CounterCurrents: The World And Israel: Complicity In Zionism's Crimes And Why , Noam Chomsky And Others Put Forward 'Ideas For Going Forward' In This Crisis-Ridden World, Global Military Spending Increased In 2015

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Noam Chomsky And Others Put Forward  'Ideas For Going Forward'    In This Crisis-Ridden World
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc070416A.htm

The world is facing a Titanic moment. Either humanity comes together as one and save the Mother Ship Earth or we go down without a trace! The major crises we face are ecological crisis manifested in global warming/climate change, soil degradation, water crisis, over all environmental damage, war perpetrated by predatory capitalism which could eventually lead to a nuclear winter, resource crisis, health, education and economic crisis etc. Race/caste and gender/sexuality justice are other major issues that need urgent attention. A group of intellectuals including Noam Chomsky, academics and activists have come forward with a document called "Some Possible Ideas For Going Forward"


Global Military Spending Increased In 2015
By Thomas Gaist

http://www.countercurrents.org/gaist070416.htm

Spending on weapons and other military costs grew by more than one percent in 2015, marking the first year of growth in total military purchasing by governments worldwide since 2011, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute found in a report published Tuesday. Total military purchases reached $1,676 billion in 2015, or nearly $1.7 trillion, consuming some 2.3 percent of global gross domestic product (GDP), SIPRI found


Non-Violent BDS Should Be Welcomed, Not Condemned 
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud070416.htm

A thousand Israelis and their supporters gathered in Jerusalem’s International Convention Center on March 28 at a conference aimed at combating the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). The conference was a display of “fear, paranoia, anger and determination,” as described by Antony Loewenstein, and featured top government officials, members of the oppositions and a strange conglomerate of guests, including celebrity has-beens like Roseanne Barr


The World And Israel: Complicity In Zionism's Crimes And Why 
By Alan Hart

http://www.countercurrents.org/hart070416.htm

When I add to that what Prime Minister Golda Meir said to me in an interview for the BBC's Panorama programme - in a doomsday situation Israel would be prepared "to take the region and the world down with it" - I think that only one conclusion is invited. The complicity by default of Western (and other) leaders in Zionism's crimes will be never ending because Israel is, as it has long been, a nuclear-armed monster beyond control


The Media Still Got It Wrong When It Reports On The Role It Played In The Rise Of Trump 
By Shaik Ubaid

http://www.countercurrents.org/ubaid070416.htm

The media has finally started to focus on its own role in the rise of Donald Trump. The focus is still not sharp though. The question should be not on whether the media made Trump but it should be on whether the media helped create a climate which made the rise of Trump probable. For, if the latter is true then there will be more Trumps. The Wisconsin primary has kept the hope that Trump could be prevented from the nomination but the alternatives are not better. The moderate majority in the GOP stand no chance in the primaries where mostly the diehard core care to vote. The core has now become Islamophobic and xenophobic


Book Review : Violent Conjunctures In Democratic India
By Suraj Kumar Thube

http://www.countercurrents.org/thube070416.htm

Without discarding the importance of previous scholarly works, Amrita Basu contributes to the existing literature by arguing that it is imperative to focus on the role social movements and civil society organisations play in reconfiguring India's political system. The central theme of the book is to study the linkages between party, social movements and the state in order to understand the convoluted nature of Hindu nationalist militancy in various states. The author argues that a closer, robust relationship between these three entities create situations for inciting violence on a larger scale


Anarchy, Thy Name Is “Kashmir”! 
By Mohammad Ashraf

http://www.countercurrents.org/ashraf070416.htm

There is hardly any section of Kashmir society where rules and laws are obeyed. It is a virtual free for all everywhere