CounterCurrents: Shell Is Failing To Account For Climate Risks, Finds Study, Shell Is Failing To Account For Climate Risks, Finds Study

Dear Friend,

If you think the content of this news letter is critical for the dignified living and survival of humanity and other species on earth, please forward it to your friends and spread the word. It's time for humanity to come together as one family! You can subscribe to our news letter here http://www.countercurrents.org/subscribe.htm. You can also follow us on twitter, http://twitter.com/countercurrents and on Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/countercurrents

In Solidarity
Binu Mathew
Editor
www.countercurrents.org


Gaza Death Toll Hits 100 As Israel Continues Assault
By Ma'an News Agency

http://www.countercurrents.org/maan110714.htm

Thirteen Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes since midnight on Thursday, Gaza's Ministry of Health said, bringing the death toll in Israel's military assault to 102


Israel Warns Of Imminent Ground Invasion Of Gaza
By Mike Head

http://www.countercurrents.org/head110714.htm

Israel yesterday told an estimated 100,000 Gaza residents living in cities near the border with Israel to leave their homes immediately, in a clear warning of an imminent ground invasion of the densely-populated enclave that houses nearly two million Palestinians


CNN: Palestinians Want To Die
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson110714.htm

In a video from Thursday on CNN, Jake Tapper interviews Diana Buttu, a former advisor to the PLO. After failing to persuade her of Israel's complete innocence, he tells her that Hamas is instructing women and children to remain in their homes to die as Israel bombs them. She responds by expressing doubt that people want to die. Oh no, says Tapper, Palestinians live in a culture of martyrdom; they want to die


Gaza Rhymes: Bombs, Pain And The Resistance
By V. Arun Kumar

http://www.countercurrents.org/arunkumar110714.htm

In Gaza, history rhymes. The aggression of Israel rhymes, the sound of bombs dropped by Israeli aircrafts rhymes and the agony of Palestinians rhymes. And so does the great Palestinian resistance against oppression rhymes, which rhymes in a musical tone of struggle and hope. One day Palestine will be free!


Israel’s Gaza Genocide Redux
By Professor Francis A. Boyle

http://www.countercurrents.org/boyle110714.htm

Professor Francis A. Boyle delivered the following Oral Argument before the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal Commission for the Indictment of Israel for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity on November 21, 2012 during Israel’s genocidal Operation Cast Lead II against the 1.7 million Palestinians living in Gaza. The analysis and conclusions remain the same today during Cast Lead III


The Nation Magazine Plays Dumb About Obama's Nazism on Ukraine Policy
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse110714.htm

No matter what so-called "progressive" magazines might say about so-called "Democrats" such as Obama, he's a war-criminal and a hyper-protector of the biggest crooks on Wall Street, and any publication that soft-peddles his evilness on account of his being a “Democrat,” isn't progressive; it's not even decently liberal; it is garbage


Humanitarian Crisis In South Sudan Is Spiraling Out Of Control As Aid Fails To Arrive
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc110714.htm

South Sudan is currently Africa 's worst crisis with nearly 4 million people, a third of the country's population, at risk of severe hunger. Aid effort in South Sudan has only so far reached half of those-in-need


Gringo Bond With Love From Washington : Germany Catches US Spies
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc110714A.htm

The United States is caught up in a spy-net in Germany . And, the US spying operation is creating pressure on its relation with the NATO ally. The US president Obama and the German chancellor Merkel are engaged in a spy flap


Shell Is Failing To Account For Climate Risks, Finds Study
By Megan Darby

http://www.countercurrents.org/darby110714.htm

Shell was accused of “Orwellian doublethink” in its attitude to climate change as an influential think-tank published new analysis on July 9, 2014. In the latest installment of the “carbon bubble” debate, the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) highlighted flaws in the oil major's optimistic assessment of its future profitability


“Letter To Young People Over $220 Trillion Carbon Debt: Revolt (Peacefully)”
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya110714.htm

Young people in Australia and around the world are thoroughly disenchanted with anti-youth, anti-environment, anti-future, pro-One Percenter, pro-Ten Percenter, neoliberal and Corporatist governments. It is time for young people to REVOLT (peacefully of course) to ensure that Humanity reverts to a decent and safe course of sustainability and social humanism involving maximizing human happiness, dignity and opportunity for everyone. To that end I have written the Open Letter to young Australians


Amerikistan, Not Afghanistan, Warocracy, Not Democracy
By Dr Hakim

http://www.countercurrents.org/hakim110714.htm

Abdullah Abdullah's phone call with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry who arrived in Kabul today, shows that it is the U.S. government, and not Afghans, who run this country


Iraq And The Military-Industrial Complex versus A True Cost Economy
By Brent Blackwelder

http://www.countercurrents.org/blackwelder110714.htm

A true cost or steady state economy can never be reached in a society consumed with perpetual war, especially warfare over oil. A steady state economy must have its energy supply based on renewable sources like solar and wind. To reach a true cost, steady state economy, the resources currently devoted to waging war must be transformed, and the use of natural resources like oil that are causing wars must be shifted


Doublespeak, The Transatlantic Trade And Investment Partnership
And The Corporate Hijack Of Europe
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter110714.htm

Tom Vilsack is the US Agriculture Secretary. In an attempt to support giant agritech and food corporations' aims to eliminate all ‘unnecessary' barriers to trade and investment between the US and EU via the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), Vilsack has stated in public that he wants “sound science” to underpin any rules governing food trade


America's Creative Extortion
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

http://www.countercurrents.org/ulrich110714.htm

Admittedly, America has always devised creative means to execute its vast array of crimes against other nations – coups, wars, occupation, exploitation, terrorism, genocide, and so forth. One crime often neglected is America's creative extortion. America has made a legal judgment to rob Iran of $1.75 billion


Immigration In The Time of Imperialism
By Gaither Stewart

http://www.countercurrents.org/stewart110714.htm

With each of America’s wars in its Middle Eastern-East European expansion strategy the waves of immigration swell: Libyans, Tunisians, Egyptians, Syrians, East Europeans aim at (once) rich Europe. The bill for centuries of colonialism and exploitation and now current US imperialism has fallen due. Africans and Middle Easterners are here to collect that bill. Sooner or later, there is always a payback


Accession And Article 370: In Response To Adarash Sen Anand
By Abdul Majid Zargar

http://www.countercurrents.org/zargar110714.htm

Mr. Adarash Sen Anand, former chief Justice of India, has written a two installment article titled “Accession of J&K, a constitutional view” which appeared in daily Chandigrah Tribune of 2nd & 3rd July 2014.In the first part of the article he has dealt with the historical perspective of the Accession of J&K State to Indian Dominion and in the second part about the history & legality of Article 370 of Indian Constitution. The article appears to be a part of the wider debate started by BJP on Article 370. If the debate remains serious & civil, devoid of heat & Jingoism generated by right wing extremist elements-it is welcome. The write-up by Mr. Anand is factually incorrect on few points & economical in content & substance on few others


Bokaro Rape Case: India Needs To Abolish All Illegal Bodies
By Dr. Vivek Kumar Srivastava

http://www.countercurrents.org/srivastava110714.htm

Now the time has come to abolish the local Panchayats, Khap Panchyats, religious bodies which act as kangaroo courts in Indian society.This thoughtful demand emerges from the fact that in the country the decisions and fatwas of such bodies are degrading the human dignity, a goal which Indian constitution never aimed for, it had although aimed for providing the respect to human dignity