CounterCurrents: 'A Roadmap To Global Burning': COP20 Closes With Even Weaker Climate Pact

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'A Roadmap To Global Burning': COP20 Closes With Even Weaker Climate Pact
By Lauren McCauley

http://www.countercurrents.org/mccauley151214.htm

After two weeks of negotiations, the world community has yet again failed to take any meaningful actions to prevent landmark global warming and instead has produced a "roadmap to global burning," leading climate campaigners lamented upon the close of the United Nations COP20 climate talks in Lima, Peru on Sunday


Tens Of Thousands Join Protests Against Police Killings In The US
By Joseph Kishore

http://www.countercurrents.org/kishore151214.htm

Tens of thousands of protesters participated in demonstrations against police violence in New York City, Washington, DC and other US cities on Saturday. In New York, at least 50,000 gathered at Washington Square Park and marched through the streets of Manhattan. In Washington, DC, 25,000 participated in a protest that far exceeded the expectations of the organizers, including the National Action Network, led by Democratic Party operative Al Sharpton. Some 3,500 participated in a demonstration in Oakland, California


Stop Torture! Accountability: YES – Impunity: NO
By Hans von Sponeck and Denis Halliday

http://www.countercurrents.org/halliday151214.htm

Statement and petition initiated by two former UN Assistant Secretaries-General, UN Humanitarian Coordinators for Iraq: Hans von Sponeck and Denis Halliday


American Torture -- Past, Present, And… Future? Beyond The Senate Torture Report
By Rebecca Gordon

http://www.countercurrents.org/gordon151214.htm

The Senate torture report could be the opening we need to really make U.S. torture a thing of the past. Let's not waste it!


Legitimate Palestinian Questions In The Christmas Time
By Dr Salim Nazzal

http://www.countercurrents.org/nazzal151214.htm

In the Christmas time we chant for peace in Palestine and the Middle East, and for humanity. The Palestinian Christmas is loaded with many questions which Palestinians ask all the time


Questions Begged By The Unanimous Foregone Conclusions
On “Godman” Ramphal And The Storming Of His Ashram
By Simran Kaur

http://www.countercurrents.org/kaur151214.htm

Caught in my self-identity as “educated,” I am usually quite quick to offer the usual condemnation of “deras” and the “illiteracy,” if not “criminality,” they breed. So the storming of one such dera less than a month ago by the Haryana police may not have made me loose much sleep. However, when the deaths of four women and an 18-month-old baby as a result of the storming by the police were accepted as mere collateral, I wondered. And as a one-sided story quietly made its way through diminishing news cycles, while Progressive blogs and mainstream media quite aligned on foregone conclusions, I began to wonder some more


Why Didn’t I Vote?
By Suhail Qasim Mir

http://www.countercurrents.org/mir151214.htm

Had it been beyond the issues of road, electricity and water, I would have voted. Had it been about justice, I would have voted. Had it been a plebiscite I would have been the first one to express my choice. But it was not any of these; that is why I didn’t vote……