CounterCurrents: Monsanto On The Menu: Science, Knowledge And GMOs, How America Screws Up The World Without Ever Letting Its People Know What Is Happening

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Ceasefire Agreement For Eastern Ukraine Announced After Minsk Summit
By Alex Lantier

http://www.countercurrents.org/lantier120214.htm

Thursday morning the leaders of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine reportedly reached a ceasefire agreement in eastern Ukraine. The deal came after 17 hours of negotiations in the Belorussian capital, Minsk. It is supposed to come into effect on Sunday


Obama's New National Security Strategy Is Rabidly Anti-Russian
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse120215.htm

U.S. President Barack Obama's just-issued National Security Strategy 2015 uses the term “aggression” precisely 18 times, all but one of which are either explicitly, or else possibly, referring to Russia, as allegedly doing the alleged “aggression” — never the U.S., and on only one occasion is he identifying North Korea with that term of opprobrium. Presumably, he thinks that Russia is by far the most “aggressive” country


A Proposed Meeting: Kathy Kelly And Pope Francis, In The Name Of Peace
By Gary Corseri and Charles Orloski

http://www.countercurrents.org/corseri120215.htm

We would like to get this idea “out there”—for good Catholics, and conscientious Americans, and peace-loving citizens of the world to mull over…


Keystone XL, Cold War 2.0, And The GOP Vision For 2016
By Michael T. Klare

http://www.countercurrents.org/klare120215.htm

How Energy Coordination on One Continent Could Bring the Planet to Its Knees


Potential New Allies In The Effort To Achieve A Sustainable True Cost Economy
By Brent Blackwelder

http://www.countercurrents.org/blackwelder120215.htm

Those who want a true cost, steady state economy need some new, powerful allies. We need allies that stretch across the political spectrum, from liberal to conservative. We need allies that can speak from a values perspective to bring moral considerations to bear on the discussion


How America Screws Up The World Without Ever Letting Its People Know What Is Happening
By John Chuckman

http://www.countercurrents.org/chuckman120215.htm

Brian Williams, American television network anchor caught telling his audience a fantasy version of his experience on a foreign assignment, has unintentionally provided us with a near perfect allegory and tale of caution about American journalism and the role it plays in politics and foreign affairs


Death By A Million Contradictions: Trying To Understand Tibetan Self-Immolation
By Tim Robertson

http://www.countercurrents.org/robertson120215.htm

Self-immolation, specifically by fire, is the de jour form of protest in Tibet these days. According to the advocacy group the International Campaign for Tibet, 136 Tibetans have self-immolated since February 2009. The most recent, a monk named Kalsang Yeshe, set fire to himself and died in the Tibetan area of Kham on 23rd December


Oil Zapper Magically Restores Denigrated Areas
By Marianne de Nazareth

http://www.countercurrents.org/nazareth120215.htm

Different climatic conditions require different bacteria. But what is amazing is that once the bacteria eat up the oil, they become protein and completely mix with the soil and the soil in the area is completely restored. Infact as Dr Banwari Lal explained that the recovered oil which they collect they are able to run the machines which they need for their work with it


Cuba Is Our Family
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson120215.htm

Cuba and the United States have a great deal in common, but of course it all means nothing because their president is always a Castro and ours is changed every 4 or 8 years from one advocate of crazy militarism, consumption, and wealth concentration, to a nearly identical advocate of crazy militarism, consumption, and wealth concentration. When will Cuba catch up?


Monsanto On The Menu: Science, Knowledge And GMOs
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter120215.htm

Coming from the GMO biotech industry, or its political mouthpieces, the term “sound science” rings extremely hollow. The industry carries out inadequate, short-term studies and conceals the data produced by its research under the guise of ‘commercial confidentiality', while independent research highlights the very serious dangers of its products. It has in the past also engaged in fakery in India, bribery in Indonesia and smears and intimidation against those who challenge its interests, as well as the distortion and the censorship of science

Discarded Laptop Batteries Can Help Light Up India
By Syed Ali Mujtaba

http://www.countercurrents.org/mujtaba120215.htm

Many of the estimated 50 million lithium-ion laptop batteries discarded every year could provide electricity storage sufficient to light homes of the poors in the country. In India alone, about 400 million people lack grid-connected electricity. Millions of batteries discarded with computers have more than enough life to solve the problem of lighting home in the country


Demand Action Against Special Cell Personnel In Liaquat Shah Case
By People's Union For Democratic Rights

http://www.countercurrents.org/pudr120215.htm

The recent chargesheet filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) absolving former Hizbul Mujahideen militant, Syed Liaquat Shah, of all charges, has yet again exposed the Special Cell of the Delhi Police for planting false evidence and for framing Shah