CounterCurrents: Millions Starve As Ethiopia Rejects Eritrean Ports, Will Lebanon Be 'Handed Over' To The ISIS?,

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Millions Starve As Ethiopia Rejects Eritrean Ports 
By Thomas C. Mountain 

http://www.countercurrents.org/mountain050416.htm

As famine stalks millions of Ethiopians, and aid ships wait forever to unload at Ethiopia’s port of Djibouti, offers of free use of Eritrea’s Red Sea ports fall on deaf ears in Addis Ababa.According to Oxfam between 50% to 90% of Ethiopia suffered all or major crop failure due to the latest, greatest drought. Desperate for food aid to be unloaded, aid agencies are begging the Djibouti port authorities to work faster, but the port of Djibouti is small and creaky and completely unable to keep up with the desperate need. All backlog of food aid would be cleared up quickly if Ethiopia will only use the Eritrean ports, an offer repeatedly made in the past during droughts to no avail. The question has to be asked, what kind of government sits back and allows tens if not hundreds of thousands of its own people to die of starvation because of some political dispute with its neighbor?


For Your Own Good! Embedding Transnational Agribusiness And GMOs
Into African Agriculture Under The Veil Of Philanthropy
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter050416.htm

The African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) has just released the report For your own good!, which outlines the GMO industry’s expansion across Africa. The report focusses on non-commercial traditional crops, such as cassava, sorghum, sweet potato, pigeon pea, cowpea, banana and rice, which corporations are attempting to genetically modify and roll out under the guise of philanthropy


Panama Papers Spark Populist Anger In Iceland 
By Lauren McCauley

http://www.countercurrents.org/mccauley050416.htm

Foretelling the kind of public backlash other ultra-rich tax dodgers can expect following the weekend release of the so-called Panama Papers, tens of thousands of Icelanders rallied in Reykjavik on Monday demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson


Panama Papers: Denials Expose More Than The Original Exposure 
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury050416.htm

Denials issued after the exposure by the now-famous Panama Papers expose more about the world of property, its political power and power of its legal arrangements. The entire episode that has now got exposed is nothing but a confirmation of properties’ power, its play with instruments called law, which is enacted only to secure property, and the ethical and moral standing, a zero from people’s point of view, the property holders hold on. The historic revelations, biggest in the history of leaks, once again confirm earlier findings about super-rich


Syriza Government Carries Out Mass Deportation Of
Refugees From Greece To Turkey
By Robert Stevens

http://www.countercurrents.org/stevens050416.htm

Protests continued in Greece over the weekend as the Syriza government finalised the mass deportation of Syrian refugees to Turkey, where they are to be herded into concentration camps. The refugees are being deported from Greece to Turkey as part of the recent European Union/Greece/Turkey deal to hermetically seal off the “Balkan route” to desperate refugees fleeing the war zones of Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and North Africa


Six Year Anniversary Of WikiLeaks Collateral Murder; A Celebration Of Free Speech 
By Nozomi Hayase

http://www.countercurrents.org/hayase050416.htm

This iconic film continues to remind us of all those who risked their lives for free press and also of the power of free speech; that our collective engagement with the truth can set frozen images into motion. By seizing the present, we can intervene in the course of that one fatal day and alter the running footage of the past, bringing each person one step closer to self-determination of their own future


Will Lebanon Be 'Handed Over' To The ISIS?
By Andre Vltchek

http://www.countercurrents.org/vltchek050416.htm

Now that the ISIS has been pushed away, further and further from all key strategic locations inside Syria, the question comes to mind:if finally defeated, where is it going to go next? Its fighters are, of course, in neighboring Iraq, but Baghdad has also been forging a closer and closer alliance with Russia, and the terrorist groups may soon not be safe there, either. By all accounts, the easiest place for the ISIS to expand is Lebanon


Open Letter To 'Head Chopping' Billionaire Baba Ramdev 
By Shamsul Islam

http://www.countercurrents.org/si050416.htm

At the outset I must congratulate you for making big strides so far as your personality is concerned. You have really become a MARD; MAN in capital, now. On June 6, 2011 afraid of Delhi police you ran away in female attire from Ram Lila ground, leaving hundreds of your followers at the mercy of Delhi Police. But now as press reports from Rohtak, Haryana disclose you are courageous enough to chop heads of millions for not chanting 'Bharat Mata ki Jai'


By Raising "Bharat Mata Ki Jai" Slogan Controversy RSS Lays A Trap For Muslims And Leftists 
By Dr. Shaik Ubaid

http://www.countercurrents.org/ubaid050416.htm

The pluralist nature of Indian society is facing its gravest threat in history. The time is now for people of conscience, whether progressive or religious, to find common ground in safeguarding the freedom of millions of Indians and of their future generations. This is the true litmus test of patriotism


Tolerating The Intolerance 
By Gazi Hassana

http://www.countercurrents.org/hassana050416.htm

If the current NDA regime foresees itself ruling 10-15 years down the line, the leadership should take note and deal with the grave issues comprehensively. Government should be tolerant of the views of its citizens be it criticizing its policies or initiatives. It should not be infringing on fundamental rights of its citizens


People's Film Maker Sarat Chandran Remembered
Press Release

http://www.countercurrents.org/pr050416.htm

Sarat Chandran commemoration was held under Youth Spring Fraternity at Hira Centre here at Kozhikode. He was like a good spirit in many popular social protest gatherings. Sarat’s efforts in documenting popular protests and making it available for the public were beyond comparisons. He was also an active protestant in in Kerala’s green protests