CounterCurrents: No Diplomatic Efforts To Diffuse Tension Between India And Pakistan, Apartheid Israel Buries Serial War Criminal, Genocidal Racist And Nuclear Terrorist Shimon Peres

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It was a day of quiet on the India-Pakistan front except for the sporadic gunfire exchanged between the two sides in the Akhnoor sector of the international border in Jammu and Kashmir. On the other hand, it is a worrying sign to see no diplomatic efforts being taken up by both the sides to diffuse the tension

A report put forth by the Argentina-based Universal Ecological Fund (Fundación Ecológica Universal FEU-US), aptly titled The Truth About Climate Change says that all that world leaders are doing to implement the Paris Climate Accord will be in vain unless radical actions are not taken urgently. Report warns that in the Business As Usual scenario is going to put the world on track to reaching the dangerous 2°C climate threshold by 2050.

Marianne de Nazareth quotes a  IUCN report and warns that African elephants population is decreasing worrying fast due to poaching. 

Ryan T. Conway who  is a member  of the 'Workshop' designed by the Nobel prize winning eonomist Elinor Ostrom puts forward a vision for designing scalable  commons movements based on Elinor Ostrom's eight design principles of successful commons. 

Dr Gideon Polya writes a scathing well deserved obituary for war criminal, noble prize winner Shimon Peres

Shivani Taneja writes shocking and  blood chilling stories of human rights violations in Bastar.

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No Diplomatic Efforts To Diffuse Tension Between India And Pakistan

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/01/no-diplomatic-efforts-to-diffuse-tension-between-india-and-pakistan/

It was a day of quiet on the India-Pakistan front except for the sporadic gunfire exchanged between the two sides in the Akhnoor sector of the international border in Jammu and Kashmir. On the other hand, it is a worrying sign to see no diplomatic efforts being taken up by both the sides to diffuse the tension





Forget Paris, Scientists Say ‘Radical Change’ Only Way To Stay Below 2 Degrees
by Lauren McCauley 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/01/forget-paris-scientists-say-radical-change-only-way-to-stay-below-2-degrees/

“The pledges are not going to get even close,” said Sir Robert Watson, former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and lead author of a new report out Thursday. “If you governments of the world are really serious, you’re going to have to do way, way more.”





Ideas For Change: Making Meaning Out Of Economic And Institutional Diversity
by Ryan T Conway 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/01/ideas-for-change-making-meaning-out-of-economic-and-institutional-diversity/

We all know how difficult it is to start up, expand, or replicate grassroots collective action projects, such as community supported agriculture programs, neighborhood barter systems, producer and consumer cooperatives, etc. Success in such ventures may very well depend on how much effort is put into resolving the collective ideation problem before working out a scalable solution to the collective action problem. 






We Won’t Have Any African Elephants Left Soon
by Marianne de Nazareth 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/01/we-wont-have-any-african-elephants-left-soon/

According to a recent IUCN report from Johannesburg, South Africa, sadly and shamefully, poaching is behind the worst African elephant losses in the last 25 years. Africa’s overall elephant population has seen the worst declines in 25 years, mainly due to poaching over the past ten years – according to IUCN’s African Elephant Status Report launched at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES, which took place in Johannesburg, South Africa.






Apartheid Israel Buries Serial War Criminal, Genocidal Racist And Nuclear Terrorist Shimon Peres
by Dr Gideon Polya 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/01/apartheid-israel-buries-serial-war-criminal-genocidal-racist-and-nuclear-terrorist-shimon-peres/

Genocidally racist  Zionist, war criminal and nuclear terrorist Shimon Peres (1923-2016) has been buried in Apartheid Israel with leading pro-Zionists, war criminals and nuclear terrorists in attendance.  Known as the Butcher of Qana for green-lighting a 2001 Israeli  atrocity against the UN and civilians in Southern Lebanon, Shimon Peres was a stalwart in the ongoing racist Zionist Palestinian Genocide. Peres’ greatest crime was to enable Israeli acquisition  of 400 nuclear weapons with the help of France and traitorous American Zionists. Nobel Peace Prize-winning war criminal Peres devoted his life  to making Israel a nuclear terrorist,   democracy-by-genocide,    Apartheid rogue state.





Trump, Clinton And The Dictator Question
by Dr Binoy Kampmark 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/01/trump-clinton-and-the-dictator-question/

Righteousness is rarely endearing, and when concocted in a brew of hypocrisy, it becomes noxious. US political campaigning tends to overflow in it, a mixture of rights, noisily championed liberties and supposed exceptionalism. To that end, Donald Trump is enigmatic. He does, to a large extent fit that bill, only in so far as he assumes making money is a patriotic duty. But in being macho and prone to the business side of things, he shows how capitalism lacks a country.




Careful Now  
by Vincent Di Stefano 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/01/careful-now/

This is the wall of stone faces
This is the plain of lost skulls
How much blood must fallow
Before we’ve had enough?





A Trail Of Blood And Pain.. Field Notes From Bastar
by Shivani Taneja 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/01/a-trail-of-blood-and-pain-field-notes-from-bastar/

Blood chilling stories of human rights violations from Bastar. Shivani Taneja writes "in a situation where killings are sponsored by a democratic government, either we are all part of the murders the state commits, or we side with Sukli, Lachmi, Vanjam and take action."





Economics And Politics Of Heart Surgeries
by Professor BM Hegde 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/01/economics-and-politics-of-heart-surgeries/

Heart Surgeries have become a lucrative business proposition. Dr. B.M Hegde, Visiting Professor of Cardiology at the London University since 1982, trained under Nobel Laureate Harvard cardiologist, Bernard Lown writes "we need people to understand that better living standards would eliminate most of the valve problems. Let us do the less publicized but humane methods in medical care instead of the media savvy hi-tech but top-heavy procedures, which would reach only the rich."





Faculty Reservations In IIMs: Candidates Not Found Suitable?
by Gourishankar S Hiremath 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/01/faculty-reservations-in-iims-candidates-not-found-suitable/

Gourishankar S Hiremath argues that to find suitable candidates for faculty from weaker section of the society in higher educational institutions, reservations should be implemented at the Masters and PhD level first





“National Education Policy(NEP) 2016”- “Neo-Macaulay + Neo-Manu dharma” 
by Ambedkar-Periyar Study Circle 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/01/national-education-policynep-2016-neo-macaulay-neo-manu-dharma/

Macaulay education system trained Indian people who were British in their thought process but physically Indian so that they will serve British imperialists without any hesitant. Now Neo Macaulay education policy(NEP) will produce the millions of skilled work force as a cheap labor for global capital and it welcoming the foreign educational monopolies as a quality education provider to loot the Indian education market.