CounterCurrents: Climate, Consciousness And Social Change, US-Modi Bonhomie, NATO Orders Four Additional Battalions To Russian Border

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Binu Mathew
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NATO Orders Four Additional Battalions To Russian Border 
By Thomas Gaist 

http://www.countercurrents.org/gaist150616.htm

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is sending 4,000 additional troops to Eastern Europe in the name of reassuring Poland and the Baltic states, the alliance’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed on Monday. “We will agree to deploy by rotation four robust multi-national battalions in the Baltic states and Poland,” Stoltenberg told NATO officials


Climate, Consciousness And Social Change 
By Asoka Bandarage

http://www.countercurrents.org/bandarage150616.htm

Activists are confident that just as the struggle against the tobacco industry, which hid the connection between smoking and health from the public, was won, the people’s struggle against the fossil fuel industry can also be victorious. We must believe that the larger goals of environmental sustainability and social justice can be achieved and that ‘Another World is Possible’ if we work together to ‘Change the System, not the Climate’


Biodiversity And Land Reforms: Still A Neglected Linkage At The CBD 
By Anandi Sharan

http://www.countercurrents.org/sharan150616.htm

Practically all the forested lands of India are presently wrongfully occupiedin some way or the other at present, to the extent that rights are not being recognised and Gram Sabhas not being given their responsibilities. But once these rights are recognised, biodiversity will get a huge fillip; - no thanks to the CBD or the FAO


The Orlando Massacre: Time For Pondering And Not Populism 
By M. Adil Khan

http://www.countercurrents.org/khan150616.htm

in order to stop repeat of all forms of killings, mass or targeted that are perpetrated by both non-state and state actors we must look at the issue more holistically and not confine ourselves to one particular country or a group. Instead we need to go beyond the superficial and start looking at causes that connect the “dots between terrorism and mass killings” that on the one hand manipulate the system to kill to keep its control on wealth accumulation and on the other and as result, create the conditions for desperate acts such as witnessed in Orlando lately. If we keep on going the way we are going and not reflect, no one will be safe. Time for pondering, not populism


A Critique of Human Society Since The Neolithic Revolution 
By Robert J. Burrowes

http://www.countercurrents.org/burrowes150616.htm

My central questions are these? Is there a point at which a human activity ceases to be volitional – 'functional, meaningful and enjoyable' – and becomes something that is socially controlled, what we might now call 'work'? And what are the implications of this transition?


Peasants Battle Cry For Land In Punjab
By Janhastakshep

http://www.countercurrents.org/jhp150616.htm

An Investigation into Police and Land-lord Repression on Land Struggle of Dalit Peasants in Villages of Sangrur District of Indian Punjab


Muzaffarnagar +Dadri + Kairana=Love Jihad+Beef+"Hindu" Exodus=Hard Communalism=Votes
By Ram Puniyani

http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani150616.htm

Just before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections Muzaffarnagar erupted in violence in which nearly 80 Muslims died, and thousands fled their villages. Now with the 2017 Assembly elections due in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP seems to have activated its machinery yet again


US-Modi Bonhomie 
By Abdul Majid Zargar

http://www.countercurrents.org/zargar150616.htm

If it is presumed that USA has forgiven Modi, then we can only mourn the sad demise of core values from American hearts. Slobodan Milosevic must be wondering in his grave for the differential treatment he got at the hands of those whose priorities are guided more by revenue & market valuations. Whatever be the case, a caveat is in order. America by its odious behavior has undermined & debased the structure of democracy, it so enthusiastically promotes in rest of the world


Demand The Intervention Of Telangana Chief Minister In Resolving HCU Crisis
By Justice for HCU

http://www.countercurrents.org/jfhcu150616.htm

Please sign this petition, and share with colleagues and allies. We are trying to strengthen efforts to push the Telangana Government to put an end to the escalating repression of Dalit students and faculty in HCU