Otto Scharmer

Dec 3, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Daron Acemoglu |Bartosz Rydlinski |Otto Scharmer |Bhabani Nayak

BOSTON – It should not have come as such a surprise that US voters were largely unmoved by the Democrats’ warnings that Donald Trump poses a grave threat to American institutions. In a January 2024 Gallup poll, only 28% of Americans (a record low) said that they were satisfied with “the way US democracy is working.”American democracy has long promised four things: shared prosperity, a voice for the citizenry, expertise-driven governance, and effective public services.

Dec 3, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Jake Smaje |Bharat Dogra |Tawakkol Karman |Otto Scharmer

Bangladesh is a small country that sits within the Northeast of South Asia with India wrapped around it, and Myanmar to the South. Despite its small size and relatively recent independence, Bangladesh plays an oversized role in the way poverty, development, climate change and urbanisation are imagined globally. Often in discussions of climate change the conversation turns to Bangladesh as a country imagined to be sinking, throwing out waves of climate migrants across the world.

Nov 30, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Tawakkol Karman |Otto Scharmer |Miho Soon

Visiting several villages of Karauli district (Rajasthan, India) recently, it was generally not difficult to reach them. However the situation changed dramatically when going to Rawatpura village located in Sapotra block. Here the paths were very difficult to negotiate and at the same time very dusty too. The paths to various widely scattered, remote villages are not at all easy to identify and the task is best left to local persons or those with the experience of very frequent coming and going.

Nov 29, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Tawakkol Karman |Otto Scharmer |Miho Soon

Efforts to increase food production generally emphasize intensively developed areas which already have high levels of production. On the one hand many areas recording much lower levels of food production are neglected as areas of low potential. However it is in some of the areas of present day low production that there may be more future potential of increasing food production.

Nov 29, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Bartosz Rydlinski |Otto Scharmer |Bhabani Nayak |Pratap Antony

WARSAW – Donald Trump shocked the world in 2016 when he was elected US president, winning swing states in America’s Rust Belt, including Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, that have traditionally backed Democrats. Much the same story played out in November.