CC News Letter 22 July - Letter From The Women Of Kathikudam

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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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