Richest 1% Percent To Have More Than Rest Of Humanity Combined By 2016

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 Richest 1% Percent To Have More Than Rest Of Humanity Combined By 2016
By Jon Queally

http://www.countercurrents.org/queally190115.htm

In less than two years, if current trends continued unchecked, the richest 1% percent of people on the planet will own at least half of the world's wealth. That's the conclusion of a new report from Oxfam International, released Monday, which states that the rate of global inequality is not only morally obscene, but an existential threat to the economies of the world and the very survival of the planet. Alongside climate change, Oxfam says that spiraling disparity between the super-rich and everyone else, is brewing disaster for humanity as a whole


I'm Maurice Sinet - "I Like Charlie Coulibaly"
By Dr. Ludwig Watzal

http://www.countercurrents.org/watzal190115.htm

The controversial French comedian Dieudonné M'bala M'bala posted on facebook "I like Charlie Coulibaly". An investigation by the Paris prosecutor's office followed immediately, and two days later, Wednesday 14 January, he was arrested for exercising his right of freedom of speech. His shows are banned because of being "anti-Semitic". With the approval of the French government freedom of expression can be utilized, but if it doesn't fit into the prevailing political concept of the ruling political and media class, one has a problem


Netanyahu And Europe's Far Right Find Common Ground
By Jonathan Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook190115.htm

Israel has been having its own internal debate about the significance of the Paris killings this month, with concerns quite separate from those expressed in Europe. While Europeans are mired in debates about free speech and the role of Islam in secular societies, Israelis generally – and their prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in particular – view the attacks as confirming Israel's place as the only safe haven for Jews around the world


American Sniper: Nation's Pride – Slaying Savages And The Importance Of Education
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini190115.htm

Had people like Chris Kyle, Bush Jr., and their contemporaries/predecessors been effectively reached, early and often, by information and logic, millions of people might still be alive and safe – that is, saf er . There is no such thing as total safety, but once the US invaded Iraq again in 2003, it dragged Iraq further and further down, further and further into chaos, until finally it was reduced to its current status as home of the "world's worst city", as a UK research company put it


Uniform Civil Code: Do We Need One?
By S.G.Vombatkere

http://www.countercurrents.org/vombatkere190115.htm