CounterCurrents: Behind The Mask Of Altruism: Monsanto And The Gates Foundation In Africa, USA And Regime Change In South Sudan

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The Disturbing Expansion Of The Military-Industrial Complex
By Mairead Maguire

http://www.countercurrents.org/maguire151014.htm

We can turn our current path of destruction around by spelling out a clear vision of what kind of a world we want to live in, demanding an end to the military-industrial complex, and insisting that our governments adopt policies of peace, just economics and cooperation with each other in this multi-polar world


The House of Commons Palestine Vote: A Well Meant But Futile Gesture
By Alan Hart

http://www.countercurrents.org/hart151014.htm

For me the most depressing thing about the debate in the British House of Commons on a non-binding motion to recognise Palestine as a state alongside Israel was that all MPs who participated, including those who made informed and honest contributions, still seem to believe that a two-state solution is possible. It isn’t


USA And Regime Change In South Sudan
By Thomas C. Mountain

http://www.countercurrents.org/mountain151014.htm

It is no longer a secret that the USA is attempting to carry out regime change in South Sudan. Why? It’s because South Sudanese President Salva Kiir is determined to continue supporting Chinese oil production in his country, China’s only majority owned energy project in Africa


Behind The Mask Of Altruism: Monsanto And The Gates Foundation In Africa
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter151014.htm

Since 2006, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has funded the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) to the tune of almost $420 million. Activists from Zimbabwe, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Ethiopia recently attended t he US-Africa Food Sovereignty Strategy Summit in Seattle to argue that the Foundation's strategy for agriculture in Africa is a flawed attempt to impose industrial agriculture at the expense of more ecologically sound approaches


Nobel Prize: Hardly Noble Politics
By Gouthama Siddarthan

http://www.countercurrents.org/siddarthan151014.htm

Patrick Modiano's writings have captured in vivid details the sorrows of Jews, the atrocities perpetrated by Nazis and loss of social identity. He has reconstructed powerfully in his writings the events that led to the invasion of France by Germany during the World War II. The grief-stricken life and turbulent human emotions under the foreign occupation have been successfully and aesthetically metamorphosed into a mosaic of creativity. That is what the Nobel Committee says, justifying the honour for the French writer. What is the art that the committee speaks about? And what is the writing aesthetics that it puts forward?


Aryan Durga, Indigenous Mahisasura And Gagging Of A Perspective
By Aishik Chanda

http://www.countercurrents.org/chanda151014.htm

The recent raid by Delhi police on the office of “Forward Press”, a bilingual magazine for ‘Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs’, based on a complaint lodged at Vasant Kunj police station, by two JNU students on the allegation of hurting religious sentiments, not only brings out the issue of gagging of subaltern voices but also suppression of the logical perspective to the religious festivities that are based on myth


Signature Campaign Against Denial Of Freedom Of Expression To Forward Press
By India Resists

http://www.indiaresists.com/citizens-statement-against-denial-of-freedom-of-expression-to-forward-press/

PLEASE SIGN: Citizens’ Statement against denial of freedom of expression to Forward Press


Adivasis Can Save Planet Earth
By National Adivasi Alliance

http://www.countercurrents.org/naa151014.htm

12th October this year was observed as ‘Anti Columbus Day’ in Bangalore by the National Adivasi Alliance. The occasion also saw the release of ‘Forest, Earth, Water, Sky’, a book that gives a history of the Adivasi Sangama movement together with infographics depicting the socio-economic and cultural profile of Adivasi populations in the country


To Be Powerless Is Not To Be Defeated
By Priti Gulati Cox

http://www.countercurrents.org/cox151014.htm

This recent tragic episode of Indian history is symbolic of what's unfolding throughout the nation's religious, socio-economic, and ecological fabric. You have Hinduism and capitalism on one side and natural ecosystems and the country's poor on the other, and a continuous experiment in all imaginable combinations and permutations playing out between them. Both of these paired systems are dying, but one of them is dying faster than the other


Nirbhaya - Fearlessly For Men
By M.S. Sreerekha

http://www.countercurrents.org/sreerekha151014.htm

how should we spend this Rs. 2000 crores in the Nirbhaya Fund? As the proposal cleared by the cabinet shows, should we spend it on CCTVs, GPS, Smart phones and self-defense classes for girls? Or should we at least at this point, do something more sensible with a long term vision? Isn’t it a luxury to be paid for the self-defense trainings which actually could be money given for thousands of women and girls raped or abused to fight for justice?


'Reforming' Islam?
By Maryam Sakeenah

http://www.countercurrents.org/sakeenah151014.htm

A response to the trending article 'Open Letter to Moderate Muslims' by Ali A.Rizvi


The “Banana” Chief Minister!
By Mohammad Ashraf

http://www.countercurrents.org/ashraf151014.htm

After the recent floods devastated Srinagar, Omar Abdullah was shown on TV throwing “Bananas” to the marooned people from the state helicopter. One was reminded about the “Rise of the Planet of Apes”. He should thank God that the people did not pull down his chopper like in the movie! This “Banana” episode reminded one about the “Banana Republics” of South America


If I Were A Fazyaz Kaloo
By Abdul Majid Zargar

http://www.countercurrents.org/zargar151014.htm

Following publication of an article on 3rd October 2014, captioned “Tragedy of errors” on Op-ed page of Daily “Greater Kashmir”, Of which I am the Editor, your law Department has among others, served me a notice threatening to stop the publication of newspaper. Being chief executive of the State & head of administration, I take it granted that the notice has been issued with your consent & prior approval. I, therefore, deem it prudent to reply you directly


Rip Van Winkle And Raman Singh Government
By Subhash Gatade

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatade151014.htm

Can an elected Panchayat deprive a section of its own people belonging to a minority community its constitutionally granted right to practise its religion – e.g. organise prayers or engage in religious propaganda and have sermons? Or can it ever deprive them of their mandatory quota of grain under PDS (public distribution system) which is focused more on persons living below poverty line? Anyone conversant with rudimentary understanding of law would reply in the negative. It appears that in Chattisgarh they do it differently. In fact, Sirisguda, Kunguda and many other villages in Jagdalpur and adjoining areas in the state are in the news for similar reasons


Smart Cities, Gated Communities, Engels And The Way The Poor Live
By Vidyadhar Date

http://www.countercurrents.org/date151014.htm

Kamu Iyer , a veteran Mumbai architect, is a mild mannered man and not at all known as a leftist. But he has posed a key question in his just published book Bombay from Precincts to Sprawl. The key point, which is rarely made by architects, is that you can judge a city by the way its poor live. A chapter is devoted to this theme