CounterCurrents: #OccupyBernieSanders, Gaza’s Children Grow Up With Trauma, Climate Holism vs. Climate Reductionism, Turn Off The Lights

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Climate Holism vs. Climate Reductionism 
By Richard Heinberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/heinberg150116.htm

Ecology, holism, and systems thinking are powerful tools for understanding ourselves and our world. If we start actually using those tools in earnest to address climate change and other related ecological and social dilemmas, we could save ourselves, our descendants, and a host of other living beings a great deal of unnecessary suffering


Turn Off The Lights 
By Suprabha Seshan

http://www.countercurrents.org/seshan150116.htm

The night is a hindrance to this patriarchal enterprise called civilisation. The fact that we can wilfully turn the night off and on, at the flick of a switch, adds to our delusion of having conquered the universe. The longest night of extinction, an apt metaphor for the state of things today, includes within it the extinction of the night. There has never been so little night till now. The extinction of the night is a necessary objective of human supremacists. They hunt darkness out for they know that it’s actually life bearing. With the floodlights of civilisation depriving the earth of its sleep, insanity spreads far and wide. We need to bring back the night


Gaza’s Children Grow Up With Trauma 
By Isra Saleh el-Namey

http://www.countercurrents.org/isra150116.htm

There are classic signs of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, though as health care professionals at the Gaza Community Mental Health Program (GCMHP) never tire of pointing out, in Gaza there is never any “post.” GCMHP, Gaza’s best known mental health care provider founded in 1990, has noted a sharp rise in the number of children and adults with PTSD since the 2014 attack


#OccupyBernieSanders 
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz150116.htm

Fast forward to 2015-6 and the timeworn liberal script has been dusted off. This time, an old white establishment dude claiming to seek revolution has occupiers ready to #MarchForBernie on Jan. 23, 2016


Bundelkhand Now On A Grass Diet
By Asian Human Rights Commission

http://www.countercurrents.org/ahrc150116.htm

People in Bundelkhand are being forced to eat grass for survival. This dire situation is being aired in reports after report of news channels. Grass and weeds are traditional diet in the area, counter officials of the Uttar Pradesh government. Neither is entirely wrong


Conventional Wisdom More Relevant Than Scholastic Theories
By Moin Qazi

http://www.countercurrents.org/qazi140116A.htm

My experience of working with poor women emphasizes the fact that work is their foremost priority. Most poor women in villages are intelligent, hard-working and have nerves of titanium. They know that if they do not work, their families do not eat. All manner of self- employment—sewing, delivering small items, making handicrafts—could be facilitated with a small amount of capital for a sewing machine, a bicycle, or tools. Availability of decent loans is far more important to them than shaving a few points off the interest rates of those loans


'Woody Roots': Where Art, Identity And Entrepreneurship Find Expression
By Keerthi Prakasam

http://www.countercurrents.org/prakasam150116.htm

At one glance, Soona Rachel and Neethu Saji are two accomplished, very attractive women. But there is much more to them than what meets the eye, that make them plain unique. Today, these women make a strong case to those youngsters fed up of their monotonous corporate life. Their quest to make a living on their own, exploiting their own skill set has now given birth to 'Woody Roots'- a bold venture by women into carpentry. Breaking conventional norms and traditional mindsets, they hope to bring about a change in perceptions of many among us


An Ideal Model Worth To Be Followed 
By Dr. Fayaz Ahmad Bhat

http://www.countercurrents.org/bhat150116.htm

Government Degree College, Banihal, is a live example and a model, not only to be followed but also to be studied on scientific lines so that other institutions can benefit from it. The college reveals how non material variables like leadership are crucial and important for imparting “quality” education and turning shortcomings into virtues. The college is the best example of optimum use of minimum resources, a model worth to be followed