CounterCurrents: Zionism And The Birth Of Israel, Remembering Ezra Schwartz: A Hasbara Story, Rolling Back The Destructive Influence of The Global Agribusiness Cartel, Paris Climate Talks Accomplish Nothing To Curb Global Warming

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Paris Climate Talks Accomplish Nothing To Curb Global Warming 
By Daniel de Vries

http://www.countercurrents.org/vries051215.htm

The United Nations climate change summit commenced this past Monday with 150 heads of state and tens of thousands of representatives from national governments, businesses and the NGO industry converging on Paris. Despite its supposedly historic significance, the 21st Conference of Parties, or COP 21, promises little more than the previous 20 failed annual conferences


Is There A Future For Our Species 
By Gunther Ostermann

http://www.countercurrents.org/ostermann051215.htm

Only with honesty, truth and justice can there be a future for our species, and I don’t see any of it, anywhere


Rolling Back The Destructive Influence of The Global Agribusiness Cartel
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter051215.htm

And now for the good news. As the rest of the world eats denutrified, poisoned 'food' and capitulates to the criminal cartel of US agribusiness, as India destroys its soils with petrochemical-monocrop agriculture and looks to GMOs, as corrupt governments and regulatory bodies do the bidding of Monsanto, Russia is committed to not selling out the health of millions, the fertility of the land or the food security of the nation to a handful of criminals in the West who have destroyed indigenous agriculture across the planet. Russia could become the world's largest supplier of ecologically clean and high-quality organic food


Remembering Ezra Schwartz: A Hasbara Story 
By Ira Glunts

http://www.countercurrents.org/glunts051215.htm

The learning and sharing to which the Secretary refers was the fact that Ezra Schwartz was bringing food to Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers at the time of his death. This is the army which brutally enforces the Israeli occupation and defends the settlers as they continue to steal Palestinian land, curtail their human rights and deny them the independent state to which they are entitled. To the Palestinians, Schwartz was aiding and abetting the enemy. This is the truth that the Jewish lobby and people such as Robert Kraft do not want Americans to learn


Zionism And The Birth Of Israel 
By William James Martin

http://www.countercurrents.org/martin051215.htm

What the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is all about then is the destruction of the Palestinian people and their evacuation and the complete takeover of Palestine at least to the Jordan River by the Jewish state. And what hangs in the balance is whether or not the Palestinians will be destroyed and eliminated as a people with a distinct culture and history and with an attachment to the land of their birth and their parent’s and ancestor’s births


WTO @ Nairobi: Portents Of An Apocalypse
By Anand Teltumbde

http://www.countercurrents.org/teltumbde051215.htm

In the forthcoming 10th ministerial meeting of WTO at Nairobi, Kenya from 15-18 December the public discourse on higher education about its being public/merit/private good and the covert/overt preparation of the government over the last two decades to withdraw from higher education will finally come to an end


Celebrate The Food Diversity 
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat051215.htm

Food culture need to be celebrated. I wish to see people coming together eating everything. I dont say you should not challenge the brahmanical hegemony but hegemony inside us also. If we feel that all the Dalit Bahujans eat beef and all non Dalit Bahujans are vegetarian then we are caught in the brahmanical lies


Half The Battle Won: Need To Accelerate Roll-Out of Child-Friendly Anti-TB Drugs 
By Shobha Shukla

http://www.countercurrents.org/shukla051215.htm

More than 1 million children get sick with TB every year and 400 children succumb to it every day. Also a whopping 67% of those who suffer from it are not diagnosed or treated. With the advent of new palatable fixed dose combinations (FDCs) to treat paediatric TB, treatment adherence, and hence cure rate, is bound to increase. But this is just half the battle won. While Dr Mario Raviglione, Director of the Global TB Programme at WHO has promised to hasten the process of pre-qualification of the FDCs and its inclusion in the essential medicines list, countries will have to have the political will and investment to roll out the new medication