CC News Letter 30 May - Massive Die-Out Of Saiga Antelopes In Central Asia
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Binu Mathew
Editor
www.countercurrents.org
US Economy Contracted In First Quarter
By Andre Damon
http://www.countercurrents.org/damon300515.htm
The US economy shrank at an annual rate of 0.7 percent in the first three months of this year, the Commerce Department said Friday. The new figures mark a sharp downward revision compared with the already anemic 0.2 percent first-quarter growth rate estimated by the Commerce Department in April, and an even bigger slide from the previous quarter, which saw a growth of 2.2 percent
Massive Die-Out Of Saiga Antelopes In Central Asia
By Marianne de Nazareth
http://www.countercurrents.org/saiga300515.htm
It's a shocking number, for those who are concerned about species loss. News is out that more than 120,000 saiga antelope, a mind boggling figure, have been confirmed dead in central Kazakhstan, representing more than a third of the global population. This is a major blow for conservation efforts, given that saigas have in the past ten years, only just started to recover from a global population size of less than 50,000 animals following a 95% crash in numbers
Let's End Chronic Hunger
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram
http://www.countercurrents.org/sundaram300515.htm
The latest State of World Food Insecurity (SOFI) report for 2015 by the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Food Programme and International Fund for Agricultural Development estimates almost 795 million people — one in nine people worldwide — remain chronically hungry
Oil Giants Brush Up Climate Credentials Ahead Of Paris Summit
By Ed King
http://www.countercurrents.org/king300515.htm
Eight of the world's top oil and gas producers have offered an intriguing glimpse into a future of rusting oil rigs and gleaming solar panels. A vision of old and new energy sources, on what looks like a dried out seabed, dominate the front page of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) website, a project launched by BG Group, BP, Eni, Pemex, Saudi Aramco, Shell, Sinopec and Total
13 Giants Control 40% Of World's Most Valuable Fisheries
But Don't Assume Responsibility Of Marine Ecosystems
By Countercurrents.org
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc300515A.htm
Just thirteen giant corporations control 19-40% of the largest and most valuable stocks and 11-16% of the global marine catch, finds a new research. This handful of corporations represents 0.5% of 2250 registered fishing and aquaculture companies worldwide
Where Would Jesus Live?
By David Swanson
http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson300515.htm
If Jesus lived in Galilee in recent decades he would live in a world alive with Palestinian traditions clinging to a long-rooted history but struggling through the aftermath of the never-ended ethnic-cleansing operation that spiked in 1948
ISIS Is The Child Of Chaos, Not Religion
By Justin Podur
http://www.countercurrents.org/podur300515.htm
What explains the shocking, video-recorded horrors of ISIS? The right-wing New Atheists look for passages in scriptures that are used to justify the crimes; the criminals themselves claim to be acting in the name of religion. But people who genuinely want to understand would do better to look to other parts of the world where long-running conflicts have led to social collapse
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Modern American Revolutionary Book Review
By Staughton Lynd
http://www.countercurrents.org/lynd300515.htm
A number of radical women who espoused anarchism or anarcho-syndicalism when they were young were drawn in later life to uncritical support of international Communism. Alexandra Kollontai, Lucy Parsons, and Dolores Ibarruri ("La Pasionaria") come to mind. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn can be described in the same way. The "rebel girl" celebrated by Joe Hill's song, who was the most conspicuous woman among the prominent personalities of the IWW, became a member of the United States Communist Party in 1937 and supported it publicly until her death
Terror Birds or Terror Beings?
By Mickey Z.
http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz300515.htm
Terror bird? Tell that to the 23 million chickens killed in the United States for food (sic) every single day. That's 269 dead chickens per second -- brutally slaughtered after a short, nightmarish life imposed upon them by a taxpayer subsidized industry responsible for systematically destroying our landbase and threatening all life on earth. To the vast majority of inhabitants of this planet, we are terror beings
Poets' Talk
With Gary Corseri and José M. Tirado
http://www.countercurrents.org/corseri300515.htm
A conversation between American writer Gary Corseri and Puertorican poet and political writer José M. Tirado
Discrimination In Employment Against Muslims In India
By Abdul Majid Zargar
http://www.countercurrents.org/zargar300515.htm
The denial of Job to a Muslim MBA graduate by a leading Indian Diamond export firm has created some ripples in the Indian media & political class .What is interesting to note is that the operations of this firm are spread over to seventy five countries in the world and earns more than 50% of its profits from Muslim Countries but is not inclined to employ a Muslim. The discrimination against Muslims in the so-called secular India is nothing new to warrant any surprise. It has always been a blot on India's much touted secular record since inception
The Cancerous Faces of Indian Tobacco
By Sazzad Hussain
http://www.countercurrents.org/hussain300515.htm
Supreme Court of India banned sale of tobacco products in plastic pouches from 1st March 2011. It also asked for the alternative material for packaging them. Some abortive attempts by authorities at the district level failed to succeed because of non-cooperation by the public in not using the plastic/polythene bags. Similarly there should be a ban on printing of photos of Indian men on the tobacco products. Public awareness is the key in addressing this duel challenge of tobacco and the sale of its products in plastic
Will Countries 'Walk The Talk' To End The Tobacco Epidemic?
