Tuesday, May 31, 2016
CounterCurrents: Write-In Voting And Political Protest, Is Humankind Suffering Of A Global Alzheimer Disease?, The Unique Risks Of GM Crops: Science Trumps PR, Fraud And Smear Campaigns
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Is Humankind Suffering Of A Global Alzheimer Disease?
By Ugo Bardi
http://www.countercurrents.org/bardi310516.htm
Could it be that we suffer from an Alzheimer-like civilization disease? That would explain why civilization never arrives at doing something useful about the terrible threats if faces, first of all, climate change. Maybe there really is no ghost in the machine we call civilization. It is a giant machine that stumbles around while arguing with itself in an endless squabble and getting nowhere
$50 Oil Doesn’t Work
By Gail Tverberg
http://www.countercurrents.org/tverberg310516.htm
$50 per barrel oil is clearly less impossible to live with than $30 per barrel oil, because most businesses cannot make a profit with $30 per barrel oil. But is $50 per barrel oil helpful? I would argue that it really is not
Building Trust In Afghanistan
By Kathy Kelly
http://www.countercurrents.org/kelly310516.htm
U.S. people should earnestly ask how the U.S. could help build trust here in Afghanistan, and, as a first step, begin transferring funds from the coffers of weapon companies to the UN accounts trying to meet humanitarian needs. The “giant” could be seen stooping, humbly, to help plant seeds, hoping for a humane harvest
The Unique Risks Of GM Crops: Science Trumps PR, Fraud And Smear Campaigns
By Colin Todhunter
http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter310516.htm
The purpose of this piece is to draw readers’ attention to an important chapter from a document by Aruna Rodrigues that discusses the unique risks associated with GM crops. Contrary to what supporters of GM often claim, it shows that criticisms of this technology are based on credible concerns, sound logic and solid science
Write-In Voting And Political Protest
By William John Cox
http://www.countercurrents.org/cox310516.htm
If America is to continue as a representative democracy, it must transform its government into one that actually represents and cares for those who elect it—rather than the corporations and financial elites who are now paying for election campaigns and bribing the candidates. The USVRA provides a constitutional basis for the transformation of the United States government; however, the energy to compel its enactment will come from the incredible power of the pen literally held in the hands of the People
The EU’s War On Refugees Is Repeating The Disasters Of The War On Drugs
By Dan Glazebrook
http://www.countercurrents.org/glazebrook310516.htm
The EU’s “war on people smuggling”, escalated last week by David Cameron, appears to be modelled on the failed “war on drugs” – and a new House of Lords report shows it is already producing the same disastrous results
Obama Continues To Ignore Pleas To Free Puerto Rican
Political Prisoner Oscar López Rivera
By Matt Peppe
http://www.countercurrents.org/peppe310516.htm
The fact that Oscar López Rivera still sits unjustly in a prison cell is proof that the voices of Puerto Ricans simply do not matter to first-class American citizens on the mainland who hold power
Tolerance And Framework Of Islamic Democracy
By G.Asgar Mitha
http://www.countercurrents.org/mitha310516.htm
Thus far, the image of Islam has been one of extremism, intolerance and terrorism. That certainly is not what Islam means. It means peace. So what has happened that this religion has been so vehemently tarnished? Historically all great religions have gone through this phase, predominantly by the misrepresentations by the clergy who have exploited the illiterate and impoverished followers. In the past half century Muslim clerics too have misrepresented Islam starting with those who've been exposed to Wahhabi teachings and fundings through their madressas (religious schools) in Saudi Arabia. Thousands of such madressas then sprung up in Pakistan’s cities, towns and villages giving rise to the vulnerable students known as Taliban. Pakistani political leaders picked the cue and bowed to the will of the masses giving rise to “political Islam”
Window
A Poem By K.P. Sasi
http://www.countercurrents.org/sasi310516.htm
One day
I will open the windows of my dreams
To live in a world where there is no need
to write these words of troubled minds
or even to open the windows of my dreams
A Tale Of Two Vehicles: Sadhvi’s Motorcycle And Rubina’s Car
By Ram Puniyani
http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani310516.htm
Can there be two type of Justice delivery system in the same country? This question came to one’s mind with the U turn taken by NIA in the cases related to terror acts in which many Hindu names were involved. Now the NIA in a fresh charge sheet (May 13, 2016) has dropped the charges against Pragya Singh Thakur, has lightened the ones against Col Purohit and others. Along with this new line of NIA is that Hemant Karkare’s investigation in these cases was flawed and that it was ATS which had got the RDX planted in Purohit’s residence to implicate him in this case. The implication is that all this was being done at the behest of previous UPA Government
Dr. Sukant Khurana's Art Exhibition: A New Synthesis
By Shikhant Sablania
http://www.countercurrents.org/sablania310516.htm
Dr. Sukant Khurana is a polymath of Indian origin who was trained in US and his cutting edge work spans neuroscience, biotechnology, drug-discovery, computation, artificial intelligence, data science, ecology, visual art, sustainable development, various entrepreneurial efforts, creative and non-fiction writing, and philanthropic projects on socioeconomic development. I am writing this article at the heels of his first solo art exhibition in New Delhi at AIFACS starting 3rd of June
Sairat: Love Is Not Blind But Caste
By Chandra Sen
http://www.countercurrents.org/sen310516.htm
Film industry is considered as working within a binary; films which are considered as social issue based on the one hand and commercial films on the other hand. Films by directors like Shyam Benegal fall in the former category while the rest of the patriarchal/ communal/ Islamophobic/ casteist masala falls in the latter. However, Sairat has destroyed this constructed myth of a binary. It proves that successful star cast, big budgets are not the crucial factors in making a film successful
Peoples’Alliance For Democracy And Secularism (PADS)
Condemns Fundamentalist Violence In South Asia
By PADS
http://www.countercurrents.org/pads310516.htm
The past few years have seen an alarming increase in violent attacks on the democratic rights of ordinary people all over South Asia. Fundamentalist groups are attacking and/or killing people whom they perceive to be challenging their beliefs, or 'hurting their sentiments'
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