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 Greenland Ice Sheet Faces 'Tipping Point In 10 Years'
By Suzanne Goldenberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/goldenberg110810.htm

Scientists warn that temperature rise of between 2C and 7C would cause ice to melt, resulting in 23ft rise in sea level


Russia's Fires Cause "Brown Cloud," May Hit Arctic
By Alister Doyle

http://www.countercurrents.org/doyle110810.htm

Smoke from forest fires smothering Moscow adds to health problems of "brown clouds" from Asia to the Amazon and Russian soot may stoke global warming by hastening a thaw of Arctic ice, environmental experts say


Pakistani Floods Affect Millions,
But Level Of International Aid Pitiful
By Vilani Peiris

http://www.countercurrents.org/peiris110810.htm

With monsoonal rains continuing, the worst flooding in Pakistan in 80 years is still spreading. Pakistani relief organisations and government agencies are stretched to the limit. Yet despite urgent appeals from the UN and other aid organisations, the level of international aid is pitiful, even measured against the limited assistance donated in other recent disasters


Mamta, Maoists And Mediation
By Rahul Pathak

http://www.countercurrents.org/pathak110810.htm

Lalgarh rally suggests towards the possibility of mediation which can bring some peaceful solution to the naxalite problem, the opposition should welcome this move rather than politicizing it


For Or Against Commonwealth Games ?
By Sadanand Patwardhan

http://www.countercurrents.org/patwardhan110810.htm

Child mortality, malnutrition, illiteracy, abysmal access to education or healthcare, lack of housing, female feticide, hunger, etc are the indicators that cry out for urgent attention all over the country . This social infrastructure needs urgent attention and mending rather than divert Nation's wealth & energies to pursuits that pander to the entertainment and aggrandizement of rich


Google-Verizon Pact: It Gets Worse
By Craig Aaron

http://www.countercurrents.org/aaron110810.htm

Cut through the platitudes the two companies (Googizon, anyone?) offered on today's press call, and you'll find this deal is even worse than advertised. The proposal is one massive loophole that sets the stage for the corporate takeover of the Internet


Israel And Saudis To Buy Advanced War Planes
By Jonathan Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook110810.htm

Two of the United States' closest allies in the Middle East, Israel and Saudi Arabia, are on the brink of signing large arms deals with the US in a move designed to ratchet up the pressure on Iran, according to defence analysts


Blood Gadgetry -- Why I Am Going To The Congo
By Iara Lee

http://www.countercurrents.org/lee110810.htm

More than 5 million have died in the congo in the last 10 years. Have you considered how complicit we all are with our insatiable appetite for ipods, mobile phones, dvd players, laptops? As beneficiaries of the congo's violence -- each of us can and must stand in solidarity with the congolese people


Matthew Simmons: A Tribute
By Matthew Wild

http://www.countercurrents.org/wild110810.htm

Energy Investment banker and leading peak oil proponent Matthew Simmons died suddenly on Sunday [Aug. 8], following an apparent heart attack


Gulf Coast Fishermen Challenge
US Government Over Dispersants
By Dahr Jamail

http://www.countercurrents.org/jamail110810.htm

Commercial fishing communities in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida have united to demand that local, state and federal agencies force BP to discontinue the use of toxic dispersants and conduct better testing before reopening fishing waters


America's Gulf: A Toxic Crime Scene
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman110810.htm

The lives and livelihoods of Gulf residents are at risk, the entire area economically damaged, BP establishing a paltry $20 billion compensation fund for victims, containing a slim $3 billion deposit, the idea being to help BP, not them, claims czar Kenneth Feinberg appointed to assure it, a man notorious for serving wealth and power interests


Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fallujah: Against
Uranium-Induced Mutilation—Against Barbarism
By Javier Sethness

http://www.countercurrents.org/sethness110810.htm

Knowledge of the barbarism to which the U.S. has subjected the people of Iraq, and those of Fallujah in particular, should surely be taken as a call for humanity to arise, to awaken, as "The Internationale" declares: to work to overthrow barbarism, negation, and domination


Aftermaths Of Indian PM's Speech
By Naveed Qazi

http://www.countercurrents.org/qazi110810.htm

Indian Prime Minister addressed the nation, about Kashmir in broken Urdu, totally restraint, disciplined about Kashmiri sentiment now, not uttering words like 'stone pelters' or 'Lashkar' influence and not faulting his neighbor- a political custom- for the long occurrences of protests; a rare happening a Kashmiri could have witnessed. He promised reviewing AFSPA, hinted autonomy, which was designed and eroded by late Sheikh Abdullah


Kashmir In Turmoil
By Akhila Raman

http://www.countercurrents.org/raman110810.htm

An excellent analysis of the Kashmir conflict


Kashmir: Why The Anger?
By Anuradha Bhasin

http://www.countercurrents.org/bhasin110810.htm

What adds to the anger is not just the insensitivity of the government, it's inept handling but also provocation - describing stone pelters as 'paid miscreants' and Lashkar agents, sending in more troops and repeatedly talking about crushing the 'miscreants'


The Deception Of The Indian Liberal
Discourse On Kashmir
By Mohamad Junaid

http://www.countercurrents.org/junaid110810.htm

The liberal discourse in India on the question of Kashmir is not open, fair, or objective, but often borders on, and oftentimes overlaps, the more popular, explicitly nationalist polemics


Badyari's Killing Shatters His Family
By Sana Altaf

http://www.countercurrents.org/altaf110810.htm

Story of Ghulam Nabi Badyari, one of the victims of recent violence in Kashmir


Kashmir Survey Was Designed To Achieve
Desired Results
By Dr Shabir Choudhry

http://www.countercurrents.org/choudhry110810.htm

Dr Robert Bradnock's s survey, ' Kashmir – Paths to Peace' indicates how some interested parties want to resolve the Kashmir dispute


Sri Lanka: Where Have All The Flowers Gone..?
By Chandi Sinnathurai

http://www.countercurrents.org/sinnathurai110810.htm

Its time that every individual Tamil woke up to their responsibility: Begin to take steps towards peaceable solutions. That is the wisest way to turning vicious circle into virtuous circle


Ross Douthat On "The Marriage Ideal"
By Thomas Riggins

http://www.countercurrents.org/riggins110810.htm

The ultra-conservative Ross Douthat, an op ed columnist for The New York Times, has a piece in Monday's paper (8-9-2010 "The Marriage Ideal") which, as is usual with this ideological trend, distorts the issues involved in question of gay marriage


Indulgence Towards Narendra Modi
For Temporizing
By Mustafa Khan

http://www.countercurrents.org/mkhan110810.htm

The latest delaying and stalling tactic of the Chief Minister Narendra Modi is unacceptable by civil and judicial norms. When the CBI was asking Geetha Johri for questioning it is Modi's visit to Rajkot on Independence Day that has caused the police commissioner there to request postponement of the meeting. Should Modi's delaying tactics be allowed?


Mumbai Oil Spill And Shipping Ministry's
Dismal Performance
By Gopal Krishna

http://www.countercurrents.org/krishna110810.htm

Fragile Marine Environment in Indian Waters Facing Unprecedented Threat Mumbai Oil Spill & Chlorine Gas leak underlines it


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