CounterCurrents: Paris Climate Agreement Betrays Humanity Which Must Apply BDS Against Climate Criminal People, Corporations & Countries, We Need System Change!, Syrian Civil War And The Making Of Islamic State

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Paris Climate Agreement Betrays Humanity Which Must Apply BDS Against Climate Criminal People, Corporations & Countries
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya141215.htm

The weak, non-binding and dishonest Paris Climate Agreement will have delighted climate criminal and war criminal nations like Saudi Arabia, the US and US lackey Australia, but has betrayed our children, grandchildren, future generations, the Developing World, Humanity and the Biosphere – the target of 1.5 to 2 degrees C is both unavoidable and catastrophic and key matters are non-binding. The Paris betrayal demands a peaceful, world-wide Climate Revolution involving Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all people, politicians, parties, companies, corporations and countries disproportionately involved in climate criminal and terracidal greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution


We Need System Change! 
By John Scales Avery

http://www.countercurrents.org/avery141215.htm

WE NEED SYSTEM CHANGE, NOT CLIMATE CHANGE! Civil society, excluded from the COP21 conference by the French government, carried banners with this slogan on the streets of Paris. They did so in defiance of tear-gas-using black-clad police. System change has been the motto for climate marches throughout the world. Our entire system is leading us towards disaster, and this includes both economic and governmental establishments. To save human civilization, the biosphere and the future, the people of the world must take matters into their own hands and change the system


The Violent Crimes And Shady Dealings Of Hillary Clinton 
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini141215.htm

While “respected conservative political commentator Norman Ornstein” writes in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences journal that the Republican Party is a “radical insurgency – ideologically extreme, scornful of facts and compromise”, historian Roger Morris, PhD, in his best-selling examination of the Clintons and their sleazy and criminal deeds along their rise to power, finds that the Democratic Party, although in his opinion the “lesser of evils”, is “equally bereft, corrupt, and unable or unwilling to face itself.”


Syrian Civil War And The Making Of Islamic State 
By Nauman Sadiq

http://www.countercurrents.org/sadiq141215.htm

The corporate media’s spin-doctors conveniently forget, however, that the rise of Islamic State and myriads of other Sunni jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq has as much to do with the unilateral invasion of Iraq back in 2003 under the previous Bush Administration as it has to do with the present policy of Obama Administration in Syria of funding, arming, training and internationally legitimizing the Sunni militants against the Syrian regime since 2011-onward in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa region, in fact, the proximate cause behind the rise of Islamic State, al Nusra Front, Ahrar al-Sham and numerous other Sunni jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq has been Obama Administration’s policy of intervention through proxies in Syria


India: Citizen Lives Matter – Before, During, And After Shakur Basti Demolitions
By The Asian Human Rights Commission

http://www.countercurrents.org/ahrc141215.htm

A quiet burial in rubble of their community would have been the fate of approximately 1,000 families of Shakur Basti in Delhi, but for the tragic death of a six-month child. The child allegedly died during the early morning demolitions of 500 “shanties” by the Indian Railways. Had it not been for the tragic death of the child, the demolitions would have been routine. Worse, had it not been for the political dynamics of the City, with political groups at odds with each other governing the Railways and the City, even this infant death would have failed to get the incident the attention it deserved


Who Compliments Whom? The Fall Out Of Vizhinjam Port 
By Anitha.S

http://www.countercurrents.org/anitha141215.htm

Land worth 600 crore will be transferred To Adani. Two ancient hills of Southern Western Ghats will be quarried and dumped in sea. Road widening alone will axe 10,000 trees. The first phase of cutting has started and more than 200 trees lie on the ground. The project will directly impact the lives and livelihood of 50,000 villagers in 32 coastal villages. The famed Cape Comarine Wadge Bank will be destroyed Nascent but diverse coral outcrops will go extinct


Desperate Japanese PM Shinzo Abe Visiting India 
By Anuj Wankhede

http://www.countercurrents.org/wankhede141215.htm

India should not fall into this trap and sign any nuclear deals with Japan as these deals have a very long time frame and will give Japanese government leverage to push India into making more infrastructure and defense purchases from Japan


Let Them Eat Pollution! 
By Kashif Mansoor

http://www.countercurrents.org/mansoor141215.htm

What amounts to injustice, in addition to severe destitution and misery the poor unskilled people get entangled into as a consequence of rapid industrialization drive by the bourgeoisie class, is the stark reality that these people are deliberately made bereft of access to clean air and water-the natural resources free gifts of nature are increasingly becoming privately owned commodities. The economically disadvantaged and politically disorganized poor have also not enough resources at their disposal either in terms of the understanding of court proceedings if at all they move for legal assistance to file the cases of forced usurpation of their land against such “baboos” or amount of money required to fight such cases


In Universities, Money Talks 
By Richard Hil

http://www.countercurrents.org/hill141215.htm

It’s not only universities that have succumbed to neoliberal mantras. Schools and colleges too are characterised by a focus on business acumen, often at the expense of students’ quality of education. This was recently brought home by Sarah Haynes, the school captain of one of Brisbane’s most prestigious private schools, Ravenswood School for Girls. Bravely, Haynes offered the following observation about her school to an assembled audience of pupils, parents and teachers: “I don’t know how to run a school but it seems to me that today’s schools are being run more and more like businesses where everything becomes financially motivated, where more value is placed on those who provide good publicity or financial benefits.” She could well have been talking about universities


Understanding Use Of Satire And Returning In Contemporary Politics In India 
By Suraj Gogoi & Tony Kurian

http://www.countercurrents.org/kurian141215.htm

The article focuses on the sudden burst in use of satire after Modi led BJP government came to power in India and the recent event of 'returning' to protest the various issues of intolerance, freedom of speech and so on to express protest by various individuals and groups. In doing so the article seeks to understand the current political milieu of India through satire and returning, and the response to it


Vietnamese In Germany 
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh141215.htm

In 1914, there were 2,416,290 Germans in the Russian Empire. Now, there are only a million in Russia and all of the republics of the former Soviet Union. In 1939, there were 786,000 Germans in Romania. By 2011, there were only 36,884. Though assimilating, establishing deep roots and contributing much to one’s host society, one can be chased out in a bloody flash. One can also be bombed from one’s ancestral homeland. Count yourself lucky if you’re not among them