CounterCurrents: Locally-Controlled, Renewable Energy Championed As Key To Climate Justice, The Pro-GMO Lobby: Anti-Science And A Politically Motivated Agenda

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Locally-Controlled, Renewable Energy Championed As Key To Climate Justice
By Jon Queally

http://www.countercurrents.org/queally061214.htm

As progress at the UN climate summit in Lima, Peru has been reported as "slow" by many observers so far, green campaigners on Friday called on world governments participating in the talks to end their continued dependence on outdated fossil fuel- and nuclear-powered energy systems and urged investment and policies geared toward building clean, sustainable, community-based energy solutions


Another Climate Change Summit: Don't Give Up
By Kumi Naidoo

http://www.countercurrents.org/naiidoo061214.htm

Many have simply lost faith in global climate negotiations summits such as the COP 20 which started in Lima, Peru this week. But while the process has not delivered the climate action we need, I would argue that this year key things have changed and that we must continue to demand from our politicians that they listen and act and, by that, safeguard the future of next and current generations on this planet


Protests Continue Over Decision Not To Charge Cop Who killed Eric Garner
By WSWS

http://www.countercurrents.org/wsws061214.htm

Anger and protests continued in New York City and in other US cities for a third day yesterday, following this week’s announcement that the police officer who killed 43-year-old Eric Garner in Staten Island in July would face no charges


The Use And Abuse Of British Muslims
By Dan Glazebrook

http://www.countercurrents.org/glazebrook061214.htm

Using the spectre of ‘ISIS terrorism' as cover, David Cameron is pushing through the latest chapter in the British state's ongoing crackdown on civil liberties. But he is doing nothing to stop the terrorism he has helped to create


The Pro-GMO Lobby: Anti-Science And A Politically Motivated Agenda
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter061214.htm

The pro-GMO lobby claims that there is a scientific consensus on the safety of GM food and therefore the GMO debate is over. It claims that GMOs guarantee higher yields and less pesticide/herbicide use. The claim is also made that GM agriculture has no adverse impact on soil, the nutritional value and health of crops or biodiversity. The industry and its supporters claim that the ‘scientific community' believes GMOs can only have positive effects and point to research to back this up. These claims are bogus


Golden Age of Pearl Harbor
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson061214.htm

As we read Ulysses on Bloomsday every June 16th (or we should if we don't) I think that every December 7th should not only commemorate the Great Law of 1682 that banned war in Pennsylvania but also mark Pearl Harbor, not by celebrating the state of permawar that has existed for 73 years, but by reading The Golden Age by Gore Vidal and marking with a certain Joycean irony the golden age of anti-isolationist imperial mass-killing that has encompassed the lives of every U.S. citizen under the age of 73


On The 22nd Anniversary of Destruction of Babri Mosque
Assert Your Right To A Democratic And Secular Society
By People's Alliance for Democracy and Secularism

http://www.countercurrents.org/pads061214.htm

December 6, 1992 must count as the darkest day in the history independent India. While the crowds mobilized by organisations of the RSS destroyed Babri Mosque under a planned conspiracy, the institutions of the Indian state, elected state and central governments, police and judiciary stood by as mute spectators. This was the culmination of a prolonged campaign of communal hatred and violence. Thousands of Indian citizens were killed in riots during the run-up to, and after the demolition of Babri Masjid. Yet the nature of our society and politics is such that not only the perpetrators these crimes have gone unpunished, they in fact have reaped rich political dividend


As Operation Green Hunt Extends To Engulf The Western Ghats, What Do We Stand To Lose?
By JNU Forum Against War on People

http://www.countercurrents.org/jnuf061214.htm

As the eyes of the corporates and the Indian state have fixed themselves on this region, preparations have also began to dispossess those adivasis who seem to come in the way way of ‘development’. While such measures would inevitably and justifiably be resisted by those adivasi people fighting in defense of their life, livelihood & dignity, the state is extending its war on people into these regions


We The “Peaceniks” Will Always Prefer Talks Over War With Pakistan
By Devika Mittal

http://www.countercurrents.org/mittal061214.htm

When the peaceniks advocate for dialogue, they are not defending Pakistan. They are defending talks. They are defending meaningful and fruitful talks. It is important that talks should happen, with an agenda and after the talks, the full report should be made public. Both narratives should be presented. If the talks are not being meaningful, the solution is not to disrupt talks but to make them meaningful. Disruption of talks will not lead us to peace. We need to work to end this conflict, not to sustain it. We don’t want war with Pakistan not because we love Pakistan but because we love India. Talking about peace is not an easy thing. Talking about war is easy and ofcourse, profitable!


Economic Imperialism
By Bilal Hussain

http://www.countercurrents.org/hussain061214.htm

Recently, Jammu and Kashmir government faced a financial crunch that forced the state government to borrow from open market to meet its day-to-day expenses. It is believed that the government functioning has taken a hit in the state and work on the development front has suffered as the coffers went dry


Silver Linings In Rolling Stone Rape Fiasco
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson061214A.htm

Individually, victims and assailants need restorative justice. Those guilty need to be brought to understand and regret their victims' pain and suffering, and to work to make it up to them to the extent possible. Victims need to be brought to understand that they are not to blame, that their community supports them, and that those responsible are sorry for what they've done. None of that comes out of an ancient British system of adversarial justice, an unprecedented epidemic of U.S. mass incarceration, or journalism that doesn't bother to get more than one side of a story


Fattening Pennsylvania Fog With The Blues
By Charles Orloski

http://www.countercurrents.org/orloski061214.htm

Her music bites and sticks, and the wild man who aimed cross-bow on Wilkes-Barre Public Square is under arrest! Alexis P. Suter can show the flying drone machines how real musical rage will eventually catch-up, overcome