Vicious Global Warming Feedback Loop Worse Than Feared

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Vicious Global Warming Feedback Loop Worse Than Feared
By Jacob Chamberlain
http://www.countercurrents.org/chamberlain200214.htm

One of nature's key defenses against global warming—the reflection of the sun's rays away from Earth by Arctic sea ice—has fallen victim to... global warming. And according to a study published Monday, the vicious feedback loop is worse than previously thought. The new research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows the ability of the Arctic ice to reflect sunlight—known scientifically as albedo—has decreased dramatically since 1979, with the calculations showing the region's ability to reflect sunlight diminished more than twice what previous studies have shown


The Libyan Bedlam: General Hifter, The CIA And The Unfinished Coup
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud200214.htm

On Friday, Feb 14, 92 prisoners escaped from their prison in the Libyan town of Zliten. 19 of them were eventually recaptured, two of whom were wounded in clashes with the guards. It was just another daily episode highlighting the utter chaos which has engulfed Libya since the overthrow of Muammar Ghaddafi in 2011. On that same Friday, Feb 14, Maj. Gen. Khalifa Hifter announced a coup in Libya


Thug State U.S.A.
By Tom Engelhardt
http://www.countercurrents.org/engelhardt200214.htm

Shadow government has conquered twenty-first-century Washington. We have the makings of a thug state of the first order


It’s Him: Zawahiri Asks For An Intifada In Bangladesh
By Taj Hashmi

http://www.countercurrents.org/hashmi200214.htm

Bangladeshis should not waste time debating the credibility of the Zawahiri podcast, and blaming each other for “doctoring” the audio for reason X or reason Y. In the backdrop of the Zawahiri message, there is no room for complacency in Bangladesh only because the overwhelming majority of Bangladeshi Muslims hate religious extremism. Al Qaeda never terrorises and bleeds nations with the support of the majorities. A handful of al Qaeda activists are more than enough to destabilize a country for decades


Bangladesh: Failing To See The Woods For The Trees
By Fazal M. Kamal

http://www.countercurrents.org/kamal200214.htm

Spurious or not the al-Qaida message makes it even more imperative for the administration and the ruling party to urgently work toward a resolution of the existing political crisis which they themselves have created


Lawrence Lessig's Wrongheaded March To End Corruption
By John Spritzler

http://www.countercurrents.org/spritzler200214.htm

Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Constitutional scholar (like President Obama once was), is leading a march against corruption, by which he means the inordinate influence of Big Money on Congress. As well-intentioned as the people following Lessig may be, and as well-intentioned as Lessig himself may be, their proposed solution to the problem of Big Money power in the United States is wrongheaded


Another World Is Possible
By Mazin Qumsiyeh

http://www.countercurrents.org/qumsiyeh200214.htm

A visit to the Galilee just emphasized to me that we are on the right track to one democratic state where we live together in equality, peace, and harmony. Another world is coming. As you will see below, there is no difference in colonial settlement activity inside 1948 or 1967 occupied areas but that is all temporary phenomenon. Since my trip was focused on environmental issues and science (biodiversity), I was more concerned about time passage that makes the environmental destruction in the Galilee irreversible


Sri Lanka : “Life Has To Be Designed By Your Intellect And Not By Emotion”
- An Interview with Justice C. V. Wigneswaran
By Nilantha Ilangamuwa

http://www.countercurrents.org/ilangamuwa200214.htm

Justice Wigneswaran needs no introduction. He is a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, judge and politician. He was in turn magistrate, and then judge of the District Court, High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. After his retirement he was elected as the Chief Minister of the Northern Province when the Province held its election in 2013


Stuck Between The Politics Of Oppressive Governments And 'Peace' Activists: The Plight of Pakistani Hindu Refugees
By Devika Mittal

http://www.countercurrents.org/mittal200214.htm

A group of about 100 people are sitting on an indefinite strike on Jantar Mantar, New Delhi. They are organised under a group called Seemant Lok Sanghathan - Universal Just Action Society that has been working for rights of Pak Hindu Migrants since a long time. The head of the organisation, Hindu Singh Sodha, is also a Pakistani Refugees who had migrated in 1970s. While about 100 people were on Jantar Mantar, according to Mr. Sodha, in Rajasthan alone from where they have come, more than one lakh Pakistan Hindu refugees are living. Most of them are farmers and daily wage workers