CC News Letter 08 June - Arctic Is Thawing So Fast Scientists Are Losing Their Measuring Tools

Dear Friend,

Permafrost in the Arctic is now thawing so fast that scientists are literally losing their measuring equipment. This is due to the fact that instead of there being just a few centimeters of thawing each year, now several meters of soil can become destabilized in a matter of days.

8 June has been designated by the United Nations General Assembly as the International Day of the Oceans to highlight the important role that the United Nations has played in creating the Law of the Sea Convention. Nevertheless there are maritime delimitation disputes that are currently dangerous and require good-faith negotiations to prevent increased tensions.

Ram Puniyani has got threat to his life on phone calls. A few months back, some plain cloths policemen too came to his home in the name of passport inquiry which he had never applied for. Now, a person threatened him on telephone. Maharashtra government must ensure protection of Dr Ram Puniyani and arrest the goons threatening him

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Arctic Is Thawing So Fast Scientists Are Losing Their Measuring Tools

by Dahr Jamail

https://countercurrents.org/2019/06/arctic-is-thawing-so-fast-scientists-are-losing-their-measuring-tools

Permafrost in the Arctic is now thawing so fast that scientists are literally losing their measuring equipment. This is due to the fact that instead of there being just a few centimeters of thawing each year, now several meters of soil can become destabilized in a matter of days.

Climate Criminal Australia Ignores Its Hugely Increasing Carbon Debt & Massive Subsidies For GHG Pollution

by Dr Gideon Polya 

https://countercurrents.org/2019/06/climate-criminal-australia-ignores-its-hugely-increasing-carbon-debt-massive-subsidies-for-ghg-pollution

The damage-related cost of carbon pollution has been variously estimated at $US200 per tonne CO2, this enabling calculation of the inescapable Carbon Debt we are leaving to be paid by future generations. A climate criminal Australia is among world leaders in 14 key areas relating to greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution, and with a population (25 million) that is only 0.3% of the world’s,  Australia has an  annual increase in Carbon Debt that is 6% of that of the world.

8 June: International Day of the Oceans

by Rene Wadlow 

https://countercurrents.org/2019/06/8-june-international-day-of-the-oceans

8 June has been designated by the United Nations General Assembly as the International Day of the Oceans to highlight the important role that the United Nations has played in creating the Law of the Sea Convention. Nevertheless there are maritime delimitation disputes that are currently dangerous and require good-faith negotiations to prevent increased tensions.

Russia to start sending S-400 missiles to Turkey in two months

by Abdus Sattar Ghazali 

https://countercurrents.org/2019/06/russia-to-start-sending-s-400-missiles-to-turkey-in-two-months

Turkey will start getting S-400 Russian anti-missile systems within two months amid escalating dispute between Ankara and Washington over the purchase of Russian anti-missile system.

Tightening The Noose On Cuba

by Dr Chandra Muzaffar

https://countercurrents.org/2019/06/tightening-the-noose-on-cuba

On the 2nd of May 2019, the Trump Administration decided to enforce Title 111 of the Helms-Burton Act. Title 111 authorises US nationals with claims to confiscated properties in Cuba to file suits in US courts against persons that may be “trafficking “in that property.

Scandinavia Veers Left Plus D-Day Reflections As Trump Storms Europe

by Dr Arshad M Khan 

https://countercurrents.org/2019/06/scandinavia-veers-left-plus-d-day-reflections-as-trump-storms-europe

Mette Frederiksen of the five-party Social Democrat bloc won 91 of the 169 seats in the Danish parliament ending the rule of the right-wing Liberal Party group that had governed for 14 of the last 18 years. The election issues centered on climate change, immigration and Denmark’s generous social welfare policies

Maharashtra government must protect Dr Ram Puniyani

by Vidya Bhushan Rawat 

https://countercurrents.org/2019/06/maharashtra-government-must-protect-dr-ram-puniyani

