CounterCurrents: Reports On 2012 DIA Docs Noting Extremist-Led, Western-Backed Syrian Insurgency Gain Momentum, The Futility Of Expecting Peace And Honesty Under Capitalism

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Binu Mathew
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Renewable Energy Will Not Support Economic Growth 
By Richard Heinberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/heinberg070615.htm

The world needs to end its dependence on fossil fuels as quickly as possible. That’s the only sane response to climate change, and to the economic dilemma of declining oil, coal, and gas resource quality and increasing extraction costs. The nuclear industry is on life support in most countries, so the future appears to lie mostly with solar and wind power. But can we transition to these renewable energy sources and continue using energy the way we do today? And can we maintain our growth-based consumer economy?


The Futility Of Expecting Peace And Honesty Under Capitalism 
By Lionel Anet

http://www.countercurrents.org/anet070615.htm

Competition has a further important asset for the few billionaires, it sets the tone of society, which glorifies and envies winners and despise losers. But that is accepting a disparity in the allocation of all resources, which is the right to have more power than others, with a better life style, good health care, able to get better legal advice, and so on. Competition’s purpose is to create inequality of importance, which in capitalism are wealth and power, and that is unfair and is not only dishonest, but the competition justifies and glorifies the exploitation


Is there A Single Development Model That Works? 
By Jon Kofas

http://www.countercurrents.org/kofas070615.htm

Lower global poverty, gender equality, basic education and health care, and a sustainable future for all people are desirable goals of many human-centered rather than market-focused people for the past two centuries. The question is which development model can achieve such goals if the political economy is structured to serve narrow class interests


Obama Sidelines Kerry On Ukraine Policy 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse070615.htm

Kerry was reaffirming the position of Merkel and Hollande, the key shapers of the Minsk II agreement; and Nuland was nullifying them. Obama now has sided with Nuland on this; it's a slap in the face to the EU: Poroshenko can continue ignoring Kerry and can blatantly ignore the Minsk II agreement; and Obama tacitly sides with Poroshenko and Nuland, against Kerry


Reports On 2012 DIA Docs Noting Extremist-Led, 
Western-Backed Syrian Insurgency Gain Momentum 
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini070615.htm

A former marine with years of experience in Syria and the Middle East, Brad Hoff, broke the story about 2012 DIA docs that state the insurgency in Syria is driven by Islamic extremists, and predict the establishment of an “Islamic state” in Eastern Syria


U.S. State Department Identifies Posada Carriles As 
Planner Of 1976 Terrorist Attack On A Cuban Airliner 
By Prensa Latina

http://www.countercurrents.org/latina070615.htm

A declassified 1976 U.S. State Department document identifies Luis Posada Ca­rriles as the most likely author of a terrorist attack on a Cuban airliner that year which took the lives of all 76 passengers aboard


Interpreting The Demonstration At Garmisch-Partenkirchen 
By Vivek Kumar Srivastava

http://www.countercurrents.org/srivastava070615.htm

The protest at the G7 meeting at mountain town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in South Germany has been peaceful but the minds of many are in the state of agitation. The demonstrators aimed to highlight the issues like globalization, climate change, poverty and inequality


Our Icarus Moment: Technocracy, Plutocracy, And The Need For Sense 
By Romi Mahajan

http://www.countercurrents.org/mahajan070615.htm

There is no higher expression of arrogance than technocracy. Plutocracy and technocracy have become the twin theologies of our times. “We see what you cannot, we know what you cannot, we do what you cannot so follow our lead “technocrats not so subtly intone as they increasingly take over the world


Manufacturing America's Dreams 
By Gregg Shotwell

http://www.countercurrents.org/shotwell070615.htm

Auto companies shield their low-tech exploitation of workers behind high-tech displays of mechanical prowess. The less a consumer knows about the blood and guts of manufacturing, the easier it is to buy the dream. So how does America think all this crap gets built?


Taxation Without Representation—Déjà vu 
By William John Cox

http://www.countercurrents.org/cox070615.htm

The U.S Supreme Court's acceptance of a case about the allocation of voting districts will have consequences far beyond the millions of U.S. taxpayers its ruling may deprive of representation. A decision that only counts voters, rather than all persons, will undermine the very foundation of the Republic


Modi’s Bangladesh Visit, India Wish list And Peoples Agenda 
By Anu Muhammad

http://www.countercurrents.org/muhammad070615.htm

At the moment, people in Bangladesh are struggling to save Sundarbans, which is under attack by India’s NTPC. We hope that people of India will work against it, will actively mobilize opinions to scrap the project and to save the Sundarbans. That has the potential to set an example for a new level of people-to-people solidarity for democracy, humanity and development in the region


The Fuss About One-Rank-One-Pension (OROP) 
By S.G.Vombatkere

http://www.countercurrents.org/vombatkere070615.htm

It does not take a rocket scientist to understand that OROP is a matter of simple justice. Some Veterans say that governments playing with their patience at the behest of vested interests that delay or deny OROP, are figuratively playing with a bomb with a slow-burning fuse. Only time will tell whether the Maha-Rally will result in grant of OROP, or whether the vested interests succeed in destroying the bond between the soldier-veteran on the one hand and the government on the other