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Subject: CC News Letter, 14 Dec - CC Seeks Your Support!
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Dear Friend of Countercurrents,

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Retreat Of Arctic Sea Ice Releases Plumes Of Methane: Climate Feedback Catastrophe?
 By Steve Connor

http://www.countercurrents.org/connor141211.htm

Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region. The scale and volume of the methane release has astonished the head of the Russian research team who has been surveying the seabed of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf off northern Russia for nearly 20 years


How Not To Tackle Climate Change
 And Call It A Success: The Durban Package
 By Nele Marien

http://www.countercurrents.org/marien141211.htm

Climate scientists are advising us insistently: the world just has a few years to start acting on climate change, if not we may enter in an irreversible spiral of climate disaster. So the most urgent issue is to start acting NOW on real mitigation. Unfortunately, the Durban package doesn't attend this at all. During the whole Durban negotiation, there hasn't even been a real discussion on the issue


What Does Canada's Withdrawal
 From Kyoto Protocol Mean?
 By Adam Vaughan

http://www.countercurrents.org/vaughan141211.htm

Canada has shown that a legally binding deal does not guarantee countries won't walk away from their commitments


Just How Far Gone Is Putin's Government?
 By Dmitry Orlov

http://www.countercurrents.org/orlov141211.htm

Just how far gone is Putin's government? The evidence so far is that they are still feeling invincible, and are willing to resort to repression in order to make the election results stick. But the Russian people want to express themselves; they want to be heard; they want those who hear them to make the required changes in response


NATO Dreams Of Civil War In Syria
 By Pepe Escobar

http://www.countercurrents.org/escobar141211.htm

By adopting this pincer movement, NATO in Syria is now actively diversifying into an Iraq-in-the-1990s strategy; to submit Syria to a prolonged state of siege before eventually going for the kill


Soaring Oil And Food Prices Threaten
 Affordable Food Supply
 By Richard Heinberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/heinberg141211.htm

The current global food system is highly fuel- and transport-dependent. Fuels will almost certainly become less affordable in the near and medium term, making the current, highly fuel-dependent agricultural production system less secure and food less affordable. It is therefore necessary to promote food self-sufficiency and reduce the need for fuel inputs to the food system at all levels


Exploring Humanity's Place
 In The Journey Of The Universe
 By Roger Cohn

http://www.countercurrents.org/cohn141211.htm

Mary Evelyn Tucker has been one of the innovators in the study of the connections between ecology and religion. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, she talks about her work and about a new film she co-produced that points to the spiritual dimension of responding to the world's environmental challenges


Permaculture Pioneers:
 Stories From The New Frontier
 By Kerry Dawborn & Caroline Smith

http://www.countercurrents.org/smith141211.htm

Permaculture Pioneers: Stories from the New Frontier tells the very personal stories of 25 Australian permaculturists, male and female, old and young, who are inspired by permaculture to work for a more sustainable world


Reform vs. Revolution Within Occupy
 By Shamus Cooke

http://www.countercurrents.org/cooke141211.htm

Is Occupy a real social movement or one still struggling to be born? The answer to this question helps determine what strategy the Occupy movement should take, what demands it should fight for and the level of confrontation of its actions


Stories From Harlem
 By Li Onesto

http://www.countercurrents.org/onesto141211.htm

One of the things that keeps coming through in all these stories is how the police not only brutalize you, but they seem to make a sport of really trying to do everything they can to humiliate the people, especially the youth. And the people know it and deeply feel this


Celac: Is This The Mayan Prophecy?
 By Sean Fenley

http://www.countercurrents.org/fenley141211.htm

 If Celac achieves its goals — and its ambitions — then that is when we can expect, probably the most virulent, and infernal opposition from its "keeper" and "overseer" from the north


The Horribleness Of Enforced Disappearances
 By Iqbal Alimohamed

http://www.countercurrents.org/alimohamed141211.htm

It is time for governments everywhere to ponder the absolute necessity to end the phenomenon of Involuntary Disappearances through a global campaign. Cases must be brought before international Human Rights courts and bodies


Attack On POSCO Protesters
 By Prashant Paikary

http://www.countercurrents.org/paikary141211.htm

An attack on POSCO project protesters by private goons leave at least eight villagers injured and one of them has got serious injury. One of the attackers also was killed by an explosion of their own bomb


Policy Recommendation On Mullaperiyar Dam
 By Suhas Paranjape, S.Janakarajan, K.J. Joy, & A. Latha

http://www.countercurrents.org/latha141211.htm

Here is a well-reasoned-out policy recommendation that proposes a solution to the Mullaperiyar Dam Conflict. Drawn up at a conference of dam and water resource experts, it proposes a fresh solution to the dispute


Open Letter To Mahathir
 By Siddharthya Roy

http://www.countercurrents.org/sroy141211.htm

A couple of days back I woke up to Indian newspaper reports which quoted you as saying that India's democracy is a hindrance to its development and if we did away with the nuisance of democracy we will be become developed . But you see Sir, your (apparently) good intentions notwithstanding, your advise to Indians is, well how should I put it...ill-advised


Peoples March In Bangladesh:
 Voices Against Corporate Grabbing
 By Anu Muhammad

http://www.countercurrents.org/muhammad141211.htm

Main demands of this long march included peoples ownership over natural resources, prohibition of disastrous open pit mining and export of mineral resources, strengthening national capability


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