CounterCurrents: Pew Report: 84 Percent Of World Population Subsists On Under $20 Per Day, Postcard From The End Of America—Ashley, PA , Journalists' Complicity In Hiding Those Guilty For MH17

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Pew Report: 84 Percent Of World Population Subsists On Under $20 Per Day 
By Andre Damon

http://www.countercurrents.org/damon110715.htm

Despite significant advances in communications, agriculture and bio-technology over the past 15 years, the overwhelming majority of the world population continues to live in economic privation, according to a report on global incomes published this week by the Pew Research Center. The report, entitled “A Global Middle Class is More Promise than Reality,” classifies 71 percent of the world population as either poor or low-income, subsisting on less than $10 per day. The report concludes that 84 percent lives on less than $20 per day, or $7,300 per year, an income level associated with “deep poverty” in developed countries


The Greek Tragedy! The Left Won The Battle On The Streets, 
But Lost The War To Troika In European Parliament
By Xekinima (CWI Greece)

http://www.countercurrents.org/xekinima110715.htm

July 9th was a black day for the Greek left. SYRIZA’s leading team, around Prime Minister A. Tsipras, subordinated itself completely and absolutely to the demands of the Troika lenders. The Greek working class finds itself in a tragic position. They voted for SYRIZA in order to find solutions to their problems and to escape from the Memoranda (austerity packages). Yet after five months in government the only thing that SYRIZA was able to deliver was another catastrophic Memorandum which finishes off the pro-austerity policies of the previous governments of New Democracy and PASOK


Why The Cash Economy In Greece May Be Ending 
By Jan Lundberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/lundberg110715.htm

Out of necessity, perhaps triggered by an oil supply cut-off, sail power and the connecting of local economies will quickly re-emerge. Perhaps 80% of the once-farmed land on the islands is fallow, due to migration to the cities. This offers potential for local production and short-distance trade. The vast volumes of corporate products shipped today via polluting oil, from thousands of miles away, will wither and even come to a quick end


Postcard From The End Of America—Ashley, PA 
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh110715.htm

Across this sinking nation, how many are buoyed by lottery dreams, casino hopes, stock fantasies, increasingly desperate prayers or, as Chuck is convinced in this one instance, miraculous grace? With legal means diminished and magical odds unlikely, many are turning to shadier or bloodier tactics. This month taken care of, there is still the next. Attacked by Goldman Sachs monsters, spaced out children on earth island have reached outer limits of twilight zone


Journalists' Complicity In Hiding Those Guilty For MH17 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse110715.htm

Robert Parry headlined on July 9th, “MH-17 Case Slips into Propaganda Fog,” and he wrote: "Many investigative journalists, including myself, have been rebuffed in repeated efforts to get verifiable proof about the case or even informational briefings.”


The Noose Is Tightening Around Syria’s Palestinians 
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb110715.htm

The deterioration of conditions of Palestinians in Syria could stop if the rival parties, with support from their regional and international sponsors, could arrive at a political settlement that preserves the Syrian state and its unity as well as the central cause of people of good will in this region. The cause of Palestine


The New President Of The UN General Assembly 
By John Scales Avery

http://www.countercurrents.org/avery110715.htm

The election of Mogens Lykketoft as the new President of the United Nations General Assembly has opened the door to the solution of several of world's most pressing problems. For example, it may now be possible to achieve a Nuclear Weapons Convention by a direct majority vote


Sardar Sarovar Project Affected Person Commits Suicide
By National Alliance of People’s Movements

http://www.countercurrents.org/napm110715.htm

on 9th July 2015, in the village Chimalkhedy, barely 10 to 12 kms away from the Sardar Sarovar Dam, Tembhrya Kutarya consumed poison and committed suicide. This news reveals the actual dire reality underlying the false tall claims of rehabilitation by Maharashtra Government. While this press note is being drafted the dead body of the old man Tembhrya Kutarya is decaying on the banks of the river Narmada in the village


Repeating A ‘Big Enough Lie’ 
By Anand Teltumbde

http://www.countercurrents.org/teltumbde110715.htm

The APSC victory has inspired students in many campuses to start similar study circles and resist hindutva overtures. Another campus of a prestigious Film and Television Institute of India is already aflame in protest against one more such hindutva appointment. Bravo students, only you can bring truly acche din for India!

Om Puri Supports #FTIIStrike

http://www.countercurrents.org/ompuri110715.htm