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21st Century Climate Blueprints
By Andrew Glikson
http://www.countercurrents.org/glikson120809.htm
The severe disturbance of the energy balance of the atmosphere ensuing from the emission of over 320 billion tonnes of carbon since 1750 threatens a shift in the state of the atmosphere/ocean system to ice free greenhouse Earth conditions
Should Indian Leaders Who Spend Billions On Submarines While Others Starve Go Unpunished?
By Jay Janson
http://www.countercurrents.org/janson120809.htm
Indian Prime Minister Mammohan Singh launched a 3 billion dollar nuclear submarine. A submarine made at the cost of taking bread from the mouths and life from the chests of Prime Minister Singh's fellow citizens. India is a gigantic torture chamber for the 47% of its children under five who suffer malnutrition
Endless War: The Suicide Of The United States
By Dahr Jamail
http://www.countercurrents.org/jamail120809.htm
Soldiers are returning from the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan destroyed mentally, spiritually, and psychologically, to a general population that is, mostly, willfully ignorant of the occupations and the soldiers participating in them. Troops face a Department of Veterans Affairs that is either unwilling or unable to help them with their physical and psychological wounds, and they are left to fend for themselves. It is a perfect storm of denial, neglect, violence, rage, suffering, and death
Another Soldier Refuses Afghanistan Deployment
By Dahr Jamail
http://www.countercurrents.org/jamail120809A.htm
Sgt. Travis Bishop, who served 14 months in Baghdad with the 3rd Signal Brigade, faces a court-martial this Friday for refusing to deploy to Afghanistan
Why Won't Universal Healthcare Be Provided?
By Emily Spence
http://www.countercurrents.org/spence120809.htm
The heath-care debate is not about care at all. Instead, it's about the amount of profits that government, HMO and pharmaceutical leaders are personally willing to give up. Accordingly, it's clear that many Congressional representatives have no interest in evaluating even a few of the successful models of universal coverage that numerous other countries can provide. Instead, they are, typically, in collusion with big business to stymie any meaningful reforms
Religious Fundamentalism In Israel
By Stephen Lendman
http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman120809.htm
Israeli extremists are a minority but influential enough to make policy, and therein lies the threat to peace and likelihood of a sovereign Palestinian state
India Adds Insult To Endosulfan Injury
By B F Firos
http://www.countercurrents.org/firos120809.htm
New Delhi's shamelss act at Stockholm Convention angers enraged victims who seek court help
Cracks Emerging In NAFTA
By Shamus Cooke
http://www.countercurrents.org/cooke120809.htm
The once-solid North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA) is starting to show its age. The 1994 trade agreement that laid the foundation for the economic/political integration of North America is encountering serious internal ruptures, threatening future "progress."
11 August, 2009
US Military And Intelligence Agencies Identify Climate Change As "National Security" Threat
By Patrick O'Connor
http://www.countercurrents.org/oconnor110809.htm
US military and intelligence agencies are studying the strategic implications of global warming, including preparations for military interventions, the New York Times reported Sunday
Climate Change: Get Smarter:
Turbocharging Democracy Online
By Bill Henderson
http://www.countercurrents.org/henderson110809.htm
Only a couple of months to Copenhagen and it's not looking hopeful. Real change must begin and be lead by the US and "( d)enial , mistrust and uncertainty are among the key psychological reasons that the American public is still resistant to serious action on climate change, according to psychologists"
Another Jolt To Democracy In Burma
By Bobby Ramakant
http://www.countercurrents.org/ramakant110809.htm
Despite growing global pressure for the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar (Burma), she was sentenced to another 18 months' house arrest by a court in Rangoon
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