CounterCurrents: Warming Climate May Release Vast Amounts Of Carbon From Long-Frozen Arctic Soils, Kissinger And Shultz On 'The Iran Deal', Population By Religions In Times To Come

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Death Toll Still Rising In Nepal
By W.A. Sunil

http://www.countercurrents.org/sunil270415.htm

More than 3,700 people are dead and over 6,500 injured after a major earthquake struck Nepal just before noon on Saturday local time. The death toll is likely to rise sharply as more bodies are pulled from the rubble and rescue teams begin to reach remote villages presently cut off. Thousands of people are homeless and most people are living outside amid fears of continuing aftershocks. Thirty of the country’s 75 districts have been affected


11 Million Yemenis Face Severe Food Insecurity Amidst
Conflict As Saudi Air Strikes Derailed Peace Negotiations
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc270415A.htm

Conflict in Yemen has triggered food insecurity in the poverty-stricken country. The Food and Agriculture Organisation said recently: Amidst escalating conflict at a crucial time in the country’s cropping season, almost 11 million people in Yemen are severely food insecure and millions more are at risk of not meeting their basic food needs. Governorates in the far northwest and south are most severely affected by food insecurity, and around 850,000 children are acutely malnourished


Warming Climate May Release Vast Amounts Of Carbon From Long-Frozen Arctic Soils
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc270415B.htm

More carbon is released into the atmosphere would amplify climate warming, and that, in turn, would cause more permafrost to thaw and release more carbon, causing the cycle to continue. Recent research by scientists has confirmed the suspicion scientists were making regarding the Arctic permafrost


Kissinger And Shultz On 'The Iran Deal'
By Thomas Riggins

http://www.countercurrents.org/riggins270415.htm

For our edification The Wall Street Journal on 8 April turned over an entire editorial page to former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and George Shultz so that we could understand why President Obama's negotiations with Iran over nuclear issues "will reinforce, not resolve, the world's challenges in the region." Let's take a look at what these two nonagenarians (who served under Nixon and Reagan respectively) present as the reasons for their prediction


40 Years Later, Will The End Games In Iraq And Afghanistan Follow The Vietnam Playbook?
By Christian Appy

http://www.countercurrents.org/appy270415.htm

If our wars in the Greater Middle East ever end, it's a pretty safe bet that they will end badly -- and it won't be the first time. The “fall of Saigon” in 1975 was the quintessential bitter end to a war


Mr Prime Minister, Your Words Do Not Match Your Actions
By Dr Rahul Pandey

http://www.countercurrents.org/pandey270415.htm

By legalizing forcible acquisition of all kinds of farmlands for industrial corridors and PPP projects without taking landowners’ consent, without carrying out impact assessment, and mandating citizens to seek government’s permission before lodging complaints of wrongdoing, the 2015 Bill in effect envisages the government to act as a dictator working on behalf of private industry


Composite Townships: Cantonments Of The Other Sort
By Sheikh Shahid

http://www.countercurrents.org/shahid270415.htm

The rehabilitaion of Kashmiri Pandits is not the issue of mere physical integration, but rather the integration of the entire life. It should be aimed at social, political & cultural integration as it used to be before their migration


Punchline: Politics Of Flags
By Z. G. Muhammad

http://www.countercurrents.org/muhammad270415.htm

On April 15, it was not for first time that QaumīPārc̱am of Pakistan was unfurled at a public rally in Srinagar. In Kashmir politics hoisting of flags has got so intricately woven in the peoples narrative that it has in itself become a political phenomenon having potential to change the political discourse in the state. The battle of flags, historically speaking in fact for past seventy six years has become synonymous for the battle of ideologies in the state


Biggest Fight Ever? Jack Johnson, Not “Money” Mayweather
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz270415.htm

While the Society of the Spectacle gears up for the “biggest fight of all time,” featuring renowned domestic abuser and misogynist, Floyd “Money” Mayweather, I’d like to remind folks of a truly important boxing match that took place on July 4, 1910. It featured black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson and white former champ, Jim Jeffries


Population By Religions In Times To Come
By Ram Puniyani

http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani270415.htm

While I was working in IIT Mumbai for long years, I could see that the number of children per family is more as you go down from the professors to the peons and sweepers. Also roughly those living in Mumbai slums have higher number of children, irrespective of their religion. The situations in different countries in sub continent are not comparable on many counts. What is needed is an empathetic attitude to the deprived communities, going beyond the obvious and to solve the problem in right earnest


World Religions: Diversity, Not Dissension
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

http://www.countercurrents.org/khan270415.htm

A discussion on religion and religious harmony


Order Judicial Probe Into Andhra, Telangana Killings
By Solidarity Youth Movement

http://www.countercurrents.org/sym280415.htm

Solidarity Youth Movement demanded a judicial probe into killings in two incidents of fake encounter in Andhra and Telangana. A fact finding team led by Solidarity Youth Movement visited the families and lawyers of the killed