CounterCurrents: Washington Escalates Covert Backing For Al Qaeda Militias In Aleppo, The Election From Hell, An Updated Version Of The “Peak Oil” Story

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Washington backed Al Qaeda militias break the siege of Aleppo. Gail Tverberg utters the dreaded 'C' word COLLAPSE in her upated version of the "Peak Oil" story. Are we going in the same direction as so many other civilizations in the past that hit resource crunch, environmental destruction and climate change? It seems so! Unless we do something urgent. Yasir Altaf Zargar writes an open letter to Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on the unfolding human tragedy in the Kashmir valley and many more....

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  Washington Escalates Covert Backing For Al Qaeda Militias In Aleppo
by Thomas Gaist 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/09/washington-escalates-covert-backing-for-al-qaeda-militias-in-aleppo/

US-backed militias fighting against the Syrian government of Bashar al Assad have broken through the Russian and Syrian government encirclement of their positions inside the war-ravaged northern Syrian city of Aleppo 




An Updated Version Of The “Peak Oil” Story
by Gail Tverberg 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/09/an-updated-version-of-the-peak-oil-story/

We should not be surprised if the financial problems that the world is now encountering will eventually resolve badly. This seems to be how the Peak Oil story will finally play out. Without rising energy per capita, the world economy tends to shrink. Without economic growth, it becomes very difficult to repay debt with interest. Wealth disparity becomes more and more of a problem, and it becomes increasingly difficult for governments to collect enough revenue to support their needs. Our problems begin to look more and more like those of earlier economies that hit resource limits, and eventually collapsed.




An Open Letter To Mehbooba Mufti
by Yasir Altaf Zargar 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/09/an-open-letter-to-mehbooba-mufti/

I am very much shocked to see how you made U turn in your statements. When 2008, 2010 unrest was on peak, you came out on streets, ragged, screamed even locked the secretariat, roared with your party members that people are being brutally supressed and then killed.





First Thoughts For A Phenomenology Of The Commons
by Ugo Mattei 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/09/first-thoughts-for-a-phenomenology-of-the-commons/

The commons are not concessions. They are resources that belong to the people as a matter of life necessity. Everybody has a right of an equal share of the commons and must be empowered by law to claim equal and direct access to it. Everybody has equal responsibility to the commons and shares a direct responsibility to transfer its wealth to future generations. The commons radically oppose both the State and private property as shaped by market forces, and are powerful sources of emancipation and social justice. 




The Election From Hell
by Tom Engelhardt 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/09/the-election-from-hell/

As the world careens toward “an environment never experienced before,” according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the two parties to the American spectacle continues to insist that climate change is a hoax.Meanwhile, the other party, the one theoretically promoting much-needed responses to climate change, wasn’t even willing to highlight the subject in prime time on any of the last three days of its convention. In other words, the deepest, most unnerving realities of our world are, in essence, missing in action in election 2016. You want to be afraid? Be afraid of that!




Why Urban Rich Kids, Not Poor Taliban Terrorise Bangladesh?
by Taj Hashmi 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/09/why-urban-rich-kids-not-poor-taliban-terrorise-bangladesh/

Since terrorism is a political not an Islamic problem, promoting any “de-contaminated” Islam would change nothing. We need to understand what the terrorists want to reform, before trying to reform them. But first of all we need transparent and accountable governance with equal opportunity for all. Historically, poverty-stricken classes never staged any revolutionary or terrorist movement anywhere in the world. The poor, marginalized, and uninformed madrasa students in Bangladesh are too weak and disorganized to spearhead any violent or revolutionary movement. This explains why urban, rich, and secular-educated – not rural, poor, and madrasa-educated – youths are the main foot soldiers of Islamist terror in Bangladesh.




Cow Protectors: Fake And Real
by T Navin 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/09/cow-protectors-fake-and-real/

Violence in the name of cow protection has been integral part of Hindu mobilization by Sangh Parivar. In 2002, five Dalits were lynched to death in Jhajjar, Haryana, by a frenzied mob. At the heart of the incident was the cow-slaughter theory. In January 2003, VHP attacked home of a Muslimunder the pretext of cow slaughtering. Within hours 132 of 144 Muslim shops were burnt by Sangh Parivar. Dadri and Gujarat incidents are only the recent ones. Such instances only show that non-violent nature of real cow protectors in the form of sangh parivar is only an illusion.




Pages From History : The Quit India Movement A Critical Appraisal

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/09/pages-from-history-the-quit-india-movement-a-critical-appraisal/

(EXTRACT from  People’s Democratic Revolution in India – An Explanation of the Programme—By DV Rao,1971