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Friday, October 20, 2017
CounterCurrents: The Approaching US Energy-Economic Crisis
Dear Friend,
Gail Tverberg is a TRUTH TELLER. But I doubt how many listen to her. Today she warns of an "Approaching US Energy-Economic Crisis". It is not just limited to USA. The crisis will consume the entire world economy. Perhaps even civilization as we know it.
Today is the sixth anniversary of the martyrdom of Muammar Qaddafi, revolutionary Pan-Africanist and champion of the Global South. This day also marks the sixth anniversary of the historic battle of Sirte, where Qaddafi, along with an heroic army, including his son Mutassim Billal Qaddafi, and veteran freedom fighter, Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr, fought until their convoy was bombed by French fighter planes. Wounded and demobilized, they were captured by Qatari scavengers and executed by Al-Qaeda operatives
Also more stories from around the world.
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The Approaching US Energy-Economic Crisis
by Gail Tverberg
A more likely scenario is that as the quantity of resources falls, wage disparity will increase. As a result, the incomes of many of the lower-wage workers can be expected to fall. The problem is that jobs that pay well require the use of resources; if there is a decrease in resources available, some jobs are likely to be eliminated. Today, such job elimination may come through added technology, eliminating what were previously low-paid jobs. Studies of past collapses support the view that falling wages for the working class played a major role in these collapses.
Remembering Muammar Qaddafi And The Great Libyan Jamahiriya
by Gerald A Perreira
October 20th, 2017, marks the sixth anniversary of the martyrdom of Muammar Qaddafi, revolutionary Pan-Africanist and champion of the Global South. This day also marks the sixth anniversary of the historic battle of Sirte, where Qaddafi, along with an heroic army, including his son Mutassim Billal Qaddafi, and veteran freedom fighter, Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr, fought until their convoy was bombed by French fighter planes. Wounded and demobilized, they were captured by Qatari scavengers and executed by Al-Qaeda operatives
When The Nuclear Violator Becomes The Accuser
by Farhad Shahabi
There is a necessity to change Western political literature in relation to Iran
Western Silence As 20,000 Neo-Nazis March in Ukraine
by Thomas C Mountain
In one of the largest, if not the largest, Neo-Nazi demonstration in Europe since WW2, 20,000 facists marched through the streets of Ukraine’s capital Kiev last weekend under the silent gaze of the western media. Other than Russian state media RT and Sputnik News facists throwing Nazi salutes and parading in their tens of thousands in a European capital didn’t concern any of the major western news outlet. Nothing on BBC, France24, CNN, New York Times, The Guardian…
Anti-Indian Subversion Of Fiji By Apartheid Israel, Pro-Apartheid Australia & Pro-Apartheid America
by Dr Gideon Polya
In 2016 Fiji was devastated by Tropical Cyclone Winston that was the most intense tropical cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere on record. The intensity of such cyclones is now increased by man-made global warming. Yet Trump America has determined to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, and in US lackey, climate criminal Australia there is bipartisan political agreement on a terracidal, unlimited expansion of coal and gas exports for which Australia is a world leader. In 2015 Fiji joined with other Island Nations in the Suva Declaration on Climate Change urging effective climate change action. Of critical importance for Fiji, Island Nations and the world will be the 2017 COP23 Climate Conference in Bonn under the chairmanship of Fiji.
The Trans-Tasman Spat Show: New Zealand-Australian Tensions
by Dr Binoy Kampmark
An Ardern-Turnbull relationship, to that end, will conform to cosmetics, keep up appearances and utter the necessary platitudes international, and often fictional friendships, thrive on. The rest of the time will be spent diligently ignoring each other.
Erdogan’s Insomnia And Safety of NATO’s H-bombs in Turkey
by Nauman Sadiq
Therefore, in order to preempt the likelihood of a nuclear Armageddon, Washington should either press upon its NATO ally to constitute a medical examination board to evaluate Erdogan’s psychiatric condition whether he is eligible to serve as president or not, or the US should recall those nukes and deploy them in a safer country like Germany, which is home to one of the largest overseas US airbase Ramstein, where 47,000 US troops have currently been deployed and which already hosts dozens of similar NATO’s nukes on its territory.
