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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Phila Back |David Bollier |Bharat Dogra |Tom Murphy
Since its creation I have supported Rupert Read’s Climate Majority Project as the answer to achieving the climate action we need. Read observes that the majority of people are concerned about climate change and to effectively combat it, that majority must act. The same is now true with our current crisis of democracy, as the majority of American voters did not support Trump in the 2024 election.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | David Bollier |Bharat Dogra |Tom Murphy |Saurav Sarkar
Local landscapes were once powerful forces in their own right, shaping how people lived, farmed, traded, and made sense of the world. The land created people, and as people worked, they changed the land. Over time a shared identity and distinctive culture emerged. Again and again, people have made their patch of the earth feel like home: stable, familiar, well understood, enlivening.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Tom Murphy |P M Joshy |George Capaccio |Vijay Prashad
ToShri V. L. Kantha Rao Union Mines SecretaryDear Shri Kantha Rao,I have come across a news report that the Hindustan Zin Limited’s (HZL) Board would be shortly considering raising of funds from the market to finance its activities It is strange that HZL, on the one hand, should choose to pay unconscionably excessive dividends to its shareholders, far in excess of what Section 123 of the Companies Act permits but, at the same time, raise funds from outside to finance its own expansion programme.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Tom Murphy |Suresh Khairnar |Bruce Lerro |Harsh Thakor
In my continuing pursuit of humility as an antidote to modernity’s human supremacy illness, the atoms that constitute who I am take issue with lofty and self-aggrandizing concepts of idealism, dualism, and free will—replaced by the unflattering material world and its staggering wealth of emergent complexity.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
am970theanswer.com | Tom Murphy
This Feb. 9, 2024 photo shows a Walgreens in Bradenton, Fla. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
8:45 AM on Friday, January 10
By TOM MURPHY
Walgreens booked a better-than-expected fiscal first quarter, but the drugstore chain lost $265 million as it closed U.S. stores and continued work to revive its business. The company, beset by shrinking prescription reimbursement, rising costs and other problems, had announced in announced in October a plan to close around 1,200 locations.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Tom Murphy |Subzar Ahmad |Bruce Lerro |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
As I settle into and continue to explore the perspective that modernity is destined to fail, was never a long-term-viable idea, and therefore represents a giant blunder, I keep running into thoughtful writings about what exactly went wrong, at its foundations. A recurrent culprit—and I tend to agree—involves human supremacism (anthropocentrism), connected to a perceived separateness from nature.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Tom Murphy |Suresh Khairnar |Bhabani Nayak |VladislavB Sotirovic
No matter which candidate won the U.S. Presidential election, about half the citizens were set to fear the end of the country. Rather than argue about whether each side’s concern is similarly credible, I’ll address a broader question. What, exactly, does a voter/citizen imagine the goal to be, and—given modernity’s transient status—is the goal anything more than unfounded fantasy?
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Richard Heinberg |Bharat Dogra |John Feffer |Tom Murphy
Sir David King, former chief scientific advisor to the UK government, recently wrote that, “On our present path, civilization as we know it will disappear.” More than a century’s worth of sustainability research has documented how humanity is undermining its own future by polluting the environment, depleting resources, and damaging the natural systems that support complex life on our planet. Sadly, most people fail to understand the seriousness of our predicament.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |John Feffer |Tom Murphy |T Vijayendra
The environmental crisis is a many-sided crisis which has many important and inter-related aspects including air pollution, space pollution, freshwater shortages and pollution, climate change and increasing disasters, pollution and disruptions in oceans, biodiversity erosion and disruption, soil erosion and loss of natural fertility of land, desertification and deforestation, proliferation of many kinds of harmful chemicals/materials/products, excessive generation and accumulation of waste...
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Henry Giroux |John Feffer |Tom Murphy
Education reform has been discussed a lot but has been seldom taken forward in the true spirit. All too often, this has been discussed in very narrow contexts with a very limited vision. Education reform, like most social reform, must be integrated ultimately with the creation of a better and safer world. While vision of a better society can differ much among various people, broad agreement can be created on some precepts.
