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Binu Mathew
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Ecocide Is Not Development; Love And Ecology Are The Answer
By Dr. Glen Barry
http://www.countercurrents.org/barry220713.htm
Earth's ecosystems are collapsing, human and all species' habitats are being lost, and our one shared biosphere is failing and dying. Love of other peoples and species and of nature, truth, justice, and equity are the only lasting basis for global ecological sustainability
Letter From The Women Of Kathikudam
By The Women of Kathikudam
http://www.countercurrents.org/anithas220713.htm
We ask this of all those concerned- is there no other way in which the just demands of a community along with their right to establish a safe and secure life? Is it unlawful in a democratic system to raise questions against a development program that strikes at the base of life and livelihood using the most illegal and undemocratic means possible? What did we do to warrant such a violent and aggressive reaction and response from the Government? Do we not deserve a space for a decent dialogue that will answer our concerns and anxieties about our own life?
Compensation For The Rana Plaza Victims: A Forgotten Issue?
By Anu Muhammad
http://www.countercurrents.org/muhammad220713.htm
It is really unbelievable! Nearly 3 months passed since deadly factory collapse on 24 April, no compensation for the families of the killed and injured has been declared, not to say payment of that to thousands of families living now in utter distress
The US Government Is Metamorphosing Into The Borg
By Subhankar Banerjee
http://www.countercurrents.org/banerjee220713.htm
Referring to the US government is increasingly becoming as challenging as ordering coffee in Seattle: "Petro–imperial, coal–fired, plutocratic, oligarchic, inverted totalitarian, fascist, propagandist Big Brother, with democracy on the side." Things are beginning to simplify though. Soon you'll be able to refer to the US government with one single word—the Borg
How The 18:1 Law Makes The War On Drugs Racist
By John Spritzler
http://www.countercurrents.org/spritzler220713.htm
There is a United States federal law on the books, what I call the "18:1" law, that is, in its effect, as viciously racist as the old and now thoroughly discredited Jim Crow laws that explicitly discrminated against black people. This law, a key part of the legal framework for the War on Drugs, is one way that the U.S. Government veils its racism so as not to be obvious to the wider general public
Shrilk: Nature's New Bioplastic
By Ansel Oommen
http://www.countercurrents.org/oommen220713.htm
But researchers from Harvard University have created a new alternative for synthetic plastic. Javier Fernandez and Donald Ingber of Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have found their muse in the most successful of organisms: arthropods. Many invertebrates like crabs, beetles, and snails, are armored with cuticles that are not only strong, but flexible and light due to evolutionary pressures. As a result, they are a rich basis for natural plastics
Sabotaging Egyptian Revolution
By Dr. Elias Akleh
http://www.countercurrents.org/akleh220713.htm
The June 30th Egyptian revolution had been over-analyzed, scrutinized, criticized, mislabeled, and distorted by many writers, analysts, politicians, and governments. This was a national Intifada (uprising) through which Egyptians had expressed their will in purely democratic means
Egypt: What Now?
By Chandra Muzaffar
http://www.countercurrents.org/muzaffar220713.htm
In the wake of the military coup of July 3rd 2013, the question that is on the lips of many people is what is going to happen now in Egypt? How will the situation evolve? What is the future of the 80 million people who live in that ancient land?
Africa's Tiny 'Sand Dams' Can Save Millions From Drought
By Nilima Choudhury
http://www.countercurrents.org/choudhury220713.htm
The 2011 drought and the resulting famine in East Africa killed 100,000 people and sent food prices soaring. But reversing the devastating effects of climate change is possible. Sand dams can offer a cost-effective and sustainable solution to mitigating the impacts of climate change, the desertification of drylands and enabling green economic growth in dryland countries
Food Security Ordinance Is Exclusive And Lacks Commitment To Fight Hunger
By Soma S. Marla
http://www.countercurrents.org/marla220713.htm
The proposed food security bill is again another minimalistic, providing 5kg of food grains to each individual does not guarantee food security and nutritional security. Merely providing cheap food grains doesn't guarantee nutrition. This requires a balanced intake of calories, protein, fats and essential micronutrients
Are Armed Forces Really Winning The 4GW In Kashmir?
By Adfar Shah
http://www.countercurrents.org/shah220713.htm
The continuous blunders by armed forces in Kashmir or Northeast India reveal the non-professional approach of Indian soldiers/policemen. It goes without saying that, soldiering/policing today is not just neutralising the enemy, but encompasses safeguarding lives of citizens and changing anti-national perceptions by building bridges of peace and harmony
Who Attacked Parliament
By Abdul Majid Zargar
http://www.countercurrents.org/zargar220713.htm
Over the years the meta narrative in India about origin of 2001 Parliament attack is filled with unidirectional flow of information that want us to believe that it was an operation planned from across the border and executed by terror modules in India .But the recent revelation by one of the former CBI officers that this attack as also the 2008 infamous carnage in Mumbai was actually orchestrated by agencies to enable Government to strengthen the counter intelligence laws nails this lie
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