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Binu Mathew
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Rising Food Price A Global Concern
By Mousumi Roy

http://www.countercurrents.org/mroy250315.htm

The issue of rising food Prices across the globe is a matter of great concern, and is being discussed on many international forums. Studies show that, since households in developing countries spend most of their income on food items, rising food prices affect them significantly more than households in developed countries


Hold The Rich Accountable In New U.N. Development Goals, Say NGOs
By Thalif Deen

http://www.countercurrents.org/deen250315.htm

The Civil Society Reflection Group (CSRG) on Global Development Perspectives will be releasing a new study which calls for both goals and commitments – this time particularly by the rich – if the UN’s 17 proposed new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the post-2015 development agenda are to succeed


Two Towns Face The Fallout As Himalayan Glaciers Melt
By Daniel Grossman

http://www.countercurrents.org/grossman250315.htm

For two towns in northern India, melting glaciers have had very different impacts — one town has benefited from flowing streams and bountiful harvests; but the other has seen its water supplies dry up and now is being forced to relocate


U.S.-v.-Russia: Even Stephen Cohen Is Starting To Speak The Truth
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse250315.htm

An alarming development is that Stephen F. Cohen, the internationally prominent scholar of Russia, is acknowledging that (1:35 on the video) “for the first time in my long life (I began in this field in the 1960s), I think the possibility of war with Russia is real,” and he clearly and unequivocally places all of the blame for it on the U.S. leadership. He calls this “possibly a fateful turning-point in history.” He also says “it could be the beginning of the end of the so-called trans-Atlantic alliance.”


How The US Government And US Military Became Murder, Inc.
By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts250315.htm

The Revolution in Military Affairs has decapitated the US military, which no longer has the knowledge or ability or human tools to conduct war. If the crazed Russophobic US generals get their way and end up in confrontation with Russia, the American forces will be destroyed. The humiliation of this defeat will cause Washington to take the war nuclear


Resisting Israeli Politics
By Brenda Heard

http://www.countercurrents.org/heard250315.htm

Six months prior to the upcoming UK general election, the Board of Deputies of British Jews published its “2015 General Election Jewish Manifesto.” This forty-page document urges both existing and prospective members of the UK Parliament to support various “policy asks” and to “champion these causes.” The Manifesto was styled after a very similar one created for the 2014 EU elections. Indeed their goals appear the same: to ensure a pro-Israeli agenda in the House of Commons and beyond


Supreme Court Decision On Section 66A Lays The Basis Of Fifth Pillar Of Democracy
By Dr. Vivek Kumar Srivastava

http://www.countercurrents.org/srivastava250315.htm

India has now unrestricted freedom to speak and express on social sites, albeit qualified by the reasonable restrictions as mentioned in Art. 19 of the constitution. This development makes India one of the most advanced countries in the world where people can release their grievances against the system, and against the leaders who for no attainments still glorify themselves. It gives Indian people a tool to create public opinion on any issue. Internet is now a force with a capacity to channelize the people’s anger, desires, and expectations in unified manner towards its destination


The Challenge Of Our Time Is Challenge Of Education:
A Virus Corrupting And Destructing Young Minds
By Dr. Fayaz Ahmad Bhat

http://www.countercurrents.org/bhat250315.htm

Our educational system needs a radical change