CounterCurrents: Latest IEA Report Tells Us 'Fossil Fuel Party Is Over', Global Justice, Sustainability And The Sharing Economy, et al

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Latest IEA Report Tells Us 'Fossil Fuel Party Is Over'
By Richard Heinberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/heinberg070614.htm

It will require $48 trillion in investments through 2035 to meet the world’s growing energy needs, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday from Paris. IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven said in a statement the reliability and sustainability of future energy supplies depends on a high level of investment. “But this won’t materialize unless there are credible policy frameworks in place as well as stable access to long-term sources of finance,” she said. “Neither of these conditions should be taken for granted.”


Global Justice, Sustainability And The Sharing Economy
By Rajesh Makwana

http://www.countercurrents.org/makwana070614.htm

If the sharing economy movement is to play a role in shifting society away from the dominant economic paradigm, it will have to get political. And this means guarding against the co-optation of sharing by the corporate sector, while joining forces with a much larger body of activists that have long been calling - either explicitly or implicitly - for more transformative and fundamental forms of economic sharing across the world


Obama's Syrian Policy Vetoed By Assad Election Victory   
By Shamus Cooke

http://www.countercurrents.org/cooke070614.htm

Perhaps the deepest truth the Syrian elections exposed is that, were it not for the U.S. and its allies, the war in Syria would have long ago ended, and tens of thousands of lives spared. Millions of refugees would not be homeless


The Story Of 68 Palestinian Families In Lebanon
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb070614.htm

Predictions about the likely course of events in this region, including occasional ones by this observer, have a way of not panning out as expected. But one prediction I offered recently to Palestinian friends in Syria—namely that Lebanon’s “media” would fail to inform the world about an important Palestinian victory achieved in late May—has so far turned out to be accurate


With Friends In High Places, The GMO Biotech Sector Is Kicking Open The Door To Europe
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter070614.htm

The proposal to hand back some decision powers to member states of the European Union regarding GMO approvals is currently being discussed. It will be voted on by member states on 12 June. According to Corporate Europe Observatory, biotech firms regard it as an opportunity to break the stalemate and finally get their GM crops growing in Europe 's fields. The proposal has the biotech lobby's fingerprints all over it


Pro-gas Obama's EPA-based Plan To Reduce Coal-based Pollution
Amounts To Climate Change Inaction
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya070614.htm

The worsening climate crisis has finally been recognized as a major issue by the Obama Administration. However the latest policy announcement on climate change by President Obama - 30% off 2005 greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution of America's dirty power plants by 2030 enforceable by the US Environment Protection Authority (EPA) under the Clean Air Act - represents too little too late and falls far short of what is needed to address the worsening climate crisis


Australia's Former Prime Minister Howard Accused Of War Crimes
Before The International Criminal Court In The Hague
By SEARCH Foundation

http://www.countercurrents.org/sf070614.pdf

John Winston Howard, former Prime Minister of Australia, has been accused of war crimes before the International Criminal Court for sending Australian military personnel into, over, and into the waters of, the Republic of Iraq, pursuant to a 17 March 2003 decision of the Australian Cabinet to join in the invasion of the Republic of Iraq."


Redefining "We The People" - SCOTUS And The PlutocRATS
By Rowan Wolf

http://www.countercurrents.org/wolf070614.htm

Corporate personhood plus corporate protections plus plutocracy equals the construction of “super citizens,” and the end of the democracy as we think it is


Terrorism Is Degenerating Mankind: How To Change The Future?
By Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja

http://www.countercurrents.org/khawaja070614.htm

There's no question that this "war" will continue indefinitely. There is no question that US actions are the cause of that, the gasoline that fuels the fire. The only question - and it's becoming less of a question for me all the time - is whether this endless war is the intended result of US actions or just an unwanted miscalculation. Why would anyone in the US government or its owners have any interest in putting an end to this sham bonanza of power and profit called "the war on terror"?