“Interview” with Caoimhghin O’ Croidheain on Our Popular Entertainment
by Annapurna Tosca Sriramarcel
The acceptance of violence in cinema today has become the norm. In almost every genre of cinema [even in comedies (Kick Ass) and musicals (Sweeney Todd)] today extreme violence can crop up at some point during almost any movie. Some film genres are based on violence: horror, war, westerns, crime, terror.
I Know Of None
by Rachel Oxman
But that’s impossible to do as long as no time is taken out to engage in leisurely discussion about HOW to radically transform education coast to coast and beyond. Beyond the borders of America — and within its own opioid-ruled realm — we are imposing American jazz that’s designed to end the world. All enabled by the educational dynamic I’ve highlighted here.
Holy Development Shit
by K P Sasi
To understand what a population can do to a forest and a river, Sabari Mala is classic study. What is great about Pampa river is that this river is filled with only male shit during the season. Because women are not allowed to enter into the temple. Once a woman reaches her age of menstruation, she can not enter the temple, since menstruation is `impure’ as per Brahminical findings. Feminists have raised their voices against this injustice in Kerala. I totally agree with the feminists. The pampa river should be filled with both male and female shit. Why should Pampa river be discriminated
Taj Mahal As Tej Mahal Once Again “There Is A Bee In The Bonnett”
by Subhash Gatade
It is now history how Oak had even petitioned the Supreme Court to rewrite the history of Taj Mahal as being built by a Hindu King during NDA’s first stint of power at the centre. Perhaps the then conducive political atmosphere might have prompted him to gain further legitimacy but he was sadly mistaken. A two member division bench of the Supreme Court dismissed the ‘misconceived’ petition with these remarks ‘Somebody has a bee in his bonnet, hence this petition’.
A History of the Fall
by Atindriyo Chakraborty
In the autumn of 2017
In a country where Barcelona
is football clubs for the elite
Two such fireflies
got it bad. As tanks entered Catalonia.
By then,
everywhere,
real fireflies were leaving
fast.
A Novel Paradigm For Fighting Drought
by Moin Qazi
The Indian film celebrity Aamir Khan is shepherding a very revolutionary campaign–making Maharashtra drought-free in five years. Khan is in the news in villages of Maharashtra for the last two years as conceiver of a revolutionary initiative that is galvanising the rural population to go back to fundamental lessons of water management taught by their ancestors.
Photo Essay: Diwali Preparations For Diya Artificers Are Not The Same
by Midhat Fatimah
Kumhar Gram situated on the outskirts of Delhi, is the largest habitat of potter’s community in India accomodating more than 700 potter families. It’s has been home to the families ever since they left Rajasthan in the early 1970s. Diwali being the bonanza period, witnesses rigourous work hours and changes the dynamics of the place.
Monday, September 18, 2017
CounterCurrents: The Climate Catastrophe We’re All Ignoring
Dear Friend,
Anitha S writes her second letter to Gauri Lankesh, posthumously. It's heart wrenching.
When everything from birth to death are Aadhaar linked in India why not a poem? Ra Sh writes World’s First Aadhaar Linked Poem
Today was Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday. To celebrate it Sardar Sarovar dam was dedicated to the nation, threatening the drowning of 40,000 families in the project area.
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Dear Gauri….. A Letter To Gauri Lankesh
by Anitha S
Today as I write this, the Prime Minister is “dedicating the Sardar Sarovar Dam to the nation” – another rhetoric we are all a bit fed up and angry about. Instead of fooling ourselves that all is well and all set with a “first class ticket for a free ride in a Bullet Train”, along super Adani highways and ports, we need to sit together and put things, facts and figures, incidents and happenings, talks and whispers on board…and I miss you most again here...you were the one to see things square, face truth and injustice upfront. As we sit together in many places all over the country ( maybe all over the world), a chair will be kept for you, a chair empty and unoccupied, dear sister, for you to voice your rational, clear and honest thoughts, dreams and opinions about democracy and the right to live
Bullet Train : World’s First Aadhaar Linked Poem
by Ra Sh
There is another Bullet Train.
