CounterCurrents: Hiroshima-Nagasaki: 70-Year Nuclear Explosions Not Done Yet, Largest Bombing Raid In History Was Perpetrated Against Japan AFTER The Atomic Bombings

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Obama Administration Finalizes Climate Rules 
By Daniel de Vries

http://www.countercurrents.org/vries060815.htm

The Obama administration released Monday final rules governing climate pollution from the power sector, the nation's largest source of greenhouse gas emission. The rules, known as the Clean Power Plan, establish state-by-state goals for carbon emissions in 2030. Despite claiming to reduce greenhouse gases from power plants by 32 percent, the plan will do next to nothing to forestall climate change


Would The Steady-State Economy Be A Miracle? 
By Herman Daly

http://www.countercurrents.org/daly060815.htm

The longevity of a steady-state economy is a metaphysically humble goal appropriate for limited creatures in the face of ignorance and mystery


Hiroshima-Nagasaki: 70-Year Nuclear Explosions Not Done Yet 
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson060815.htm

The dropping of those bombs and the explicit threat ever since to drop more is a new crime that has given birth to a new species of imperialism. The United States has intervened in over 70 nations -- more than one per year -- since World War II, and has now come full-circle to the re-militarization of Japan


Largest Bombing Raid In History Was Perpetrated 
Against Japan AFTER The Atomic Bombings 
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini060815.htm

The largest bombing campaign in history, at that point, was perpetrated by the US against Japan after the atomic bombings of civilians on August 6th and 9th, 1945


The Deceit About Being A ‘Republic' versus A ‘Democracy' 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse060815.htm

Jimmy Carter challenged America to restore democracy. And he was right to do so. But can it be done? And, if so, then how? It's the great issue in 2016. Because if it's not dealt with then, the dictatorship, the aristocracy that controls it, will become so deeply lodged that it won't be able to be dislodged without great violence


Confer Phalke Award To Gajendra Chauhan And Solve The FTII Crisis Immediately 
By Ajithkumar B.

http://www.countercurrents.org/ajith050815.htm

We request the Information and Broadcasting Ministry and the Government of India to confer the highest national honour in cinema - The Dadasaheb Phalke award for outstanding contribution to the growth and development of Indian cinema - to Sri. Gajendra Chauhan and shut the mouth of striking students of FTII who question the eminence of Sri Gajendra for the prestigious post of the Chairmanship of the institution


State Must Not Organize Religious Festivals 
By Ram Puniyani

http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani060815.htm

After staging the Yoga on 21st June 2015 on Raj Path, Delhi, Modi Sarkar has planned to celebrate Rakhi, Raksha Bandhan at a grand scale in late August. This plan has full approval of its parent organization, the RSS. Now a Hindu religious festival will be given the status of a national festival so blatantly. It surely is indication of the type of deeper agenda of narrow nationalism this Government has in mind


American Muslims Launch An Organization In Washington DC
Press Release

http://www.countercurrents.org/pr060815.htm

"American Muslims of the Washington, DC area are pleased to announce the formation of a nonprofit organization to provide reliable information and advice to public and policy makers on Islam and Muslims. We need constructive solutions to current and emerging problems emanating from wrong perceptions and misinformation about Islam and Muslims in America." said Dr. Islam Siddiqui, President of the newly formed American Muslim Institution