CounterCurrents: World's Oceans Could Rise Higher, Sooner, Faster Than Most Thought Possible, Arab World And The Remaking Of Global Politics Israel’s Endless Misery For Gaza Is No Policy At All

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World's Oceans Could Rise Higher, Sooner, Faster Than Most Thought Possible 
By Jon Queally

http://www.countercurrents.org/queally220715.htm

If a new scientific paper is proven accurate, the international target of limiting global temperatures to a 2°C rise this century will not be nearly enough to prevent catastrophic melting of ice sheets that would raise sea levels much higher and much faster than previously thought possible


Israel’s Endless Misery For Gaza Is No Policy At All 
By Jonathan Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook220715.htm

So what’s going on? Does Israel want Hamas weakened or strengthened? The uncertainty reflects Israel’s increasingly convoluted efforts to “manage” Gaza faced with the fallout from its series of attacks on the enclave beginning in late 2008 with Operation Cast Lead and culminating in last year’s Protective Edge


A Chance For Arab-Iranian Reconciliation: An Opportunity In The Iran Nuclear Deal 
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud220715.htm

To appease angry Netanyahu, the US Government has reportedly agreed to provide Israel with $1.5 billion of additional weapons and military supplies per year. This is an indication that the US regional policies have not changed in the least, and it is up to the region itself to confront the US militaristic and conflict-driven policies


We Are All Grexit Now 
By Jeff Berg

http://www.countercurrents.org/berg220715.htm

On the whole it seems obvious that this relentless pursuit of advantage with no recourse to the calibration that comes out of the concern for the common good cannot continue. The seeds of its own destruction are sown into its every action. Most especially at this juncture in history. I.e. The reformation of the petroleum age


Arab World And The Remaking Of Global Politics 
By Mahboob A. Khawaja

http://www.countercurrents.org/khawaja220715.htm

Are there any global leaders to extend moral and intellectual security to the beleaguered mankind? Global political affairs are fast becoming a theater of absurdity. In a rational spectrum, leaders are not leading; large segments of the global mankind are enduring unthinkable moral and intellectual sickness as political problems are pilling up to crush the human soul and body. All wars affect people. The global community wonders where to look for change and peacemaking that is nowhere visible on the political horizon


India’s War On Naga Peoples:Wuzu Firing
Fact Finding Report

http://www.countercurrents.org/ffr220715.htm

Fact Finding Report on Wuzu Firing and the killing of two students by the Assam Rifles


Gujarat Civil Society Comes Out In Support of 
Teesta Setalvad, Javed Anand and Others
By Concerned Citizens

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc220715.htm

We, the undersigned, express their profound dismay and disquiet at the continued official harassment of human rights defenders Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand by the Central Government. Since installation of the BJP led Government in Delhi in May 2014, the country has witnessed open strenuous official efforts to foist a large variety of charges of financial irregularity on them, to harass them, to tarnish their reputations, and to secure their arrests. Fortunately, the interventions of the higher judiciary have protected them so far. However, the latest raids by the Central Bureau of Investigation into their home and offices in Mumbai on 14h July 2015 are signs of continuing open misuse of official bodies to harass these human rights defenders


The Joys And Benefits Of Reading 
By Romi Mahajan

http://www.countercurrents.org/mahajan220715.htm

With regard to reading, there is an important point to make here- even outside of important notions of “informed citizenry, ““the responsibility of knowledge” and other serious constructs-- reading is enjoyable and frankly beautiful. I robbed myself of that beauty for years. What a mistake. So I encourage teenagers to read, read, and read. Read deeply and widely. Give up your device and grab a book. Find new worlds to enjoy in the pages of books. Perhaps these are all the dying gasps of a soon-extinct worldview. I hope not