CounterCurrents: Another UK report indicts another former Prime Minister: Libyan Intervention Was Based On Wrong Assumptions; David Cameron Is Ultimately Responsible, US Has Spent Nearly $5 Trillion On Wars Since 9/11, An Asteroid Called “Peak Oil” – The Real Cause Of The Growing Social Inequality In The US

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Kashmir remains shut for the 69th consecutive day. Another youth succumbed to injury he suffered on September 5.  Rasik Ahmed Bhat, 23, son of Muhammad Yousuf Bhat of Nowpora, Kulgam    breathed his last at 4 pm today taking the death toll to 84. 

Another UK report indicts another former Prime Minister. House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee  has directly indicted the former PM David Cameron in allowing the collapse of Libya as an organized nation state and to throw it into chaos and also to assist the Islamic State to proliferate in the region and beyond.

A new report from Brown University estimates that Washington has squandered nearly $5 trillion since September 11, 2001 on the wars launched under the pretext of fighting terrorism.

Anandi Sharan makes a bold proposal for equity and justice  and argues that 24 countries that today host a population of 0.75 billion people could open their borders to share their farmland and provide a permaculture life for 2 billion more people.

Repair can be a form of resistance!  Kevin Carson  writes that    "Right-To-Repair Activists Are Heroes"

In capitalism everything is up for sale, even Nature. There is a growing demand to rename Nature as  ‘Natural Capital’ !

Ugo Bardi writes about an Asteroid called "Peak Oil" that hit USA in early 1970s that sent the country into a downward spiral of social inequality from which it never recovered. 

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Libyan Intervention Was Based On Wrong Assumptions; David Cameron Is Ultimately Responsible
by Dr Vivek Kumar Srivastava 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/15/libyan-intervention-was-based-on-wrong-assumptions-david-cameron-is-ultimately-responsible/

House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee in UK has directly indicted the former PM David Cameron in allowing the collapse of Libya as an organized nation state and to throw it into chaos and also to assist the Islamic State to proliferate in the region and beyond.




US Has Spent Nearly $5 Trillion On Wars Since 9/11
by Bill Van Auken 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/15/us-has-spent-nearly-5-trillion-on-wars-since-911/

In another indication of the terrible price paid by working people in the United States and all over the globe for the crimes of US imperialism, a new reportfrom Brown University estimates that Washington has squandered nearly $5 trillion since September 11, 2001 on the wars launched under the pretext of fighting terrorism.




Monsanto And Bayer: Why Food And Agriculture Just Took A Turn For The Worse
by Colin Todhunter 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/15/monsanto-and-bayer-why-food-and-agriculture-just-took-a-turn-for-the-worse/

News broke this week that Monsanto accepted a $66 billion takeover bid from Bayer. The new company would control more than 25 per cent of the global supply of commercial seeds and pesticides. Bayer’s crop chemicals business is the world’s second largest after Syngenta, and Monsanto is the leading commercial seeds business.




Monsanto And The Poisonous Cartel Of GMOs In India
by Vandana Shiva 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/15/monsanto-and-the-poisonous-cartel-of-gmos-in-india/

India is steeped in a synthesized controversy created by Monsanto on the first GMO crop supposedly approved for commercialization. Engaged in litigation on many fronts, Monsanto is trying to subvert India’s patent laws: Protection of Plant Variety and Farmers Right Act, Essential Commodities Act and Competition Act. It is behaving as if there is no Parliament, no democracy, no sovereign laws in India to which it is subject. Or it simply doesn’t have any regard for them.




The Fourth Remake Of “Invasion Of The Body Snatchers”
by Richard Oxman 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/15/the-fourth-remake-of-invasion-of-the-body-snatchers/

Today, though, we need a new version of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. One that”s germane for 2016. Specifically, one which spotlights our devaluation of life itself, our collective resignation vis-a-vis going over the precipice… without any help from alien life forms. One that shows how the disappearance of our humanity is a function of an internal invasion.





24 Countries Must Share Their  Surplus Farmland With 2 Billion Others
by Anandi Sharan 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/15/24-countries-must-share-their-surplus-farmland-with-2-billion-others/

These 24 countries that today have a population of 0.75 billion people could open their borders to share their farmland and provide a permaculture life for 2 billion more people.





An Asteroid Called “Peak Oil” – The Real Cause Of The Growing Social Inequality In The US
by Ugo Bardi 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/15/an-asteroid-called-peak-oil-the-real-cause-of-the-growing-social-inequality-in-the-us/

In a recent article on the Huffington Post, Stan Sorscher reports the graph above and asks the question of what could have happened in the early 1970s that changed everything. Impressive, but what caused this “something” that happened in the early 1970s? According to Sorscher, X marks the spot. In this case, “X” is our choice of national values. We abandoned traditional American values that built a great and prosperous nation.     Unfortunately, this is a classic case of an explanation that doesn’t explain anything. Why did the American people decide to abandon traditional American values just at that specific moment in time?





Right-To-Repair Activists Are Heroes
by Kevin Carson 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/15/right-to-repair-activists-are-heroes/

The only function of “intellectual property” is to snatch scarcity from the jaws of abundance — to take goods that, thanks to the advance of human knowledge, should naturally be getting cheaper, and make them artificially expensive. This is nowhere more evident than in the war corporations are fighting against their own customers’ right to repair the items they purchase. Fortunately, as Emily Matchar points out at Smithsonian (“The Fight for the ‘Right to Repair,’” July 13), there are activists fighting for the right to repair




Nature Is Being Renamed ‘Natural Capital’ – But Is It Really The Planet That Will Profit?
by Sian Sullivan 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/15/nature-is-being-renamed-natural-capital-but-is-it-really-the-planet-that-will-profit/

The four-yearly World Conservation Congress of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature has just taken place in Hawai’i. The congress is the largest global meeting on nature’s conservation. This year a controversial motion was debated regarding incorporating the language and mechanisms of “natural capital” into IUCN policy. But what is “natural capital”? And why use it to refer to “nature”?




Degrowth And The Global Ecovillage Network
by Stella Veciana 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/15/degrowth-and-the-global-ecovillage-network/

One of the most controversially discussed key tracks during the 5th International Degrowth Conference 2016 in Budapest was “Degrowth and other social movements”. Can degrowth be considered a movement? Does degrowth embrace all kinds of movements struggling for a sustainable future?





Brahmanization Of The Onam Festival
by Ambedkar-Periyar Study Circle 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/15/brahmanization-of-the-onam-festival/

Portraying Onam as Vamana Jayanthi is just another step by Sangh Parivar forces to bring all festivals into the hindutva fold which is essential to project the idea of hindu rashtra, a homogeneous culture of Hindi-Hindu-Hindutva.





Prakash Karat’s Critique Of BJP/RSS And Left Unity
by Vijay Prashad 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/15/prakash-karats-critique-of-bjprss-and-left-unity/

The BJP pushes its right-wing agenda, but it is hampered by a host of political adversaries – not only political parties, but also pressure groups and mass sentiment that will not allow it to enact its complete agenda. The fact that one hundred and eighty million workers went on strike shows that there remains wide opposition to the BJP’s ‘labour reform’ agenda, one that is otherwise quite acceptable to large sections of the parliamentary opposition (including the Congress Party).