Materialism And Misery
By Graham Peebles

http://www.countercurrents.org/peebles070614.htm

We live under the omnipresent shadow of a political/economic system, which promotes materiality, selfishness and individual success over group wellbeing. It is a model of civilisation that is making us miserable and ill. Dependent on continuous consumption, everything and everyone is seen as a commodity, and competition and ambition are extolled as virtues. Together with reward and punishment this trinity of division has infiltrated and polluted all areas of contemporary life, including health care and education


The Lies Grow More Audacious
By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/robberts070614.htm

If there were any doubts that Western “leaders” live in a fantasy make-believe world constructed out of their own lies, the G-7 meeting and 70th anniversary celebration of the Normandy landing dispelled the doubts


D Day June 1944 Done Earlier— An “Ounce of Prevention”
Which Could Have Been “Worth A Pound of Cure”
By A D Hemming

http://www.countercurrents.org/hemming070614.htm

It all seemed to be going so well for the anti Nazi coalition plan on that day in June 1944 in England and in the English Channel to stage the invasion of the northwestern part of the European continent to liberate it from the clutches of the Third Reich and take pressure off the Russian bear. What could have made it even better? What about this same second front opening up at the very first part of January 1943 if not in 1942? This is what the Britiish military chiefs approved in April 1942 with the backing of no less than Dwight D Eisenhower and George Marshall as this reveals.  How many millions of lives could the Anglo US Russian alliance have saved? That's a crucial point


Clean Chit of Power
By Nirmalangshu Mukherji

http://www.countercurrents.org/mukherji070614.htm

With the elevation of Narendra Modi as head of government, Indian justice system faces an uphill task to catch up with him. Hundreds of millions are waiting. Anxiously


Ten Thousand Pairs of Shoes
By Mallika Kaur

http://www.countercurrents.org/kaur070614.htm

Finally talking about June 1984—30 years later—will honor the dead and protect the living


Punjab Must March On Without Concealed Hatred And Prejudices
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat070614.htm

It is time for Punjab to rise and challenge all those who want to deviate from the path of its glory by using religion for political gains. It is time to marginalise those regressive political social forces who have kept Punjab subjugated for long

CounterCurrents: The 3rd National Climate Assessment - Denial That Limits Needed Action, Mariupol Killings: US Backs Ukrainian Regime’s Reign Of Terror, et al

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Lugansk And Donetsk Vote For Self-Determination While Fighting Resumes Near Slavyansk
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc110514.htm

Residents of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in east Ukraine have cast their ballots on May 11, 2014 in a referendum on whether the regions should declare sovereignty and break away from Kiev


Mariupol Killings: US Backs Ukrainian Regime’s Reign Of Terror
By Mike Head

http://www.countercurrents.org/head110514.htm

After tanks, armoured personnel carriers and heavily armed troops were unleashed on unarmed civilians in the city, the Kiev regime claimed to have killed some 20 people. The Obama administration immediately blamed the violent repression on “pro-Russian separatists.”


Will “President Gas Bag” Do ADr Strangelove To Start A World War Backing NATO Nazi Stooges?
By A D Hemming

http://www.countercurrents.org/hemming110514.htm

When does a swastika not mean Nazi? Apparently when NATO supports these Nazis as they did in 1949 in the Ukraine as is the case today but then fortunately for the people of the area Kim Philby who had been with MI6 exposed the whole affair before the lives of so many innocents could be sacrificed on the Cold War altar


Disentangling Ukraine From Our “Narrative Lines”: A Zen Moment For Our Droned Psyches!
By Gary Corseri

http://www.countercurrents.org/corseri110514.htm

Remembering a trip to Kiev, Ukraine


The 3rd National Climate Assessment - Denial That Limits Needed Action
By Bill Henderson

http://www.countercurrents.org/hnerson110514.htm

The 3rd National Climate Assessment is a very impressive report: well written, great language, great graphics, very informative (especially the website). The Obama Administration seems to be focusing in on climate change as a legacy issue and the average American reading this report must surely understand that climate change is happening now and has immediate costs in a threatened American economy


