Beyond Extinction - Transition To Post-Capitalism Is Inevitable

C News Letter 07 August - Beyond Extinction - Transition To Post-Capitalism Is Inevitable

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 Hundreds Dead As Refugee Boat Sinks In Mediterranean
By Martin Kreickenbaum

http://www.countercurrents.org/kreickenbaum070815.htm

Up to 700 refugees were on board a fishing boat that capsized 15 nautical miles off the Libyan coast on Wednesday. More than 200 are feared drowned. According to the Italian coast guard, around 400 people were rescued, while 26 bodies were recovered from the sea so far. One hundred refugees were below deck at the time and likely went down with the ship


Beyond Extinction - Transition To Post-Capitalism Is Inevitable
By Nafeez Ahmed

http://www.countercurrents.org/ahmed070815.htm

The meteoric accumulation of scientific data over the last few decades has increasingly brought home the fact that the climate crisis is a symptom of a deeper, civilizational problem. It is not just that we are completely and utterly dependent on fossil fuels, oil, coal and gas, to do literally anything and everything in our societies—from transport and food, to art and culture. Climate change is merely one symptom of a wider Crisis of Civilization


10 Steps To Wean US Foreign Policy Off Militarism
By Medea Benjamin

http://www.countercurrents.org/benjamin070815.htm

US progressives are delighted to see the US administration making some progress on the diplomatic front with Cuba and Iran. We should now clearly define what a progressive foreign policy looks like, and push presidential candidates and other officials to move US foreign policy towards one based on respect, cooperation and diplomacy


Bernie Talks Militarism But Says Nothing New
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson070815.htm

RootsAction's petition asking Sanders to talk about the military has nearly 14,000 signatures. It's produced a number of claims that Bernie in fact does talk about the military, and has a great record on it, etc. Following up on each of these claims thus far has led to virtually nothing new. If you go to Bernie's website and click on ISSUES and search for foreign policy or war or peace or overall budget priorities (militarism now actually gets 54% now), you'll be searching forever -- unless he adds something. His "issues" page acts as if 199 nations and 54% of the budget just don't exist


Obama's Clean Power Plan Will Only Cut 2030 US Greenhouse Gas Pollution By 5%
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya070815.htm

Obama recognizes the seriousness of man-made climate change and pollution-based premature deaths (avoidable deaths) but he deceptively and mendaciously offers too little too late by 2030 – in effect, a derisory 5% reduction in overall greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution, a 9% reduction in premature deaths from coal-fired power plant pollution and a 1% decrease in child asthma attacks


Will The Greek Bailout Deal Work?
By Kavaljit Singh

http://www.countercurrents.org/singh070815.htm

As things stand out, the prospects of an economic recovery in Greece appear bleak. Many forecasts have predicted that Greece will be unable to break the vicious cycle on the current path and its debt-to-GDP ratio will rise over 200 percent by 2018. Without rapid economic recovery, Greece's debt burden will remain unsustainable. The growing public debt and its servicing costs will burden economy further. And if Greece continues to remain in the eurozone, a fourth bailout cannot be ruled out in future


Brian Terrell: US Drone Campaign Needs To Be Acknowledged A Failure
By Kourosh Ziabari

http://www.countercurrents.org/ziabari070815.htm

According to the 58-year-old Brian Terrell, the US government is not only claiming innocent lives through drone attacks, but endangering its own security and undermining its public stature. "The reality that US drone strikes are a recruiting tool for Al-Qaeda is good news for war profiteers, even as it is alarming to anyone who is interested in the security of the US and the peace and stability of the counties where they are occurring," he said


A Scribbling On Passive Communalism in Kerala
By Anvar Ali

http://www.countercurrents.org/ali070815.htm

Here I will tell the desperate story of an adolescent Muslim boy who is not only the victim of Islamophobia but of the passive communalism the so-called Kerala model nourished along with its modernity

Pl see my blogs;

http://ambedkaractions.blogspot.in/

http://palashscape.blogspot.in/

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