CounterCurrents: CC Black Listed! Do Write to PropOrNot, This Is The Most Dangerous Time For Our Planet

Dear Friend,

After one of the most divisive elections in  history, USA is vertically divided. The sad fact is that Countercurrents.org is caught in the vortex. A shady group called PropOrNot has blacklisted Countercurrents.org as  a fake news site along with Truth Dig, Truth Out and WikiLeaks and others. Here is the black list http://www.propornot.com/p/the-list.html.

The sad part is that a respectable news paper like Washington Post carried a story written by Craig Timberg, parroting the propaganda of this shady group without any verification. This is a direct attack on free speech and independent journalism.    Glenn Greenwald and Ben Norton of The Intercept termed it as the "New McCarthyism". Adrian Chen of The New Yorker, Matt Taibi of Rolling Stone and many others have condemned this attack on independent journalism. 

Let me make it very clear that Countercurrents.org has no relation to Russian federation or do we have any connection not even to any Russian citizens, although we would happily welcome such interactions since that would bring more people to people interaction and usher in world peace. 

I would like to make it explicitly clear that the mission of Countercurrents.org is to ensure dignity of life to every humans and other species on earth. We stand for world peace, justice and harmony. More of our mission statement can be read here http://www.countercurrents.org/about/

The action of PropOrNot is an insult to Countercurrents.org and as well as to decent journalism and human dignity. I wrote to PropOrNot. So far, no reply. If you care for Countercurrents.org and want it to survive do us a favour and write to PropOrNot and ask them to remove Countercurrents.org from this black list and give CC its due dignity. The email address is this proponot@gmail.com. Do write a mail for CC. 

Today CC carries an important article by one of the greatest intellectuals on earth, Stephen Hawking. He writes "This Is The Most Dangerous Time For Our Planet". 

Also more stories from around the world. 

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In Solidarity

Binu Mathew
Editor
www.countercurrents.org


Yes Prime Minister: You Are Right
by A concerned Citizen 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/12/04/yes-prime-minister-you-are-right/

Yes Prime Minister, you are right. India needs to take the digital way. Half of India’s children are malnourished. 44% of children under the age of 5 are underweight, while 72% of infants have anaemia. Many of the sub-saharan countries are better placed in nutrition than India. But it is not a problem. More than the food malnourishment, it is the digital malnourishment which is a much needed necessity for Indian children. Children with I-Pads, a Smart phone but without proper food are a way to take India into to a digital world.

Naomi Klein, Tulsi Gabbard Travel To Standing Rock Alongside Thousands Of Veterans
by Nika Knight 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/12/04/naomi-klein-tulsi-gabbard-travel-to-standing-rock-alongside-thousands-of-veterans/

The number of veterans traveling to North Dakota to support the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in its stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline has swollen to over 3,000, an astonishing show of solidarity that aims to shield the water protectors from police violence. Fellow veteran and prominent progressive Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) traveled to join the peaceful action late Friday, and reported that the Bismarck Airport was filled with veterans traveling to Standing Rock

The Climate Crisis And Economic Policy Choices
by Brian Davey

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/12/04/the-climate-crisis-and-economic-policy-choices/

Humanity is faced with the high likelihood of a catastrophic ecological tipping point and this crisis is part of a general crisis at the limits to economic growth. There are many unknowns at that tipping point – beyond which there might be runaway climate change because of feedback 

This Is The Most Dangerous Time For Our Planet
by Stephen Hawking 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/12/04/this-is-the-most-dangerous-time-for-our-planet/

For me, the really concerning aspect of this, is that now, more than at any time in our history, our species needs to work together. We face awesome environmental challenges. Climate change, food production, overpopulation, the decimation of other species, epidemic disease, acidification of the oceans. Together, they are a reminder that we are at the most dangerous moment in the development of humanity. We now have the technology to destroy the planet on which we live, but have not yet developed the ability to escape it. Perhaps in a few hundred years, we will have established human colonies amidst the stars, but right now we only have one planet, and we need to work together to protect it.

Where We’re Heading (If We Don’t Take Heed)
by Sally Dugman 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/12/04/where-were-heading-if-we-dont-take-heed/

Look — no sweat about the particulars of here and now with Trump (vs.Clinton) being the winner in the US Presidential election contest. Either way, there’s no big difference when one looks at the bigger, long-term picture.

The Virtue Of Protest: Democracy, Refugees And Australia’s Parliament
by Dr Binoy Kampmark 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/12/04/the-virtue-of-protest-democracy-refugees-and-australias-parliament/

There is no greater single human rights dilemma facing the Australian parliament at the moment: refugees, declining, mouldering, decaying in detention centres in carceral conditions, being shifted, carted, moved from one base to another, from one nation state to another.  Camps funded with Australian tax payer dollars.  Camps run by privatised security firms and brutal local police forces.

Are US Corporate-Media Businesses ‘Independent’?
by Robert J Barsocchini 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/12/04/are-us-corporate-media-businesses-independent/

It seems what they really have a problem with is people getting all sides of the story.  Indeed, when we read news stories from Western outlets and then read coverage of the same events from non-Western outlets , it is readily apparent that the only way to figure out what really happened is to get all sides directly from all sides, not all sides filtered through one side – the West.

Will Vietnam Embrace China After Trump Elected?
by Andre Vltchek 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/12/04/will-vietnam-embrace-china-after-trump-elected/

Common wisdom says that after Donald Trump got elected in the United States, Vietnam should be in panic. True, there could be some ‘objective’ reasons for alarm, if one is truly obsessed with the ‘free’ trade agreements.