Fwd: CC Issue Dec 13- Where The Cancún Climate Conference Leaves Us

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Where The Cancún Climate Conference Leaves Us
By Jan Lundberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/lundberg131210.htm

It sounds good enough, but is it good enough? It seems to me, far from Cancún, after looking at various reports on the conference , that the U.N. process was being cheered more than actual climate protection progress. I do not have much faith in agreements or intentions when corporatism and consumerism still rule


Bolivia Decries Adoption of Copenhagen Accord II
Without Consensus
Plurinational State of Bolivia / Press Release

http://www.countercurrents.org/bolivia131210.htm

The Plurinational State of Bolivia believes that the Cancun text is a hollow and false victory that was imposed without consensus, and its cost will be measured in human lives. History will judge harshly


Reading The Coca Leaves: Climate Change,
Cancun And Bolivia
By Medea Benjamin

http://www.countercurrents.org/benjamin131210.htm

If we are to avoid ecocide, we cannot rely on government officials meeting in plush golf resorts


The Climate Deal That Failed Us
By Shefali Sharma

http://www.countercurrents.org/sharma131210.htm

It is a deal that will be remembered by our future generations as one that killed the climate treaty, unless we radically change course


Obama Joins Attack On WikiLeaks
By Joseph Kishore

http://www.countercurrents.org/kishore131210.htm

US president Barack Obama added his own comments to the increasingly vitriolic campaign against WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, over the weekend


WikiRebels: Swedish Docufilm
On WikiLeaks - Video
By Rady Ananda

http://www.countercurrents.org/ananda131210.htm

WikiRebels: Swedish Docufilm On WikiLeaks chronicles a new form of global resistance


No Act Of Rebellion Is Wasted
By Chris Hedges

http://www.countercurrents.org/hedges131210.htm

As long as a few of us rebel it will always remain possible to defeat a system of centralized, corporate power that is as criminal and heartless as those I watched tumble into the ash bin of history in Eastern Europe


Farewell To Afghanistan
By Dr. Sama Adnan

http://www.countercurrents.org/adnan131210.htm

President Obama and congress should push to include the Taliban in the Afghan government, prepare for a troops withdrawal, maintain strong intelligence ties with the Afghan government to capture the few Al-Qaeda operatives, and invest in the development of Afghanistan with the local population. Extricating the United States from this war, with its ever-shifting justifications, will be good for the United States, Afghanistan and Pakistan


Israel's War On Jerusalem Children
By Jonathan Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook131210.htm

In the past year, criminal investigations have been opened against more than 1,200 Palestinian minors in Jerusalem on stone-throwing charges, according to police statistics gathered by the Association of Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI). That was nearly twice the number of children arrested last year in the much larger Palestinian territory of the West Bank


Labor's Last Stand In 2011?
By Shamus Cooke

http://www.countercurrents.org/cooke131210.htm

Public workers cannot be spectators in this unfolding drama. They must learn to act, collectively. Unions must educate their membership as to the gravity of the coming assault. Resisting these attacks must be done while proposing alternatives


The Year That Never Was
By Peter Goodchild

http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild131210.htm

Why do I call it "the Year That Never Was"? Because I've decided it wasn't really a year at all. It was a Hole in Time. Somehow that makes me feel better


On The Chopping Block: Social Security,
Medicare And Medicaid
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman131210C.htm

Planned is death by a thousand cuts - aka "creeping normalcy," defined as a way to make major changes seem normal if happen slowly, incrementally like boiling a frog unaware it's dinner until cooked


The Dictatorship Of America's Aristocracy
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman131210.htm

Whether voters catch on and say no we'll discover by following credible polls as human misery index numbers rise. Make no mistake. There's nothing planned to improve them, more takeaways than serious relief. If that doesn't provoke public anger, what will?


Updating Mohamed Harkat's Persecution
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman131210A.htm

Mohamed Harkat is one of Canada's Secret Trial Five - five Muslim men, bogusly arrested and persecuted. He wasn't charged, but was imprisoned on secret evidence, denied bail, held mostly in solitary confinement, prevented from contacting family or friends, and under Canadian law can't appeal a judge's ruling by order of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). Yet he never before was accused, convicted, or even suspected of a crime. He's an innocent man now


The Fix Is In: Expect Democrats To Buckle
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman131210B.htm

The criminal class in Washington is bipartisan. On core issues, Democrats are no different from Republicans. Expect more bluster before caving like Obama, enacting his deal with the devil worth up to $1 trillion dollars. The lion's share goes to corporations and America's wealthy, middle and low income workers getting crumbs. The fix is in. It'll happen, promoted as stimulus to create jobs and revive economic growth. Not so


Will California Execute An Innocent Man?
By Mary Shaw

http://www.countercurrents.org/shaw131210.htm

Kevin Cooper sits on California's death row at San Quentin. I hope Governor Schwarzenegger will reconsider now and choose to err on the side of life, not death, in this case. He needn't play the Terminator in real life too


The Conditions Of The Contract Workers In 2010
At Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

http://www.countercurrents.org/sahai131210.htm

A Fact Finding Report by Raj Sahai


Conditions Of Contract Labourers In JNU
By Rashmi Singh

http://www.countercurrents.org/rsingh131210.htm

This article is based on the research conducted by the author on informal labour, for AMAN Trust


Multiple Attack On Mirwaiz Umar Farooq
And The Silence
By Avinash Pandey Samar

http://www.countercurrents.org/samar131210.htm

Stoic silence maintained by the Government of India on multiple attacks on Mirwaiz Umar Farooq is criminal


Why Can't Hemant Karkare's Death Be Politicised?
By Farzana Versey

http://www.countercurrents.org/versey131210.htm

It is widow's right to express regret over her husband's death being politicised. But he was also an officer, and for that reason his life was and his death is a matter of national concern. She may not wish to raise the questions she did earlier, but those queries must not die


Why Still Politicking Over Karkare!
By Mustafa Khan

http://www.countercurrents.org/mkhan131210.htm

Why so much of hush up with the widows of the martyred fellow police officers of repute? It is not only the Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar who should ask the home minister of Maharashtra to clarify the matter but the people of India


Irresponsibility On Assam Wildlife Preservation
By Nava Thakuria

http://www.countercurrents.org/thakuria131210.htm

Two investigations into the devastation of some of the world's most endangered species in Northeast India appear to be stalled. Although India's Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh himself has called for a Central Bureau of Investigation probe of the smuggling of tiger parts, so far nothing has happened

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