CounterCurrents: Drought In Somalia: Over 100 Children Die Everyday From Starvation,

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The first presidential debate took place in Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. Predictably it was a damp squib. Patrick Martin calls it a  spectacle that revealed all the faultlines of American political system. He calls it a political and cultural abomination with little intellectual substance or reasoned political content, where both candidates lied without effort or shame, slinging insults and prepared one-liners against each other while posturing as advocates of working people! 

Another tragedy is emerging in Somalia. The UN just announced that due to drought and famine over 300,000 Somali children are suffering from severe malnutrition. Over 100 children are already dying everyday from starvation,  bringing back memories of the most recent Great Horn of Africa drought in 2011-12 when the UN admitted that 250,000, almost entirely children, died from starvation. And this drought and famine is worse

Bill Mollison Co-Founder Of Permaculture died in Australia on 24th of this month. Bill Mollison founded the first and original Permaculture Institute, which was established in 1979 to teach the practical design of sustainable soil, water, plant, and legal and economic systems to students worldwide. A sad and great loss to humanity. 

Silke Helfrich interviews Gustavo Soto Santiesteban on the concept 'El Buen Vivir' that has made its way into the constitutions of Ecuador and Bolivia, and has become an expression that would summarize an alternative project for civilization. 

Meanwhile Kashmir remains shut for the 81th consecutive day.  

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Clinton-Trump Debate: A Degrading Spectacle
by Patrick Martin 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/27/clinton-trump-debate-a-degrading-spectacle/

The first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was a political and cultural abomination. It demonstrated, in both style and substance, the thoroughgoing decay of American capitalist society over many decades. There was not the slightest intellectual substance or reasoned political content to the so-called “debate.” No topic was addressed with either intelligence or honesty. Both candidates lied without effort or shame, slinging insults and prepared one-liners against each other while posturing as advocates of working people.





Drought In Somalia: Over 100 Children Die Everyday From Starvation
by Thomas C Mountain 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/27/drought-in-somalia-over-100-children-die-everyday-from-starvation/

The UN just announced that due to drought and famine over 300,000 Somali children are suffering from severe malnutrition. This means that over 100 children are already dying everyday from starvation. Soon the number will reach many hundreds a day, bringing back memories of the most recent Great Horn of Africa drought in 2011-12 when the UN admitted that 250,000, almost entirely children, died from starvation. And this drought and famine is worse





El Buen Vivir And The Commons
Silke Helfrich interviews Gustavo Soto Santiesteban 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/27/el-buen-vivir-and-the-commons/

Buen Vivir is a proposal aimed at making visible and expressible aspects of reality that are ignored by the dominant paradigm. It is a proposal from a radical and spiritual perspective of ecology, and is logically incompatible with development and industrialization. It speaks of the possibility of living in common, for which the very concept “development” is not only insufficient but mistaken.






Bruce Charles ‘Bill’ Mollison 1928-2016, Co-Founder Of Permaculture
by Graham Bell 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/27/bruce-charles-bill-mollison-1928-2016-co-founder-of-permaculture/

Bruce Charles ‘Bill’ Mollison (born 1928 in Stanley, Tasmania, Australia and died, 24 September 2016 in Sisters Beach, Tasmania). Bill Mollison founded the first and original Permaculture Institute, which was established in 1979 to teach the practical design of sustainable soil, water, plant, and legal and economic systems to students worldwide. Bill’s legacy is that hundreds of thousands of past students have created a world-wide network to take his concept forward. This is a world in which we are acutely aware of our environment, its capacity and its limitations, and we design systems to meet human needs which respect that.





Dear Humans, How Long Will You Live?
by Shrishtee 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/27/dear-humans-how-long-will-you-live/

We are living in a world where the ideas like the above will be shunned as mundane, irrational and the ones who talk about will be clubbed as over-emotional hippies, but I am hopeful that they will make sense to some of us who are disturbed, very disturbed and I am sure the count is in good numbers. The thought remains open and with crying need for re-thought!






Re-electing Jeremy Corbyn: The Triumph Of Momentum
by Dr Binoy Kampmark 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/27/re-electing-jeremy-corbyn-the-triumph-of-momentum/

The initial strategy from Labour MPs was to oust their leader in July on procedural grounds.  The mutineers (call them the Tories in Labour clothing, the Blairites) failed to get their wishes of disqualifying Corbyn from office by a narrow 18-14 ruling by the National Executive Committee that Corbyn be allowed on the ballot even without the endorsement of 20 percent of his MPs. Instead of limping away in defeat from contender Owen Smith, Corbyn strengthened his position to be, interestingly enough, Labour’s strongest leader on paper to have ever been elected.






Kaepernick Forces Americans To Choose Sides
by Matt Peppe 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/27/kaepernick-forces-americans-to-choose-sides/

When Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers chose to remain seated during the national anthem on August 26 prior to the start of the team’s game against the Green Bay Packers, as the rest of the stadium stood, he was not the only one engaging in a political act. But Kaepernick was likely the only one doing so consciously. And though he was outnumbered by tens of thousands in the stadium, and millions who watched on their television sets, Kaepernick’s bold statement was infinitely more powerful and outsized in its impact.






The Lesser-Known Pashtun Insurgency In Pakistan
by Nauman Sadiq 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/27/the-lesser-known-pashtun-insurgency-in-pakistan/

Is it not ironic that two very similar insurgencies have simultaneously been going on in Pakistan for the last several years: the Baloch insurgency in the Balochistan province and the insurgency of the Pashtun tribesmen in the tribal areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province bordering the United States-occupied Afghanistan.






Pink or Blue. Don’t Be Clones Of Each Other. Create Your Own Hue!
by Sunita Nakhate 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/27/pink-or-blue-dont-be-clones-of-each-other-create-your-own-hue/

With movies like PINK, I am sure things can change. I have already seen fellow lawyers taking pro bono matters. PINK has already created an impact on me and I know it’s going to be long lasting one.