CounterCurrents: With Fidel' s Passing A Prominent Voice of Reason Is Gone, Syrian War Threatens To Escalate As Turkey Accuses Damascus Of Attacking Its Troops, Police Attack On Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Results In 300 Injuries

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Fidel Castro passed away. What a sad loss at one of the most turbulent times in human history. He was one of very few world leaders who understood the manifold crises humanity and our ecosystem face and rose up to challenge it. In his last days as an elder statesman he wrote extensively about climate change, nuclear war, world peace.... Most of his writings are archived in Countercurrents.org. With his passing we lost a prominent voice of reason. 

This is Countercurrents.org's tribute to Fidel Castro

"Revolutionary greetings to Fidel Castro who passed away today. You opened a blazing path, showed revolutionary courage and defiance to imperialism. Your legacy will survive for ages to come. Hope will be reborn whenever your name is remembered. A life well lived. Countercurrents.org salutes Fidel Castro.

With Fidel’s passing a prominent voice of reason is gone, much needed in these turbulent times. In his last days his columns reflected the conscience of the world. Most which were published by Countercurrents.org. You can find them here https://www.google.co.in/search?q=fidel+castro&domains=http://www.countercurrents.org&sitesearch=http://www.countercurrents.org&btnG=Search&gws_rd=cr&ei=J3s5WMb7Hor3vgTAqofgAg

Supreme Court of India has decided to look into the demonetisation decision of Modi government which has thrown Indian society into utter chaos.  On Monday opposition parties will organise protests in all parts of India. 

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Fidel, Comrade, Red Salute
by Farooque Chowdhury 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/26/fidel-comrade-red-salute/

Fidel, dear comrade, red salute. You embodied humanity’s struggle for a free, dignified life, a life free from exploitation, a life full of love and with flowering of humane living. You are alive in our struggle. You are alive in humanity’s struggle against all forms of exploitation, against all forms of bondage, all forms of indignity.





Revolutionary Greetings To Fidel Castro

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/26/revolutionary-greetings-to-fidel-castro/

With Fidel’s passing a prominent voice of reason is gone, much needed in these turbulent times. In his last days his columns reflected the conscience of the world. Most which were published by Countercurrents.org.






Fidel Dies, Fight Will Not
by Omar Rashid Chowdhury 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/26/fidel-dies-fight-will-not/

Fidel Castro, the Comandante is no more.The leader of the Cuban revolution and former president of Cuba who led the island nation through a half-century blockade imposed by US, died on the night of 25th November, 2016 in Havana, Cuba, aged 90.






History Will Absolve Me
by Fidel Castro Ruz 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/26/history-will-absolve-me/

A speech by Fidel Castro Ruz delivered at the conclusion of his trial for his leadership role in the July 26, 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks, Santiago de Cuba






Modern Money Theory And The Demonetisation Catastrophe In India
by Anandi Sharan

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/26/modern-money-theory-and-the-demonetisation-catastrophe-in-india/

This in short is the draft note towards a plan for 2019, to be read in conjunction with the need to do carbon sequestration  through MGRNEGA and forest rights .  The note will be continuously improved and modified as it is discussed and suggestions are contributed.






Cancellation Of Old Rupee Notes Will Not End Terrorism or Corruption!

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/26/cancellation-of-old-rupee-notes-will-not-end-terrorism-or-corruption/

Statement of the Central Committee of Communist Ghadar Party of India 






Syrian War Threatens To Escalate As Turkey Accuses Damascus Of Attacking Its Troops
by Jordan Shilton 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/26/syrian-war-threatens-to-escalate-as-turkey-accuses-damascus-of-attacking-its-troops/

Turkey’s Prime Minister and armed forces both accused the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad Thursday of conducting an airstrike on Turkish troops in the vicinity of al-Bab in the country’s north, resulting in three casualties.





