan151114.htm

Few days back I went to Siju Mali and was at the top of the hill. It belongs to Kashipur area of Odisha just behind the Niyamgiri hill. For last few months this Siju Mali and its adjacent Kutru Mali have been in news because the Vedanta International Limited (VIL) has kept its eyes on it. After the election between April and September, 2014 Anil Agrawal, director of VIL has met Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, twice and every time he is coming with fully glowing remarks that the later assured him for transferring the bauxite hills to the Company. It is quite possible also. Election experts have highlighted corporate funding behind Biju Janata Dal’s election campaign and the State Election Commission is unmoved on such complaints


A Story Of Life And Death: Population Control Policies And Women’s Right To Survival
By Shalu Nigam

http://www.countercurrents.org/nigam151114.htm

This story is inspired by the recent incident of death of women in Chhattisgarh as well as authors interaction with women from different walks of life and her experience of working with women as an activist, a researcher, a womanist and a social worker over a long period


Women In Politics Should Help Women In Adversity
By Shobha Shukla

http://www.countercurrents.org/shukla151114.htm

Women might be breaking the glass ceiling and walking on sticky floors, but still they are underrepresented in decision making bodies. More of them are need to be there to ensure that there is a renewal of political will for a time bound accelerated action on BPFA


Ginger Cultivation In Mysore District Destroying The Environment
By Vivek Cariappa

http://www.countercurrents.org/cariappa151114.htm

I sincerely urge the Government of Karnataka, specially the administration of Mysore district to regulate Ginger cultivation carefully to ensure minimum damage to our general environment and specifically our soil, water and health – human and animal (domesticated and wild life). To not take pre-emptive action would not be just negligent but a willful destruction of our natural resources, biodiversity and the future lives of our population


Sri Lanka: Quo vadis?
By Nilantha Ilangamuwa

http://www.countercurrents.org/ilangamuwa151114.htm

To say that the President of Sri Lanka is greedy is no lie. Having scammed billions of rupees out of various deals with arms sellers, investors and government funds there is no doubt that he and his brothers have earned the nicknames. Now he wants to continue his reign unchallenged. He will never give up his desire for a third term in order to control over 20 million people to fulfill his personal desires. He is spending near to a billion rupees of public funds for his pre-election campaign and millions more to buy people who, otherwise, might have had a real, authentic reason to oppose him