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Toxic Overflow Of Thousands Of Fukushima Tanks Following Heavy Rains
By Lauren McCauley

http://www.countercurrents.org/mccauley221013.htm

Containment areas surrounding 12 of 23 groups of tanks overflowed, with one of them containing Strontium-90 as highly concentrated as 710 Becquerels per liter - 71 times higher than the level set by the company as safe for release. Tepco told Kyodo News that they "cannot rule out the possibility that contaminated water has reached the Pacific Ocean via drainage conduits near the clusters," and added that they are working to determine that amount of contaminated water and what possible radioactive substances were released


Why Governments Are Blind To Fossil Fuel Energy Risk
By Jeremy Leggett

http://www.countercurrents.org/leggett221013.htm

Theese statements are all held as comforting core beliefs across much of society today : Oil supply can keep growing for decades. Climate change is not that big a threat. Fossil-fuels count as assets at zero risk of being devalued by policy action on climate. Fracking shale is a sustainableroute to new mass prosperity in the US and beyond. Each one of these assertions is false, so I and others like me believe. Each one entails a belief system that threatens society with disaster of some kind


A Question Of Scarcity
By Andrew Fanning

http://www.countercurrents.org/fanning221013.htm

The scarcity principle, however, is just an assumption, and it appears to be a dangerous one. Maybe in the empty world of the 18th century classical economists, it was mostly harmless to assume that people have unlimited wants because the vast majority of people had so little. But now that we live in a full world where the global economy is bumping against ecosystem limits, it’s time for economists to stop assuming that everyone always wants more and start accepting that it’s not possible to have too much


What Collapse Feels Like, Part 4 of 5: Despair: Every Hour Offers A Choice
By Carolyn Baker

http://www.countercurrents.org/baker221013.htm

As we confront catastrophic climate change and planetary game-changers such as the ever-widening implications of the Fukushima disaster, it is increasingly likely that humanity is already inhabiting hospice. As tempting as it may be to leap into the left brain and begin arguing that we are not inhabiting hospice and that the notion is absurd, it may actually be more useful to notice the potential benefits of imagining such a scenario


Shale Gas Exploitation And Environmental Destruction In Romania
By Florentina Mihaila

http://www.countercurrents.org/mihaila221013.htm

Shale gas exploitation by fracking is not well received in Romania but has created a popular protest movement from concerned citizens


Straw Could Supply Energy To Millions Of Households
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc221013A.htm

Straw could play an important role in the future energy mix for Germany. Up until now it has been underutilized as a biomass residue and waste material. These were the conclusions of a study conducted by the TLL (Thueringian regional institute for agriculture), the DBFZ (German biomass research center) and the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ)


New Evidence Of NSA Spying On France, Mexico
By Thomas Gaist

http://www.countercurrents.org/gaist221013.htm

France’s Le Monde published a report Monday based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden describing National Security Agency (NSA) spying operations directed against the French population and the French business and political leadership. Between December 2012 and January 2013, according to Le Monde, the NSA collected over 70 million French communications, which were then categorized either as “Drtbox” or “Whitebox.”


Why There Are No Israelis In Israel?
By Neve Gordon

http://www.countercurrents.org/gordon221013.htm

Three High Court justices rejected a petition filed by several Israelis who had requested a change in the registration in their identity cards. The plaintiffs in the registration case were asking that the Interior Ministry write “Israeli” instead of making the distinction between Jewish, Arab, or Druze in their nationality category. The crux of the matter is that the High Court fears that if Israeli citizens are allowed to be categorised in the state registry as Israeli instead of Jewish, Arab, or Druze then the Jewish character of the state will be jeopardised


Peres Suffering From Portnoy’s Complaint?
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb221013.htm

Shimon Peres’ guilt-edged insecurity these days is far more important when it comes to the masking—and unmasking—of an abettor of racist Zionism. His complaint, like Portnoy's Complaint, is also emblematic of the times during which he has lived and his uncertainty as to whether he has squandered his life in an evil cause


The Coming Era Of Tiny Wars And Micro-Conflicts
By Tom Engelhardt

http://www.countercurrents.org/engelhardt221013.htm

What our leaders don’t get is the most basic, practical fact of our moment: war simply doesn’t work, not big, not micro -- not for Washington. A superpower at war in the distant reaches of this planet is no longer a superpower ascendant but one with problems. The U.S. military may be a destabilization machine. It may be a blowback machine. What it’s not is a policymaking or enforcement machine


Some Basic Facts And Background: New Nuclear Negotiations
Between The U.S. And Other World Powers And Iran
By Larry Everest

http://www.countercurrents.org/everest221013A.htm

It is not yet clear how the U.S. , Israel , and other world powers will respond to Iran 's proposal and exactly how they see advancing their imperialist interests in the region and toward Iran . However, it's important to understand that both the U.S. and Iran are confronted with their own set of major necessities, including the deep fissures and rapidly changing situation across the region from North Africa , through the Middle East , to Central Asia


Obama At The UN: Whitewashing The Real "Roots Of Mistrust" Between The U.S. And Iran
By Larry Everest

http://www.countercurrents.org/everest221013.htm

Part 1: The 1953 CIA Coup, the Shah, and the 1979 Revolution


Mining The Ocean Floor
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc221013B.htm

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Statoil, and the mining company Nordic Mining are collaborating on a research project that will map marine mineral resources along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The parties signed a one-year collaboration agreement at the end of November 2012


AFSPA: Imputnity Must End
By Ravi Nitesh

http://www.countercurrents.org/nitesh221013.htm

On the issue of reviewing/repealing AFSPA (Armed forces special powers act), many come together on one side to oppose any such change, even government and opposition political group both join each other. On the other end, another stakeholder army itself comes on board to oppose any such change


Will Kashmir Forget 27th October ?
By Ishaq Begh

http://www.countercurrents.org/begh221013.htm

If Kashmir gets peace and solution including reunion, then certain dates of Kashmir history such as 27th October will vanish and happiness may return