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21 January 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News WE’RE GETTING DONATIONS, BUT NO MONEY - We are starting to see a pretty good volume of donations, but they are running quite small. We love and appreciate every donation large or small, but five and ten dollar donations alone can’t move the progress bar. We have received some larger donations for January - Thank you! But on the whole, the average donation size is down sharply. Dilemma. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: Kathleen Turner | Trump's Judges Threaten Reproductive Rights for Generations to Come  Kathleen Turner, Guardian UK   Turner writes: "Anti-choice activists and lawmakers have been systematically chipping away at reproductive freedom at all levels of government, and too often doing so under the radar so that few will notice."   READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update...

21 January 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News IF WE ARE GOING TO FINISH WE WILL REALLY NEED TO PUSH - As it stands right now we are looking at our worst funding drive in 3 years, and a major setback for the organization. If we are to have any chance of changing that we are really going to need to push. So far for the entire month, fewer than 300 people have donated. Put on your hard hats. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: Charles Pierce | The Storm    Charles Pierce, Esquire   Pierce writes: "This is the story that at least a couple of legitimate news organizations sat on during an election in which the Democratic candidate's email server dominated the news coverage. So, dammit, again, here it is."   READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

21 January 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News THE FUTILITY OF “EMERGENCY ONLY” CONTRIBUTING: We are blessed with supporters, readers, and community members who sustain Reader Supported News month in and month out. But for some reason, only when it becomes clear that the organization is absolutely desperate. If there is any hint of optimism in our fundraising messages whatsoever, the donations stop immediately. Yesterday we said we had “momentum” … that killed the momentum. This is the exact recipe for long, aggravating fundraisers. We can finish with reasonable support. Why not do it? / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! John Kiriakou | Treason  John Kiriakou, Reader Supported News   Kiriakou writes: "President Donald Trump last week accused an FBI agent who, during the 2016 campaign, had sent anti-Trump texts to his girlfriend, also an FBI agent, of 'treason.' He told the Wall Street Journal...

Dear Friend, It is possible to feed more than 9 billion people with organic production methods with a small increase in the required crop acreage and with decreased greenhouse gas emission. But this assumes considerable reduction in food wastage and in the quantities of feed grown to animals. That is the conclusion in the paper Strategies for feeding the world more sustainably with organic agriculture in Nature Communications by researchers from the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture in Switzerland, the Institute of Environmental Decisions in Switzerland, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Italy, Institute of Social Ecology Vienna in Austria and the Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences in the UK. Citizens’ Enquiry finds rising rates of kidney failure, deaths in villages surrounding IREL’s monazite processing facility in Chatrapur Block, Ganjam District , Odisha, India Also more stories from around the world.  If ...

Dear Friends, Good News! Countercurrents.org is back up.  We are re-launching with an exceptional series.  We are serialising the memoirs of Dr Punyabrata Gun, a comrade of Shankar Guha Niyogi. We believe that this memori by Dr Gun has a great historical importance. It is the memories of a comrade who saw from close quarters one of the greatest revolutionary figures that independent India has seen. The first chapter is here. It's aptly titled "Niyogi And His Mission".  https://countercurrents.org/2018/01/21/struggle-create-days-com-shankar-guha-niyogi-chapter-1-niyogi-mission/ Many non-Indian readers and many in India too may not be aware of the exceptional contributions of Niyogi. I hope this series will be an eye opener.  In Solidarity Binu Mathew Editor Countercurrents.org