CounterCurrents: Israel Intercepts Women’s Boat To Gaza, Mysterious Killing Of Muslim Brotherhood Leaders In Egypt

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Women’s Boat To Gaza was an effort to break the decade old blockade on the largest open prison on earth "Gaza". Israeli forces won't allow any challenge on its might and intercepted the peaceful women activists and their boat.  Meanwhile on Wednesday, Israeli forces bombed several areas in the Gaza Strip.

Capitalism needs to grow forever to keep itself from falling off the wire! How can this be possible in a finite planet? Yavor Tarinski says if humanity is to avoid a catastrophe we have to get off the highway of the growth paradigm and seek alternative pathways which will lead us to a sustainable future. He writes "The rejection of economic growth does not mean a retreat to primitivism, but rather a different use and understanding of what we already have and will acquire in the future."

CC has reported so many theoretical articles and on the ground reports of land grabs going on around the world. Dirk Lohr's article "The Failure Of Land Privitization: On The Need For New Development Policies" shows the pattern behind the madness. 

Shalini Newar's article "The Living Dead – The Untold Stories" tells the plight of Indian women, 70% of whom face torture in some form as a daily routine !

And also more stories from around the world. 

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Israel Intercepts Women’s Boat To Gaza
by Nora Barrows-Friedman 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/06/israel-intercepts-womens-boat-to-gaza/

Israeli forces intercepted a boat carrying women solidarity activists as it was approximately 40 miles from Gaza’s shore on Wednesday.






The Fallacy Of Economic Growth
by Yavor Tarinski 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/06/the-fallacy-of-economic-growth/

The rejection of economic growth does not mean a retreat to primitivism, but rather a different use and understanding of what we already have and will acquire in the future.





The Failure Of Land Privitization: On The Need For New Development Policies
by Dirk Lohr 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/06/the-failure-of-land-privitization-on-the-need-for-new-development-policies/

As soon as we start speaking about “globalization,” we inevitably associate it with the excessive financial markets that are disconnected from the real economy. There is less public awareness of another type of globalization that also involves the forced unification of institutions all over the world: the institution of private property and privatization strategies. The driving forces behind this development are – besides the usual suspects, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization – governmental development organizations themselves






The Living Dead – The Untold Stories
by Shalini Newar 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/06/the-living-dead-the-untold-stories/

How good are the endless debates on women enpowerment,…70% of indian women face torture in some form as a daily routine ! Is this the legacy we leave for our daughters …have we sealed their destinies by conditioning them to remain silent , agonised …living a life under constant threat ,fear and humiliation , What comes to the mind is the story of Rani Padmini of Chittor committing the divine suicide “jauhar ” , maybe this is what lies in store for the future of women in india where rape and dowry deaths are now generalised immaterial normal everyday occurances !






The War Hysteria!
by Mohammad Ashraf 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/06/the-war-hysteria/

The persons creating the War Hysteria should first get educated about the consequences of a present day war especially between the nuclear armed countries!






Where Art Thou To, My Bharat
by Samuel Dhar

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/06/where-art-thou-to-my-bharat/

Much against the propoganda let loose in the media, including social one, my research shows that – since independence, we have had approximately 1050 retaliatory surgical strikes across border/LOC, but had let them remain in anonymity of unpublicized encounters at battalion levels, except the latest one, over killed by a publicity hungry dispensation, no doubt for their own narrow short term political gains.





Struggle Of Kashmiris & Gandhi’s Call To Boycott Schools, Colleges During India’s Freedom Struggle
by Dr P S Sahni 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/06/struggle-of-kashmiris-gandhis-call-to-boycott-schools-colleges-during-indias-freedom-struggle/

The political resolution of the crisis warrants discussions with all the stake holders after the Government of India first unilaterally announces a period of ‘truce’ and ‘amnesty’





Mysterious Killing Of Muslim Brotherhood Leaders In Egypt
by Abdus Sattar Ghazali 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/06/mysterious-killing-of-muslim-brotherhood-leaders-in-egypt/

Two Muslim Brotherhood leaders have been killed in suspicious circumstances by the Egyptian security forces.





Decoding Violent Cow Vigilantism
by Aftab Alam 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/06/decoding-violent-cow-vigilantism/

A year has passed since Mohammad Akhlaq, a Muslim ironsmith, was brutally killed in Dadri’s Bishara village by a mob of cow vigilantes in front of his family for allegedly having stored and consumed beef. Notwithstanding the widespread national and international condemnation there seems to be no let up in violence by Cow vigilantes. 





When Jhelum wept!
by Muhammad Muzaffar  

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/06/when-jhelum-wept/

A monologue from the river Jhelum which saw so much atrocities in the last three months