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Hottest March On Record As Earth Keeps Hurtling Past Temperature Milestones
By Deirdre Fulton

http://www.countercurrents.org/fulton160416.htm

Adding "yet another month to a new mountain chain of extreme global temperature peaks," March 2016 was the warmest since at least 1891, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). Not only that, but, as February did, March broke the previous record by the greatest margin yet seen for any month. Compared to the 20th-century average, March was 1.07°C hotter across the globe, according to the JMA figures, while February was 1.04°C higher


Nauru, Suicide And Punishment 
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark

http://www.countercurrents.org/kampmark160416.htm

It sounds tedious, but the point is no less awful. Nauru has ceased being a country, a state of any worth. It has assumed value as only one thing: a (non)processing centre for asylum seekers and refugees Australia does not want. A camp designed for criminalising rather than exempting; for condemning rather than assessing, has become the cruellest exemplar of modern treatment and disposition to the refugee


Restoring Our Cultural Heritage In Syria —The Debate Over 
Why, How, When, By Whom, In What Order, & Who Pays? Intensifies!
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb160416.htm

The intensifying international debate over how best to restore and protect our shared global cultural heritage in Syria is positive, relevant, essential and constructive. And it is quite likely that this discourse will bring new safeguards for saving our past for our future


Ally - My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide 
Book Review By Jim Miles

http://www.countercurrents.org/miles160416.htm

Reading a work that would obviously be very pro-Israel sets up an anticipatory set of expectations and Michael Oren’s account of his term as Israeli ambassador to the U.S., Ally - My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide, certainly met those expectations. In fact it exceeded them, providing an analysis of the relationship that when parsed throughout the work perhaps says something somewhat different than was intended. Or maybe not, as one method of his critical writing involves simply denigrating the person/argument that is not in agreement with his own


Are We A Hindu Rashtra? 
By Samuel Dhar

http://www.countercurrents.org/dhar160416.htm

If screaming, 'Bharat Mata ki Jae' is the test of nationalism, many of us are not. India has always been a Patriarchal Community. Vedic folklore supposes Bharat, a male, to be the founder of the Nation known by his name. A million dollar question is : "From where does the word 'Mata' get attached to Bharat?" Our Bharat shall not become a Hindu Rashtra, simply by contorting and perverting its meaning and establishing an association with a called religion