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Subject: CC News Letter, 22 April - Earth Day: We Must Stop Climate Catastrophe‎
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April 22, Earth Day: We Must Stop Climate Catastrophe
 By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya220411.htm

We are one species confined to one planet and we revel in the richness of nature and human cultural diversity. The peace and cooperative community we commonly experience at the level of village, town, city and nation should apply internationally throughout Spaceship Earth


What's With The Weather?
 Is Climate Change To Blame?
 By Alyson Kenward

http://www.countercurrents.org/kenward220411.htm

One of the thorniest questions facing climate scientists is whether human-induced climate change is leading to more heat waves, floods, and extreme weather events. Now, employing increasingly sophisticated methods of studying weather extremes, climatologists say they are closer to answering that key question


Poisoning Mother Earth:
 America's Gulf And Fukushima
 By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman220411.htm

As best we know it, the shocking truth is that preventable disasters keep proliferating life destroying contamination globally. Yet news about them is suppressed, so few people everywhere are unaware how calamitously they're being harmed


Obama Sends Drones To Libya
 As Britain Readies Troops
 By Bill Van Auken

http://www.countercurrents.org/auken220411.htm

The Obama administration has joined Britain and France in a major escalation of the war against Libya that entails the deployment of US drones, intensified bombing and the preparation of an invasion force


Benghazi Human Traffickers Back In Business
 By Thomas C. Mountain

http://www.countercurrents.org/mountain220411.htm

The human trafficking mafia is back in business in Benghazi, Libya. It has been about three weeks now since a floating death trap, crammed to the gills with hundreds of Horn of Africans, part of a small flotilla of such, set off from Benghazi for the Italian island of Lampedusa


Is The World Too Big To Fail?
 By Noam Chomsky

http://www.countercurrents.org/chomsky220411.htm

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome


Tale Of Two Gandhians:
 Anna Hazare And Irom Sharmila
 By Mahtab Alam

http://www.countercurrents.org/alam220411.htm

 In India, to garner support, it is not enough to be a mere Gandhian, but a Gandhian with a difference-a Gandhian, who can sit with the murders of Gandhi, praise the person who was responsible for genocide in the land of the Mahatma, back the racist and fascist mentalities and policies. 'Unfortunately', Irom Sharmila disqualifies to be such a Gandhian and I am sure she must be proud of being 'unfortunate'!


Crisis Of Ambedkarites And Future Challenges
 By Anand Teltumbde

http://www.countercurrents.org/teltumbde220411.htm

Ambedkar Memorial Lecture at Ambedkar Habba, Spoorthi Dham, in Bangalore on 14 April 2011


Sinning Against Zionism: Traitor To Country
 By William A. Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook220411.htm

Richard Goldstone's journey from Justice to Sinner represents the spiritual act of dying in the Zionist world


Staying Human: The Heroic Legacy Of
 Vittorio Arrigoni
 By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud220411.htm

Vittorio Arrigoni, or Vik, was reportedly murdered by a fundamentalist group in Gaza, a few hours after he was kidnapped on Thursday, April 14. Vik's killers failed to see his humanity. But many of us will always remember, and we will continue trying to "stay human"


Adam Smith: A Progressive?
 By Ron Forthofer

http://www.countercurrents.org/forthofer220411.htm

Given the recent disaster in which deregulation of part of the U.S. financial sector played a key role, it may be useful to re-examine the writings of Adam Smith, the father of modern economics and capitalism. Many people are familiar with Smith's seemingly all-knowing 'invisible hand', but several of his other important quotes are rarely mentioned


Posada: Protecting A Terrorist
 By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar

http://www.countercurrents.org/muzaffar220411.htm

On the 8th of April 2011, a Court in El Paso, Texas acquitted the notorious terrorist, Luis Posada Carriles, of 11 charges of perjury, fraud and obstruction. By freeing him of all charges, the US authorities proved yet again that they are extremely protective of Posada


United Nations Report On Sri Lanka: Time To Act
 By Karthick RM

http://www.countercurrents.org/karthick220411.htm

Activists in Tamil Nadu and politicians who have used the Eelam struggle for their careers should take this UN report seriously. Coming as it is from a recognized legal body, they should use the report to push for the recognition of genocide in the Tamil Nadu Assembly that shall soon be formed after the elections


The Secular Talibans In France:
 Are They Any Better?
 By Dr. Habib Siddiqui

http://www.countercurrents.org/siddiqui220411.htm

 Although the new law claims to be drafted as gender neutral, the marks of chauvinism, bigotry and xenophobia are all too visible. It clearly targets the few Muslim women who wear the niqab


Oil, Water, And America's Price Priorities
 By Mary Shaw

http://www.countercurrents.org/shaw220411.htm

As of April 11, the average price for a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. was $3.79. And I hear people complaining about it all the time. Still, they don't think twice about spending much more per gallon for bottled water


Debtlessness As A Human Right
 Interview with Farooque Chowdhury by Sonja Ernst

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury220411.htm

An interview with Farooque Chowdhury, editor of "Micro Credit Myth Manufactured, Unveiling appropriation of surplus value and an icon"


A Messiah And The Melodramatic Middle class:
 'Rethinking' The Anna Hazare Movement
 Against Corruption
 By Avinash Pandey Samar

http://www.countercurrents.org/samar220411.htm

So what is it that makes Anna's movement such a success while condemning workers' protest to the margins of print and electronic media alike? It was lack of politics, nothing else


NAPM In Solidarity With Prashant Bhushan
 And Need To Focus On The Lokpal Bill
 By NAPM

http://www.countercurrents.org/napm220411.htm

The triumph of the Lokpal Bill campaign, which shows the effectiveness of people power is clearly unpalatable to certain sections who, rather than discussing the details of the proposed Jan Lokpal Bill, are attempting character assassination of two of India's finest public interest lawyers


Mimesis And The State Of US Democracy
 By Gaither Stewart

http://www.countercurrents.org/stewart220411.htm

Reflections on Democracy



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