Fwd: CC News Letter, 01 Dec - Ticking Greenhouse Gas Time Bomb: Melting Permafrost

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Ticking Greenhouse Gas Time Bomb: Melting Permafrost
 By Seth Borenstein

http://www.countercurrents.org/b011211orenstein.htm

The permafrost scientists predict that over the next three decades a total of about 45 billion metric tons of carbon from methane and carbon dioxide will seep into the atmosphere when permafrost thaws during summers. That's about the same amount of heat-trapping gas the world spews during five years of burning coal, gas and other fossil fuels


Syrian Crisis Draws In Regional And Major Powers
 By Jean Shaoul

http://www.countercurrents.org/shaoul011211.htm

The Arab League's announcement of economic sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad's regime has set in motion a rapidly escalating crisis that is drawing in both the regional and major powers. The offensive being mounted against Syria now threatens a wider conflagration in the region


Pepperspraying The Future
 By John Michael Greer

http://www.countercurrents.org/greer011211.htm

During the years immediately ahead of us, unless I'm very much mistaken, the political, economic, and cultural institutions of the industrial world can be counted on to do just about anything other than a meaningful response to the crisis of our age, and any meaningful response that does happen is going to have to come from individuals, families, and community groups


Amid The Architecture Of Declining Capitalism:
 Memes, Death Genes And Real Estate Schemes
 By Phil Rockstroh

http://www.countercurrents.org/rockstroh011211.htm

The recent pepper spraying "incident" at the University of California at Davis represents more than an opportunity to create a cleverly photoshopped, viral meme. The act is part and parcel of a larger collective mindset--a proclivity towards authoritarian overreaction now deeply internalized in daily life in the U.S


Israel's Grand Hypocrisy
 By Jonathan Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook011211.htm

As protests raged again across the Middle East, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, offered his assessment of the Arab Spring last week. It was, he said, an "Islamic, anti-western, anti-liberal, anti-Israeli, undemocratic wave", adding that Israel's Arab neighbours were "moving not forwards, but backwards"


The Ridiculous Burdens Borne
 By Gaza Medical Patients
 By Rami Almeghari

http://www.countercurrents.org/almeghari011211.htm

Some medical patients in Gaza must go to great lengths (literally) to receive treatment


The Kishenji Cover-up: The Media
 And The Indian State
 By Trevor Selvam

http://www.countercurrents.org/selvam011211.htm

A detailed interview of Poet Varvara Rao by a CNN IBN reporter was removed by them from You Tube, very quickly after it was put up, possibly because the young woman interviewing him, repeatedly referred to Azad and Kishenji (two Central Committee members of the CPI (Maoist) killed recently by the Indian State) as "comrade" each time she brought up their names


Nuclear Dichotomy
 By M V Ramana & Suvrat Raju

http://www.countercurrents.org/raju011211.htm

The country has witnessed a strange display of double standards over the past few weeks. The fears of the locals at Kudankulam that the reactors there might undergo an accident were dismissed by the Government : "The probability of an accident … is one is to infinity," the Chairperson of the Atomic Energy Commission is reported to have said. However, the fears of international nuclear suppliers— that if a major accident were to occur, the Indian nuclear liability act might force them to pay large sums in compensation —were treated as serious and the Government has just come out with rules that almost completely indemnify them


Does India Rock?
 By Rajesh Kumar Sharma

http://www.countercurrents.org/rksharma011211.htm

Has the spirit of the 60s finally arrived in India ? Is the new economic order set to liberate our libidinal economies too? Are we at last graduating into the freedom which Nietzsche, Marx and Freud foreshadowed? Imtiaz Ali's Rockstar , released this November, tempts you to wonder


Celebrating Life In A Positive Way
 By Shobha Shukla

http://www.countercurrents.org/shukla011211.htm

As we once again commemorated World AIDS Day on 1st December 2011, it is time to share the joys and sorrows of people living with HIV (PLHIV) with a positive attitude


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