CounterCurrents: US Airdrops Arms In Syria As Russia Escalates Bombing Campaign, “We Are The Masters,” Says Israeli Mayor, As 3 More Palestinians Are Killed, Warning To World As Most Powerful State, In Midst Of Major Power Grab, Exalts “Genocidal Madman” Columbus

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'Capitalism Is Mother Earth's Cancer': World People's Summit Issues 12 Demands 
By Deirdre Fulton

http://www.countercurrents.org/fulton131015.htm

Decrying capitalism as a "threat to life," an estimated 7,000 environmentalists, farmers, and Indigenous activists from 40 countries convened in the Bolivian town of Tiquipaya for this weekend's World People's Conference on Climate Change, aiming to elevate the demands of social movements and developing countries in the lead-up to upcoming United Nations-led climate talks. "Capitalism is Mother Earth's cancer," Bolivian President Evo Morales told the crowd, which also heard over the course of the three-day conference from United Nations Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon as well as other Latin American leaders


A Soil Pilgrimage 
By Vandana Shiva

http://www.countercurrents.org/shiva131015.htm

In taking care of the soil, we reclaim our humanity. Our future is inseparable from the future of the earth. It is no accident that the word human has its roots in humus — soil in Latin. And Adam, the first human in Abrahamanic traditions, is derived from Adamus, soil in Hebrew. Mahatma Gandhi wrote: “To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” We must never forget that ahimsa must be the basis of our relationship with the earth and each other


US Airdrops Arms In Syria As Russia Escalates Bombing Campaign 
By Bill Van Auken

http://www.countercurrents.org/auken131015.htm

Just days after terminating its disastrously failed program to arm and train US-backed “rebels” in Syria, the Pentagon announced Monday that US Air Force C-17 cargo planes escorted by fighter jets airdropped some 50 tons of arms, ammunition and grenades to anti-government forces. “This successful airdrop provided ammunition to Syrian Arab groups whose leaders were appropriately vetted by the United States,” Pentagon spokesman Colonel Patrick Ryder said in a statement


“We Are The Masters,” Says Israeli Mayor, As 3 More Palestinians Are Killed 
By Charlotte Silver

http://www.countercurrents.org/silver131015.htm

On Monday, Israeli forces shot dead three Palestinian youths, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed since heightened violence erupted on 1 October across the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and inside present-day Israel to 27


#Enough! We Can Respond To The Tears Of Kunduz Refugee, Abdul Fatah 
By Dr Hakim

http://www.countercurrents.org/hakim131015.htm

On the 7th of October 2015, the anniversary of the beginning of the U.S. Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan 14 years ago, Ali and the Afghan Peace Volunteers decided instead to meet with members of five Afghan families who had fled the war in Kunduz. Together, they listened to and extended small gifts to these families. Abdul Fatah told his refugee story. “My tears fall every day & I can’t bring myself to eat. I eat this little bread & the bread seems to eat me up. My heart is there and in Kunduz and here…”


Warning To World As Most Powerful State, In Midst Of Major Power Grab,
Exalts “Genocidal Madman” Columbus 
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini131015.htm

The USA today provides another illustration of why one state should never dominate global affairs: states, like individuals, largely lack self-awareness. Martin Luther King Jr. pointed out that the US is “perhaps the only nation” that was “born in genocide”. “Moreover”, he said, the US celebrates genocide as “a noble crusade,” and US “literature, …films, …drama, …folklore all exalt it.”


Horrid Carcass of Indonesia – 50 Years After the Coup 
By Andre Vltchek

http://www.countercurrents.org/vltchek131015.htm

Oh Indonesia, you are a true daughter of turbo-capitalism, of the lowest religious aspirations, of senseless obedience, notorious lack of education and knowledge, and unimaginable brutality and lack of compassion! Right now, the Indonesian people have no country. It was taken away from them by Western imperialists, by their own corrupt and treasonous “elites” and by the military. Only after they realize what has been done, they will be able to struggle and build their new motherland


Is "Islamic Terrorism" A Myth?
Ludwig Watzal Interviews Elias Davidsson

http://www.countercurrents.org/watzal131015.htm

An interview withElias Davidsson. His latest book "The Betrayal of India", critically examining the Mumbai attacks of November 2008, is expected to be published in 2016


Silencing Women In Campuses 
By Nikita Azad

http://www.countercurrents.org/azad131015.htm

In such times as these, when voices of women are silenced and the space where such voices were heard are snatched from them, such as democratic educational campuses, it is very important that women start resisting such attempts and put forward a fight for acquiring all the spaces of society, in texts prescribed by the authorities as well as in campuses