CounterCurrents: Absolute Mayhem in India, Where To Turn?, Terracidal Wealth Transfer By Neoliberal Climate Criminal And Climate Change Denier Donald Trump,

Dear Friend,

The demonetisation of Rs 1000 & Rs 500 notes is pulling India into chaos. 

A newborn died in a hospital in Mumbai after the hospital refused to accept Rs 500 notes. 

Four people died in Kerala yesterday, due to the mayhem unleashed by Modi. One person jumped from the top of a bank building, after he came to know that he can't withdraw the money he loaned from his PF account. Two people collapsed to death after standing long time in the queue in the hot sun. One woman was hit by a vehicle as she crossed the road to go to bank to deposit Rs 2000.

Thousands of people are queueing up before banks and ATMs for much needed cash. Much of them are not functional yet. I went to 10 ATMs today morning and found that none is working. 

Cashless villagers in Madhya Pradesh's Bardua village looted a public distribution system shop (PDS) after its owner refused them to accept the now-defunct Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currencies for groceries.

In the capital city of India, an urban mall was looted by cashless people needing urgent food items. Where will this all lead to is anybody's guess. 

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Lean Logic: A Dictionary For The Future
by David Fleming 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/12/lean-logic-a-dictionary-for-the-future/

What follows are some excerpts from the late David Fleming’s ‘Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It’ (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2016). The excerpts have been chosen by the book’s editor, Shaun Chamberlin. Extensive references are given in the dictionary itself, but are omitted here.






Where To Turn?
by Kathy Kelly 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/12/where-to-turn/

I look to Afghanistan, I look to the simple facts faced by the Standing Rock protesters, and I know we must look back to the sorrows which so much of the world will commemorate today. These sorrows, so painfully real, can help all of us yearn above all for an understanding by people worldwide, and here in my own frightened, divided country—an understanding that we live in a real world, beset with multiple wars, and must at last turn to each other, prepared to live more simply, share resources more radically, and abolish all wars in order to build a real peace.






Trustworthiness
by Rachel Olivia O'Connor 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/12/trustworthiness/

Trustworthiness is at the core of what must be focused on in activism now. Vis-a-vis candidates for office.





The TPP Is Dead: The People Defeat Transnational Corporate Power
Co-Written By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/12/the-tpp-is-dead-the-people-defeat-transnational-corporate-power/

The Obama administration faced reality on Friday when they recognized the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would not be ratified by this Congress. The TPP is dead. How did people power win?






Terracidal Wealth Transfer By Neoliberal Climate Criminal And Climate Change Denier Donald Trump
by Dr Gideon Polya 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/12/terracidal-wealth-transfer-by-neoliberal-climate-criminal-and-climate-change-denier-donald-trump/

Billionaire US president-elect Donald Trump belongs to the richest 0.1% of Americans but has been elected by an anti-science,  neoliberal electoral continuum from  the desperate White  poor to the homicidally greedy rich. Trump is an explicit climate change denier and promises a neoliberal agenda of $1 trillion annually  in tax-cuts disproportionately  favouring the rich in an environmentally  disastrous Business As Usual (BAU) Carbon Economy involving climate change inaction and unlimited oil, coal and gas exploitation






The Trump Ploy
by Linh Dinh 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/12/the-trump-ploy/

To steal an American election, one only needs to tamper with votes in two or three critical states, and since Hillary didn’t win, we must conclude that she was never the establishment’s chosen puppet. As Trump claimed, the fix was in, all right, except that it was rigged in his favor, as born out by the fact.





Vets Day Postmortem
by Jay Janson 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/12/vets-day-postmortem/

Current US President elect denounced the “death and destruction” brought down on the the Middle East under the outgoing Democratic administration Obama and Sec. of State Hillary. If the wholesale and genocidal destruction of 3 wealthy Arab oil nations is now a discredited activity by US President-elect Donald Trump how the hell can Americans who are veterans of bringing about this “death and destruction” be hailed as heroes? 





Understanding Indigenous People’s Issues In Bangladesh
by Vidya Bhushan Rawat 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/12/understanding-indigenous-peoples-issues-in-bangladesh/

Chakma MK is a Human Rights activist working with indigenous people in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh since 1980s. He has been working with Human Rights organizations on the issue of Indigenous People. He has spoken at various national and international forums on the issue of Chakma people. In a conversation with Vidya Bhushan Rawat, he explains the current crisis of the Chakma people in Bangladesh, their problems and how government deals with them.