Our Duty To Future Generations
By John Scales Avery

http://www.countercurrents.org/avery110514.htm

We are living today in a time of acute crisis. We need to act with a sense of urgency never before experienced. We need to have great courage to meet an unprecedented challenge. We need to fulfil our duty to future generations


Children’s Future Is Dependent On A Common Interest
By Lionel Anet

http://www.countercurrents.org/anet110514.htm

We must choose between the frustration, fears, insecurity, and devastation of competition, in contrast to the pleasure, satisfaction, and the security of fulfilling the social needs by cooperating. To deal with global warming will not be a sacrifice, on the contrary it will give the young something to work for and hope


The GMO Biotech Sector Can't Win The Scientific Debate:
Co-option, Deception And Collusion As An Alternative Strategy
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter110514.htm

The GM sector will only get its products into Britain (and elsewhere) if its institutions and mouthpieces in government, academia and the media are left unchallenged. Part of the strategy involves counting on a misinformed and easily manipulated public


Zionism Beyond Control And Choices For The Palestinians
By Alan Hart

http://www.countercurrents.org/hart110514.htm

The conclusion to be drawn from the Obama administration’s predictable and predicted failure to get an Israeli-Palestinian peace process going is that the Zionist (not Jewish) monster state is beyond control. And the question arising is this. What are the real choices for the Palestinians?


The Aptly Named Anne-Marie Slaughter
By Steve Breyman

http://www.countercurrents.org/breyman110514.htm

Might Americans (and the rest of the world) sleep more soundly now that Anne-Marie Slaughter no longer sits around the tables of power in Washington? Maybe. There's also the prospect that she's become even more dangerous to world peace


The Politics Of The Insignias
By Gouthama Siddarthan

http://www.countercurrents.org/siddarthan110514.htm

In many constituencies the general awareness about their respective candidates and about the prospective winner among them doesn’t seem to exist at all, except in the case of the most popular ones. In this so called ‘Democratic process’ the focus is on the party symbol rather than the candidate himself or on his individual credentials. The origins for this tendency in voters’ minds needs to be understood and this necessitates a debate with criticism about the electoral process itself and its structure along with the subtle politics behind it


We All Should Be Out And Proud
By Devika Mittal

http://www.countercurrents.org/mittal110514.htm

The Supreme Court of India has recently recognised transgenders to be the third gender. They have been recognised as full citizens of the country who will be entitled to equal rights. This decision has been warmly welcomed by not just people of LGBTQ community but also by many amongst the heterosexual community. It is being seen as the realisation of a true and just democracy. It is being hailed as a progressive move


Communicating Gujarat !!
By Sanjeev Kumar


http://www.countercurrents.org/skumar110514.htm

Gujarat claims exceptional improvement in communication infrastructure development which included road, ports etc. There is no doubt that Gujarat is one of the best state in india in terms of availability of infrastructural facilities such as roads and ports, but there are number of states which are well ahead of Gujarat in this field


AK versus NaMo
By Subhash Gatade

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatade110514.htm

Imagine an alternate scenario which could have been followed by Mr Kejriwal. Instead of engaging in the public display of his religiosity - by taking a 'holy dip' in the Ganges or by participating in the Ganga Aarti (nobody is here questioning his right to do so) - he could have as well declared that by faith he might be a Hindu but for him it is a private matter and by choice and by practice he believes in clear separation of religion and politics. This move would have definitely cost him few votes but could have helped him set an alternate agenda in these critical times when the very idea of secularism is being questioned, challenged and derided as never before.


A Battle Line Crisscrosses Narayanganj And A Bangladesh Reality Gets Exposed
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury110514.htm

The battle line crisscrossing today’s Narayanganj, a river-port city near Dhaka, is not between the forces of status quo and its opponents. It’s not between, as almost always perceived in almost all Bangladesh political incidents, Awami League and Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the two major political parties in today’s Bangladesh mainstream. The line runs through the status quo