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Subject: CC News Letter, 22 May - Earth Has Entered A New Geological Age‎
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Earth Has Entered A New Geological Age
 The Stockholm Memorandum

http://www.countercurrents.org/stm220311.htm

The Stockholm Memorandum concludes that the planet has entered a new geological age, the Anthropocene. It recommends a suite of urgent and far-reaching actions for decision makers and societies to become active stewards of the planet for future generations


The Thermodynamics Of An Intelligent Living Universe
 By Robert Riversong

http://www.countercurrents.org/riversong220511.htm

But, perhaps it's time that we started acting our age (3.5 billion years as life or 2.4 million years as humanity) and learn – once again – to live within the optimum balance point of the great Second Law of Thermodynamics


Osama Bin Laden's Death: There Is Much More To Say
 By Noam Chomsky

http://www.countercurrents.org/chomsky220511.htm

It might be instructive to ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic (after proper burial rites, of course)


"Every 30 Minutes": Indian Farmers
 Commit Suicide At Staggering Rate
 By Smita Narula

http://www.countercurrents.org/narula220511.htm

A quarter of a million Indian farmers have committed suicide in the last 16 years—an average of one suicide every 30 minutes. The crisis has ballooned with economic liberalization that has removed agricultural subsidies and opened Indian agriculture to the global market


Red Mud Spill And People's Resistance
 At Niyamgiri: A First Hand Report
 From The Struggle(PDF)
 By Miriam Rose

http://www.countercurrents.org/Niyamgiri220511.pdf

On 16th May after heavy rain, toxic red mud poured from a breach in one of Vedanta's Lanjigarh refinery red mud ponds, spilling onto the village below. The next day landless people displaced by the project held two blockades demanding adequate compensation; a five day walking protest ended with a meeting of 500 people on the threatened Niyamgiri hills; and the funeral of a tribal movement leader, killed by factory pollution, was held. Two months before Vedanta's often-subverted AGM this will be bad news for the company. This is a direct report from the scene


Report From Mehndiganj Near Varanasi:
 A Coca-Cola Affected Area(PDF)
 By Miriam Rose

http://www.countercurrents.org/Coca-Cola220511.pdf

Mehndiganj is a village about 20km from Varanasi in North East India. Coca-cola company began operating a large factory there in 2000 which quickly began depleting the water table in the surrounding villages and farmland. The plant draws 500,000 litres per day from deep boreholes reaching the third strata of the earth, while local people are only allowed to bore wells to a fraction of that level. In 2006 a quarter of wells in eight surrounding villages had dried completely


Obama's Reset Rhetoric Is Unlikely To Translate
 Into Meaningful Policy Change In The Middle East
 By Abdus Sattar Ghazali

http://www.countercurrents.org/ghazali220511.htm

President Obama spoke at a time when U.S. influence in the region is at an all-time low in modern history


The Push For A Single Unified
 North American Regulatory Regime
 By Dana Gabriel

http://www.countercurrents.org/gabriel220511.htm

A North American security perimeter goes well beyond keeping the U.S. safe from any perceived threats. It is a means to secure trade, resources and corporate interests. Much like the whole deep integration agenda, regulatory harmonization is taking incremental steps with the goal of achieving a single unified North American regulatory regime


Mahendra Singh Tikait: Voice Of India's Peasants
 By MuraleeDharan Raghavan

http://www.countercurrents.org/raghavan220511.htm

Mahendra Singh Tikait was a down-to-earth man who fought against corporate and large-scale interests in the farm sector, vehemently protested the World Trade Organization agreement and agricultural subsidies in Europe and America


Killings, Detentions And Torture In Egypt
 By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman220511.htm

Since February, more than 5,000 civilians were tried in military tribunals. Nearly all participated in peaceful protests during and after Mubarak's dictatorship


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