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  • | Men and menstruation | MR Online

    Men and menstruation: A young anti-caste thinker fights menstrual stigma

    Originally published: Countercurrents on December 30, 2022 by Rucha Satoor (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Jan 04, 2023)

    Rushikesh, a resident of Aurangabad, got selected for the prestigious Period Fellowship in 2021, and worked for fifteen months in a predominantly tribal district in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh.

  • | The United States and White Supremacy at War with China | MR Online

    The United States and White supremacy at war with China

    Originally published: Countercurrents on December 13, 2022 by Franklin Frederick (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Dec 14, 2022)

    In 1904, Jack London, the most celebrated American writer of the time, was sent as a reporter to cover the war between Russia and Japan.

  • | The Netherlands | MR Online

    The Netherlands: Template for ecomodernism’s Brave New World?

    Originally published: Countercurrents on December 8, 2022 by Colin Todhunter (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Dec 09, 2022)

    Disaster capitalism and crisis narratives are currently being used to manipulate popular sentiment and push through a set of unpalatable policies that would otherwise lack sufficient political support.

  • | Junk Food Industry | MR Online

    Millions suffer as junk food industry rakes in profit

    Originally published: Countercurrents on November 14, 2022 by Colin Todhunter (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Nov 15, 2022)

    Increased consumption of ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) was associated with more than 10% of all-cause premature, preventable deaths in Brazil in 2019. That is the finding of a new peer-reviewed study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

  • | US and Allies Vote For Nazism at UN | MR Online

    U.S. and allies vote for Nazism at U.N.

    Originally published: Countercurrents on November 7, 2022 by Eric Zuesse (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Nov 09, 2022)

    Annually, each year, since 2005, the U.S. Government has been one of only from 1 to 3 Governments to vote in the U.N. General Assembly against an annual statement by the General Assembly against racism and other forms of bigotry—an annual Resolution condemning it, and expressing a commitment to doing everything possible to reduce bigoted acts.

  • | South Asian Peoples Action on Climate Change SAPACC | MR Online

    Declare a climate emergency: South Asian People’s Action on Climate Change

    Originally published: Countercurrents on November 3, 2022 by Countercurrents Staff (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Nov 06, 2022)

    The following statement is issued by the South Asian People’s Action on Climate Change (SAPACC), a rainbow coalition of individuals and organizations from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka who are deeply concerned about the climate crisis.

  • | Japan Fooling All The People | MR Online

    Fooling all the people!

    Originally published: Countercurrents on October 9, 2022 by Brian Victoria (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Oct 11, 2022)

    Many if not most readers will be familiar with the following saying attributed to Abraham Lincoln: “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

  • | Switzerlands glaciers | MR Online

    Unprecedented melt of Swiss Glaciers, finds study

    Originally published: Countercurrents on September 29, 2022 by Countercurrents Collective (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Oct 03, 2022)

    Switzerland’s glaciers are melting like never before, found a study. Switzerland has the greatest volume of glaciers of any country in Europe.

  • | Vernon Gonsalves | MR Online

    Vernon Gonsalves: Stop denying political prisoners the right to healthcare in Indian jails

    Originally published: Countercurrents on September 12, 2022 by Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Sep 17, 2022)

    On 8th September Vernon Gonsalves, one of the 16 undertrials in the Bhima Koregaon case lodged in the anda cell of Taloja Central Jail, was diagnosed with dengue and likely pneumonia.

  • | Kiss the Amazon Goodbye | MR Online

    Kiss the Amazon goodbye?

    Originally published: Countercurrents on September 10, 2022 by Robert Hunziker (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Sep 12, 2022)

    As devastating as Trump (4 more years?) was for the environment, President Jair Bolsonaro’s MBGA or Make Brazil Great Again has one-upped Trump. He’s single-handedly destroying the world’s largest rainforest. It may be the single most important ecosystem for the survival of Homo sapiens. As such, with such a big important target to ravage, Bolsonaro’s making Trump look weak.

