CounterCurrents: Point Of No Return: Earth Reaches 400ppm Threshold Permanently, America’s Epidemic Of Violence

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September’s carbon dioxide output failed to drop below 400 parts per million (ppm) despite historically being the year’s low point for CO2 emissions, which means the Earth has very likely passed that symbolic climate threshold forever. We've reached a point of no return. When CC was launched in 2002 CO2 level was 373 ppm. Have we failed collectively? Do we have a future as a species? I think it's time to declare humans as an endangered species. 

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Point Of No Return: Earth Reaches 400ppm Threshold Permanently
by Nadia Prupis 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/05/point-of-no-return-earth-reaches-400ppm-threshold-permanently/


September’s carbon dioxide output failed to drop below 400 parts per million (ppm) despite historically being the year’s low point for CO2 emissions, which means the Earth has very likely passed that symbolic climate threshold forever.





Droning Julian Assange: The Clinton Formula
by Dr Binoy Kampmark

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/05/droning-julian-assange-the-clinton-formula/

The latest WikiLeaks related fuss began a few days ago with the publication on True Pundit that claimed, referring to “State Department Sources” that Clinton had queried the use of a drone to silence the growing nuisance of Assange before the document release that came to be known as Cablegate





America’s Epidemic Of Violence
by Dr Arshad M Khan 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/05/americas-epidemic-of-violence/

Multiple killings in the U.S. are becoming so common (almost daily in the week past) that they no longer attract top billing in the news.  Moreover,  incidents of road rage leading to murder are also increasing at an alarming rate.  On Friday, the Eisenhower Expressway in President Barack Obama’s adopted hometown of Chicago was closed for two hours in the morning because a man killed another driver and severely wounded a female passenger after an altercation.  Here’s the shocker:  a few hours after the expressway re-opened, there was yet another road-rage killing on it.





How Do We ‘Package’ Peace?    Can We Make It Palatable?
by Gary Corseri

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/05/how-do-we-package-peace-can-we-make-it-palatable/

A review of Peace Plays by Johan Galtung, Vitahl Rajan, and S. P. Udayakumar






The New York Times Suddenly Embraces International Law To Condemn Russia
by Matt Peppe 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/05/the-new-york-times-suddenly-embraces-international-law-to-condemn-russia/

For the Times, international law is not an issue if a country has benevolent intentions, which the United States always does, naturally. No matter that the U.S. never obtained U.N. Security Council approval to wage war on Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan, Iraq or Afghanistan.