The prize has gone to three people studying how the poor can derive more benefit from existing “development” practices. It sees no reason to question the existing market and growth-driven economy and its derivative, development theory. It doesn’t threaten the massively unjust and environmentally destructive global systems that keep billions in poverty. The 720,000 pound Prize has been awarded for[Read More…]
Within alternative movements there is much interest in introducing local currencies and they have been central elements in many Transition Towns and other initiatives. Unfortunately I think most of these have been quite misguided, failing to grasp the power a local currency can have, and not likely to make a significant contribution to goals such as town sustainability and resilience.[Read More…]
Yemen Is a Public Health Catastrophe 
We, the People, the Humanity and Our Entangled Future in Global COVID-19 Pandemic 
40th anniversary of epic 153 of Graham Gooch 
Horn of Africa: A blamegame 
Hunting in Yemen 
How Rich Countries Are Cheating In Climate Change Negotiations 
Save Pollinators Campaign Needed On Urgent Basis As Bees, Butterflies and Birds Face Increasing Risks 
The United States After Trump 
Experts demand compulsory licensing for generic production of a drug against Covid-19 
From Pacifism To Violence and the Dialectic 
PUCL condemns the Unprecedented Attack on Rights Activists by the State Government of Andhra Pradesh and the NIA 
Earth’s Real Treasure 
Rekindle the flame of Martyrs of Sewewala of Punjab on 30th anniversary 
7th night of Belfast riots and protests: Bus set alight and petrol bombs thrown 
Himachal Move For Selling Liquor at Petrol Pumps Will Be Dangerous For Safety 
Can Farmland for the Landless Become A Reality On A Large Scale 
The Cold War, Rebooted and Rebranded 
A Compliment to Bharat Dogra The Global Anti-Eritrea-Ethiopia Agenda 
Bengaltattva vs Hindutva: who will win West Bengal? |Part Three| 
Protests against Pakistan Prime Minister’s comment linking rape to how women dress 
Myanmar’s Citizens Fleeing Persecutions and Violence must be allowed refuge into India 
Is it possible for CBI to probe and prove? 
Mamata’s Call for United Front: Can Democracy be saved in India? 
Pathways for Progress of Farmers’ Movement 
Why Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath Remains the Most Memorable Saga of Displaced Farmers and Migrating Workers 
Fatuous Defence: Australia’s Guided Missile Plans 
From His Solitary Confinement, Marwan Barghouti Holds the Key to Fatah’s Future 
Jordan is where domestic and regional fissures collide 
Cooling the Planet? 
The Far Right in Uniform 
U.S. Values vs Chinese Values: Empire vs Bandung As Seen From Cape Verde (Africa) 
Babulal Gandhi: Over 90 years old and still a hardy farmer 
Aruna In Vienna 
Democratic fascism 
Issues of Increasing Concern in School Education 
China’s Policy Towards Liberation of Bangladesh 
Telugu community in Canada raises voice for GN Saibaba 
Ecology And Economics 
What Is Health? 
When I founded Countercurrents.org in 2002, Disha Ravi who was arrested for sedition yesterday was a two-year-old toddler. In 2002, the CO2 level in the atmosphere was 370 ppm. Now it is 415 ppm. In just 19 years CO2 levels increased by just over 2ppm/year. The level of cumulative greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, including Methane, Nitrous Oxide etc is[Read More…]
