CounterCurrents: 'The Cause Is Us': World On Verge Of Sixth Extinction et al

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'The Cause Is Us': World On Verge Of Sixth Extinction 
By Andrea Germanos

http://www.countercurrents.org/germanos310514.htm

A new study showing that the human activity has driven current rates of species extinction to 1,000 times faster than the natural rate is "alarming" and "should be a clarion call" to work towards greater conservation efforts, an environmental group charges. The study, published Thursday by the journal Science and led by conservation expert Stuart Pimm, also warns that without drastic action, the sixth mass extinction could be imminent


Climate Impact Fueling South Sudan War, Says Minister 
By Sophie Yeo

http://www.countercurrents.org/yeo310514.htm

Climate change is exacerbating the civil war in South Sudan , according to the country's environment minister, Deng Deng Hoc Yai. He warned that the environmental damage caused by global warming was increasing the suffering that war was already causing in the strife-ridden country, worsening food shortages and building pressure on urban areas


Prospects For Eco-Socialism
By Saral Sarkar

http://www.countercurrents.org/sarkar310514.htm

Are there indications today that give us hope that the majority of the people of the world or of some countries would in the near future embrace eco-socialism and transform their capitalist society to an eco-socialist one? It is a question worth reflecting upon because, as the world situation is today, it cannot go on like this for long


The Lethality of Nuclear Weapons 
By Steven Starr

http://www.countercurrents.org/starr310514.htm

The need is dire for the president of the US, Russia, or China to state in a highly public forum that the existence of nuclear weapons creates the possibility of their use and that their use in war would likely mean human extinction. As nuclear war has no winners, the weapons should be banned and destroyed before they destroy all of us


“Force Protection Alpha in Effect” –Coming To A Town Near You 
By Brian Terrell 

http://www.countercurrents.org/terrell310514.htm

In a new documentary film released in Europe, “Drone,” former Air Force drone operators, veterans of a super-secret Squadron 17 at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, reveal that “it’s always been the Air Force that flies” the CIA’s missions, “the CIA might be the customer, but the Air Force has always flown it.” 


Syrians Working To Preserve Jewish Cultural Heritage 
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb310514.htm

This observer was served tea one day by some members of the Jewish community in the old City of Damascus, including my friend Saul, who claims to be the last Jewish tailor in Syria, as well as the lovely elderly ladies known as ‘the Jewish sisters’ and whose apartment is near where St. Paul, according to tradition, converted to Christianity. The view expressed by my hosts that day—and I believe them—is that Jewish cultural heritage in Syria is being respected, protected and preserved with the same care as Muslim, Christian, and pagan antiquities


So, You Need Pictures To Believe That Rape Happens? 
By Farzana Versey 

http://www.countercurrents.org/versey310514.htm

Have you been awakened yet? Have your eyes dropped out from their sockets as you saw the pictures of the girls hanging from a tree? Are you done with discovering poetry in the limbs of the branches and the scent of the soil, the mango fruit that would now lack lusciousness? 


The Lesser Known But More Horrible American Holocaust 
By Sukumaran C. V. 

http://www.countercurrents.org/sukumaran310514.htm

From the U. S., a land from which the native inhabitants have completely been disinherited and eliminated through violence by the white settlers the so called civilised race, let's come to Kerala to witness somewhat the same fate of another native people —the adivasis of Kerala .None of their arable lands is now in their possession and all their fruit and tuber yielding hills have been encroached and deforested. They dwell in the periphery of our democracy as outcasts or rather as an eyesore to the mainstream ‘WE' the ‘civilised' and ‘civilising' people. Even the mass death of their infants due to malnutrition is used to gain political mileage! In the arena of the political mud-slinging they are used just as the mud and that is their utility