CounterCurrents: 2016: Is The El Nino Showing Us Where The Edge Of The Climate Cliff Is?, Sieg Heil Israel: The Zionisation Of Western Democracies Is now Complete, Number Of Palestinian Children In Israeli Prisons Soars

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2016: Is The El Nino Showing Us Where The Edge Of The Climate Cliff Is?
By Roger Boyd

http://www.countercurrents.org/boyd270416.htm

The last time the Earth had an El Nino event like 2015/16 was in 1997/98. The two events are actually very much alike, peaking at about the same time in the first year and at about the same temperature in the Nino 3.4 section of the equatorial Pacific. We seem to be setting up for the same thing in 2016, as January, February and March have already set new records, with both February (1.64°C) and March (1.58 °C) breaching the internationally agreed “safe-zone” of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial times set in Paris last year


Sanders Backs Obama “Kill List,” Troops To Syria
By A Reporter

http://www.countercurrents.org/ar270416.htm

Towards the end of a town hall meeting in Philadelphia broadcast last Monday night over MSNBC, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders declared his support for the Obama administration’s program of assassination by drone-fired missiles and its steady build-up of US troop strength in Syria and Iraq


The Failed Cruz-Kasich Pact: Donald Trump And GOP Desperation 
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark

http://www.countercurrents.org/kampmark270416.htm

Having Trump as a candidate for the GOP presidential run may look bad. Having a pact against him within the Republican movement designed to quash his chances to get the nomination looks even worse. It reeks of backroom deals, frustrated officials and failed prospects


Electoral Politics And The Illusion Of Control 
By William Hawes

http://www.countercurrents.org/hawes270416.htm

Today, the checks and balances used ostensibly to prevent tyranny are being used against us: even though a high majority (65%) is against government surveillance which violates privacy, and 78% want Citizens United overturned, we are stuck with a broken system and statesmen bought off by corporations. Even though 80% of eligible citizens didn’t vote in the 2014 elections, this year our out-of-touch pundits and mass media puppets prattle on unceasingly about our democracy, still misguidedly believing these candidates represent the will of the people


Number Of Palestinian Children In Israeli Prisons Soars 
By Charlotte Silver

http://www.countercurrents.org/silver270416.htm

Israel has reached grim new highs this year, incarcerating a much greater number of Palestinian children between the ages of 12 and 15, making Dima’s imprisonment disturbing not so much for its novelty but for how routine it is


Sieg Heil Israel: The Zionisation Of Western Democracies Is now Complete 
By William Hanna

http://www.countercurrents.org/hanna270416.htm

During 2015 some writers understandably suggested that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was beginning to lose its grip on the U.S. government. It was believed that AIPAC’S waning influence was partly due to its “losing big on the Iran sanctions” and failing “to prevent the Iran nuclear deal.” Such optimism that the American people might be getting back has, regrettably, proved somewhat premature with news that the U.S. — at the urging of 83 of the 100 sitting senators is ready to offer Israel the largest aid package in history


Review: “A Lover's Country” By Stuart Rees – Overcoming Zionist Perversion Of
The Mainstream Palestine Narrative
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya270416.htm

“A Lover's Country” is an important, well-written and eminently readable novel by academic and human rights activist Stuart Rees based on the real life event of the award of the prestigious Sydney Peace Prize in 2003 to Palestinian writer, scholar, legislator and activist Hanan Ashrawi that aroused the ire of the ferocious Australian Zionist Lobby and its Mainstream journalist, politician and academic supporters that dominate media and public life in Australia (and elsewhere in the West) by lying, subversion, perversion, cajoling, censorship, threatening, defamation, litigation and intimidation


Understanding Money And The Economy 
Book Review By William T. Hathaway

http://www.countercurrents.org/hathaway270416.htm






A review of "The Rocket Scientist's Guide to Money and the Economy" By Michael Sharp