A 7.65 Calibre Make in India model
that passes through stations with
strange names like Kulburgi South
Pansare West and Dhabolkar Central
Its destination set in Bangalore
where it rockets through a pulsating heart.
Celebrating Murder
by Dr Walter Fernandes
I was not yet nine but I distinctly remember the day when for the first time I witnessed people celebrating the murder of a person. In Mangalore my home town, on 31st January 1948 members of the RSS and Hindu Mahasabha distributed sweets to celebrate the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi the previous day. There have been many more such incidents during the last seven decades. The latest is the celebration of the murder of the journalist and human rights activist Gauri Lankesh by some political commentators, journalists and self-styled nationalists. The main comment was that she got the death she deserved, a dog’s death.
Dedication Of Sardar Sarovar Project: Another Modi Drama
by National Alliance of People’s Movements
We believe that the drama of dedication of the Sardar Sarovar Project to the Nation on Prime Minister’s Birthday was a complete failure. This was evident not only by the fact that except for Gujarat Chief Minister, Vijay Rupani, no one else turned up, as was announced that all BJP ruled CMs will participate. The grand aarti with 2,000 priests from Varanasi who were to come also didn’t turn up finally. We believe this is a victory of our struggles and massive criticism raised from all over the country, decrying this cruelty on his birthday, when 40,000 families are facing submergence in 192 villages of Madhya Pradesh and also in the resettlement sites of Gujarat and Maharashtra.
The Climate Catastrophe We’re All Ignoring
by Jeremy Lent
But meanwhile, multiply the damage from Harvey and Irma a hundredfold and you’ll get a feeling for the climate-related suffering taking place right now in the rest of the world. In India, Bangladesh, and Nepal, an estimated 40 million people have been affected by massive flooding, with over 1,200 deaths. More than one third of Bangladesh’s land mass has been submerged. As if that’s not enough, Africa has been suffering its own under-reported climate disasters, with hundreds of thousands affected by flooding in Nigeria, Niger, Congo, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.
Australian Pro-Zionist PM Turnbull’s Jewish Heritage Means He May Be Ineligible To be An MP
by Dr Gideon Polya
Australia is second only to Trump America as a supporter of Apartheid Israel. 7 non-Jewish MPs but not 6 Jewish MPs have been referred to the High Court over Section 44 of the Australian Constitution that makes politicians ineligible to be MPs if they have not renounced entitlement to or actual citizenship of a foreign country. However Australia’s pro-Zionist PM Turnbull may be ineligible to be an Australian MP if he has a Jewish grandparent and has not renounced resultant entitlement to Israeli citizenship under the Israeli Law of Return.
Protagoras (490-420 BC)
by Ish N Mishra
A brief biographical sketch
Global Politics Is Not About The Safeguard of Humanity And Peace But of Special Interest And Wars
by Dr Mahboob A Khawaja
We the People of the Globe, We the conscientious Humanity are not the focal point of global political agenda for peace, security and future-making. The contemporary global leadership is obsessed with its own pitfalls of failing accountability to the global mankind. The corporate managed global media networks view the people as numbers, digits and symbols of statistics to be used in competing popular number games operated in discussions as if the mankind is lifeless.
Memorandum From Kashmir Centre For Social and Development Studies (KCSDS) To Members of the Visiting Congress Delegation
Kashmir center for social & Development studies(KCSDS) submitted a memorandum to congress delegation headed by former Prime Minster, Sh. Manmohan Singh,visiting J&K on 16th-17th September 2017.
Thursday, March 23, 2017
CounterCurrents: Apollo-Earth: A Wake Up Call In Our Race against Time
Dear Friend,
If you don't mind, and if you think the content of this news letter is critical for the dignified living and survival of humanity and other species on earth, please forward it to your friends and spread the word. It's time for humanity to come together as one family! You can subscribe to our news letter here http://www.countercurrents.org/news-letter/.
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Binu Mathew
Editor
www.countercurrents.org
EU-Turkey Rift Widens
by Abdus Sattar Ghazali
The rift between the European Union and Turkey is escalating as President Erdogan has accused the EU countries of persecuting Muslims like Jews were during World War II while the spirit of fascism was running wild on the streets of Europe.