Ram Puniyani has got threat to his life on phone calls. A few months back, some plain cloths policemen too came to his home in the name of passport inquiry which he had never applied for. Now, a person threatened him on telephone. Maharashtra government must ensure protection of Dr Ram Puniyani and arrest the goons threatening him

Mumbai infrastructure in crisis. Civic body should consult citizens to find solutions

by Vidyadhar Date 

https://countercurrents.org/2019/06/mumbai-infrastructure-in-crisis-civic-body-should-consult-citizens-to-find-solutions

It is time Mumbai’s new municipal commissioner Pravin Pardeshi convenes a meeting of citizens to discuss ways to take the city out of the mess it has landed in.

Journalist who hurled shoe at Indian Home Minister honoured by Radical Desi

Press Release 

https://countercurrents.org/2019/06/journalist-who-hurled-shoe-at-indian-home-minister-honoured-by-radical-desi

A visiting journalist who shot into prominence after throwing a shoe at India’s Home Minister in protest against attempts to hush up investigations of the 1984 Sikh massacre was honoured by Radical Desi on Thursday, June 6.

CounterCurrents: The Sharing Economy: It Takes More Than A Smartphone, Donald Trump’s Deepest Fraud?

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Trump Boosts Most Wasteful Department, Reduces All Others
by Eric Zuesse 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/28/trump-boosts-most-wasteful-department-reduces-all-others/

On February 27th, Reuters headlined “Trump seeks ‘historic’ increase of 9 percent in U.S. military’s budget” and reported that “Trump will ask Congress to boost Pentagon spending in the next fiscal year by $54 billion in his first budget proposal and slash the same amount from non-defense spending.”





Resisting Donald Trump’s Violence Strategically
by Robert J Burrowes 


http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/28/resisting-donald-trumps-violence-strategically/

It is already clearly apparent, as many predicted, that Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States would signal the start of what might be the final monumental assault on much of what is good in our world. Whatever our collective gains to date to create a world in which peace, social justice and environmental sustainability ultimately prevail for all of Earth’s inhabitants, we stand to lose it all in the catastrophic sequence of events that Trump is now initiating with those who share his delusional worldview.






The Sharing Economy: It Takes More Than A Smartphone
by Steven Gorelick

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/28/the-sharing-economy-it-takes-more-than-a-smartphone/

To give the sharing economy its due, I admit that there can be environmental benefits to sharing goods like cars, rather than each of us owning one. But profit-making online platforms like Uber and Lyft aren’t the only – or the best – sharing models out there. Many years ago I moved from New York City to a remote valley in the mountains of Colorado. Of all the differences from big city life, none fascinated me more than the fact that everyone in this valley left their vehicles unlocked, with their keys in the ignition. I remarked to one of my new acquaintances how wonderful it was that people were so trusting – so confident that no one would just drive off with their car. He looked puzzled a moment, then smiled and said, “that’s not why we leave our keys in the ignition: it’s to make sure that if someone needs a car, they’ll be able to take it.”






Initiating a Global Citizens Movement for the Great Transition
by Adam Parsons 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/28/initiating-a-global-citizens-movement-for-the-great-transition/

A new publication by The Great Transition Initiative provides an inspiring vision of a more equal, vibrant and sustainable civilisation. From STWR’s perspective, all that it lacks is a sufficient focus on the critical needs of the very poorest citizens—which could ultimately forge the global solidarity needed to bring that new world into being.






Organic Vs Industrial Chemical-Dependent Agriculture: Philosophies And Practices
by Colin Todhunter 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/28/organic-vs-industrial-chemical-dependent-agriculture-philosophies-and-practices/

What follows is a summary of this article, ‘A System of Food Production for Human Need, Not Corporate Greed’, and is a preamble to something that was recently forwarded to me by Emeritus Professor Stuart B. Hill, Foundation Chair of Social Ecology, School of Education, Western Sydney University.






