CounterCurrents: Chelsea Manning Attempts Suicide, Don’t Move! How USA Murders Unpeople, Clinton Backs Monsanto’s Case That To Be Anti Monsanto Is To Be Pro Global-Warming

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Chelsea Manning Attempts Suicide

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/07/chelsea-manning-attempts-sucicide/

Chelsea Manning, the military whistleblower serving a 35 year sentence, was rushed to hospital after reportedly trying to take her own life

Satrap Guilt: Australia, Iraq And The Chilcot Inquiry
by Dr Binoy Kampmark 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/07/satrap-guilt-australia-iraq-and-the-chilcot-inquiry/

The release of the Chilcot Iraq Inquiry, examining the feeble reasons for launching a war against a sovereign state in 2003, did not merely land former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the soup.    It suggested that other leaders should keep him in drowning company

Don’t Move! How USA Murders Unpeople
by Kathy Kelly

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/07/dont-move-how-usa-murders-unpeople/

We have to face that when the U.S. acts as self-appointed “global policeman,” what it does to poor nations resembles what those two officers did to Alton Sterling. We must temper selfish and unreasonable fears for our own safety with the knowledge that others also want safe and stable lives. We must build community by lessening inequality. We must swear off making the world our battlefield and be appalled to hear the U.S. government seem to tell the world “I will kill you if you f—ing move.”

Red Alert: Bengaluru, India’s Technology Capital Headed For System Failure
Co-Written by V. Ramachandra & Bharath H. Aithal

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/07/red-alert-bengaluru-indias-technology-capital-headed-for-system-failure/

Recent research by IISc reveals startling numbers on Bangalore’s reckless urbanization and its consequences: during 1973–2016 (1005% concretization or increase of paved surface) has had a telling influence on the natural resources, such as decline in green spaces (88% decline in vegetation), wetlands (79% decline), higher air pollutants and a sharp decline in groundwater table.

Feminist Socialism And The Commons
by Hilary Wainwright 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/07/feminist-socialism-and-the-commons/

Hilary Wainwright, of the Transnational Institute and co-editor of Red Pepper magazine, made a lasting impression on the Commons Transition/P2P Foundation team with her panel presentation at the recent Commons Collaborative Economies event in Barcelona. During her presentation, Wainwright shared her insights on the hidden commons of care.

In Venezuela’s Difficult Times The Grassroots Are Stronger
by Tamara Pearson 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/07/in-venezuelas-difficult-times-the-grassroots-are-stronger/

It’s been three years now of food shortages, inflation, and queues in Venezuela, and the millions of people involved in community and movement organizing have been the most affected. But they’ve also defied right-wing and general expectations, and even perhaps the expectations of the Maduro government, and have become stronger and better organized as a result of the hardships

Clinton Backs Monsanto’s Case  That To Be Anti Monsanto Is To Be Pro Global-Warming
by Eric Zuesse 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/07/clinton-backs-monsantos-case-that-to-be-anti-monsanto-is-to-be-pro-global-warming/

The article in FORTUNE provides some evidence that the propaganda-campaign for the GMO industry is coordinated by their lobbying organization, the BIO, so that both one of their politicians, and one of their magazines, are singing the same song, even if different lyrics from it.

The Right To Vote—Effectively
by William John Cox 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/07/the-right-to-vote-effectively/

The United States government is no longer representative of those who elect it, nor is it the government the American People consented to. If the Republic is to continue, its constitution must be amended to empower the People, whose consent is essential to its legitimacy.

CounterCurrents: How China And Russia Are Running Rings Around Washington, What, Really, Is Netanyahu’s Game Plan For America?, Early Diagnosis Of Drug Resistance Is Crucial To Ending TB, The Saudi Proxy In The 21st Century

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Greek Parliament Rubber-Stamps New EU Austerity Plan
By Christoph Dreier & Alex Lantier

http://www.countercurrents.org/lantier230715.htm

After discussion and debate dragged on into the early morning hours, the Greek parliament overwhelmingly adopted a vast new set of cost-cutting measures and legal “reforms” dictated by the European Union


Representative Democracy Is A Waste Of Time 
By Fritz Tucker

http://www.countercurrents.org/tucker230715.htm

The logical countermovement to expansive representational democracy was one that advocated a return to local, participatory governance. In the twenty-first century participatory democracy is not just desirable, but feasible. Digital, electronic communication is essentially instantaneous, recorded in abundance, and easily searchable