By Bobby Ramakant
http://www.countercurrents.org/ramakant300515.htm
Despite unprecedented pressure from tobacco industry to delay, dilute or thwart progress on a range of tobacco control measures globally, considerable achievements have been made by governments over the past years to protect public health. The global tobacco treaty, which was the first corporate-accountability and public health internationally binding treaty of the World Health Organization (WHO), is one major leap forward to move the world towards ending game of tobacco
If you think the content of this news letter is critical for the dignified living and survival of humanity and other species on earth, please forward it to your friends and spread the word. It's time for humanity to come together as one family! You can subscribe to our news letter here http://www.countercurrents.org/subscribe.htm. You can also follow us on twitter, http://twitter.com/countercurrents and on Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/countercurrents
In Solidarity
Binu Mathew
Editor
www.countercurrents.org
US Economy Contracted In First Quarter
By Andre Damon
http://www.countercurrents.org/damon300515.htm
The US economy shrank at an annual rate of 0.7 percent in the first three months of this year, the Commerce Department said Friday. The new figures mark a sharp downward revision compared with the already anemic 0.2 percent first-quarter growth rate estimated by the Commerce Department in April, and an even bigger slide from the previous quarter, which saw a growth of 2.2 percent
Massive Die-Out Of Saiga Antelopes In Central Asia
By Marianne de Nazareth
http://www.countercurrents.org/saiga300515.htm
It's a shocking number, for those who are concerned about species loss. News is out that more than 120,000 saiga antelope, a mind boggling figure, have been confirmed dead in central Kazakhstan, representing more than a third of the global population. This is a major blow for conservation efforts, given that saigas have in the past ten years, only just started to recover from a global population size of less than 50,000 animals following a 95% crash in numbers
Let's End Chronic Hunger
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram
http://www.countercurrents.org/sundaram300515.htm
The latest State of World Food Insecurity (SOFI) report for 2015 by the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Food Programme and International Fund for Agricultural Development estimates almost 795 million people — one in nine people worldwide — remain chronically hungry
Oil Giants Brush Up Climate Credentials Ahead Of Paris Summit
By Ed King
http://www.countercurrents.org/king300515.htm
Eight of the world's top oil and gas producers have offered an intriguing glimpse into a future of rusting oil rigs and gleaming solar panels. A vision of old and new energy sources, on what looks like a dried out seabed, dominate the front page of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) website, a project launched by BG Group, BP, Eni, Pemex, Saudi Aramco, Shell, Sinopec and Total
13 Giants Control 40% Of World's Most Valuable Fisheries
But Don't Assume Responsibility Of Marine Ecosystems
By Countercurrents.org
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc300515A.htm
Just thirteen giant corporations control 19-40% of the largest and most valuable stocks and 11-16% of the global marine catch, finds a new research. This handful of corporations represents 0.5% of 2250 registered fishing and aquaculture companies worldwide
Where Would Jesus Live?
By David Swanson
http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson300515.htm
If Jesus lived in Galilee in recent decades he would live in a world alive with Palestinian traditions clinging to a long-rooted history but struggling through the aftermath of the never-ended ethnic-cleansing operation that spiked in 1948
ISIS Is The Child Of Chaos, Not Religion
By Justin Podur
http://www.countercurrents.org/podur300515.htm
What explains the shocking, video-recorded horrors of ISIS? The right-wing New Atheists look for passages in scriptures that are used to justify the crimes; the criminals themselves claim to be acting in the name of religion. But people who genuinely want to understand would do better to look to other parts of the world where long-running conflicts have led to social collapse
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Modern American Revolutionary Book Review
By Staughton Lynd
http://www.countercurrents.org/lynd300515.htm
A number of radical women who espoused anarchism or anarcho-syndicalism when they were young were drawn in later life to uncritical support of international Communism. Alexandra Kollontai, Lucy Parsons, and Dolores Ibarruri ("La Pasionaria") come to mind. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn can be described in the same way. The "rebel girl" celebrated by Joe Hill's song, who was the most conspicuous woman among the prominent personalities of the IWW, became a member of the United States Communist Party in 1937 and supported it publicly until her death
Terror Birds or Terror Beings?
By Mickey Z.
http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz300515.htm
Terror bird? Tell that to the 23 million chickens killed in the United States for food (sic) every single day. That's 269 dead chickens per second -- brutally slaughtered after a short, nightmarish life imposed upon them by a taxpayer subsidized industry responsible for systematically destroying our landbase and threatening all life on earth. To the vast majority of inhabitants of this planet, we are terror beings
Poets' Talk
With Gary Corseri and José M. Tirado
http://www.countercurrents.org/corseri300515.htm
A conversation between American writer Gary Corseri and Puertorican poet and political writer José M. Tirado
Discrimination In Employment Against Muslims In India
By Abdul Majid Zargar
http://www.countercurrents.org/zargar300515.htm
The denial of Job to a Muslim MBA graduate by a leading Indian Diamond export firm has created some ripples in the Indian media & political class .What is interesting to note is that the operations of this firm are spread over to seventy five countries in the world and earns more than 50% of its profits from Muslim Countries but is not inclined to employ a Muslim. The discrimination against Muslims in the so-called secular India is nothing new to warrant any surprise. It has always been a blot on India's much touted secular record since inception
The Cancerous Faces of Indian Tobacco
By Sazzad Hussain
http://www.countercurrents.org/hussain300515.htm
Supreme Court of India banned sale of tobacco products in plastic pouches from 1st March 2011. It also asked for the alternative material for packaging them. Some abortive attempts by authorities at the district level failed to succeed because of non-cooperation by the public in not using the plastic/polythene bags. Similarly there should be a ban on printing of photos of Indian men on the tobacco products. Public awareness is the key in addressing this duel challenge of tobacco and the sale of its products in plastic
Will Countries 'Walk The Talk' To End The Tobacco Epidemic?
By Bobby Ramakant
http://www.countercurrents.org/ramakant300515.htm
Despite unprecedented pressure from tobacco industry to delay, dilute or thwart progress on a range of tobacco control measures globally, considerable achievements have been made by governments over the past years to protect public health. The global tobacco treaty, which was the first corporate-accountability and public health internationally binding treaty of the World Health Organization (WHO), is one major leap forward to move the world towards ending game of tobacco
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