Anatomy Of A Hate Crime
by Nijam Gara 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/28/anatomy-of-a-hate-crime/

The senseless and brutal gunning down of an Indian engineer, Srinivas Kuchibhotla by an angry Caucasian American, Adam Purinton at a Kansas bar shocked the Indians both in USA and India. The 32-year-old engineer’s murder is ghastly and his family’s grief and loss is unimaginable. The issue brings to fore several complex dynamics.





Bad Schools
by Sally Dugman 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/27/bad-schools/

Be Careful In Selecting An Early Childhood Center For Your Children’s Care! They may look good on the outside — on the skin level. Yet many are rotten to the core!





Donald Trump’s Deepest Fraud?
by Eric Zuesse 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/27/donald-trumps-deepest-fraud/

The biggest issue between Canada and the United States now is something even worse than NAFTA: it’s CETA, a treaty between Canada and the European Union, which would not only drive wages down, but enable international corporations — including American ones — to sue taxpayers in both Canada and the EU, for even enforcing their existing laws regulating the environment, product-safety, and workers’ rights.






“Building a Hindu Nation”: A Study On The Assertion Of The Hindutva Politics Through Physical Space
by Aabha J

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/28/building-a-hindu-nation-a-study-on-the-assertion-of-the-hindutva-politics-through-physical-space/

A huge uproar sprang over social media after the new station between Jogeshwari and Goregaon, two suburban stations of Mumbai, was named Ram Mandir, popularly known as Oshiwara. The progressive and liberal forces smashed the reactionary decision of the BPJ led Maharashtra Government for its decision to name the platform as Ram Mandir as it was a representation of not just the fundamentalist Hindutva politics but was also a representation of the communal polarisation and the subsequent violence in 1992 after the demolition of the Babri Masjid.






ICHR’s Post-Truth: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Is The Latest Victim
by Shamsul Islam

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/28/ichrs-post-truth-netaji-subhash-chandra-bose-is-the-latest-victim/

Balmukund Pandey while congratulating ICHR for organising a seminar for Subhas called upon to carry stories of Subhash and INA to every India household, “there is no other way to save this country.” YS Rao, chairman of ICHR and a senior RSS cadre, agreeing with Pandey promised that ICHR in collaboration with ABISY would organize a national seminar on Vivekanand and Bose as both “had imbibed the spirit of Goddess Kali.”






Solidarity To Gurmehar Kaur
Press Release

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/28/solidarity-to-gurmehar-kaur/

We, the faculty members of the English Department, Lady Shri Ram College unequivocally and strongly support our student Gurmehar Kaur and her right to express her opinion on issues that embroil our university. It is immensely gratifying to us as her teachers that she has responded sensitively, creatively and bravely to events in her immediate context rather than seek the safe refuge of silence.






Kashmir, As A Bridge Between India And Pakistan?
by Ravi Nitesh 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/28/kashmir-as-a-bridge-between-india-and-pakistan/

I hope and dream of the time when India and Pakistan will take steps together and the cultural and emotional bonds will play more important role in defining human relations than political one and Insaniyat will be on first priority while considering Kashmiriyat, Pakistaniyat and Hindustaniyat.







“Nature, Knowledge and Development: Critical Essays on the Environmental History of India”
by Mumtaz Ahmad Numani 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/28/nature-knowledge-and-development-critical-essays-on-the-environmental-history-of-india/

How important is it to communicate the importance of human nature relationship on the earth planet? In other words: is it important to communicatehow man should communicate with nature? Or, howbetter with other living things of different species?    Edited by ArunBandopadhyay, the book: Nature, Knowledge and Development: Critical Essays on the Environmental History of India has dealt with all of this at length. This book is the outcome of seven long essays penned by scholars—from the social sciences background.






