CounterCurrents: The Climate Emergency: Time To Switch To Panic Mode?, America's Laughable ‘News' Media, America's Gestapo: The FBI's Reign Of Terror

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After Gauhar Raza, Nivedita Menon: Who Next?
By Subhash Gatade

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatade150316.htm

Whether all the leading public intellectuals of our times have suddenly decided to go for a break – now that Kanhaiya Kumar is out of jail – or are thinking that the impending storm would peter away on its own. Anyone who has closely followed the public hounding of two of the finest human beings of our times – Prof Nivedita Menon and Gauhar Raza – and the silence which has followed with it would understand what does that mean


The Climate Emergency: Time To Switch To Panic Mode? 
By Ugo Bardi

http://www.countercurrents.org/bardi150316.htm

The latest temperature data have broken all records. At best, this is an especially large oscillation and the climate system will be soon back on track; following the predictions of the models - maybe to be retouched to take into account faster climbing temperatures. A worst, it is an indication that the system is going out of control and moving to a new climate state faster than anyone could have imagined


U.S. Government Blames 9/11 On Iran, Fines Iran $10.5B; Iran Refuses To Pay 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse150316A.htm

On March 14th, Iran announced that it will never pay the $10.5B that a U.S. court demanded it pay for the 9/11 attacks. The same Bill-Clinton-appointed judge who had ruled, on 29 September 2015, that Saudi Arabia has sovereign immunity for 9/11 and so can't be sued for it, ruled recently, on March 9th that Iran doesn't have sovereign immunity and fined Iran $10.5 billion to be paid to 9/11 victims and insurers; but, on March 14, Iran's Foreign Ministry said Iran won't pay, because, as the Ministry's spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari put it, "The ruling is ludicrous and absurd to the point that it makes a mockery of the principle of justice while [it] further tarnishes the US judiciary's reputation.” 


Moral Haemorrhage From The Wound Of Palestine 
By Vacy Vlazna

http://www.countercurrents.org/vlazna150316.htm

Going way beyond hypocrisy to blatant abuse of the Australian national value of a ‘fair go’, the Australian government is withholding a visa for Ali Abunimah’s tour of Australia. With no war crimes, crimes against humanity, home demolitions, land grabs, apartheid policies, assassination and extrajudicial killings on his record, Abunimah, a highly respected journalist and champion of Palestinian political and human rights is being denied his lawful right to enter Australia


The History Of Hollywood: Propaganda For White Supremacy At Home And US Militarism Abroad
By Garikai Chengu

http://www.countercurrents.org/chengu150316.htm

White terrorism founded America, built the nation through slavery, and continues to be the nation's largest domestic terrorist threat. From Redface, to Blackface, to Yellowface, to Brownface, Hollywood's long and torrid history of white supremacy through their depiction of other races as dangerous or inferior has been a pillar of American racism at home and an integral weapon for American militarism abroad


Pentagon Excess Has Fueled A Civil-Military Crisis 
By Gregory D. Foster

http://www.countercurrents.org/foster150316.htm

Humpty Dumpty posed the question to Alice in Through the Looking Glass of whether words are to be the masters of men or men the masters of words by determining their meaning. Similarly must we ask whether an institution, the military, supposedly endowed with supernal character by objective circumstances, is to master us, or we to master it by determining for ourselves what it properly is and does


America's Laughable ‘News' Media 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse150316.htm

As of Friday March 4th, democracy ended in Turkey, but you'd hardly have known it by reading the international ‘news' at the major (and at most of the minor) U.S.-based ‘news' sites, as of around 4PM Eastern time in the U.S., nearly a day after the event. Nor has it been announced even now, ten days after that historic event occurred


America's Gestapo: The FBI's Reign Of Terror 
By John W. Whitehead

http://www.countercurrents.org/whitehead150316.htm

This is how freedom falls, and tyrants come to power. Secret police. Secret courts. Secret government agencies. Surveillance. Intimidation. Harassment. Torture. Brutality. Widespread corruption. Entrapment. Indoctrination. These are the hallmarks of every authoritarian regime from the Roman Empire to modern-day America. Yet it's the secret police—tasked with silencing dissidents, ensuring compliance, and maintaining a climate of fear—who sound the death knell for freedom in every age


Understanding Self-Hatred In World Affairs 
By Robert J. Burrowes

http://www.countercurrents.org/burrowes150316.htm

If you have ever wondered why the global elite hoards their wealth instead of using it to help break down the violence and injustice in our world, I would like to suggest an answer to your question: self-hatred. If you have ever wondered why weapons manufacturers make weapons to kill other living beings and destroy the Earth, I would like to suggest an answer to your question: self-hatred. If you have ever wondered why politicians serve elite interests, I would like to suggest an answer to your question: self-hatred


Frivolity, Indian Judiciary’s Real Crisis, Not Backlog 
By Samar

http://www.countercurrents.org/samar150316.htm

There is a “crisis of credibility” for sure. But, the crisis is not in the numbers. It is in what the numbers represent about the past, and about what continues in routine today. The Chief Justice would do well to stop frivolous cases from accumulating now. However, nothing short of a radical re-engineering of India’s justice institutions will solve the crisis, to create a system where the Judiciary itself stops violating the rights and dignity of the people, and equality before law can be enforced and followed


Malice Is Not Critique: A Rejoinder To Suhas Munshi 
By Mithilesh Kumar

http://www.countercurrents.org/mkumar150316.htm

Suhas Munshi in an article on Catch News(“Left Drops Kashmir: Did Kanhaiya Kumar leave his Azadi in jail?”) has purportedly critiqued the alleged betrayal by Kanhaiya Kumar, the JNUSU president. According to Munshi, the student leader has betrayed those political causes which made him the poster boy of the entire liberal spectrum. He has betrayed the cause of Kashmir and Manipur; to the slogan of Azadi and the rest of it. Munshi does not seek the causes of this betrayal in the personality of Kumar which is a very sound method