  • | An Engineered Food and Poverty Crisis to Secure Continued US Dominance | MR Online

    An engineered food and poverty crisis to secure continued U.S. dominance

    Originally published: Countercurrents on August 22, 2022 by Colin Todhunter (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Aug 25, 2022)

    In March 2022, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of a “hurricane of hunger and a meltdown of the global food system” in the wake of the crisis in Ukraine.

  • | Americas Biggest Reservoirs Hit By Dead Pool Jitters | MR Online

    America’s biggest reservoirs hit by dead pool jitters

    Originally published: Countercurrents on August 6, 2022 by Robert Hunziker (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Aug 08, 2022)

    Hoover Dam’s Lake Mead is dangerously close to dead pool status for the first time since construction in the mid 1930s. A vicious hammering drought sequence for over two decades throughout the West threatens to bring America’s biggest water reservoir to its knees.

  • | A clarion call for the unconditional release of all political prisoners | MR Online

    A clarion call for the unconditional release of all political prisoners

    Originally published: Countercurrents on August 3, 2022 by Harsh Thakor (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Aug 04, 2022)

    Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR) rose to the very need of the hour by staging a protest meeting for release of political prisoners. Even if not such large numbers, an event of most qualitative significance in light of neo-fascism sharpening it’s fangs day by day.

  • | But to watch cricket there has to be a country left for us to watch it in no A fan at the Galle Test Match that ended with an innings victory for Sri Lanka July 11 2022 | MR Online

    The elephant in the room: geopolitics and the ‘Great Reset’ in Sri Lanka

    Originally published: Countercurrents on July 24, 2022 by Darini Rajaisngham-Senanayake (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Jul 25, 2022)

    “But to watch cricket, there has to be a country left for us to watch it in, no?” A fan at the Galle Test Match that ended with an innings victory for Sri Lanka. July 11, 2022

  • | Greenland | MR Online

    Greenland threatens

    Originally published: Countercurrents on July 20, 2022 by Robert Hunziker (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Jul 21, 2022)

    It rained for 9 hours at Summit Station/Greenland, 10,530’ elevation.

  • | Samir Amin | MR Online

    Samir Amin on Cuba

    Originally published: Countercurrents on July 25, 2020 by Justin Theodra (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Jul 13, 2022)

    Samir Amin locates Cuba within the Latin American context, and therefrom, it acquires much of its specificity to him–but not all. While Cuba is the only country to challenge the Monroe Doctrine in Latin America, or at least was, until Venezuela and Nicaragua came onto the scene; it is not only anti-imperialist, but also Communist.

  • | Bhagavad Gita | MR Online

    Dangers of teaching the Bhagavad Gita in educational curriculums

    Originally published: Countercurrents on March 18, 2022 by Bhabani Shankar Nayak (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Mar 19, 2022)

    The Hindu right wing forces are planning for a while to make the Bhagavad Gita as a national scripture and access to absolute state power is allowing them to fulfil their long-time dream.

  • | When Thousands Are Evicted Each Day in A Land of Fabled Riches | MR Online

    When thousands are evicted each day in a land of fabled riches

    Originally published: Countercurrents on January 2, 2022 by Bharat Dogra (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Jan 06, 2022)

    Recently on December 15 Eli Saslow wrote a very important feature in The Washington Post on the daily routine life of an elderly police constable Lennie who has been charged with the responsibility of evicting those families or persons from their homes who have not been able to pay their rent.

  • | Bidens Summit for Democracy International NGOs express concern that Summit will ignore Indias descent to fascism | MR Online

    Biden’s Summit for Democracy: International NGOs express concern that Summit will ignore India’s descent to fascism

    Originally published: Countercurrents on December 8, 2021 (more by Countercurrents)  |

    Groups extend offer to Biden to provide input to help make the summit a success.

  • | American Flag | MR Online

    Should one stand up for Western values?

    Originally published: Countercurrents on November 2, 2021 by Kim Petersen (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Nov 04, 2021)

    What are western values? One often hears a representative of a western country praising its western values. In a 2017 statement Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau adumbrated Canadian values as “openness, compassion, equality, and inclusion.”

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