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April 2016 Hottest On Record As 'Climate Emergency' Grows
By Nadia Prupis

http://www.countercurrents.org/prupis170516.htm

This April was the hottest on record—and the seventh month in a row to break global temperature averages—setting up 2016 to be the hottest year ever, NASA has reported. April was 1.11°C hotter than previous averages between 1951 and 1980, which NASA uses as a barometer for measuring climate change, according to figures the agency released over the weekend. NASA also found that April was the third month in a row that the record-breaking jumps in temperature were reached by the largest increases yet


A Friendly Critique of the Break Free Climate Actions 
By Robert J. Burrowes

http://www.countercurrents.org/burrowes170516.htm

My friendly criticism is directed at those key organisers who planned the nonviolent actions without understanding how to make the commitment and courage of those who were mobilised have maximum strategic impact on the ongoing climate catastrophe. I understand that it takes phenomenal effort and a tremendous amount of work to organise international actions of this nature. It is for this reason that I hope that future efforts can be strategically oriented to maximise their effectiveness. It is not difficult to do this, as long as one understands nonviolent strategy


Maduro Government Imposes State Of Emergency In Venezuela 
By Bill Van Auken

http://www.countercurrents.org/auken170516.htm

Venezuela was placed under a nationwide “State of Exception and Economic Emergency” Monday as its government continued to face both social unrest created by the country’s economic meltdown and a drive by the political right to oust President Nicolas Maduro


25 Years Of Struggle Building Socialism In Eritrea 
By Thomas C. Mountain

http://www.countercurrents.org/mountain170516.htm

This coming May 24 marks 25 years since a rag-tag afro coifed army of Eritrean rebel fighters drove their captured Ethiopian tanks through the Eritrean capital of Asmara and gave birth to the modern, “socialist” country of Eritrea


Who Is The More Vicious Liar: Trump, or Obama? 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse170516.htm

Obama’s hostility against Russia, and his reasons for it, were known to his targets, but in America’s ‘democracy’, were not only kept secret from the electorate, but Obama blatantly lied to them about the matter, and he won re-election on the basis of lies such as this — lies such as his calling Romney on ugly designs that Obama too (though secretly) held


Monsanto And The Poisoning of Europe: An Open Letter 
To The EFSA Chief Attorney About Re-licensing Glyphosate in The EU
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter170516.htm

An open letter from campaigner Rosemary Mason to Dirk Detken, Chief Attorney to the EFSA, follows the brief background article you are about to read. In the letter, Mason highlights the regulatory delinquency concerning the oversight of glyphosate in the EU. The evidence provided by Mason might lead many to agree that processes surrounding glyphosate 'regulation' in Europe amount to little more than a “cesspool of corruption.”


Boris Johnson’s Hitler Comparison 
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark

http://www.countercurrents.org/kampmark170516.htm

Had he lost it? Perhaps not entirely. Former London Mayor Boris Johnson is spending his time drumming up support for a British exit from the EU, and making waves doing so. These waves, as his admirers and detractors know all too well, tend to vary in terms of size and velocity


Privatizing America's Public Land  
By William deBuys

http://www.countercurrents.org/debuys170516.htm

Away out West, on the hundreds of millions of acres of public lands that most Americans take for granted (if they are aware of them at all), the trouble is deep, widespread, and won't soon go away. Last winter's armed take-over and 41-day occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Oregon is a case in point. It was carried out by people who, if they hadn't been white and dressed as cowboys, might have been called “terrorists” and treated as such. Their interpretation of the history of western lands and of the judicial basis for federal land ownership -- or at least that of their leaders, since they weren't exactly a band of intellectuals -- was only loosely linked to reality


What India Can Learn From Australia On Domestic Violence? 
By Pushkar Raj

http://www.countercurrents.org/raj170516.htm

One social parallel that can be drawn between two dissimilar countries like India and Australia is rampant family violence in both the countries. As Australia is fighting the menace vigorously, India can learn a few lessons from it, giving some relief to its about 500 million strong female population, majority of which go through the humiliation of domestic violence, sometime or the other, in their life


Custodians Of Love 
By Swapnil Dhanraj

http://www.countercurrents.org/dhanraj170516.htm

The recent Marathi film Sairat released on 29th April 2016, selected for “66th International Film festival of Berlin”, is a free-spirited story of a couple whose love cannot transcend the boundaries of social hierarchies. This is an epic love story that takes a critical look at the structural reality of caste hierarchy. Sairat (passion, zeal) ,unlike other Marathi films that begin to run around in circles after a point, has quite differently portrayed the reality of two lovers who come from different social locations and their struggle in facing the outside world’s restriction on their love. Besides the love story the film makes a strong comment on the social structures of our society which reminds us of the killings of young couples due to violation of the principles of a community or a religion


Do We Need More Drugs For Hypertension? 
By Prof. B. M. Hegde

http://www.countercurrents.org/hegde170516.htm

To do or not to do is the real dilemma in anti-hypertensive drug therapy. As has been already pointed out, all the guidelines, of which there are six organized ones, have differing advices. That makes life that much more difficult for the practising doctor. I have been in this business for well over three decades. My best advice would be to follow the following rules for the time being, till further knowledge comes in. We have the latest Joint National Committee recommendations, JNC VI of the USA, which matches most of the following suggestions


Screening For Breast And Cervical Cancer Is A Public Health Imperative 
By Akanksha Sethi

http://www.countercurrents.org/sethi170516.htm

Breast and cervical cancers are two major cancers among women. For decades, cervical cancer was the most common cancer in women in India. But now, breast cancer has replaced cervical cancer and become the leading cancer in terms of incidence and number of cancer deaths among women in India