Message From Fr. Miguel d' Escoto To Zaid Aziz And Family Of Tariq Aziz

CC News Letter 12 June - Message From Fr. Miguel d' Escoto To Zaid Aziz And Family Of Tariq Aziz

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Earth Has Warmed As Usual, With No Slowdown
By Tim Radford

http://www.countercurrents.org/radford120615.htm

Forget about the so-called "hiatus" in global warming. The planet's average temperatures are notching up as swiftly now as they did 20 or 30 years ago. A team of US researchers has looked again not just at the data for the last 60 years but at how it has been collected, and done the sums again. They conclude, in the journal Science, that the "estimate for the rate of warming during the first 15 years of the 21st century is at least as great as the last half of the 20th century. These results do not support the notion of a 'slowdown' in the increase of global surface temperature rise."


Climate Action Is In The Air
By Hoda Baraka

http://www.countercurrents.org/baraka120615.htm

Just next week, we will welcome the Pope's climate encyclical, which we expect to issue a clear moral call for action. Soon after, the medical community will weigh in on the health impacts of climate change with the new Lancet commission report. And the people will keep marching: mobilizations are planned across Europe and around the world. Just this morning, activists with the German group Ende Gelande hosted an action training outside this conference center to prepare for a mass protest of the Rhineland coal mines, the largest source of CO2 emissions in Europe, located just 40km from here in Bonn


The Future History Of Political Economy – Part 2
By Eric Zencey

http://www.countercurrents.org/zencey120615.htm

Thermodynamics in Economics: Revolutionary portent, future history


Message From Fr. Miguel d'Escoto To Zaid Aziz And Family Of Tariq Aziz,
Former Deputy Prime Minister Of Iraq
By Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann

http://www.countercurrents.org/brockmann120615.htm

Former Iraqi deputy Prime Minister of Iraq Tariq Aziz died last week in prison from a heart attack. Here is a letter to Tariq Aziz's son from a former friend from Nicaragua


German Companies Stop Sales of "Roundup"
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse120615.htm

According to Swiss supermarkets, German companies have announced halting sales of Monsanto's glyphosate herbicide.  In 1971, Monsanto patented glyphosate. Today its glyphosate ("Roundup") constitutes two billion US dollars in annual sales


Lebanon's Palestinian Camps Protest UNRWA Aid Cuts
By Louisa Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb120615.htm

Hopefully, sooner rather than later, UNRWA will find a way to gain funds and continue providing assistance to these noble people, and hopefully the world community will do what their claimed humanitarian values demand, and return them to their country, Palestine


Dalit-Adivasi Women Rise Up: A Swabhiman Yatra Across Odisha
Press Release

http://www.countercurrents.org/pr120615.htm

Dalit Adivasi Mahila Swabhiman Yatra travelled more than 3000 kms across 11 districts of Odisha, conducted more than 45 village/street meetings, several public rallies in towns and submitted memorandum at District Collectorate of all districts. The Yatra team comprising of Dalit leaders from Haryana, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, volunteers, leaders and cultural activists from Odisha and several Dalit Adivasi community women leaders who travelled from village to village, town to town, district to district are now witness to brutal and heinous crimes against Dalits & Adivasi's and Dalit women in particular