Saturday, April 23, 2016
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
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