Trump And The Last Chance For Resistance
by Chris Hedges
There is a hierarchy to oppression. It begins with the most vulnerable—undocumented workers, Muslims, poor people of color. It works upward. It is a long row of candles that one by one are extinguished. If we wait to resist, as the poet C.P. Cavafy wrote, the “dark line gets longer” and “the snuffed-out candles proliferate.”
Reality And The U.S.-Made Famine In Yemen
by Kathy Kelly
This week at the Voices for Creative Nonviolence office in Chicago, my colleague Sabia Rigby prepared a presentation for a local high school. She’ll team up with a young friend of ours, himself a refugee from Iraq, to talk about refugee crises driven by war. Sabia recently returned from Kabul where she helped document the young Afghan Peace Volunteers’ efforts to help bring warmth, food and education to internally displaced families living in makeshift camps, having fled the Afghan War when it raged near their former homes.
Yemen: Workers And Their Families Left To Starve By Multi-Billionaire Companies
by Cedric Gerome
After having made huge profits through the exploitation of Yemeni workers for years in peacetime conditions, French energy giant multinational TOTAL and British company G4S have used the circumstances of the war for a “hit-and-run” wage robbery. They assumed they could get away with it thanks to the international media blackout on Yemen and to the dysfunctional and collapsing state infrastructure in the country
Americans Support Increasing Budget of Most Wasteful Federal Department
by Eric Zuesse
There is so much that is essential for the American public to know and to understand, that they are instead confused and misinformed about; but the powers-that-be benefit greatly by the public’s misinformation and confusion, and so it will certainly continue; but is this democracy, or is it dictatorship — and, if the latter, then whom is it actually serving? Who is Big Brother? Actually?
Apartheid Israel
by Dr Chandra Muzaffar
If anyone doubts that Israel is guilty of the crime of apartheid, he should read the report “Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid” commissioned by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). The report released on the 15th March 2017 and posted on the ESCWA website has now been removed on the orders of the UN Secretary-General, pressurised, it is alleged, by the governments of Israel and the United States both of whom have denounced the report in harsh terms.
Towards A Rational World Of Peace And Humanity: America, Europe And Russia
by Dr Mahboob A Khawaja
Leadership is an art, it can be improved if leaders are open to listening, flexible and adaptable to the challenging facts of human affairs and have passion for facts, not fantasy. The informed and spirited global humanity could help the entrenched leaders to make a navigational change for global peace and One Humanity.
Apollo-Earth: A Wake Up Call In Our Race against Time
by Rupert Read
Let’s hear the alarm that our climate system is sounding, loud and clear. Let’s prove that we are rational beings (as Aristotle, possibly the greatest philosopher of Ancient Greece, famously claimed). Rationality today doesn’t mean exploring options for colonizing another planet, it means an unprecedented journey into our own survival on planet Earth: Apollo-Earth.
FAO’s Bioenergy Themed International Day Of Forests Is A Threat To Mother Earth
by Souparna Lahiri
Every year, 21st March is celebrated as the International Day of Forests, so designated by the United Nations to highlight the importance of forests. This year, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has announced the theme of “Forests and Energy”, calling forests “nature’s power house,” highlighting that forests are not anymore just energy providers for basic cooking and heating needs, but can power cars and airplanes through modern biofuels.
On 86th Martyrdom Day Of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru & Sukhdev: British Rulers Hanged Them Once, Indian Rulers Hang Them Everyday!
by Shamsul Islam
On March 23, 2017, we will be commemorating 86th year of the great martyrdom of the three revolutionaries, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev. However, with every passing year sadness keeps on growing that so far as mainstream political set-up is concerned their sacrifices attract only ceremonial attention that too occasionally. Indian democracy despite being seven decades mature has brazenly missed two important aspects of these sacrifices.
Yoga & Yogi Have Nothing In Common
by Neha Saigal
It becomes all the more critical now for citizens of democratic and secular India to voice their opinion and save their idea of a country where people should be able to live without fear. As for me, I am disheartened that the science of yoga is become synonyms with Hindutva. If only Yogi Adityanath carried forward the true tradition of yoga, we would all be having a different conversation in Independent India.
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