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Call It A 'Coup': Leaked Transcripts Detail How Elite Orchestrated Overthrow In Brazil 
By Lauren McCauley

http://www.countercurrents.org/mccauley240516.htm

Confirming suspicions that the ouster of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff is, in fact, a coup designed to eradicate a wide corruption probe, Brazil's largest newspaper on Monday published damning evidence of a "national pact" between a top government official and oil executive


Americans, A Conquered People: The New Serfs 
By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts240516.htm

Today Americans exist as a conquered people. They have lost the Bill of Rights, the amendments to the Constitution that protect their liberty. Anyone, other than the One Percent and their political and legal servants, can be picked up without charges and detained indefinitely as during the Dark Ages, when government was unaccountable and no one had any rights. Only those with power were safe. In America today anyone not politically protected can be declared “associated with terrorism” and taken out by a Hellfire missile from a drone on the basis of a list of human targets drawn up by the president’s advisers. Due process, guaranteed by the US Constitution, no longer exists in the United States of America


U.S. Democratic Party Is Hardening Over Clinton/Sanders Split 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse240516.htm

One of the best-ever news reports I’ve seen on the Democratic Party Presidential contest was Tierney McAffee’s “ Bernie Or Bust: Why 20 Percent of Sanders Supporters Say They Would Vote for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton” at people.com, the website of People magazine — hardly a place where one would normally expect to find such crackerjack well-researched reporting on politics


Hammering For Peace 
By Kathy Kelly

http://www.countercurrents.org/kelly240516.htm

On May 24, Jessica Reznicek, will go to trial in Nebraska for her action. She has chosen to go “pro se,” – to defend herself. Courts in the U.S. seldom allow the necessity defense. If the judge in Jessica’s case does so, Jessica could try to defend herself saying she acted to prevent a greater harm. She could establish that the U.S. government consistently provides Northrop Grumman with lavish funding, devoting immense resources of materials and scientific ingenuity to the study of war, all desperately needed elsewhere


From The Green Revolution To GMOs: Living In The Shadow Of Global Agribusiness 
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter240516.htm

If we do not strive to follow the route advocated for by the CPI (M) (and others, of course) on a global basis, we will have giant agribusiness conglomerates continuing to steam roll governments, farmers and the public into accepting patented seeds, poisonous chemicals, degraded environments and a centralised food production system that for the sake of profit (and geopolitical gain) aims to eradicate or marginalise traditional agriculture and successful alternative models across the globe


But What's The REAL Energy Return Of Photovoltaic Energy? 
By Ugo Bardi

http://www.countercurrents.org/bardi240516.htm

According to a recent, comprehensive study of the scientific literature (1), the average energy return on energy invested (EROEI) of the most common photovoltaic technology (polycrystalline Si) is 11-12. A far cry from the legend of the "EROI smaller than one" that's making the rounds in the Web


Father Of Western Economics Took ‘Most Of His Best Ideas’ From Sharia Law 
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini240516.htm

Adam Smith, “got most of his best ideas and best lines from medieval Islam”, specifically from Sharia law, as noted by David Graeber, an anthropologist who has taught at Princeton and the London School of Economics. For example, around the year 1,100, Islamic thinker al-Ghazali “highlighted the importance of the division of labour” using “the example of a needle factory to illustrate his point”. Seven centuries later, Adam Smith used the same example, a needle factory, to illustrate the same idea, division of labor, but without citing al-Ghazali


By The Way Who’s Interest Are You Serving? 
By Dr. Fayaz Ahmad Bhat

http://www.countercurrents.org/bhat240516.htm

The two months records since Mehbooba Mufti assumed office shows no change on the ground. There seems addition to the problems and issues of common masses. Whether it is of Handwara incident, molestation of a college girl, killing of innocent people, and illegal detention of the girl, new industrial policies, separate colonies for Pandits or Sainik colonies –all raise one question- the question whose interest you are serving?