CounterCurrents: The Social Costs Of Capitalism Are Destroying Earth’s Ability To Support Life, Two Degree Celsius Climate Change Target 'Utterly Inadequate, No Ban On Coal Finance As Green Climate Fund Eyes First Projects

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Airstrikes On Yemen Continue: 24 Dead
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc280315.htm

Saudi Arabia and its allies have launched airstrikes in Yemen against rebel Shiite Houthi forces gaining more ground. The mainly Gulf coalition, which also includes the US, is trying to help embattled President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. Twenty-four people were killed and 43 injured as a result of Saudi-led airstrikes over the last 24 hours, Yemen’s Saba state news agency reported the Interior Ministry saying in a statement


Nuclear Threat Escalating Beyond Political Rhetoric
By Thalif Deen

http://www.countercurrents.org/deen280315.htm

As a new cold war between the United States and Russia picks up steam, the nuclear threat is in danger of escalating – perhaps far beyond political rhetoric


The Social Costs Of Capitalism Are Destroying Earth’s Ability To Support Life
By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts280315.htm

David Ray Griffin has taken on global warming and the CO2 crisis. His book has just been published by Clarity Press, a publisher that seeks out truth-telling authors. Griffin’s book is a hefty 424 pages plus 77 pages of footnotes documenting the information that he presents. Unprecedented: Can Civilization Survive The CO2 Crisis? The book is a carefully researched document


No Ban On Coal Finance As Green Climate Fund Eyes First Projects
By Megan Darby

http://www.countercurrents.org/darby280315.htm

The Green Climate Fund has not ruled out backing coal plants after a protracted three-day board meeting in Songdo, South Korea. Tense negotiations ended at 04 20 on Thursday with agreement on seven intermediaries to disburse funds for low carbon development and climate adaptation in poor countries


Two Degree Celsius Climate Change Target 'Utterly Inadequate
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc280315A.htm

The official global target of a 2°C temperature rise is 'utterly inadequate' for protecting those at most risk from climate change, says a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), writing a commentary in the open access journal Climate Change Responses. The commentary presents a rare inside-view of a two-day discussion at the Lima Conference of the Parties (COP) on the likely consequences of accepting an average global warming target of 2°C versus 1.5°C


The Czech Republic And The Fine Art Of Collaboration
By Andre Vltchek

http://www.countercurrents.org/vltchek280315.htm

The US military convoy will soon be passing through the Czech territory, from the Baltics and Poland, to its permanent base in Bavaria, Germany. That is bad enough. The Czechs should not have allowed the convoy to pass. Provoking Russia and moving closer and closer to the fascist Empire is a shameless and cowardly act


Coming Home
By William T. Hathaway

http://www.countercurrents.org/hathaway280315.htm

From the Book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War. RADICAL PEACE is a collection of reports from antiwar activists, the true stories of their efforts to change our warrior culture. In this chapter a mother tells of her son's return from combat. She wishes to remain anonymous


Cultural Hegemony And Social Change: 2015
By Jon Kofas

http://www.countercurrents.org/kofas280315.htm

There are conservative analysts who assume that more than anything people crave safety and security. Cultural hegemony rests on the fears of the people who have been conditioned to accept the status quo and avert risk when it comes to securing a new social contract that would represent all people. Some advocates of democracy argue that actualizing their potential is just as important for human beings, but this entails having an institutional structure that permits and promotes those possibilities. I have argued in the past that uprisings are very possible in the 21st century, especially after the next inevitable deep recession, but systemic change is highly unlikely


Damage Limitation Time For Monsanto: Time To Wheel Out Patrick Moore Again... Or Maybe Not!
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter280315.htm

It’s been a bad couple of weeks for Monsanto. The company agreed to pay $600,000 in fines for not reporting hundreds of uncontrolled releases of toxic chemicals at its eastern Idaho phosphate plant. It also paid out a string of lawsuit settlements totaling $350,000 as a result of its GMOs tainting wheat in seven US states. Such amounts represent little more than a tap on the wrist for a company that rakes in sales of almost $16 billion dollars annually


Obama And The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
By William James Martin

http://www.countercurrents.org/martin280315.htm

The Palestinians have little to offer Obama. Do not expect any significant progress engendered by the Obama administration for the rest of his term. If there is to be any change in the configuration between the Palestinians and the Israelis, it will emanated from the International Court of Justice


Brutal Lathi Charge On Workers Outside Delhi Secretariat
By Abhinav Sinha

http://www.countercurrents.org/sinha280315.htm

Complete account of the brutal lathi charge on workers outside Delhi Secretariat on the orders of Kejriwal Government on March 25, 2015


“Bapu Surat Singh: Punjab’s Irom Sharmila”
By PUCL

http://www.countercurrents.org/pucl280315.htm

Human Rights Violations by the Punjab Government and Punjab Police regarding the Surat Singh Khalsa fast unto death