CounterCurrents: Israel’s Hydro-Apartheid Keeps West Bank Thirsty, Erdogan Accuses US Of Supporting Failed Coup In Turkey

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Israel’s Hydro-Apartheid Keeps West Bank Thirsty
by Charlotte Silver 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/01/israels-hydro-apartheid-keeps-west-bank-thirsty/

Water shortages are not new for Palestinians. Whether in the occupied Gaza Strip or the West Bank including East Jerusalem, the supply of water flowing into Palestinian homes is strictly capped or obstructed by Israel. As temperatures climb during the summer, taps run dry. Clemens Messerschmid, a German hydrologist who has worked with Palestinians on their water supply for two decades, calls the situation “hydro-apartheid.”




Erdogan Accuses US Of Supporting Failed Coup In Turkey
Co-Written by Alex Lantier and Johannes Stern 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/01/erdogan-accuses-us-of-supporting-failed-coup-in-turkey/

Relations between Ankara and Washington are deteriorating rapidly following the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, which the Turkish government believes was supported by the Obama administration. In a series of stunning statements on Friday, delivered from the bombed-out ruins of a police base in Ankara, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan directly accused the US government of backing the coup.




John D. Liu On Regenerative Ecology And Naturalized Economies
by Michael Bauwens 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/01/john-d-liu-on-regenerative-ecology-and-naturalized-economies/

If we say that money comes from ecological function instead from extraction, manufacturing buying and selling, then we have a system in which all human efforts go toward restoring, protecting and preserving ecological function. That is what we need to mitigate and adapt to climate change, to ensure food security, to ensure that human civilizations survive. Our monetary system must reflect reality. We could have growth, not from stuff, but growth from more functionality. If we do that and we value that higher than things, we will survive.




Depletion: If A Jellyfish Stings You, You Know Why
by Ugo Bardi 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/01/depletion-if-a-jellyfish-stings-you-you-know-why/

I think that myself and my coworkers gave a non-negligible contribution to understanding the overexploitation of marine fisheries when we applied to the available data the same system dynamic models that are used for peak oil. And we found that the models work. The cycle of growth and decline of many fisheries can be described by a simple model that assumes that the main factor that affects productivity is the abundance of the fish stock. And the model shows that the fish stock declines; fish is removed from the sea faster than the stock can be replenished by reproduction. Here are the data for the Japanese fishery that we presented in Delft.





The Military-Industrial Complex Of Pakistan
by Nauman Sadiq 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/01/the-military-industrial-complex-of-pakistan/

It’s high time that all the political forces and civil society of Pakistan present a united front against the foreign and as well as the domestic enemies. Pakistan armed forces are the friends of Pakistan within their constitutionally-ordained limits, but outside of those limits they are the worst enemies of Pakistan. Determining the domestic and foreign policy of Pakistan is the sole prerogative of Pakistan’s elected representatives; and anyone who thinks that they can redefine the national interest to suit their personal ambition, or institutional interests, is a traitor who shall be judged harshly by the history.





New Education Policy 2016: Same Pizza With A Few Saffron Toppings?
by Dr Anwar Khursheed 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/01/new-education-policy-2016-same-pizza-with-a-few-saffron-toppings/

Recently the contents of the New Education Policy 2016 draw the attention of many stakeholders including academicians in particular. A detailed look at the policy found to be very ordinary; it’s the same wine in new bottle, even it’s failed to address the RSS doctrine on education in totality. The drafting Committee consisted of three bureaucrats and ex NCERT chief (during earlier NDA regime) Prof J.S. Rajput, since servility, not the merit is the great prerequisite of good civil servant, and the lone academicians is from radical right therefore nothing innovative    could be expected from it.





Nationalists or Notionalists: Nationalism And Hindu Right Wing In India
by T Navin 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/01/nationalists-or-notionalists-nationalism-and-hindu-right-wing-in-india/

Since the nationalism by Hindu right wing goes against all the modern values, it is important to brand them as ‘Notionalists’. Fascists who define themselves as ‘Nationalists’ need to be redefined as ‘Notionalists’. This will be important to save ‘nationalism’ from some of its progressive content. This is without denial of the fact that internationalism is a value that is the need of the hour.