What, Really, Is Netanyahu’s Game Plan For America?
By Alan Hart

http://www.countercurrents.org/hart230715.htm

He could order a false flag operation – an attack on American interests somewhere which with manufactured/false evidence he would blame on Iran. That could, probably would, give American neo-cons the pretext they would like for war on Iran


Reviewing Trashy Hasbara Against BDS 
By Vacy Vlazna

http://www.countercurrents.org/vlazna230715.htm

Boycotting Israel is Wrong: The progressive path to peace between Palestinians and Israelis by Philip Mendes, Nick Dyrenfurth is a slipshod diatribe against the principled efforts of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. It beggars belief that this silly book, riddled with hasbara and anti-arabsemitism, is written by academics with research skills: Monash University’s Philip Mendes and Nick Dyrenfurth who, once wrote that Australia’s exPrime Minister John Howard “speaks fluent spin”- Dyrenfurth should know!


Ukrainian News Service Says Standard Of Living Is Plummeting
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse230715.htm

The plunging economy of Ukraine has evidently become so bad that Ukrainians now can even feel safe to call publicly for stopping the war against the separatist Donbass region of the country, and for reallocationg those military expenditures so that Ukrainians in the non-rebelling part of the country won't starve to death


How China And Russia Are Running Rings Around Washington  
By Pepe Escobar

http://www.countercurrents.org/escobar230715.htm

Let's start with the geopolitical Big Bang you know nothing about, the one that occurred just two weeks ago. Here are its results: from now on, any possible future attack on Iran threatened by the Pentagon (in conjunction with NATO) would essentially be an assault on the planning of an interlocking set of organizations -- the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization), the EEU (Eurasian Economic Union), the AIIB (the new Chinese-founded Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank), and the NDB (the BRICS' New Development Bank) -- whose acronyms you're unlikely to recognize either. Still, they represent an emerging new order in Eurasia


The Saudi Proxy In The 21st Century
By Judith Bello

http://www.countercurrents.org/bello230715.htm

The United States relationship with Saudi Arabia is, on the surface, a mystery. Saudi Arabia has been a U.S. proxy and a protectorate for nearly 100 years, yet it remains a very foreign entity, which consistently engages in activities uncomfortable for US public sensibilities. Wahabism, the state religion of Saudi Arabia, deeply meshed with the government, is the narrowest and most radical fundamentalism in the Muslim world. Strict social limitations on women and a particularly harsh form of Sharia law are maintained by the Saudi regime


Yakub Memon's Blood Is On Us Too 
By Samar

http://www.countercurrents.org/samar230715.htm

Those who planted the bombs have got their death sentences commuted to life, while Yakub, who did not plant a single one, is being sent to the gallows. And, this is where the death sentence starts looking like the revenge of a system frustrated with its failure to catch and punish the real culprits that is killing Yakub on the flimsiest of grounds


Civil Society Comes Out In Support Of Teesta Setalvad And Javed Anand
By Concerned Citizens

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc230715.htm

Romila Thapar, Admiral Ramdas, Naseeruddin Shah, Mahesh Bhatt, Nandita Das, Githa Hariharan, Aruna Roy, Jayati Ghosh, Rajmohan Gandhi, Tushar Gandhi, Vivan Dundaram, Nilima and GM Shaikh, Henri Tiphange and hundreds of other prominent artists, intellectuals and activists protest against witch hunting of Teesta and Javed


Adv P A Sebastian, The Doyen Of Civil Rights Movement Passes Away 
By Anand Teltumbde

http://www.countercurrents.org/tetumbde230715.htm

Our friend and comrade P A Sebastian, who was the face of Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights (CPDR) for decades, has passed away this morning around 10 am. Sebastian, Sabby for his friends, was an integral part of the radical movement in Maharashtra


Splitting Jammu & Kashmir 
By Mohammad Ashraf

http://www.countercurrents.org/ashraf230715.htm

Attempts on both sides of the border to take away certain areas of the erstwhile state of Jammy & Kashmir may result in the restoration of the ancient Kingdom of Kashmir!


Early Diagnosis Of Drug Resistance Is Crucial To Ending TB 
By Shobha Shukla

http://www.countercurrents.org/shukla230715.htm

Despite being treatable, TB remains a major global public health problem. As Dr Mario Raviglione, Director Global Tuberculosis Programme of WHO, informed, in 2013, 9 million people fell ill with TB in; 1.5 million men, women and children died from it; 480,000 people developed multi drug resistant TB (MDR-TB), with 210,000 associated deaths. Also, 60% of all MDR-TB cases can be attributed to India, China, Russia, Pakistan and Ukraine