Burhan Wani  – A resistive remembrance
by Umar Farooq Sofi 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/28/burhan-wani-a-resistive-remembrance/

Burhan Wani  is a remembrance, a remembrance which might continue to be resistance. An idea governing Kashmiri youth. A name scribbled on every wall in curfewed markets though might be erased but never silenced among the emotionalism of Kashmiris especially his father who wore a smile, before his death and even after his death.






Students Union v/s Students
by Gaurav Jain 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/28/students-union-vs-students/

Three out of the top four posts in the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) are occupied by the members of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP): the student wing of the Hindutva mongering Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) and its affiliate, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). These three students’ Union leaders, along with other ABVP activists, were leading the brutal assault on the students.






Upper Class, Politicians and the Loss Of Public Space
by Vidyadhar Date 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/28/upper-class-politicians-and-the-loss-of-public-space/

Over the years the politicians and bureaucrats and the upper class have failed the city in several ways. Look at what is happening to Joggers Park in Bandra which has become an important landmark in Mumbai.

CounterCurrents: Losing Faith In Rupee, Losing Faith In Government!

Dear Friend,

The government of India is punishing the marginalised section of the society with its maniacal and diabolical changes in policies relating to the present demonetisation decision. From today onwards ordinary people can change their old notes only in Reserve Bank of India branches, situated in state capitals. People will have to travel long distances, stand in long queues to change Rs 2000.

Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, in his November 8th speech said as item number 7 &8 

7. For your immediate needs, you can go to any bank, head post office or sub post office, show your identity proof like Aadhaar card, voter card, ration card, passport, PAN card or other approved proofs, and exchange your old five hundred or thousand rupee notes for new notes.

8. From 10th November till 24th November the limit for such exchange will be four thousand rupees. From 25th November till 30th December, the limit will be increased.

The government first limited the exchangable amount from four thousand rupees to two thousand rupees and now stopped it altogether. 

People have already lost faith in their own currency. Now, by going back on the word, given by the Prime Minister himself, will the Indian people lose faith in their own government?


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Is Going Cashless A Possibility?
by Sudhirendar Sharma 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/25/is-going-cashless-a-possibility/

There is no denying the fact that massive quantities of unaccounted large-denomination currency is a huge public policy problem, but what purpose does replacing high-denomination notes with fresh notes of similar or higher denomination may serve is beyond easy comprehension? With each passing day, it is becoming clear that the government had indeed hurried through its decision, counting the proverbial chickens before hatching. Having opened the Pandora’s box of divisive politics, the government should avoid going on an overdrive to make its erroneous decision look optimal ex post. Losing peoples’ faith and investor’s confidence will prove costly in the long run. It is a risk that is not worth taking!






Anything But Disruptive: Blockchain, Capital And A Case Of Fourth Industrial Age Enclosure
by Vasilis (Bill) Niaros 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/25/anything-but-disruptive-blockchain-capital-and-a-case-of-fourth-industrial-age-enclosure/

So, should we still take seriously the possibility that blockchain might still evolve into something other than capitalism’s latest technological fetish? Perhaps not. Blockchain is, after all, arguably a product of the capitalist imagination, albeit a marginal and anarchic species of capitalism outside the mainstream





Zapatista Communique: May The Earth Tremble At Its Core

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/25/zapatista-communique-may-the-earth-tremble-at-its-core/

“…commemorating resistance and rebellion also means ratifying our decision to continue to live, constructing hope for a future that is only possible upon the ruins of capitalism. … This is the time of dignified rebellion, the time to construct a new nation by and for everyone, to strengthen power below and to the anticapitalist left…”






Beggars Among The Rich Is A Clue To The Working Class Vote For Trump
by Dr Arshad M Khan 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/25/beggars-among-the-rich-is-a-clue-to-the-working-class-vote-for-trump/

Whatever Trump does, it is not going to be easy to bring jobs back.  Not only have these been shipped abroad but technology has changed.  Robots on the shop floor are replacing humans, and robots don’t need breaks or sick leave or vacation time. As for the panhandlers, heaven help them.  The ‘more tax cuts’ mantra means less for them. A common measure of civilization is how well a society looks after its weakest and most vulnerable.  The new crop of leaders shows little promise in that regard.





