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Japan’s Credit Rating Cut As Economy Contracts 
By Ben McGrath

http://www.countercurrents.org/mcgrath180915.htm

Standard and Poor’s downgraded Japan’s sovereign debt rating on Wednesday from AA- to A+ due to growing concerns over the Japanese economy. It is the third such move by the global credit ratings agencies, following similar ones by Fitch in April and Moody’s in December. In the latest blow to Abe, his government announced last month that Japan’s economy had shrunk in the second quarter of 2015 by 1.6 percent on an annualized basis


Don’t Take Your Innovative Science Project To School If You Are Muslim! 
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali

http://www.countercurrents.org/ghazali180915.htm

To understand why a Texas school would arrest a 14-year-old student for bringing in a homemade clock, it helps to understand what came before: the TV news hosts who declare Muslims "unusually barbaric," the politicians who gin up fear of Islam, the blockbuster film that depicts even Muslim children as dangerous threats, and the wave of hatred against Muslims that has culminated several times in violence so severe that what happened to Mohamed, while terrible, appears unsurprising and almost normal within the context of ever-worsening American Islamophobia


Jeremy Corbyn's Leadership Victory A New Era For The 99%
Editorial of the Socialist

http://www.countercurrents.org/esp180915.htm

The most important single consequence of Jeremy Corbyn's victory is that these issues - how can inequality be ended and austerity be defeated and, above all, what is socialism and how can it be achieved are now being discussed widely. A new generation is hearing about socialist ideas for the first time. This is a great step forward which must now be built on


Iran Is Standing! 
By Andre Vltchek

http://www.countercurrents.org/vltchek180915.htm

Iran is roaring and it is also logically explaining where it stands. It has both guts and big heart.I report that Iran is standing! And it will not succumb to vicious and senseless attacks. It will never kneel, because it knows – surrendering would lead directly to slavery


Morton Biskind: The Connecticut Physician Who Warned The World About DDT 
By Andy Piascik

http://www.countercurrents.org/piascik180915.htm

Though he was largely ignored and often reviled, Biskind continued to spread his message of warning. In 1950, he testified before Congress about the harmful effects of DDT, and in 1953, he published another important article, “Public Health Aspects of the New Insecticides,”in the American Journal of Digestive Diseases. Though resistance from powerful quarters continued, the message began to get through. More and more studies showed the destructive impact DDT spraying had on all forms of wildlife as well as direct links to cancer and other diseases in humans


America's News Is Heavily Censored 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse180915.htm

Both mainstream, and ‘alternative news,' media are selling audiences to their advertisers. People who think that news-media are selling ‘news' instead of selling audiences (“eye-balls”), don't understand the news-business


Antibiotic Use Is Driving Antibiotic Resistance... 
By Shobha Shukla

http://www.countercurrents.org/shukla180915.htm

... So suggests the new data released today by the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) via its ResistanceMap, an interactive online tool that allows users to track the latest global trends in drug resistance in 39 countries, and antibiotic use in 69 countries. CDDEP also issued the first-ever report on The State of the World's Antibiotics, 2015, that looks at the current state of global antibiotic use and documents alarming rates of bacteria resistant to last-resort antibiotics that can lead to life-threatening infections across the world


What Ails India’s Poverty Eradication Programmes 
By Moin Qazi

http://www.countercurrents.org/qazi180915.htm

The poor are yet to find their voice, even as the media (for that matter, the entire establishment) have become the megaphone of the classes that are prospering. The preference for growth over social justice, indeed, the argument that economic growth is the road to social justice, is advocated over and above increased spending, is required for accelerated growth to translate into inclusive growth? The answer, I fervently believe, lies in inclusive governance. In the absence of Inclusive governance, the people at the grassroots, that is, the intended beneficiaries of poverty alleviation programme are left abjectly dependent on a bureaucratic delivery mechanism over which they have no effective control. The alternative system would be participatory development, where the people themselves are enabled to build their own future through elected representatives responsible to the local community and, therefore, responsive to their needs