CounterCurrents: Chelsea Manning Attempts Suicide, Don’t Move! How USA Murders Unpeople, Clinton Backs Monsanto’s Case That To Be Anti Monsanto Is To Be Pro Global-Warming

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Chelsea Manning Attempts Suicide

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/07/chelsea-manning-attempts-sucicide/

Chelsea Manning, the military whistleblower serving a 35 year sentence, was rushed to hospital after reportedly trying to take her own life

Satrap Guilt: Australia, Iraq And The Chilcot Inquiry
by Dr Binoy Kampmark 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/07/satrap-guilt-australia-iraq-and-the-chilcot-inquiry/

The release of the Chilcot Iraq Inquiry, examining the feeble reasons for launching a war against a sovereign state in 2003, did not merely land former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the soup.    It suggested that other leaders should keep him in drowning company

Don’t Move! How USA Murders Unpeople
by Kathy Kelly

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/07/dont-move-how-usa-murders-unpeople/

We have to face that when the U.S. acts as self-appointed “global policeman,” what it does to poor nations resembles what those two officers did to Alton Sterling. We must temper selfish and unreasonable fears for our own safety with the knowledge that others also want safe and stable lives. We must build community by lessening inequality. We must swear off making the world our battlefield and be appalled to hear the U.S. government seem to tell the world “I will kill you if you f—ing move.”

Red Alert: Bengaluru, India’s Technology Capital Headed For System Failure
Co-Written by V. Ramachandra & Bharath H. Aithal

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/07/red-alert-bengaluru-indias-technology-capital-headed-for-system-failure/

Recent research by IISc reveals startling numbers on Bangalore’s reckless urbanization and its consequences: during 1973–2016 (1005% concretization or increase of paved surface) has had a telling influence on the natural resources, such as decline in green spaces (88% decline in vegetation), wetlands (79% decline), higher air pollutants and a sharp decline in groundwater table.

Feminist Socialism And The Commons
by Hilary Wainwright 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/07/feminist-socialism-and-the-commons/

Hilary Wainwright, of the Transnational Institute and co-editor of Red Pepper magazine, made a lasting impression on the Commons Transition/P2P Foundation team with her panel presentation at the recent Commons Collaborative Economies event in Barcelona. During her presentation, Wainwright shared her insights on the hidden commons of care.

In Venezuela’s Difficult Times The Grassroots Are Stronger
by Tamara Pearson 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/07/in-venezuelas-difficult-times-the-grassroots-are-stronger/

It’s been three years now of food shortages, inflation, and queues in Venezuela, and the millions of people involved in community and movement organizing have been the most affected. But they’ve also defied right-wing and general expectations, and even perhaps the expectations of the Maduro government, and have become stronger and better organized as a result of the hardships

Clinton Backs Monsanto’s Case  That To Be Anti Monsanto Is To Be Pro Global-Warming
by Eric Zuesse 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/07/clinton-backs-monsantos-case-that-to-be-anti-monsanto-is-to-be-pro-global-warming/

The article in FORTUNE provides some evidence that the propaganda-campaign for the GMO industry is coordinated by their lobbying organization, the BIO, so that both one of their politicians, and one of their magazines, are singing the same song, even if different lyrics from it.

The Right To Vote—Effectively
by William John Cox 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/07/the-right-to-vote-effectively/

The United States government is no longer representative of those who elect it, nor is it the government the American People consented to. If the Republic is to continue, its constitution must be amended to empower the People, whose consent is essential to its legitimacy.