CounterCurrents: The Sheer Terror Of Looming Biosphere Collapse. Obama Tries To Ram His TTIP Down Europeans’ Throats, Demand Destruction And Peak Oil,

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The Sheer Terror Of Looming Biosphere Collapse 
By Dr. Glen Barry

http://www.countercurrents.org/barry050616.htm

The global ecological system is collapsing and dying as humanity overruns natural ecosystems and the climate. We are entering an age of unrelenting violence and suffering, prior to biosphere collapse and the end of being, unless dramatic social change based upon a global ecology ethic arises quickly


On World Environment Day, Profiting From
Death, Devastation And Destruction Is The Norm
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter050616.htm

Without addressing the impacts and nature of corporate greed and a wholly corrupt neoliberal capitalism that privileges corporations and profit ahead of people and conservation, regardless of any success in the area of the trafficking of wild animals or plants, much of the world’s wildlife and biodiversity will remain under serious threat. They will increasingly find themselves hemmed into smaller and fewer reserves surrounded by commodity plantations, industries, urban sprawl and barren, degraded landscapes


No Recognition Of ‘One Humanity’ At The World Humanitarian Forum 
By Rajesh Makwana

http://www.countercurrents.org/makwana050616.htm

In light of the overwhelming moral imperative to share planetary resources more equitably and protect the lives of those facing humanitarian emergencies, the World Humanitarian Summit is yet another reminder of the huge gulf between government priorities and the desperate reality of the world situation


Demand Destruction And Peak Oil 
By Roger Baker

http://www.countercurrents.org/baker050616.htm

We are fully under the influence of petroleum demand destruction. The global oil market can't function without real oil production price discovery, which doesn't exist in the currently deflationary global economy, which forces indebted producers to sell far below cost


Obama Tries To Ram His TTIP Down Europeans’ Throats 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse050616.htm

Like the foie gras producer ramming food down ducks’ throats in order to create diseased super-fatty livers that some humans find acceptable to eat, Barack Obama (via his friend and trade-negotiator Michael Froman) is trying to ram dictatorship down Europeans’ throats, for the benefit of billionaires. And, like the sweet words of the foie-grass lobbyists who say it’s all just the ‘free market’ at work, Obama’s commercial-treaties salesman is saying it’s all being done in order to support ‘free trade’


Defiance Of Law And Impunity In Bangladesh 
By Taj Hashmi

http://www.countercurrents.org/hashmi050616.htm

It would be sheer recklessness to assume that since Bangladeshis have tolerated all the excesses by members of the ruling elites during the last four decades, they would remain compliant and complacent for an indefinite period. Corruption, impunity, and unaccountability never saved any regime in the past. As the social media indicates, people want justice, not impunity for a select few. It’s time the superordinates read the writings on the wall. It’s a sacred obligation to the nation, not a favour to anybody. What Abraham Lincoln has said in this regard is very relevant to Bangladesh today: “You can’t fool all the people all the time”


A Birthday Note From A FTII student: "Pet Lovers, Cosmetic Liberals, Vulgar Evolutionists And Countrymen"
By Shini J K

http://www.countercurrents.org/shini050616.htm

FTII is going through its worst ever times. But there is scope and possibilities still left for us. The best thing with us is that we have the possibilities to address multiple identities including class as film makers and film students. We also have the scope to materialize our ideas through films even after talking about it in public