CounterCurrents: The 3rd National Climate Assessment - Denial That Limits Needed Action, Mariupol Killings: US Backs Ukrainian Regime’s Reign Of Terror, et al

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Lugansk And Donetsk Vote For Self-Determination While Fighting Resumes Near Slavyansk
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc110514.htm

Residents of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in east Ukraine have cast their ballots on May 11, 2014 in a referendum on whether the regions should declare sovereignty and break away from Kiev


Mariupol Killings: US Backs Ukrainian Regime’s Reign Of Terror
By Mike Head

http://www.countercurrents.org/head110514.htm

After tanks, armoured personnel carriers and heavily armed troops were unleashed on unarmed civilians in the city, the Kiev regime claimed to have killed some 20 people. The Obama administration immediately blamed the violent repression on “pro-Russian separatists.”


Will “President Gas Bag” Do ADr Strangelove To Start A World War Backing NATO Nazi Stooges?
By A D Hemming

http://www.countercurrents.org/hemming110514.htm

When does a swastika not mean Nazi? Apparently when NATO supports these Nazis as they did in 1949 in the Ukraine as is the case today but then fortunately for the people of the area Kim Philby who had been with MI6 exposed the whole affair before the lives of so many innocents could be sacrificed on the Cold War altar


Disentangling Ukraine From Our “Narrative Lines”: A Zen Moment For Our Droned Psyches!
By Gary Corseri

http://www.countercurrents.org/corseri110514.htm

Remembering a trip to Kiev, Ukraine


The 3rd National Climate Assessment - Denial That Limits Needed Action
By Bill Henderson

http://www.countercurrents.org/hnerson110514.htm

The 3rd National Climate Assessment is a very impressive report: well written, great language, great graphics, very informative (especially the website). The Obama Administration seems to be focusing in on climate change as a legacy issue and the average American reading this report must surely understand that climate change is happening now and has immediate costs in a threatened American economy


Our Duty To Future Generations
By John Scales Avery

http://www.countercurrents.org/avery110514.htm

We are living today in a time of acute crisis. We need to act with a sense of urgency never before experienced. We need to have great courage to meet an unprecedented challenge. We need to fulfil our duty to future generations


Children’s Future Is Dependent On A Common Interest
By Lionel Anet

http://www.countercurrents.org/anet110514.htm

We must choose between the frustration, fears, insecurity, and devastation of competition, in contrast to the pleasure, satisfaction, and the security of fulfilling the social needs by cooperating. To deal with global warming will not be a sacrifice, on the contrary it will give the young something to work for and hope


The GMO Biotech Sector Can't Win The Scientific Debate:
Co-option, Deception And Collusion As An Alternative Strategy
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter110514.htm

The GM sector will only get its products into Britain (and elsewhere) if its institutions and mouthpieces in government, academia and the media are left unchallenged. Part of the strategy involves counting on a misinformed and easily manipulated public


Zionism Beyond Control And Choices For The Palestinians
By Alan Hart

http://www.countercurrents.org/hart110514.htm

The conclusion to be drawn from the Obama administration’s predictable and predicted failure to get an Israeli-Palestinian peace process going is that the Zionist (not Jewish) monster state is beyond control. And the question arising is this. What are the real choices for the Palestinians?


The Aptly Named Anne-Marie Slaughter
By Steve Breyman

http://www.countercurrents.org/breyman110514.htm

Might Americans (and the rest of the world) sleep more soundly now that Anne-Marie Slaughter no longer sits around the tables of power in Washington? Maybe. There's also the prospect that she's become even more dangerous to world peace


The Politics Of The Insignias
By Gouthama Siddarthan

http://www.countercurrents.org/siddarthan110514.htm

In many constituencies the general awareness about their respective candidates and about the prospective winner among them doesn’t seem to exist at all, except in the case of the most popular ones. In this so called ‘Democratic process’ the focus is on the party symbol rather than the candidate himself or on his individual credentials. The origins for this tendency in voters’ minds needs to be understood and this necessitates a debate with criticism about the electoral process itself and its structure along with the subtle politics behind it


We All Should Be Out And Proud
By Devika Mittal

http://www.countercurrents.org/mittal110514.htm

The Supreme Court of India has recently recognised transgenders to be the third gender. They have been recognised as full citizens of the country who will be entitled to equal rights. This decision has been warmly welcomed by not just people of LGBTQ community but also by many amongst the heterosexual community. It is being seen as the realisation of a true and just democracy. It is being hailed as a progressive move


Communicating Gujarat !!
By Sanjeev Kumar


http://www.countercurrents.org/skumar110514.htm

Gujarat claims exceptional improvement in communication infrastructure development which included road, ports etc. There is no doubt that Gujarat is one of the best state in india in terms of availability of infrastructural facilities such as roads and ports, but there are number of states which are well ahead of Gujarat in this field


AK versus NaMo
By Subhash Gatade

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatade110514.htm

Imagine an alternate scenario which could have been followed by Mr Kejriwal. Instead of engaging in the public display of his religiosity - by taking a 'holy dip' in the Ganges or by participating in the Ganga Aarti (nobody is here questioning his right to do so) - he could have as well declared that by faith he might be a Hindu but for him it is a private matter and by choice and by practice he believes in clear separation of religion and politics. This move would have definitely cost him few votes but could have helped him set an alternate agenda in these critical times when the very idea of secularism is being questioned, challenged and derided as never before.


A Battle Line Crisscrosses Narayanganj And A Bangladesh Reality Gets Exposed
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury110514.htm

The battle line crisscrossing today’s Narayanganj, a river-port city near Dhaka, is not between the forces of status quo and its opponents. It’s not between, as almost always perceived in almost all Bangladesh political incidents, Awami League and Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the two major political parties in today’s Bangladesh mainstream. The line runs through the status quo