CounterCurrents: Transnational Republics Of Commoning, David Cameron, Libya And Disaster: The Findings Of The Foreign Affairs Select Committee, The Rise Of The Right And Climate Catastrophe

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Kashmir remains shut for the 70th consecutive day. Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez was blocked from boarding a plane to attend  UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva.

The illicit relationship between Israel and USA is growing in strength. The Obama administration has signed a $38 billion military aid pact with Israel in what the State Department boasts is the “single largest pledge of bilateral military assistance in US history.”

Can the Commons play a part in solving the myriad crises that's confronting planet earth? David Bollier argues that it is really possiblle in his must read article "Transnational Republics Of Commoning". He argues that the digital world can bring down the physical boundaries that divide us and build a new ONE WORLD regenerative community. 

Michel Bauwens of P2P Foundation puts forward a "10 Ways To Accelerate The Peer-To-Peer And Commons Economy"

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David Cameron, Libya And Disaster: The Findings Of The Foreign Affairs Select Committee
by Dr Binoy Kampmark 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/16/david-cameron-libya-and-disaster-the-findings-of-the-foreign-affairs-select-committee/


The UK Foreign Affairs Committee was a long time coming with this judgment, but when it came, it provided a firm reminder about how far the 2011 intervention against the Gaddafi regime was not merely flawed but calamitous in its consequences.  There had been no coherent strategy on the part of the Cameron government; the campaign had not been “informed by accurate intelligence.”






Both Ms. Clinton And I Got Burned Out – For Very Different Reasons
by Andre Vltchek 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/16/both-ms-clinton-and-i-got-burned-out-for-very-different-reasons/

It seems that we both worked and fought hard: for opposite goals and contrary results, but still… I sympathized with you, when I saw how your team had to carry you into that van. But please, tell us more, perhaps about yourself, and definitely about your running mate. We should all know. It is our right to know. Just in case you  get too exhausted from marching forward (or backwards) on the surface of this scarred, plundered Planet of ours!






Obama Hands Israel The Largest Military Aid Deal In History
by Rania Khalek 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/16/obama-hands-israel-the-largest-military-aid-deal-in-history/

The Obama administration has signed a $38 billion military aid pact with Israel in what the State Department boasts is the “single largest pledge of bilateral military assistance in US history.” The record agreement will provide Israel with $3.8 billion annually over 10 years beginning in 2019, up from $3.1 billion under the current deal





The Rise Of The Right And Climate Catastrophe
by Michael T Klare 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/16/the-rise-of-the-right-and-climate-catastrophe/

In a year of record-setting heat on a blistered globe, with fast-warmingoceans, fast-melting ice caps, and fast-rising sea levels, ratification of the December 2015 Paris climate summit agreement — already endorsed by most nations — should be a complete no-brainer.  That it isn’t tells you a great deal about our world.    Global geopolitics and the possible rightward lurch of many countries (including a potential deal-breaking election in the United States that could put a climate denier in the White House) spell bad news for the fate of the Earth. It’s worth exploring how this might come to be.




Transnational Republics Of Commoning
by David Bollier 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/16/transnational-republics-of-commoning/

The nation-state as now constituted, in its close alliance with capital and markets, is largely incapable of transcending its core commitments to economic growth, consumerism, and the rights of capital and corporations — arguably the core structural drivers of climate change. But these allegiances artificially limit our options, if not dismiss the kinds of interventions we must entertain. The market/state simply command and coerce its way to success in arresting with climate change; it will require the active, enthusiastic contributions of everyone, and it must command social respect and political legitimacy. A new vision and popular energy from the outside must arise.  But how?  And how could it possibly expand to a meaningful size rapidly enough?  I think that the Internet and other digital networks offer a fertile vector in which to develop new answers. I explore the speculative possibilities in this essay 





10 Ways To Accelerate The Peer-To-Peer And Commons Economy
by Michel Bauwens 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/16/10-ways-to-accelerate-the-peer-to-peer-and-commons-economy/

The following 10 ideas for action are the result of 10 years of research at the P2P Foundation on the emerging practices of new productive communities and those ethical entrepreneurial coalitions that can create livelihoods on top of shared resources. Together, they emphasize the emerging practices that can bolster the resilience of a new ethical economy. Our goal is to encourage the creation of new entities that overstep the traditional corporate form and its extractive profit-maximizing practices. What we need, instead of extractive forms of capital, is generative ideas that co-create value with and for commoners.




Leave Kashmir In Peace
by Dr Vacy Vlazna 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/16/leave-kashmir-in-peace/

This is day 70 of the brutal military siege in Kashmir. The number of fatalities differs from one source to the next but estimates are between 84 & 90 as of today. Up to 11,000 have been injured, nearly 500 of them by live ammunition, many with head & spinal cord injuries from bullets, pellets, & grenades, many are disfigured & disabled by pellet guns. Over 800 have been treated for eye injuries leaving many disfigured & partially or totally blind.




I Will NOT Remain Silent…
by Lalita Ramdas 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/16/i-will-not-remain-silent/

We need to speak up, to write, to educate, to challenge and debate the idea of India, to remind our future generations of the Constitution of India, continually and with the largest possible outreach in our homes, our schools, our work places and our social networks – And remember the time for silence has gone by …..





Confrontations And Scope Of Identity Politics: Observations On Left Politics Of JNU And Kerala
by Aneesh T V 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/16/confrontations-and-scope-of-identity-politics-observations-on-left-politics-of-jnu-and-kerala/

An analysis of the left politics and election in JNU and Kerala, proves that ideology based on class, obstructs the growth of new subaltern movements focus on identity. Urban and middle class intellectuals are patronizing and claiming the agency of Dalit, Muslims and they are making benefits in electoral politics. In the contemporary political atmosphere of right extremists, solidarity between the leftists and new subaltern originations is vital.