CounterCurrents: Demonetisation: India Speaks -Video Series, So This Is How The US ‘Revolution’ Will Unfold

Dear Friend,

Well, we are living in interesting times (the Chinese way)! The demonetisation drive of the Indian government is wrecking havoc in ordinary people's lives. People are suffering. No work. No money. Long hours in Bank/ATM queues. That's for those who have bank accounts. At least 80 % of Indians are dependent on cash economy. Farmers can't sow their fields. They cant buy manuer. Workers are not getting paid. At least 20 people have died in its aftermath. Collateral damage for 'Nation' 'purified' of black money and fake currency? 

We've started a video series called "India Speaks" where common people of India speak of their woes of demonetisation. It will be in the local language. But the gist of what they are saying will be in English. 

The Trump victory in USA is going to destroy the climate. Perhaps we may be in a point of no return. That's why every resistance is a do or die situation for us. The Standing Rock Sioux are showing us our way and we have to stand by them. 

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Demonetisation: India Speaks -Part I
Video by Aabha Joshi, Neethu Saji and Kritika

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/14/demonetisation-india-speaks-part-i/

This is the experience of a painter living in Mumbai who earns Rs. 500 for a day’s work. As he is not a permanent worker, his wages depend upon the days he can find work. With Modi announcing the demonetization of rupee 500 and 1000 notes, he has been unable to find any work. Being the only earning member of the family, lack of job puts his entire family into trouble.




Demonetisation: What Caused This Havoc? Time or Approach?
by Ravi Nitesh 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/14/demonetisation-what-caused-this-havoc-time-or-approach/

Most of them are those who talk politics without having even knowledge of it and who decide nation’s fate without actually participating in its building, and therefore, they sometimes praise such actions without any feeling of sufferings of others. Non metro persons do not have much facilities of such kind and they are facing sufferings. Reports shows how even deaths happened due to denial by hospitals for the reason of not having valid currency with patient. 





A Dangerous Zero Sum Game—Donald Trump vs The Planet
by David Anderson 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/14/a-dangerous-zero-sum-game-donald-trump-vs-the-planet/

Temperatures far in excess of the 4 C figure noted above are predicted to occur due to a runaway increase in CH4 as a result of the methane feedback loop. That methane hydrate feedback loop will begin to “kick in” after a 2 C increase. Global temperatures will then rapidly rise. Going back to the Permian, it is estimated that after the 4 C to 6 C temperatures were reached, the ocean surface waters at their extreme reached more than 40 degrees Celsius. (104 degrees Fahrenheit) That led to near total planetary life extinction. The result of the recent US election is cause for worry. Human civilization may be at its end. 





On The Knife-Edge of Western Globalization: A Stint At Standing Rock
by Robert J Barsocchini 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/14/on-the-knife-edge-of-western-globalization-a-stint-at-standing-rock/

The fossil fuel pipeline was originally intended to pass along Bismarck, an area today inhabited almost entirely by descendants of the European invaders, but there was concern about the city’s water being poisoned.  Thus, the pipeline route was, without fanfare, changed to pass through the occupied lands of some poor brown people.    They, too, rejected the idea, but with different results.





Standing Rock Sioux Protest: Something To Teach Us About Living Well
by David Smith-Ferri 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/14/standing-rock-sioux-protest-something-to-teach-us-about-living-well/

As efforts to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline grow, communities across the country are hearing from activists on their return from North Dakota and sending off fresh teams to lend support. The author believes that part of the support for the Standing Rock protests is a dawning consciousness that Native people have something important to teach us about living well on this planet.






So This Is How The US ‘Revolution’ Will Unfold
by Dan Lieberman 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/14/so-this-is-how-the-us-revolution-will-unfold/

In late 2012, Peter Turchin, a professor at the University of Connecticut made a startling claim. Based on an analysis of revolutionary upheavals across history, he found that there were 3 social conditions in place shortly before all major outbreaks of social violence: an increase in the elite population; a decrease in the living standards of the masses; and huge levels of government indebtedness. The statistical model his team developed suggested that, on this basis, a major wave of social upheaval and revolutionary violence is set to take place in the US in 2020. His model had no way to predict who would lead the charge; but this week’s election gives an indication of how it is likely to unfold.





Divide And Subdue – United States’ Castration Policy
by Dan Lieberman 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/14/divide-and-subdue-united-states-castration-policy/

Is it not contradictory that European nations and the United States fought revolutionary, civil,and foreign wars to maintain unified nations and now motivate other nations to split apart?





Pink, Akira And Ten Years Of Police Reform In India 
by Pushkar Raj 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/14/pink-akira-and-ten-years-of-police-reform-in-india/

Pink and Akira, two recent Bollywood hit films, depict an ugly reality of the police in India. It seems much has not changed in country for the last ten years since the Supreme Court in Prakash Singh case ordered in September 2006 that the police must be made functionally autonomous and accountable by enacting new police laws.






Apex Court Verdict On Ravi-Beas Rivers Rips Up Old Wounds In Punjab
by Jaspal Singh Sidhu 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/14/apex-court-verdict-on-ravi-beas-rivers-rips-up-old-wounds-in-punjab/

The 10 November (2016) verdict of Supreme Court declaring  the Punjab Act of 2004 as unconstitutional and reviving its earlier decree  for expeditious completion of Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal has ripped open the old wounds  which had brewed a decade long trouble in Punjab in 1980s entailing  a spree of blood spilling.






Kashmir’s Perpetual Suffering
by Shah Alam 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/14/kashmirs-perpetual-suffering/

I return to these words after a gap of about 3 months & nothing seems to have changed except the toll, of killed, of blinded, of maimed, of injured & of maddened. Like everything else around this too is uncertain. No one can tell you for certain of people dead, blinded or injured. Though newspapers need to guesstimate for their readers, so they do. Greater Kashmir in its editorial of Oct 10, for its certainty, remains uncertain somehow & shows the toll ‘terribly high- more than 90 killings, several hundred blindings & over 14000 injured.’