CounterCurrents: Nepal Earthquakes And Global Warming, Following al Qaeda, ISIS Gains In Yemen Thanks To US-Assisted Saudi Aggression

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Death Toll In Nepal Earthquake Mounting Every Hour
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc260415.htm

Death toll in the Nepal earthquake is mounting every hour. It may cross 2,200, the figure found only a few hours ago, the moment this Countercurrents report reaches readers. A state of emergency has been declared in the Himalayan country as it faces an unprecedented human crisis with widespread damage to its major infrastructure that reduces capacity to face the calamity. An emergency Nepal cabinet meeting has announced 29 districts in the country as crisis zones. A primary UN assessment finds almost 7 million people have been affected


Nepal Earthquakes And Global Warming
By Dr. Vivek Kumar Srivastava

http://www.countercurrents.org/srivastava260415.htm

After deaths of more than two thousands everyone talks about the disasters, mainly politicians. They boast of their achievements in providing assistance in rescue operations, that is wonderful jobs done but the real issue still remains out of their thought process, at the global level leaders still pay no heed to real issues. The issue is Global Warming. Is there any link between the under earth activities and global warming?


Periyar – The Socrates Of South Asia
By Satya Sagar

http://www.countercurrents.org/sagar260415.htm

Learning from Periyar and building upon his great legacy is surely the only way forward in our times. For a self-styled champion of secularism and socialism like Mr Katju to accuse him of being a ‘British agent’ or a preacher of ‘caste hatred’ just signals that we have a long battle ahead before any real transformation takes place in this country


Following al Qaeda, ISIS Gains In Yemen Thanks To US-Assisted Saudi Aggression
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini260415.htm

The US, in aiding the extremist Wahhabi-Sunni, Sharia-law regime of Saudi Arabia in its aggression against Yemen, has helped open the door for Saudi-supported al Qaeda to make tremendous gains there. And now, ISIS has been able to establish itself


What's Obama Up to, With His TPP & TTIP?
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse260415.htm

The motivation behind U.S. President Barack Obama's trans-Pacific trade-deal TPP, and his trans-Atlantic trade-deal TTIP — the motivation behind both of these enormous international trade-deals — is the same, and Democratic U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown are correct: it is not at all progressive. It is instead to transfer political power away from the public in a democracy, and for that power to go instead to the international aristocracy


Millay's "Epitaph For The Race Of Man"
By John Scales Avery

http://www.countercurrents.org/avery260415.htm

The basic premise of Edna St. Vincent Millay's “Epitaph” is that we know from the evolutionary history of life on earth, that no species survives forever. She speculates on what will be the final cause of the extinction of the human race, and concludes that Man will die by his own hand, since none the innumerable disasters that nature has thrown at us over the millennia has persuaded humankind “to lay aside the lever and the spade, and be as dust among the dusts that blow”


21st Centry Challenges To American Democracy- Part II
Rising Public Debt, Dwindling Democracy
By Jon Kofas

http://www.countercurrents.org/kofas260415.htm

The assumption that the threat to democracy is coming from out there somewhere, from evildoers whether they are Islamic jihadists or Russian nationalists is utterly absurd. Democracy falls from within under its own weight when it deviates from the social contract. The great Athenian writer Aristophanes realized this 2,500 years ago. American journalist and Presbyterian minister Chris Hedges argues in “How Democracy Dies: A Lesson from the Master” (Aristophanes) that society decays from within by corruption, greed, arrogance, distortion of ideals designed to promote the welfare of all people, and of course perpetual militarism that debilitates society and ultimately contributes to its demise


Who Needs Neil Young When We've Got Monsanto?
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter260415.htm

Neil Young is reportedly about to release a new album called, ‘The Monsanto Years’. Don’t expect the lyrics to be music to the ears of the company’s executives over in St Louis, however. With falling profits and glyphosate being reclassified by the WHO as ‘probably’ causing cancer, Monsanto needs Neil Young like it needs a hole in the head


Enhancing ASEAN
By Chandra Muzaffar

http://www.countercurrents.org/muzaffar270415.htm

When people are able to see ASEAN perform as ASEAN, whether in the sports field or the entertainment arena, they will begin to identify with ASEAN. Similarly, when an ASEAN consciousness seeps into the minds of school students, it is quite conceivable that future generations will feel and think ASEAN. It is at that point that ASEAN would have become a people centred entity, not a state based outfit