Review Of Movie “A Bitter Lime” – Disenchanted First World Couple Escape To Third World Guyana
by Dr Gideon Polya 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/01/review-of-movie-a-bitter-lime-disenchanted-first-world-couple-escape-to-third-world-guyana/

“A Bitter Lime” is a variously funny to  Kafkaesque movie about a rich and young but disenchanted First World couple leaving Los Angeles for Georgetown in Third World  Guyana. A beautifully filmed and poetic movie, “A Bitter Lime” touches on escapism, existential angst, North-South, Man-Nature and love.  Directed by Australian Max De Bowen (Max Orter) , “A Bitter Lime” is a potential cult movie for present young generations bored and disenchanted with corporatism and neoliberalism





Olympic Chaos: The Rio Games In World Of Global Sporting Corruption
by Dr Binoy Kampmark 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/01/olympic-chaos-the-rio-games-in-world-of-global-sporting-corruption/

A glaring feature of the latest ruckus lies in the administration (or maladministration) of international sport.  Disagreement, for instance, about regulating doping regimes and taking action about them, is particularly fractious.    Multiple deals, often of a trans-national nature, have been made over the years. The cover-up is very much in.




Protests In Ahwaz As 8 Hospital Patients  Die In 3 days
by Yaqoub Hor Neysi 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/01/protests-in-ahwaz-as-8-hospital-patients-die-in-3-days/

Dozens of Ahwazi Arab citizens gathered in front of the Sina Hospital in the regional capital Ahwaz to protest about the deaths of eight Arab patients there within a two-day period, with some dying of kidney failure and others from inflammation of the digestive tract due to medical negligence by hospital staff, according to Iranian state media.   Other patients with the same symptoms are reportedly still in intensive care, with doctors warning that the death toll may rise.    This latest tragedy comes at the same time as two women at another hospital in the city died in childbirth a few days earlier.




What Does The EU Stand For: Globalization or Universalism?
by William Hawes 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/01/what-does-the-eu-stand-for-globalization-or-universalism/

What is the purpose of the European Union? This question has been of the minds of everyone following the UK vote in favor of Brexit. Yet in the mad scramble to make sense of the United Kingdom’s rejection of the EU, little lucid commentary has been made. European leaders, the fawning media, and UK citizens alike portrayed the vote as either a refusal of EU austerity, or unhappiness with immigrants and open borders.




Summarizing ‘The Missing 28 Pages’: Who Was Behind 9/11?
by Eric Zuesse 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/01/summarizing-the-missing-28-pages-who-was-behind-911/

The following summary consists of quotations from the suppressed 29 pages (previously miscalled ’28 pages’) themselves, so that the accuracy of this summary won’t be doubted. The entire document is here; and, of course, it provides much more information adding to the account that’s here merely summarized by these quotations from it.





America’s Recent Achievements In The Middle East
by Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/01/americas-recent-achievements-in-the-middle-east/

What’s especially interesting there, is that in all of these missions, except for Iraq, the U.S. was doing it with the key participation of the Saud family, the royals who own Saudi Arabia, and who are the world’s largest buyers of American weaponry. Since Barack Obama came into the White House, the operations — Libya, Yemen, and Syria — have been, to a large extent, joint operations with the Sauds. ‘We’ are now working more closely with ‘our’ ‘friends’, even than ‘we’ were under George W. Bush.




Dalit Anger Boils Over In Gujarat

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/01/dalit-anger-boils-over-in-gujarat/

The simmering anger of Dalits of Gujarat over the flogging of Dalit youths by Gau Rakshaks (cow protection squad) in Utna boiled over into a massive rally in Ahmedabad and they vowed not dispose of animal carcasses, clean sewer lines, two dirty jobs which the dalits do as a centuries old practice since the upper caste people refuse to do these dirty jobs. Tens of thousands of dalits marched through Ahmedabad and announced a march from Ahmedabad to Una between August 5 and August 15. They said they plan to gather in Una on August 15, India’s Independence day, to observe and “feel independence” there.