Fwd: CC News Letter, 16 Dec - Why Is It So Hard To Save The Planet ?

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Date: Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:56 PM
Subject: CC News Letter, 16 Dec - Why Is It So Hard To Save The Planet ?
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Why Is It So Easy  To Save The Banks, But So Hard To Save The Planet ?
 By George Monbiot

http://www.countercurrents.org/mobiot161211.htm

Agreements to bail out banks happen in days – but despite some good progress at Durban, we still don't have a legally binding deal to bail out the planet


US Withdraws And Australian ABC Censors
 4.6 million Iraqi Holocaust War Dead
 By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya161211.htm

The Americans have almost completed their withdrawal from war-devastated Iraq that since 1990 has suffered 4.6 million war-related deaths, 1.7 million violent deaths, 2.9 million avoidable deaths from war-imposed deprivation, 5-6 million refugees and 2.0 million under-5 infant deaths, 90% avoidable. However the Mainstream media have resolutely refused to report the carnage


Can Tides Turn The Tide?
 By Tom Murphy

http://www.countercurrents.org/murphy161211.htm

We need a few solid, scalable, reliable solutions to fall back on. And tidal is not one of those. It's more like a decoration than a foundation. Let's use it where we can


The Daily Ordeal of Getting To School In Hebron
 By Ben Lorber

http://www.countercurrents.org/lorber161211.htm

The Qurduba School in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron is once again a target for harassment by Israeli occupation forces, as new restrictions on freedom of movement bring a wave of settler attacks and soldier violence


McJournalism: The Unbearable Lightness of
 Thomas Friedman
 By Cyril Mychalejko

http://www.countercurrents.org/mychalejko161211.htm

Belén Fernandez's The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work is a meticulously researched book, written with wry wit and an unrelenting critical eye, that should be read by both Friedman's fans and critics alike; not just for what it reveals about his journalism or the New York Times , but for what it says about the state of American journalism as a whole


Governed By Machine
 By Robert Wise

http://www.countercurrents.org/wise161211.htm

To "get money out of government" will take many new initiatives, but most will be aimed at eliminating corporate influence. The ideal will never be completely achieved; we will need, as Jefferson warned, "eternal vigilance." But the biggest advance we could achieve at one stroke would be a Federal law to abolish corporate personhood


Companies Bill for Corporate Funding of
 Political Parties And NGOs Introduced
 By Gopal Krishna

http://www.countercurrents.org/krishna161211.htm

 Companies Bill, 2011 was introduced in the Lok Sabha by Dr Moodbidri Veerappa Moily on December 14, 2011 that makes provision for corporate funding of parties


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