Sunday, June 2, 2019

CC News Letter 31 May - Ozone-Depleting CFCs Return




Dear Friend,

Sadly, the world must now reconsider holding its collective breath once again.On May 22nd 2019, the same Science News magazine that broke the good news and celebrated “A Shrinking Ozone Hole in 2012” newest headline reads: “Emissions of a Banned Ozone-Destroying Chemical Have Been Traced to China.” Air samples collected in South Korea and Japan point a very big fat guilty finger directly at eastern China where CFC-11 emissions averaged 6,400 metric tons annually from 2008-2012. That number increased to 13,400 metric tons annually from 2014-17.Additionally,on-the-ground investigations by the International Environmental Investigation Agency confirmed the atmospheric tests of Chinese manufacturing of CFC-11, the infamous killer of the world’s precious ozone layer


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Ozone-Depleting CFCs Return
by Robert Hunziker 


Sadly, the world must now reconsider holding its collective breath once again.On May 22nd 2019, the same Science News magazine that broke the good news and celebrated “A Shrinking Ozone Hole in 2012” newest headline reads: “Emissions of a Banned Ozone-Destroying Chemical Have Been Traced to China.” Air samples collected in South Korea and Japan point a very big fat guilty finger directly at eastern China where CFC-11 emissions averaged 6,400 metric tons annually from 2008-2012. That number increased to 13,400 metric tons annually from 2014-17.Additionally,on-the-ground investigations by the International Environmental Investigation Agency confirmed the atmospheric tests of Chinese manufacturing of CFC-11, the infamous killer of the world’s precious ozone layer



Algeria: Dr Kamel Eddine Fekhar dies fasting in Custody
by Sandeep Banerjee


Dr Kamel Eddine Fekhar dies fasting in Custody on May 28, Workers Party leader Louisa Hanoune and many other Activists under arrest by military, while Protest Continues



Al Quds
by Jafar M Ramini  


Will the international community take note of what is happening to the city that is holy to all the people of the book, Jews, Christians and Muslims or will the world continue to look the other way and allow Israel to continue the Judaisation of the Holy City?



Africa is now world’s largest free trade zone
by Countercurrents Team 


Africa is now the world’s largest free trade zone, which bears big implications with expectation to boost regional and international trade.



VENEZUELA: Westerners have lost the ability to reason! (PART 14)
by Luis Garcia 


False Humanitarian Aid has been used to promote violence in synchrony with violent and criminal “opposition” funded with dozens of millions of US dollars.



Key American Allies in the Middle East Are the Real Tyrants
by Danny Sjursen 


The Saudi royals are among the worst despots around. Yet Washington has long given them a pass. Sure, they possess oodles of oil, black gold upon which the U.S. was once but no longer is heavily dependent. American support for those royals reaches back to World War II, when President Franklin Roosevelt took a detour after the Yalta Conference to meet King Ibn Saud and first struck the devilish deal that, in the decades to come, would keep the oil flowing. In return, Washington would provide ample backing to the kingdom and turn a blind eye to its extensive human rights abuses.



Stripped of their Rights: Understanding the Gaza Strip
by Rima Najjar


By denying Palestinians their right of return, Israel continues to preserve itself as a Jewish majority state.



Clubs, Cartels and Bilderberg
by Dr Binoy Kampmark 


Gatherings of the elite, self-promoted as chat shops of the privileged and monstrously well-heeled, have often garnered attention.  That the rich and powerful chat together privately should not be a problem, provided the glitterati keep their harmful ideas down to small circulation.  But the Bilderberg gathering, a transatlantic annual meeting convened since 1954, fuels speculation for various reasons, not least of all because of its absence of detail and off-the-record agendas.  C. Gordon Tether, writing for the Financial Times in May 1975, would muse that, “If the Bilderberg Group is not a conspiracy of some sort, it is conducted in such a way as to give a remarkably good imitation of one.”



How Could Modi Come Back?
by H Srikanth 


The Election Commission added to the problems of the opposition parties by acting more as a second arm of the ruling regime. Modi and Shah’s blatant violations of Model Code of Conduct were ignored.  On its part, the corporate media, through orchestrated interviews and TV debates, influenced the viewers by presenting a positive image of Modi.



Can Modi Sarkar allay the fears of Indians?
by Dr Mike Ghouse 


The 2019 election not only has shaken a majority of the Indians, but it even surprised the winners with the landslide referendum the Indians gave them. The results have created anxieties among the Indians. There are those who are worried about the future of the nation and what will happen to its well-knit social fabric, a thousand-year-old sabhyata of pluralism. Then, are others who are celebrating the unchecked power the public has bestowed on them.



Building counter cultural narrative is the lone alternative to Brahmanical hegemonic polity
by Vidya Bhushan Rawat 


It is time for the parties adhering to philosophy of social justice and social change to build up the cultural teams, participate in people’s movement, develop their vision in consultation with people and strengthen institutions to build inner party democracy and equip political class to analyse things with Bahujan Dravidian perspectives. There is a huge lesson to be learnt from the success of SanghParivar particularly its outreach and planned work.



‘Judging’ the Drink of the Workers
by Raj Kumar Thakur 


Deaths of people after they consume spurious liquor are time and again reported by the newspapers. One such outburst against the consumption of alcohol was witnessed in the fourth week of February 2019, when we saw, read, and heard about the deaths of more than 150 tea garden workers. They had reportedly consumed ‘illicit’ liquor. In the media houses, the workers were criticised for their habit of drinking, and the brewers of this liquor were declared as ‘criminals.’ The pain and suffering on those who died and those who survived were recounted time and again.




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