After Brexit And Trump: Don’t Demonise; Localise!
Co-Written by Helena Norberg-Hodge and Rupert Read

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/26/after-brexit-and-trump-dont-demonise-localise/

Relocalising won’t be easy. The forces that promote globalisation control most of the avenues of information to which people have access, and their propaganda saturates the media, including the Internet. It is going to take a linking of hands internationally – among labour and environmental groups, small businesses and family farmers, educators and students, religious groups and peace activists – to put new political leaders in place who do not ratify treaties that devastate our present and our future.




Prejudice, Ignorance And Granfalloons – Society In The Trump Era
by Brian Davey 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/26/prejudice-ignorance-and-granfalloons-society-in-the-trump-era/

Energetic and ecological limits are mostly unknown because they are taboos. It would be great if people found out more about these limits because responding to them seems to me to the be the most pressing of all agendas for society. What is more likely however is that the bulk of the population will now pre-occupy themselves with granfalloons instead – and plenty of very educated people will help them.





Awakening Courage In The Era Of Trumpism
by Nozomi Hayase

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/26/awakening-courage-in-the-era-of-trumpism/

If we can form a truly unified dissent rooted in this love, we can have a real chance to end the era of Trumpism before it begins and open an age for everyday people, where the heart of democracy can begin to inspire all to fulfill the promise that America once made to the world.






Flawed Alliances: Australia, The US And Trumpism
by Dr Binoy Kampmark 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/26/flawed-alliances-australia-the-us-and-trumpism/

If you wanted to get a sense of Australian foreign policy in the past, you would simply have to go to the US State Department’s portfolios.  The rest was simple imitation, with the Australian foreign minister being no better than a mid-ranking State Department employee.  As with so much with previous assumptions, that book has been thrown out.  A Trump victory has given the first necessary jolt to the US-Australian relationship in years, and a needed one at that.





Police Attack On Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Results In 300 Injuries
by Genevieve Leigh 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/26/police-attack-on-dakota-access-pipeline-protest-results-in-300-injuries/

Another violent clash between Dakota Access Pipeline protesters and police late Sunday night led to approximately 300 injuries among the protesters, 26 of whom required professional medical attention. Some of the cases include a woman with a serious eye injury after being shot in the face by a rubber bullet, a tribe elder who lost consciousness and was revived on scene, a young man with internal bleeding who was vomiting blood after a being hit in the abdomen by a rubber bullet, and a man with blunt force trauma and severe head lacerations after being struck by a rubber bullet near his spine, among many others.






Rebuilding Karachi, One Issue At A Time
by Basil Andrews 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/26/rebuilding-karachi-one-issue-at-a-time/

A nascent group in Karachi rises to take control of their city; raising their voice through protest, community projects and action.






Facing Grim Reality On International Day For The Elimination of Violence Against Women
by Lakshmi Puri 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/26/facing-grim-reality-on-international-day-for-the-elimination-of-violence-against-women/

Each year on November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is commemorated. A commemoration in essence is an opportunity to reflect on the challenges, prove that progress can be made and celebrate victories. It is also a reminder of the obligations and the responsibility we all must own at both the private and the public level to ensure that every woman, every girl, in all corners of the world lives in a world free of violence and fear. They must be enabled to enjoy their most fundamental right to physical integrity and security.






Time To Acknowledge Indian Women Farmers
by Moin Qazi 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/26/time-to-acknowledge-indian-women-farmers/

The Indian women farmer, almost never publicly acknowledged, reviled by superstition and patriarchy, and increasingly troubled by entrenched social and cultural mores and taboos bears the real burden of farm labour. Nearly 98 million Indian women have agricultural jobs, but around 63% of them, or 61.6 million women, are agricultural labourers, dependent on the farms of others, according to 2011 Census data. There has been a 24% increase in the number of female agricultural labourers, from 49.5 million in 2001 to 61.6 million in 2011. Reflecting growing distress in Indian agriculture, millions of women have gone from being land owners and cultivators to becoming labourers over a decade