The Reality Of Fake News
by Dr Binoy Kampmark 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/25/the-reality-of-fake-news/

Fake news as reality; the inability to navigate the waters in which it swims; a weakness in succumbing to material best treated with a huge pinch of salt. That, we are told, is the new condition of the global information environment. Laura Sydell of National Public Radio’s All Things Considered furnished readers with one such example: “FBI Agent Suspected In Hillary Email Leaks Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide.”  Shared over half a million times, it ran on a site “that had had the look and feel of a local newspaper” (not that you can feel the website Denverguardian.com).





Voices for Peace – Kia Scherr Speaks
by Aaghaz-e-Dosti 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/25/voices-for-peace-kia-scherr-speaks/

As part of our aim to embed critical thinking and peace, Aaghaz-e-Dosti through interview series – “Voices for Peace” features inspiring peace personalities who have worked significantly for Indo-Pak Peace. We start this series with Ms. Kia Scherr, an inspiring Peace Personality. She is known to the world as the 26/11 (Mumbai attack of 2008) victims’ family member who forgave the terrorists, thereby refusing to submit to hatred which is the goal of terrorism.





India’s Agrarian Crisis
by Moin Qazi 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/25/indias-agrarian-crisis/

We need to arrest this influx and inject the rural economy with new skill development programmes to generate local employment .That is the right way of saving both the cities and villages –in a way the civilization itself.





Plebiscite, Kashmir And The Indian State – Experiments With Untruth
by Dr P S Sahni 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/25/plebiscite-kashmir-and-the-indian-state-experiments-with-untruth/

The Indian state wishes to forcibly have Kashmir as its live-in partner with the daily round of domestic violence inflicted on the latter. Kashmir is denied justice and freedom as the Indian state fears that it would lead an independent existence or worse get wedded and welded to Pakistan.





“Where Is Najeeb?” Protest Rally In Mumbai

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/25/where-is-najeeb-protest-rally-in-mumbai/

Today a protest rally was held from Piperoad Masjid to Kalina campus of Mumbai university as a mark of protest against the attack on JNU student Najeeb Ahmed and his disappearance. Najeeb was badly thrashed by ABVP goons in his hostel on 14th October and since the next day he has been missing. It has been more than 40 days since he went missing even more than a month since JNU student Najeeb Ahmed’s disappearance, but the police claim that they have no clues about his whereabouts.

CounterCurrents: Boys II Bums, Clinton Opposes Transferring Government’s Costs More Onto Rich People

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Panama Papers: Iceland PM Gunnlaugsson Resigns
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc060416.htm

In the first instance of a prominent politician taken down by the 11.5 million documents leaked in the Panama Papers, Iceland Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson resigned on Tuesday after fully 10 percent of Iceland's population rallied in protest of his wife's secret, offshore shell company holding millions


Boys II Bums 
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh060416.htm

A third of Americans under 35 now live with their parents, and half of them spend half of their incomes servicing debts. You’re not likely to get married if you’re living with mom and dad, that’s for sure, but soon enough, we will see three generations under one roof again, out of economic necessity. We will also see more couples with their kids all in one room. Poor people worldwide already live this way, and we are poor


Clinton Opposes Transferring Government’s Costs More Onto Rich People
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse060416.htm

Hillary Clinton opposes fixing Social Security by taxing rich people more; she wants it to be done by cutting benefits to the recipients


Saving Hillary’s Life 
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mikceyz060416.htm

Here is a hypothetical question:

Q. If I knew in advance it was Hillary Clinton whose life was in danger on that NYC street corner, would I have risked potential bodily harm to save her?

A. Yes, I would.

Q. What would you do?

A.


