CounterCurrents: Reclaiming The Credit Commons: Towards A Butterfly Society, African Union: The West’s Gendarme In Africa,

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The Syrian quagmire is escalating with Turkey planning joint operation with USA. All the powers involved have their own vested interest.  Eresh Omar Jamal says Syrian crisis saw the largest displacement since IInd World War and no sign of let up in the madness. 

Meanwhile in the Korean peninsula North Korea carried out its fifth and reportedly biggest nuclear test!

Day 63 of Kashmir shut down.  Clashes erupt in different parts of the valley.  

Thomas H Greco Jr takes us to the heart of one of the main source of all this evil in our world. Money! Money is created by the collective credit of everyone in a country. Now that the filthy rich trickster bankster barons have manipulated the financial system so much so that the richest 62 persons of this planet own as much wealth as half of the humanity! We've to win back the 'Credit Commons' that is rightfully ours but was misused by these tricksters to subvert the system. Yes, there are alternatives and many people are using it. 

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African Union: The West’s Gendarme In Africa
by Thomas C Mountain 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/09/african-union-the-wests-gendarme-in-africa/

The African Union is the west’s gendarme in Africa with it’s combined national armed forces increasingly primed to invade and occupy rather than keep the peace. The latest potential victim of the African Union, backed by its big brother, the UN, is South Sudan. Before that Burundi was threatened with invasion by the AU “peacekeepers”. And this is just the beginning of a list of intended targets and actual invasions and occupations.




Reclaiming The Credit Commons: Towards A Butterfly Society
by Thomas H Greco Jr 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/09/reclaiming-the-credit-commons-towards-a-butterfly-society/

Money has evolved over time; money is no longer a “thing.” It is credit in a system of accounts, which manifests mainly as “deposits” in banks, and only secondarily, in small amounts, as paper currency notes. Every national currency is supported by the collective credit of everyone who is obliged by law to accept it.





Syria: Potential Fuse For Greater Conflagration
by Eresh Omar Jamal 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/09/syria-potential-fuse-for-greater-conflagration/

Syria is quickly turning into a powder-keg that can blow up any minute, leading to a much greater conflagration. Thus, it is best now for all sides to let cooler heads prevail rather than escalate the violence that has already led to millions of Syrians fleeing the war-torn country as refugees — contributing to the displacement of the highest number of people since the end of World War II — any further. The super-powers involved have a special responsibility in that regard, as it is the unimaginable suffering of the Syrian people, who have, perhaps, had the least say in all of this, that is the greatest tragedy humanity is facing by allowing the crisis to perpetuate for this long.





The Presidency: Character Matters
by William John Cox 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/09/the-presidency-character-matters/

Americans will have to live with their choices in the 2016 election, but if nothing else, the election clearly demonstrates that something must be done to transform the government of the United States into one that serves its People, rather than those who buy their representatives. This will require changes to the Constitution, and the only comprehensive proposal currently being circulated is the U.S. Voters’ Rights Amendment (USVRA). Widespread public disgust with the 2016 election  may provide the motivation for its serious consideration.





Ban Ki Moon’s Apollonian Speech At BMICH Colombo
by Dr C P Thiagarajah 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/09/ban-ki-moons-apollonian-speech-at-bmich-colombo/


UN Secretary General Mr Ban Ki Moon’s speech at the Bandaranayake International Memorial Conference Hall (BMICH) in Colombo to citizens of the South of Sri-Lanka showed that he has revived his Eastern wisdom. He tactfully told the audience that Sri-Lanka was responsible for part of the war crimes that was committed in the past





A Democracy That Discriminates And Disgraces Citizens Even In Death
by Samar 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/09/a-democracy-that-discriminates-and-disgraces-citizens-even-in-death/

Unable to pay the ambulance drivers INR 1500, or around USD 22, a young mother was forced to sit out the night with her child’s dead body outside a hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut district. This happened less than two weeks after a nationwide outrage over the ordeal of a tribal man named Dana Majhi thousands of kilometers away, in Kalahandi district of Odisha. Refused ambulance service to carry the corpse of his wife back to his village because he had no money, Mr. Majhi had to carry her on his shoulders, with his minor daughter in tow. Sadly, the Meerut case was not the only one to happen since.