CounterCurrents: Massive Lying By Omission In Mendacious Obama's Final State Of The Union Address, Life Expectancy Statistics: Russia From Gloom To Boom, The USA In A Gloomy Boom, Iran Stands Top With Over 1084 Executions In 2015

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Greenpeace International Announces New Co-Executive Directors
By Greenpeace International

http://www.countercurrents.org/gpi160116.htm

Greenpeace International has today named not only its first female International Executive Director, but two. Jennifer Morgan and Bunny McDiarmid will take up the reins in an innovative co-leadership role on 4 April 2016


From Copenhagen To India, Restoring The Link Between Farmer And Consumer 
And Challenging The Corporate Hijack Of Global Food And Agriculture
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter160116.htm

While governments, trade agreements and regulatory agencies remain tethered to the interests of the powerful corporations that have come to define global food and agriculture in their own profit-driven image, local communities are fighting back with grass-root initiatives and city authorities are at least placing pertinent issues on the agenda for action and debate


Iran Stands Top With Over 1084 Executions In 2015 
By Rahim Hamid

http://www.countercurrents.org/hamid160116.htm

Iran records the highest ratio of executions worldwide relative to population


Freedom For Ashraf Fayadh 
By Dr. Ludwig Watzal

http://www.countercurrents.org/watzal160116.htm


Beginning of 2016, the Saudi Arabian dictatorship went on a beheading spree. 47 people were decapitated, among them the Shiite cleric and civil rights activist Nimr al-Nimr. None of them had a fair trial. Now, it's Ashraf Fayadh's turn, a Palestinian born in Saudi Arabia

What Happens To A Dream Deferred? Ask Martin Luther King Jr. 
By John W. Whitehead

http://www.countercurrents.org/whitehead160116.htm

Freedom, human dignity, brotherhood, spirituality, peace, justice, equality, putting an end to war and poverty: these are just a few of the big themes that shaped King’s life and his activism. As King recognized, there is much to be done if we are to make this world a better place, and we cannot afford to play politics when so much hangs in the balance. It’s time to wake up, America


Life Expectancy Statistics: Russia From Gloom To Boom, The USA In A Gloomy Boom 
By Otto Kolbl

http://www.countercurrents.org/kolbl160116.htm

How do the people feel about the future of their country? For recent years, various opinion polls on this topic are available, but they often get conflicting results. Statistics about life expectancy can tell us much more than opinion polls. When an optimistic mood prevails, life expectancy goes up; when the outlook is gloomy, life expectancy goes down. This might sound somewhat crude, but this article will show that for the countries in Eastern Europe, the evolution of life expectancy over the last six decades provides an extremely interesting insight. It might come only as a half surprise that in recent years, the most upbeat country is Russia, and the country with the most persistent collective depression is the USA


Massive Lying By Omission In Mendacious Obama's Final State Of The Union Address
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya160116.htm

Analysis of President Barack Obama's final State of the Union address reveals massive lying by omission. Not mentioned by Obama are that so far during his presidency 12 million Americans have died preventably; 50,000 US veterans have suicided; Americans in poverty reached circa 15% of the population ; the US national debt reached nearly $19 trillion; the Carbon Debt of the US and the world reached $90 trillion and $360 trillion, respectively; the US finally used up its fair share of the world's Terminal Carbon Pollution Budget; the US violently invaded the territory of a record 7 countries; and 120 million people died avoidably world-wide from deprivation on Spaceship Earth with Obama in charge of the flight deck


Chennai Floods Impact Survey Reveals Extent of Damage
By Concerned Citizens

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc160116.htm

We are yet to have a precise tabulation and description of what has been lost, destroyed and damaged. A group of concerned citizens involved in relief work post-Chennai floods, 2015 undertook a sample survey of 610 households (including migrants) across the city to assess losses suffered/damages incurred to homes, goods, occupational tools and also to get an idea of loss of working days. The purpose of this survey was to identify the exact quantum of losses sustained by the population and to direct government to compensate the populace for damages/loss accruing on account of the floods

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Robert Reich | Why Progressives Must Stay United 
 
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog 
Reich writes: "It's impossible to overcome widening economic inequality in America without also dealing with the legacy of racial inequality. And it is impossible to overcome racial inequality without also reversing widening economic inequality." 
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New York Moves to Raise State Minimum Wage to $15 for Fast-Food Workers 
Sebastien Malo, Reuters 
Malo writes: "New York moved on Wednesday to raise the minimum wage for fast-food workers to $15 an hour by the end of 2018 in New York City and by mid-2021 in the rest of the state." 
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Slavoj Zizek | Greece: The Courage of Hopelessness 
Slavoj Zizek, New Statesman 
Zizek writes: "The dream of an alternative is a sign of theoretical cowardice; it functions as a fetish that prevents us thinking through to the end the deadlock of our predicament." 
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Obama: 'These Mindless Cuts Have to End' 
Martin Matishak, The Hill 
Matishak writes: "The president repeated his call to GOP leaders to come to the negotiating table and work out a compromise that would raise spending levels across the federal budget and not just for the Defense Department." 
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Why the GOP Primary Is Doomed by the Free Market 
Gabriel Sherman, New York Magazine 
Sherman writes: "Sarah Palin disrupted the GOP nominating process and made being a potential primary contender a full-time job. Her decision to cash in by quitting the Alaska governor's office for Fox News and tea-party stardom established a new business model. As this year's ballooning GOP field shows, there are many long-shot candidates who are seeking to follow her path." 
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Executions in Iran Could Top 1,000 This Year, Says Amnesty International 
Claire Phipps, Guardian UK 
Phipps writes: "The human rights charity says 'credible reports' put the true toll for the period up to 15 July at 694 people, the equivalent of three executions a day, and nearly as many as were put to death in Iran in the whole of 2014." 
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Meet the Apache Activists Opening for Neil Young 
Joseph Huff-Hannon, Rolling Stone 
Huff-Hannon writes: "Pike is part of a cross-country caravan called the Apache Stronghold, made up of dozens of activists and supporters of the Arizona San Carlos Apache tribe who are calling out a mining industry land grab rammed through Congress last December - and who have made an unconventional opener for Young." 
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