CounterCurrents: Movie Review: “Where To Invade Next” By Michael Moore – Hammer, Chisel, Down For Social Humanism, The Yemen Conflict: Solutions To An Unnecessary War, Washington Launches Its Attack Against BRICS,

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Washington Launches Its Attack Against BRICS 
By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts230416.htm

Having removed the reformist President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Washington is now disposing of the reformist President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff


Listen Up: Mother Earth Is Calling Us Back 
By David Korten

http://www.countercurrents.org/korten230416.htm

Those of us who succumbed to the false promises of Western consumerism at great cost to our Earth mother, our living Earth family, and ourselves, are Earth’s prodigal children now returning home. We have only begun, however, to confront the implications for how we must now learn to live


Coexisting In Peace And Harmony With Earth's Biodiversity 
By Pratap Antony

http://www.countercurrents.org/antony230416.htm

Our impact on the planet has been so profound that biodiversity (the variety of life on earth), forests, earth, water, air, animals, plants, fungi, micro-organisms, are being consumed faster than nature can replenish them. And due to the speed of our impact and the global scale of our activities on Earths resources over the last 250 years, we have inexorably changed the chemistry of the oceans and the character of our soils and the atmosphere; we now face a worrying scarcity of critical resources


Gagging The Scientists: Britain’s Proposed Rules 
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark

http://www.countercurrents.org/kampmark230416.htm

Has the British political establishment had an atrophying episode on the science front? Suggestions that this might be the case came last week when there were suggestions that a gag of Britain’s scientists might be in the works. The Cabinet Office had busied itself with proposals in February that, if implemented, would prevent organisations from using tax-payer funds to lobby parliamentarians


Movie Review: “Where To Invade Next” By Michael Moore – 
Hammer, Chisel, Down For Social Humanism 
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230416.htm

Michael Moore's latest movie “Where to invade next” is testament to the failure of democracy in One Percenter-dominated America. Moore invades 9 countries to steal their ideas for America e.g. Italy (generous holidays), France (healthy gourmet lunches for school kids), Finland (best education with least schooling), Slovenia (students saved free university education), Germany (worker empowerment and history truth-telling), Norway (humane prisons and no death penalty), Portugal (drug decriminalization works), Tunisia (equal rights for women), and Iceland (female empowerment and jailing of banker criminals). Punchlines: (1) Americans actually first proposed these ideas, and (2) Hammer, Chisel, Down for Social Humanism


The Yemen Conflict: Solutions To An Unnecessary War 
By Rene Wadlow

http://www.countercurrents.org/wadlow230416.htm

Poverty and the lack of a peaceful political horizon seem to be the continuing fate of Yemen, but violent internal conflict and Saudi aggression may not be permanent. With the start of negotiations, there is a role for NGOs to encourage the efforts in contacting organizations and individuals that might have a positive impact on events. There are many geopolitical and economic interests who want “peace” on their terms. Thus, our role as world citizens seeking a relatively just compromise solution is ever more important


Western Xenophobia, Islam And The Third World 
By Jon Kofas

http://www.countercurrents.org/kofas230416.htm

Throughout civilization the process of cultural diffusion that takes place primarily through migration has been the catalyst for societal progress while isolation has been the catalyst for backwardness, decline and fall. Xenophobes and other varieties of racists clinging to the phantom of “purity” in race, ethnicity, and culture fail to recognize this reality tested throughout history across the world, thus inviting the demise the civilization they are trying to preserve


FIFA, Human Rights And Politics: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backwards 
By James M. Dorsey

http://www.countercurrents.org/dorsey230416.htm

World soccer body FIFA’s creation of a watchdog to monitor the living and working conditions of migrant labour employed on World Cup 2022-related construction sites constitutes the second time in a month that Qatar has been warned that it needs to demonstrate sincerity in its reform of the Gulf state’s controversial labour system


The Illusion Of Rights 
By John Chuckman

http://www.countercurrents.org/chuckman230416.htm

In the United States where construction of a national security state is well underway, the template being that of Israel, a state which despite a stage show of democracy is quite literally more of a security state than the former East Germany


On Coming To Reading Late In Life: Yet Another Letter To Young People 
By Romi Mahajan

http://www.countercurrents.org/mahajan230416.htm

I came to reading late in life. Certainly “later” than I should have. And I still pay the price for it. Please don’t do that to yourself


Don’t Play Games With Indian Constitutionalism 
By Dr. Vivek Kumar Srivastava

http://www.countercurrents.org/srivastava230416.htm

Uttarakhand developments are not good for the country because Union government loses neutral position, citizens are confused. The SC stays the HC order , what does it mean to a common person? Two authorities two different decisions, common citizens are more confused. Hence the right way is to follow the dictums proposed by Sarkaria commission and the S R Bommai case. Indian constitutionalism needs to be nurtured. Don’t play games with it. B R Ambedkar had said that this article will remain a dead letter word but in fact it has become a soft toy in the hands of the ruling parties which confuse common persons in periodic manner


The Inheritance Of The Congress Socialist Party 
By Prem Singh

http://www.countercurrents.org/premsingh230416.htm

The current Indian politics has two goals : the defence of our Independence from the onslaught of neo-imperialism and the establishment of a socialist society. This work can only be done by associating with the inheritence of the Indian Socialist Movement, the foundation of which was laid along with the establishment of the Congress Socialist Party in 1934. Without this determination and initiative the celebration of the 82nd foundation-day of the CSP will be merely ceremonial


Nationalism A Real Menace 
By Hanzala bin Aman

http://www.countercurrents.org/aman230416.htm

Today, the kind of nationalism which has gained force all over the world is Religious-backed nationalism. This nationalism has serious consequences which are evident from loss of humanity due to Islamism, Zionism, Hindutva, Buddhist nationalism etcetera. Religion has a stark commonality with nationalism as both encourage ethnocentrism and racism. It, to a very large extent, shrouds the thinking of the mass and helps in very powerful polarization with Nationalism


Bhagwan Das: A Legendary Ambedkarite 
By S.R.Darapuri

http://www.countercurrents.org/darapuri230416.htm

Remembering Bhagwan Das on his 88th Birthday