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Vizhinjam Port Project Causes Environmental Havoc 
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc220516.htm

Vizhinjam port being built by Adani Group near Trivandrum, capital city of Kerala, is hit by ‘rough weather’ even as it is taking its baby steps. The rains that lashed at Trivandrum coast on 17th of May itself and made the life miserable for coastal people living all along the erosion-prone beaches on the northern side of the proposed Vizhinjam port! According to news paper reports at least 150 houses washed away around the project area


Iraqis Storm The Green Zone For The Second Time 
By Mary Scully

http://www.countercurrents.org/scully220516.htm

For the second time within a month, thousands of protesters in Baghdad, Iraq stormed the Green Zone. Iraqi military forces opened live fire & used tear gas against the protesters. Media reporting on the protest is canned from one media source to the next & comes straight from the military. They say "dozens" of protesters were injured & that "authorities could not immediately verify reports that several civilians had been killed."


US Prepares Troop Deployment To Libya Amid Fight For Oil Fields 
By Bill Van Auken

http://www.countercurrents.org/auken220516.htm

Five years after a US-NATO war shattered Libya, Washington is preparing to send troops into the oil-rich North African nation for a “long-term mission,” the Pentagon’s top uniformed commander said Thursday


Today Is The International Day For Biological Diversity 
By Dr. Vivek Kumar Srivastava

http://www.countercurrents.org/srivastava220516.htm

Today is the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB).22 May which was adopted by UN General Assembly in 2000 to make people aware about the importance of biodiversity and how to protect it. Unfortunately no serious efforts have been made by most of the governments to save the rapid loss of the biodiversity


The Assam Poll Verdict 
By Sazzad Hussain

http://www.countercurrents.org/hussain220516.htm

The spectacular poll victory earned by BJP and its alliance in the 2016 Assembly Elections in Assam has made many pundits wrong, creating a new set of political yardsticks hitherto unknown in the state. The massive mandate in favour of the BJP with 60 seats of its own and its alliances wining 29 more has once again proved the usefulness of grand alliances, last witnessed in Bihar Assembly polls late last year. This verdict, which has put the BJP for the first time to form the government in Assam, needs to be analysed for a number of reasons including the question of the identity of Assamese nationality