CounterCurrents: Washington Continues To Destroy Latin American Reformers, Libya War, The Population Problem:Should The Pope Tell people To Stop Breeding Like Rabbits?, Empire’s Worst Mistake,

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Washington Continues To Destroy Latin American Reformers 
By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/pcr120416.htm

Currently, Washington is conducting operations against Latin American presidents who tried to represent their own peoples instead of American business interests and Washington’s foreign policy. Washington is trying to unseat and indict President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, President Evo Morales in Bolivia, President Rafael Correa in Ecuador, and President Dilma Rousseff in Brazil. Washington has succeeded in getting the president of Argentina, Chistina Kirchner, out of office, and is now seeking to have her indicted. To round off its attack on Brazil’s reformist political party, Washington is orchestrating crimes with which to tar and indict Rousseff’s predecesor, Lula da Silva


Libya War, Empire’s Worst Mistake 
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury120416.htm

A ruined Libya still lives in the US politics. There’s still no escape from the country devastated with imperialist intervention. It was, as is claimed, a failure in planning. But is it a failure in planning or “something” else? The oil-rich land is now reined by anarchy, and actually is not a single country


Re-Tooling The U.S Asian Neocolony, The Philippines: 
A Dispatch From The "Belly Of The Beast"
By E. San Juan, Jr.

http://www.countercurrents.org/esj120416.htm

The only former Asian colony of the US, the Philippines is synonymous only with Paquiao the Boxer, Miss Universe, or some terrifying volcano or typhoon such as Yolanda/Haiyan. And despite nearly three million Pinays and Pinoys in the US, potential votes for the coming May elections—now the largest Asian-American migrant group from one Asian country (the Chinese come from all over the world, not just China), Filipinos tend to trail other Asian in their civic interventions, unless wealthy Filipino doctors or businessmen trumpet their tithe to local candidates. We are really neglible, though many persist in claiming to be 200% American


The Population Problem:Should The Pope Tell people 
To Stop Breeding Like Rabbits? 
By Ugo Bardi

http://www.countercurrents.org/bardi120416.htm

In this post, Ugo Bardi argues that overpopulation is a complex problem that has to do with human choices at the level of single families. It is not impossible that such choices will eventually lead to a stabilization of the world population at a sustainable level. It has happened in some historical cases, such as in Japan during the Edo period


Odisha: Hunger Striking Prisoners Demanding Speedy Trials In Critical Condition
By Persecuted Prisoners Solidarity Committee

http://www.countercurrents.org/ppsc120416.htm

Ashutosh Soren, Kishore Jena, Kamlakanta Sethi, Rabi Dulai, Chandrabati Tukruka, Ranjit Sana and another, falsely accused in 5 cases pertaining to a 2008 series of Maoist attacks in Nayagarh district, including a raid on the local police armoury, are on hunger strike since March 30th, and their condition is most serious at the moment. 12 prisoners, 7 in Bhubaneswar Special Jail and 5 in Bhanjanagar Sub-jail of Ganjam district of Odisha, in incarceration for a period of 3 to 8 years as undertrials launched an indefinite hunger strike since March 30 and 31, respectively, demanding an end to the deliberate procrastination going on in their trials in spite of clear directions from the Odisha High Court to conclude them long before


Why Kobad Ghandy Should Be Released On Bail 
By Dr. P.S. Sahni

http://www.countercurrents.org/sahni120416.htm

Kobad Ghandy has invoked his constitutional right to speedy trials; he had been on a peaceful hunger strike in 2015 within the jail premises against the harassment by the authorities. It is not just Kobad Ghandy who is on trial; it is the Indian judicial system too, which has to innovate and find a creative legal solution so that Kobad Ghandy is set free on bail and gets the best treatment for his fast deteriorating health. After all what would be achieved if Kobad Ghandy dies in jail without proper treatment? Would it end Maoism? – That is the philosophical question


The Tainted Game of Cricket And The Water Crisis 
By Vidyadhar Date

http://www.countercurrents.org/date120416.htm

There have been serious protests in Brazil against the use of millions of litres of water for a golf course in Rio for the forthcoming Olympics amidst a severe drought in the area. U.S. President Obama was met with strong protests when he played golf and holidayed in the midst of a severe water scarcity in California last year. Water shortage is a much more serious issue in Maharashtra this year than in the U.S. or Brazil. But look at the infantile reaction in a section of the media to the suggestion that the IPL cricket matches be shifted from the state because of the unprecedented drought. Some journalists in extreme servility have bent before the powerful and rich cricket lobby to ridicule the demand. One journalist even mocked suicides of farmers and poured scorn on devoted activists


New Trends In Indian Muslims 
By Shahul Hameed MM

http://www.countercurrents.org/hameed120416.htm

"India’s Muslim Spring: Why is Nobody Talking About it?" By HasanSuroor provides a new insight to the governments, media and the public with regards to the Indian Muslims