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Subject: CC News Letter, 24 Nov - Arctic Sea Ice Shrinking At 'Unprecedented' Levels
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 Arctic Sea Ice Shrinking At 'Unprecedented' Levels
 By Emily Chung

http://www.countercurrents.org/chung241111.htm

The recent loss of sea ice in the Arctic is greater than any natural variation in the past 1½ millennia, a Canadian study shows. What we are experiencing at the moment seems to be very exceptional…. This means that we are entering into the world which has no equivalent in the past


Trends And Tipping Point In The Climate System:
 Portents For The 21st Century
 By Andrew Glikson

http://www.countercurrents.org/glikson241111.pdf

This paper examines deep-time perspectives of 20th to early 21st centuries trends in the atmosphere-ocean system with reference to future climate change projections


Mass Protests Intensify Against Egyptian Junta
 By Alex Lantier

http://www.countercurrents.org/lantier241111.htm

Clashes continued yesterday in cities across Egypt, on the fifth day of mass protests demanding the overthrow of the US-backed Egyptian military junta. The protests started Saturday, when police used live ammunition and rubber bullets against a sit-in by a few hundred protesters in Tahrir Square, in Cairo


Resistance Up Against Nationwide Attacks
 By Andy Zee

http://www.countercurrents.org/zee241111.htm

The national Occupy movement, with a concentrated expression at Occupy Wall Street in NYC, is at a crossroads that will require determination and creative strategies to build on and broaden while deepening the movement's stand against the whole way that capitalism is destroying people and the planet


Bringing It Down To Earth
 By John Michael Greer

http://www.countercurrents.org/greer241111.htm

No amount of protesting is going to refill the once vast and now mostly depleted reserves of cheap oil and other resources that gave America its age of extravagance, nor is protest going to do anything to stop the decline of America as a world power or the rise of competing powers


As Euro Crisis Worsens, New Signs Of  World Downturn
 By Andre Damon

http://www.countercurrents.org/damon241111.htm

Yields on government debt in Europe soared Wednesday after a failed auction of German bonds. The German government managed to sell less than two thirds of the bonds it had put up for auction Wednesday—the worst such sale since the creation of the euro in 1999—as investors weighed the consequences of a potential breakup of the Euro


Requiem For The Palestinian Authority
 By Yacov Ben Efrat

http://www.countercurrents.org/efrat241111.htm

The Israeli government decided in mid-November 2011 to continue delaying the transfer of $100 million in tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority (PA). The pleas of Defense Minister Ehud Barak and senior IDF officers didn't help, even though they explained that the money was needed to pay the wages of the policemen responsible for security in the West Bank


War On Iran Has Started
 By Hands Off the People of Iran

http://www.countercurrents.org/hopoi241111.htm

Hands Off the People of Iran unequivocally condemns the ratcheting up of sanctions on Iran in the aftermath of the much-heralded report of the International Atomic Energy Agency on that country's nuclear capability on November 8


The All-Out Hypocrisy Of Arab League And The West
 By Kourosh Ziabari

http://www.countercurrents.org/ziabari241111.htm

All that can be said is that the performance of the Arab League in neglecting the situation in Yemen and Bahrain and exaggerating the unrest in Syria which is mainly caused by the foreign intervention and the West's indifference toward the plight of the suppressed nations in Yemen and Bahrain is an all-out hypocrisy and a clear, undeniable exercise of double standards. Who can really devise a clear-cut solution for this unsolvable dilemma?


Shame On G.K. Pillai: Women Demand
 An Apology For His Sexist Comments
 By Concerned Citizens

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc241111.htm

Stung by the SIT report which concluded that Ishrat was executed in cold blood, former Union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai—hard-pressed to defend his affidavit to the Supreme Court that Ishrat was a Lashkar operative—has stooped to now slandering the girl's personal life suggesting that her checking into different hotels with "another man" was definitely suspicious


Opposing ASEAN Chair To Burma
 By Nava Thakuria

http://www.countercurrents.org/thakuria241111.htm

Burma's elevation as the 'would be chair' of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has irked many, primarily the pro-democracy Burmese and their sympathizers in Asia



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