CounterCurrents: A Clean Energy Future Is Possible: A Message For The 4th Anniversary Of Fukushima

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Frame New Laws To Help The Poor: A 9 Year Old's Message To The World

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A Clean Energy Future Is Possible: A Message For The 4th Anniversary Of Fukushima
By Andrea Germanos

http://www.countercurrents.org/germanos110315.htm

Just ahead of the four-year anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, five organizations have issued a message that the only way to avert climate disaster is by embracing a clean energy future. It was March 11, 2011 when the Great East Japan earthquake caused a massive tsunami which triggered a triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and destroyed thousands of lives and livelihoods


Carbon Emissions Could Dramatically Increase Risk Of U.S. Megadroughts
By Steve Cole & Leslie McCarthy

http://www.countercurrents.org/cole110315.htm

Droughts in the US Southwest and Central Plains during the last half of this century could be drier and longer than drought conditions seen in those regions in the last 1,000 years, according to a new NASA study. The study, published [in February] in the journal Science Advances, is based on projections from several climate models, including one sponsored by NASA. The research found continued increases in human-produced greenhouse gas emissions drives up the risk of severe droughts in these regions


New Carbon Accounting Method Proposed
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc110315A.htm

Consumption-based accounting, also known as carbon footprints, has been suggested as an alternative to today's production-based accounting. With carbon footprints, each country must account for all emissions that are caused by its final consumption -- regardless of where the goods were produced. This has been called a fairer way of measuring emissions, potentially avoiding so-called carbon leakage, where rich, developed countries can reduce their domestic emissions by shifting carbon-intensive production abroad


Prolegomena To Any Future Understanding Of The Crisis In Ukraine
By Thomas Riggins

http://www.countercurrents.org/riggins110315.htm

The political and military maneuvers now going on in the Ukraine have the potential of escalating out of control. If we don't understand the actual reality that has brought about this crisis there is no hope of being able to prevent this escalation. In order to understand this reality we must refrain from simple minded finger pointing at one side or the other and assigning complete responsibility for the crisis to one of the parties in the dispute, although one side may be disproportionately responsible


Homan Square Police Site And The Mainstream Media's Lack of Concern:
Chicago Media Exposed For Its Deceitfulness
By Kim Scipes

http://www.countercurrents.org/scipes110315.htm

What we have is an extensive set of lies of omission: the Tribune and Sun-Times have not investigated the story, obviously hoping it would go away. Because of their inaction, it appears that there were hopes that it would not become an issue in the mayoral run-off. The mainstream media “dam” seems to be giving away, though, as activists and the alternative media in Chicago, including Substancenews.net, keep this issue alive. Whether it gets more fully into the mayoral campaign or not, police maleficence in Chicago—as well as across the United States—is going to continue to be challenged


Getting Serious About Terrorism
By Andy Piascik

http://www.countercurrents.org/piascik110315.htm

Last month, President Obama convened a summit at the White House to discuss terrorism. As could easily have been predicted, the focus was entirely on those the United States deems official enemies. Conversely and equally predictably, the two best and most obvious ways the United States can combat terrorism - stop doing it and stop giving arms, money and diplomatic cover to others who do - were not on the agenda


Online Privacy Is Worth The Extra Work
By Justin Podur

http://www.countercurrents.org/podur110315.htm


This past week, Laura Poitras's documentary, Citizen Four, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. When he provided the documents that revealed the details of universal spying by the US National Security Agency (NSA), the subject of the documentary, Edward Snowden, wrote an accompanying manifesto. His "sole motive", he wrote, was "to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them. The U.S. government, in conspiracy with client states, chiefest among them the Five Eyes - the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand - have inflicted upon the world a system of secret, pervasive surveillance from which there is no refuge."


Postcard From The End Of America: Washington D.C.
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh110315.htm

All capitals strive to be showcases, sure, but very few, or perhaps none, is as successful at blocking out its nation's true ugliness and failures. This sleight of hand, though, also works on many of the residents of this near perfect square inside a near perfect circle. The hell they've created keeps seeping in, however, and soon enough, it will overwhelm, if not explode, this Potemkin village of a city. This smug bubble will burst


Violence Against Women: Why We Keep Getting It Wrong
By Robert J. Burrowes

http://www.countercurrents.org/burrowes110315.htm

With the passing of another International Women's Day, during which much attention around the world has again been focused on tackling violence against women, I would like to explain why none of the initiatives currently being proposed will achieve anything unless we acknowledge, and act on, the cause of this violence


How The Public Are Deceived By The ‘News'
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse110315.htm

Top ‘News' Executives Suppress Key Facts; The Public Sees a Chaotic, Disjointed, Picture. Here Is How that Is Done, in Personal Detail


Feeding The Vultures, While Starving Agriculture: Capitalism's Great Indian Con-Trick
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter110315.htm

India’s development is being hijacked by the country’s wealthy ruling class and the multinational vultures who long ago stopped circling and are now swooping. Meanwhile, the genuine wealth creators, the entrepreneurs who work the fields and have been custodians of the land and seeds for centuries, are being sold out to corporate interests whose only concern is to how best loot the economy


In East And West Asia Use Of New Media As A News(Gathering) Tool
By Kashoo Tawseef

http://www.countercurrents.org/tawseef110315.htm

The influence in the news coverage at different times in the Middle East, illustrates that new media helped the people of Middle-East in getting their voices heard, and did help in advocacy efforts at times when state tried to block the access but at the same time everyone had eye on the developments taking place in that part of the world


Deprecate Lynching Of A Muslim Youth At Dimapur Of Nagaland
By Lateef Mohammed Khan

http://www.countercurrents.org/lmkhan110315.htm

It is Crime against Humanity based upon political motivation – Judiciary, State and Central Government are culpable