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Two Degrees Was Too Much: Global Warming Is Out Of Control 
By Nicholas C. Arguimbau

http://www.countercurrents.org/arguimbau050516.htm

The participants at the Paris climate change conference saw themselves produce "an agreement hailed as 'historic, durable and ambitious' ”and "the world's greatest diplomatic success" The president of the Natural Resources Defense Counsel said, “A great tide has turned. Finally the world stands united against the central environmental challenge of our time.' They were still basking in the glow of their success, when news arrived of a sudden and extreme rise in global temperature, described by climate scientists as "stunning", "a shocker", "a bombshell', "hurtling at a frightening pace toward the globally agreed maximum of 2C warming over pre-industrial levels", "a kind of climate emergency", an event "using up all our room for manoevre."


Mass Evacuation As 'Apocalyptic' Inferno Engulfs Canadian Tar Sands City
By Deirdre Fulton

http://www.countercurrents.org/fulton050516.htm

A raging wildfire in a Canadian tar sands town has forced tens of thousands of evacuations and destroyed several residential neighborhoods, offering a bleak vision of a fiery future if the fossil fuel era is not brought to an end. The blaze in Fort McMurray, Alberta, started over the weekend, doubled in size on Monday, and grew into an inferno on Tuesday. It is expected to worsen as strong wind gusts and record high temperatures persist


I Set Fire To The Mountains
By Aparajita Sengupta

http://www.countercurrents.org/sengupta030516.htm

A personal reminiscence of the forest fires in Uttarakhand, which have devastated acres of green cover in the hills


The Trump Train Chugs Into Indiana 
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark

http://www.countercurrents.org/kampmark050516.htm

The point of Trump’s current lead is that any move at the convention against him will be seen as disastrous. On the other hand, the GOP machine men and women will be wondering if going with Trump will also come with its own destructive promise, a suicide pact that will banish the party into the wilderness. The chalice is being readied


America’s Biggest Of All Big Lies 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse050516.htm

Russia is now surrounded, on and near its borders, by numerous U.S. nuclear weapons — weapons and troops that are as close to St. Petersburg and Moscow as they can possibly get without actually invading Russia


Age of Fools 
Book Review By Jim Miles

http://www.countercurrents.org/miles050516.htm

Age of Fools surprised me for its intensity and directness combined with a strong philosophical element. It is a challenging read both for the intensity of the emotion involved and for the clarity of its factual references of the inhumane acts perpetrated against the people of Palestine


Headlines, Sidelines, Bottom Lines: Fat Men And The Starving Millions 
By S.G.Vombatkere

http://www.countercurrents.org/vombatkere050516.htm

The on-going drought-famine is engulfing over 300 million migrating Indians, whose throats may be too parched to chant "Bharat mata ki Jai" to show their patriotism. They are thirsting for drinking water, just like their animals, not excluding cows, which are holy to many of us, dying in their hundreds. What matter could be more urgent for our law makers than the on-going drought? Agusta Westland??? Demanding that every true Indian should say “Bharat mata ki Jai”??? In the final analysis, there is no real difference between the NDA-1, UPA-1 and UPA-2 governments and the present NDA-2 government, inasmuch as their approach to people's problems is concerned. Mr.Arun Shourie, perhaps in a moment of pique, uttered the truth that "NDA equals Congress scaled up plus cow"


Migrant Labourer Lynched In Kerala
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc050516.htm

A migrant labourer from Assam died in Kerala after a group of people tied him up and beat him, reportedly mistaking him for a thief. The incident took place in Chingavanam of Kottayam district between 12 noon and 1pm Wednesday. The victim Kailas Jyothy Behra (30) is from Kandara village in Assam


Where's The JNU Student Movement Headed?
By Chandra Bhushan

http://www.countercurrents.org/bhushan050516.htm

When Occupy UGC movement started, it was led by Coordination Committee formed at national and state level. So, remained the case with student movement organised for the Justice to Rohith Vemula when Joint Action Committee (JAC) were formed across the country including in Delhi. But something radically changed after the release of the Kanhaiya. He became the unquestionable iconic figure. Ironically student leaders of JNUSU believe that the experiences of Coordination Committee during Occupy UGC and JAC for Justice to Rohith were bad. Does that mean they are delegitimizing the success we got in Occupy UGC movement where HRD ministry was forced to cancel her decision of discontinuing Non NET Fellowship? Does that mean they are delegitimizing ongoing movement in HCU for the justice to Rohith through democratic body JAC? What kind of democratic people they are who delegitimizes the democratic bodies for running a student movement?


Kashmir: The Worst Culprit, ad hocism! 
By Mohammad Ashraf

http://www.countercurrents.org/ashraf050516.htm

The story of all development in various sectors in Kashmir can be summed up in one word, “ad hocism”!