Sunday, May 4, 2014
CounterCurrents: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels Are The Highest In 3 Million Years, Stephen Hawking Warns About Use Of Drones In War, et al
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Massacre In Odessa , 20 Killed In Sloviansk and Kramatorsk; Ukraine On The Brink Of Civil War
By Countercurrents
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc030514.htm
Over the last 24 hours there has been a serious escalation in violence in eastern Ukraine . Violent deaths have been showered over Ukraine as neo-Nazi Right Sector activists in Odessa have burned to death at least 46 activists opposing the authority in Kiev while Kiev troops have killed at least 20 in the eastern cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk in overnight assault over anti-Kiev protesters. Street battles have started in parts of east Ukraine
Washington Responsible For Fascist Massacre In Odessa
By Mike Head
http://www.countercurrents.org/head030514.htm
With the Kiev regime failing to suppress the opposition, Washington appears intent on provoking a confrontation and then accusing Russia of preventing the presidential poll from proceeding. Meanwhile, on the pretext of training exercises, US troops are being deployed in the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, as well as Poland, bringing NATO forces right up to Russia’s borders
Afghan Landslide Takes At Least 2,500 Lives
By Countercurrents
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc030514A.htm
Death toll in the Afghan landslide has risen to at least 2,500. Thousands of Afghan people in the north-eastern mountain village are still missing. Hundreds of people are now camped out overnight in near-freezing conditions
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels Are The Highest In 3 Million Years
By Countercurrents
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc030514B.htm
Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are the highest in 3 million years. The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere averaged more than 400 parts per million throughout April, the first time the planet's monthly average has surpassed that threshold. The data from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California , San Diego , shows how world leaders are failing to rein in greenhouse gases that climate scientists say are warming the planet
Secrets About The Origin Of Life Revealed
By Countercurrents
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc030514C.htm
How the first organisms on Earth could have become metabolically active? Researchers from the University of Cambridge have published the details of the answer to the question. The results permit scientists to speculate how primitive cells learned to synthesize their organic components -- the molecules that form RNA, lipids and amino acids. The findings also suggest an order for the sequence of events that led to the origin of life
Stephen Hawking Warns About Use Of Drones In War
By Countercurrents
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc030514D.htm
Stephen Hawking has warned against the use of drones in warfare, with the world caught in “an IT arms race fuelled by unprecedented investment and building on an increasingly mature theoretical foundation”
Where Is The Political Base Of Iran's President?
By Akbar E. Torbat
http://www.countercurrents.org/torbat030514.htm
Rouhani's political base will be further tested as he has begun to implement the next phase of neoliberal reforms prescribed by the International Monetary Fund. While the Iranian economy is already in recession, It remains to be seen how the Iranians, 95% of whom have registered to get a monthly subsidy check, will react to Rouhani's economic austerity program
What Is The Main Issue Of Modi, BJP And NDA During The 2014 Lok Sabha Election-
Development or Majority Communalism?
By Thomas Kocherry
http://www.countercurrents.org/kocherry030514.htm
This is the last article written By Thomas Kochery who passed away today. He sent out this article at 3.50 AM this morning. He passed hours after sending out this article. Thomas Kocherry was a social activist, priest, and lawyer who helped found the Kerala Swatantra Matsyathozhilali Federation. He was also a Special Invitee at World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) and Executive Committee Member. of National Fishworkers' Forum (NFF), India
Book Review: The Fiction of Fact-Finding: Modi & Godhra
By KS Subramanian
http://www.countercurrents.org/subramanian030514.htm
In this remarkable and courageous book, Manoj Mitta (senior editor with the Times of India who writes on legal, human rights and public policy issues) mounts a devastating critique of the final report of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by RK Raghavan, the reports of the amicus curiae Raju Ramachandran, the Chief Minister and aspiring prime minister Narendra Modi, the Gujarat judiciary and by implication the state and central governments too for failing to deliver justice to the over 2000 victims of organised violence in the Gujarat pogrom, 2002, which caused extensive destruction of property as well
Debating Elections, Debating Development
By Ram Puniyani
http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani030514.htm
Mascarenhas, being a religious priest is saying that ‘No magic wand or divine miracles will come to the aid of the Indian people’, this at a time when Narendra Modi is claiming that God has chosen him to lead the country. Modi is in line with some of the recent happenings in the world when God was invoked, George Bush invoked God in invasion of Afghanistan and Tony Blair did the same in the context of attacking Iraq!
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