Viva la Producción! Urban Farming In Cuba 
By Josh Gabbatiss

http://www.countercurrents.org/gabbatiss060416.htm

Urban agriculture is a big deal in Cuba. Food gardens – termed organopónicos – make up 8% of land in Havana, and 3.4% of urban land across the island. The country enjoys unprecedented levels of self-sufficiency, with small, local operations producing 90% of all its fruit and vegetables


Ending Human Violence Is A Task For Each Of Us 
By Robert J. Burrowes

http://www.countercurrents.org/burrowes060416.htm

Do you think that ending human violence is impossible? Do you believe that even aiming to do so is unrealistic? Well, you might be right. But you might also be interested to know that there are a lot of people around the world who are committed to trying. And, if you think the aim is worthwhile, you could be one of them


To A World Impacted by Terrorism 
By Emma Tobin

http://www.countercurrents.org/tobin060416.htm

There are so many ways to counteract terrorism; education, interfaith dialogue, and intercultural dialogue are some of the ways that I’ve learned about while being in Morocco. Those most at risk of becoming religious extremists are those who are both impoverished and uneducated and who feel angry or wronged by their country or fellow citizens


Fight The Esblishment 
By Joel S. Hirschhorn

http://www.countercurrents.org/joel060416.htm

Now is the time for thinking Americans to withdraw their participation in an election where disruptive candidates are replaced with establishment ones. Otherwise our delusional democracy prevails. We the people need a political revolution. Otherwise, with awful economic inequality condemning millions of Americans to economic prison, violent revolution should not be ruled out. Not in a nation with widespread gun ownership. After all, our corrupt political system presents a type of oppressive government for which the Second Amendment may offer the ultimate solution. Time is running out. This may be the year for seeing whether or not we can vote – or not vote - our way to a democracy we once thought we had


Modi’s Visit And Saudi-India Relations 
By Sazzad Hussain

http://www.countercurrents.org/hussain060416.htm

Modi’s visit to the kingdom is significant so far as Indian Muslims are concerned. The monarchy which endorses and exports a brand of Islam that homogenizes Muslims across the world at the cost of local diversities has been a matter of concern for a nation of pluralistic culture and inclusive society like India. Therefore a multitude of questions and apprehensions remain following the Prime Minister’s visit to Riyadh and on the India-Saudi relations in the changing world order


5000 Slum Residents Hit South Mumbai’s Streets Demanding Housing Right, 
Basic Amenities And Scientific Waste Management System In The City
By National Alliance of People’s Movements

http://www.countercurrents.org/napm060416.htm

Slum residents from all over Mumbai threatened by illegal forcible eviction and annoyed by lack of basic amenities in slums, marched from Carnac Bunder to Azad Maidan, Mumbai on 5th April, 2016 in a huge rally demanding housing right to be ensured with all the basic amenities. Slum residents also demanded the scientific shutting down of the Deonar Dumping ground and a scientific waste-management system in the city


Free Speech In 2016: First Quarter Report
By TheHoot.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/freespeech060416.pdf

The first quarter of this year has been a significant one for issues related to free speech. Apart from the turbulence in February over the sedition cases filed at Jawaharlal Nehru University, the arrests of students, and the allegations regarding doctored videos, the period saw an overall increase in the number of sedition cases filed, recorded the murder of one journalist, saw increases in attacks on journalists and media property, saw a number of defamation cases filed against the media and the political class, and logged many instances of censorship of different kinds, affecting the media, the arts, as well as ordinary citizens. This period also saw significant legal developments which affect the climate for free speech, at the level of the supreme court and the high courts


Puttakota Killing Of Adivasi Farmers By Greyhounds Police
By The Human Rights Forum

http://www.countercurrents.org/hrf060416.htm

The Human Rights Forum (HRF) demands that Greyhounds police personnel responsible for the killing of two adivasis Ganga Madkami (40) and Ganga Podiami (33), on the afternoon of February 21, 2016 in the Puttakota forest area of Koyyuru mandal in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh be booked under relevant penal sections of the law and criminally prosecuted