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Solidarity
Binu Mathew
Editor
www.countercurrents.org
NSA
Surveillance Programs Facilitate Global Drone War
By Thomas Gaist
http://www.countercurrents.org/gaist181013.htmDocuments
leaked by Edward Snowden and published in the Washington Post Wednesday show
that NSA surveillance operations play a key role in the global campaign of
assassinations being waged by the Obama administration
Drone Strikes
Encourage Terrorist Groups, Warns UN Report
By Countercurrents.org
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc181013A.htmDeploying
drone strikes as a form of global policing undermines international security and
will encourage more states and terrorist groups to acquire unmanned weapons,
warned a UN report
Awkwardest And Most Authoritative Ever Comments On
Drones
By David Swanson
http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson181013.htmThe
fact that an insane killing spree is counter-productive, as pointed out to Obama
by Malala, in case he hadn't heard all his own experts , is not enough to end
the madness. Ultimately we must recognize the illegality of all killing and all
war. In the meantime, prior to the U.N.'s debate on this on the 25th, we can add
our names to the growing movement to ban weaponized drone
The Peace
Poets Write From Kabul, Part 2
By Luke Nephew
http://www.countercurrents.org/nephew181013.htmThe
people of Afghanistan WANT
Enough peace to hear the music of their land,
The laughter of their children
The Government Shutdown In
Perspective
By Mattea Kramer & Jo Comerford
http://www.countercurrents.org/kramer181013.htmIn
reality, that government shutdown was partial and selective. Paychecks, for
example, kept flowing to the very lawmakers who most fervently supported it,
while the plush congressional gym with its heated pool, paddleball courts, and
flat-screen televisions remained open. That’s because “essential” services
continued, even as “nonessential” ones ceased. And it turned out that whether
the services you cared about were essential or not was a matter of just who got
to do the defining. In that distinction between what was necessary and what
wasn’t, it was easy enough to spot the values of the people’s representatives.
And what we saw was gut-wrenching. Stomach-churning
What America Has
Become
By John Chuckman
http://www.countercurrents.org/chuckman181013.htmAmerica
has become in many ways a police state, albeit one where a kind of decency veil
is left draped over the crude government machinery. How can a place which has
elections and many of the trappings of a free society be a police state?
Irreconcilable Differences: Capitalism And A Sustainable Planet
By Gary Olson
http://www.countercurrents.org/olson181013.htmWorking
for reforms is not unimportant but capitalism cannot prevent the ruination of
the biosphere. My sense is that climate activists who fail to acknowledge this
basic truth — we might term them “capitalism deniers” — have no chance of
reversing our slide toward the ecological apocalypse
30 Million
Modern Slaves Around The World, Finds Global Index
By
Countercurrents.org
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc181013B.htmNearly 30
million people around the world are living as slaves, according to the Global
Slavery Index 2013, a new index ranking 162 countries. Even, Iceland, Ireland
and the UK are not slave-free. This is the first year of the GSI. The index says
India has the highest number of people living in conditions of slavery, which is
estimated to have between 13,300,000 and 14,700,000 people enslaved. China,
Pakistan and Nigeria also have the highest numbers of people
enslaved
Even The World Bank Understands: Palestine Is Being
Disappeared
By Jonathan Cook
http://www.countercurrents.org/cook181013.htmThe World
Bank report is a way of stating discreetly what Castaing and other diplomats
hoped to highlight more directly: that Israel is gradually whittling away the
foundations on which the Palestinians can build an independent economic life and
a viable state
The Serpent And The Red Line
By William A.
Cook
http://www.countercurrents.org/cook181013A.htmWhat
Bibi Netanyahu did not present was the truth resulting from his arrogance, the
devastation to the people of Iran should that Red Line be crossed; what he did
not say was the truth of his arrogance that he alone had the right to determine
what is right and the rest of the world must abide by his demands; what he did
not illustrate in his poster was the blood that would flow in the mid-East as
the dogs of war wetted their appetites for the gold that would flow to their war
chests as the bodies of the innocent gathered for the last
judgment
Corporate Sustainability And The Commons
By David
Bollier
http://www.countercurrents.org/bollier181013.htmDavid
Bollier is among the foremost global thinkers and advocates for the commons.
#NewMetrics channel co-curator Bill Baue recently had the following discussion
with Bollier about the potential intersections between the commons movement and
emerging concepts and practices in the corporate sustainability
movement
Love Jihad: From Illusory Slogan To Potent Weapon
By Ram
Puniyani
http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani181013.htmThe
truth is not the issue here; the myth has been drilled in to the thinking of
society. This phrase has double edged nature, which is something we need to
register and combat. This phrase has tragically become a powerful concoction in
the hands of communal forces
Teacher Accountability And Incentives
For Improving School Performance In India
By Swaleha Sindhi
http://www.countercurrents.org/sindhi181013.htmPrivate
school teachers are displaying certain teaching behaviors that are leading to
better learning outcomes, for example, providing children with regular feedback
by correcting their homework regularly, displaying more impartial behavior
towards students and showing more belief in the efficacy of their schools. Thus,
question is, why are teachers in government schools, who are better trained,
better qualified, equipped with better content knowledge, and better paid than
private school teachers, not producing better learning outcomes for
children?
