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Dangerous New Normal As 400 ppm Carbon Baseline Expected Within Days
By Lauren McCauley

http://www.countercurrents.org/mccauley110516.htm

The planet is hurtling towards a disturbing milestone as researchers predict that the southern hemisphere "within days" will reach a new atmospheric baseline of 400 parts per million (ppm) of carbon, signifying that humanity has entered a new phase in our climate impact


The Great Capitalist Climacteric: Strategic Implications And Class Struggle 
By Omar Rashid Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury110516.htm

The intensification in class struggle with growing ecological rift is singularly significant. This must be recognized with reference to an exact, effective understanding of socio-political and economic equations in respective societies. This understanding is important for the proletariat for consciously opposing adventurism and apolitical activities and become the dominating force in the class struggle


Understanding Emerging Fascism In India 
By K.P. Sasi

http://www.countercurrents.org/sasi110516.htm

The organised mass as well as State terrorism is already taking a new shape in the present history. Any attempt of activism against fascism without encompassing and involving the grave reality of marginalisation diverse sections by the above forces, could become counter productive. Those who are involved in the anti-fascist struggle will have to ask themselves, who are the immediate victims of fascism and what is the relationship of themselves with the existing as well as potential future victims and survivors during such a political struggle. Such questions among ourselves may indicate an answer to fascism in the long run, upholding the values of democracy, justice, peace and harmony


Why Set Up A Shell Company In Panama? 
The Psychology Driving Illicit Financial Flows 
By Robert J. Burrowes

http://www.countercurrents.org/burrowes110516.htm

Despite widespread awareness of offshore tax havens in many countries around the world, governments have never acted in a concerted manner to halt these illicit financial flows. Why? In essence, because wealthy elites are heavily involved in using these mechanisms to isolate their wealth from the usual scrutiny to which the rest of us are subjected precisely so that they can evade tax. And governments do as these controlling elites instruct them


The Border That We Keep 
By Mateo Pimentel

http://www.countercurrents.org/pimentel110516.htm

It is paramount to acknowledge that – given the actual political and natural geography of today’s borderland –the US military authorities, border patrol agents, and local law enforcement are to blame for an unchecked and unquestioned campaign of terrorism, a racist agenda that continues to assail border communities and their peoples


Remembering Mutu: The Passing Of Bobby Hill (Will Gleeson) 
By Thomas C. Mountain

http://www.countercurrents.org/mountain110516.htm

For almost 40 years now I have often wondered where the first person to introduce me to what became my life’s work had ended up. The RCP is notoriously secretive and having left the cults fold I was allowed no contact with or information about past comrades. Then there was the announcement by the RCP that this past January, Will Gleeson (aka Bobby Hill) had passed away and I finally had an answer in my quest to Remember Mutu