CounterCurrents: Trump Would Beat Clinton; Germany Produced So Much Renewable Enrgy On Sunday That It Had To Pay People To Use Electricity , Sanders Would Beat Trump, Beware Israeli Doublespeak: A Palestinian Perspective On Britain’s ‘Anti-Semitic’ Controversy

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Germany Produced So Much Renewable Enrgy On Sunday That It Had To Pay People To Use Electricity
By Lauren McCauley

http://www.countercurrents.org/mccauley120516.htm

Germany, the fourth-largest economy in the world and a leader in renewable energy, produced so much energy this weekend from its solar, wind, hydro, and biomass plants that power prices went into negative territory for several hours. Consumers were being paid to use energy

Trump Would Beat Clinton; Sanders Would Beat Trump 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse120516.htm

There is also a very different type of possibility: the possibility that Sanders would run a campaign whose message will be “Write in ‘Bernie Sanders’” — that he will be campaigning for the votes of everyone who wants him to become the President, to simply write his name in on the Presidential ballot. This will offer a realistic third possibility: for the first time in over a century, a President who is from neither the Democratic Party nor the Republican Party — a real break away from the toxic politics that now is strangulating the United States and blocking all progress, desperately needed progress, in America


'Either They Will Give Us The Government or We Shall Takev It'
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz120516.htm

Mock and downplay Trumpism at your own peril


Neil Young To Tour Europe Protesting Monsanto And GMOs
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter120516.htm

Neil Young argues that ‘The Monsanto Years’ are here and we are living them: “Monsanto is the poster-child for what is wrong with corporate controlled government in our world. The Monsanto Years encompasses several associated subjects that millions of people worldwide are concerned about and active in. Earth is not ours. We are of the Earth. That's how I feel. When we plunder our own home we hurt our children and their children after them.”


Beware Israeli Doublespeak: A Palestinian Perspective 
On Britain’s ‘Anti-Semitic’ Controversy 
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud120516.htm

There is a witch-hunt in the British Labor Party. Britain's Opposition party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is being hounded for not rooting out alleged anti-Semitism in his party. Those leading the charge are pro-Israel Zionists and their supporters within the party, members who are mostly allied with the former Prime Minister, the largely discredited pro-war Tony Blair. The Blairites are quite unhappy that Corbyn, who won the party's leadership election last September with a landslide victory is a non-elitist politician, with a deep-rooted grassroots activist past, and, yes, a strong stance for Palestinian rights


Obscured American: Noam The Straying Hasid 
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh120516.htm

Wearing a beige jacket and dark brown slacks, Noam was clean shaven, and his speech was deliberate and concise, even after he had had a few beers mixed with wine. Thoroughly contained, Noam never got agitated nor laughed, though his face sometimes seemed bemused. Our conversation started at the bookstore, continued at a restaurant, and ended on the street, just before I went underground to head back to the Lower East Side. I never saw Noam again


Why London’s Sadique Khan And New York’s Sadik Khan
Are Important For Us In India 
By Vidyadhar Date

http://www.countercurrents.org/date120516.htm

Two Khans, one Sadik Khan and another Sadique Khan, are very relevant for the cause of public transport in India. One is the recently elected Mayor of London and the other is the former transport commissioner for New York, Janette Sadik Khan. The first announcement of Sadique Khan as Mayor earliest this week was to give some bus fare concessions. Travellers will get to make two bus journeys for the price of one. This is particularly relevant in a city in which fares, particularly train fares, are steep, perhaps the steepest in Europe. He is passionate about public transport and interestingly his own father was a bus driver in London


The Hanging Of Nizami And The Grip On Political Power 
By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar

http://www.countercurrents.org/muzaffar120516.htm

It is bizarre that these allegations against the five and a number of others were made only in 2010, almost 40 years after the 1971 war. No allegation of war crimes was made in the early seventies when the founder of the Bangladeshi State, the late Sheikh MujiburRahman (the father of the present Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina) was in charge. Even when his party, the Awami League,(AL) was in power again from 1996-2001, with his daughter at the helm, no one was hauled to court on accusations of war crimes. It was after the AL came to power a third time in 2009 that Hasina decided to move against ‘war criminals’ from the JI and the BNP


RSS-Zehar Ki Kethi 
By Abdul Majid Zargar

http://www.countercurrents.org/zargar120516.htm

In my earlier article, I wrote about the ever growing tentacles of RSS to spread its wicked ideology throughout India & its select neighbors. A question arises-how does it achieve this purpose? The answer lies in visiting the organizational structure of RSS


Where Helplines Are In Need Of Help Themselves 
By Samar

http://www.countercurrents.org/samar120516.htm

The Republic needs to restructure its Police, Prosecution and Judiciary in a way that raises the cost of crime. If it fails to do so, all the helplines that it sets up are doomed to fail. Citizens need to demand changes, not in laws or in helplines. They need to re-engineer their institutions. Over and Out


Kashmir: Finalising The Physical Integration! 
By Mohammad Ashraf

http://www.countercurrents.org/ashraf120516.htm

After having failed in theirovert attempts to integrate Kashmir by wooing Kashmiris, the physical integration of the state which was ensured through subtle and covert means is now being given final touches!