Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Fwd: CC News Letter, 26 April - Living Economies: Learning From The Biosphere ‎



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Subject: CC News Letter, 26 April - Living Economies: Learning From The Biosphere ‎
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Japan's Nuclear Crisis Far From Over
 By Peter Symonds

http://www.countercurrents.org/symonds260411.htm

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), estimates six to nine months will be required to bring all the reactors to what is known as cold shutdown. The damage to the cores of units 1, 2 and 3 is at this stage unknown; the normal reactor cooling systems are not operating and large amounts of highly radioactive water still have to be removed


Chernobyl Survivor Warns Of 'Bombshell' In Japan
 By Channel News Asia

http://www.countercurrents.org/cna260411.htm

A survivor of the Chernobyl disaster says people exposed to radiation from Japan's crippled nuclear plant will spend the rest of their lives fearing the "bombshell" of cancer and other dire illnesses


WikiLeaks Reveals Secret Guantánamo Files,
 Exposes Detention Policy As A Construct Of Lies
 By Andy Worthington

http://www.countercurrents.org/worthington260411.htm

In its latest release of classified US documents, WikiLeaks is shining the light of truth on a notorious icon of the Bush administration's "War on Terror" — the prison at Guantánamo Bay


Living Economies: Learning From The Biosphere
 By David Korten

http://www.countercurrents.org/korten260411.htm

How we humans can redesign our failing systems by turning back to nature—and learning to live by the rules of life


Cornerstones Of A Rooted Economy
 By Robin Broad & John Cavanagh

http://www.countercurrents.org/cavanagh260411.htm

Can the small fishers of Trinidad and Tobago become pillars of a new economy when the oil- and gas-based economy finally runs dry?


Partial Understanding On Planet Easter Island
 By Guy McPherson

http://www.countercurrents.org/McPherson260411.htm

The recent S&P downgrade of U.S. debt is yet another example of a circus sideshow in a nation filled with clowns sleepwalking off a cliff


Bahrain: Beginning Of International Awareness
 Amid More Anti-Shia Campaign
 By Bahrain Freedom Movement

http://www.countercurrents.org/bfm260411.htm

The situation on the ground is deteriorating as more acts of revenge against the majority Shia Muslims continued. More mosques have been demolished in the past few days, bringing the total to more than 27. The people, however, have continued their anti-regime protests


Brutal State Terror In Bahrain
 By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman260411.htm

On April 22, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) condemned the violence in a public statement and new report titled, "DO NO HARM: A Call for Bahrain to End Systematic Attacks on Doctors and Patients," as well as against protesters demanding change


Systematic Injustice Against Sundiata Acoli
 By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman260411A.htm

Today in America, heroic activists are incarcerated unjustly, including Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, Ramsey Muniz, Oscar Lopez Rivera, the Cuban Five, lawyers Lynne Stewart and Paul Bergrin, and, among many others, Sundiata Acoli (born Clark Edward Squire) for 38 years


Is There Anyone To Hear This Boy's Cry?
 By Gladson Dungdung

http://www.countercurrents.org/dungdung260411.htm

The worst thing is Anup Oraon has not even seen his father since his birth. When he was born his father Paulus Oraon was already behind the bars. Though he cannot express his pains, sufferings and sorrows in words but his endless cry, anguish and anxiety are enough for describing everything he has been undergoing in the absence of his father


Among Ciphers, Barn Burners And Confidence Artists:A Comb-Over Treatment For Declining Empire
 By Phil Rockstroh

http://www.countercurrents.org/Rockstroh260411.htm

The troubles of the U.S. are many and spreading. As a nation, our prospects at home and prestige abroad are thinning. Apropos, Donald Trump is the man of this empty hour -- just the manqué of the moment to give the problems that are besetting the nation a comb-over treatment


Citizens of 48 Nations Fought US Invading
 Afghanistan(779 Men in Guantanamo)
 By Jay Janson

http://www.countercurrents.org/janson260411.htm

Citizens from forty-eight nations are against what America does? No, there are citizens of every country in the world who are against the America prerogative of killing from the sky anyone Americans choose to


Is Myanmar At A Crossroads?
 By Brian McAfee

http://www.countercurrents.org/McAfee260411.htm

What direction will Derek Mitchell, the new U.S. envoy, encourage Myanmar to take? Only time will tell, but the operations of Chevron in other countries besides Burma is possibly an ominous sign of events to come. Particularly the devastation that Chevron has caused in Ecuador does not bode well


Shadow Over Democracy In Punjab
 By Rajesh Kumar Sharma

http://www.countercurrents.org/sharma260411.htm

Illuminating the dark implications of some recent Punjab legislation


Endosulfan: Compensation To The Victims Is Crucial
 By S.Faizi

http://www.countercurrents.org/faizi260411.htm

While it is heartening that the entire Kerala is aligned against the endosulfan scourge, it is important not to miss the need to pay adequate compensation to the victims based on the universally agreed polluter pays principle


Sachin Tendulkar's Walk: Playing Fair And Square
 On The Green Fields
 By Dr. Murali Sivaramakrishnan

http://www.countercurrents.org/Sivaramakrishnan260411.htm

When Tendulkar walked away he was playing fair and square on the green fields! But he was also making a statement that rules and regulations are invisibly present in the game and this sport is essentially a play that needed to be played out within a structure-- an arbitrary system-- that is always open-ended


Goldhagen's Insincere Attempt To Explain
 Eliminationist Policy
 By Dr. Habib Siddiqui

http://www.countercurrents.org/siddiqui260411.htm

Book Review: Worse Than War by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen


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