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THE HIMALAYAN DISASTER: TRANSNATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT MECHANISM A MUST

We talked with Palash Biswas, an editor for Indian Express in Kolkata today also. He urged that there must a transnational disaster management mechanism to avert such scale disaster in the Himalayas. http://youtu.be/7IzWUpRECJM

THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS TALKS AGAINST CASTEIST HEGEMONY IN SOUTH ASIA

THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS TALKS AGAINST CASTEIST HEGEMONY IN SOUTH ASIA

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Unanswered Questions About Mumbai Terror Attacks
By Raveena Hansa

http://www.countercurrents.org/hansa130510.htm

From murder mystery to spy thriller: The continuing saga of ohe Mumbai terror attacks

Cock And Bull Stories On Terror
By M Shamsur Rabb Khan

http://www.countercurrents.org/rkhan130510.htm

Among the list of experts on writing on terrorism in India, two names – B Raman and Parveen Swami – stand tall. M Shamsur Rabb Khan critically analyses the writing of these two journalists

US Troops Executing Prisoners In Afghanistan:
Seymour Hersh
By David Edwards

http://www.countercurrents.org/edwards130510.htm

The journalist who helped break the story that detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were being tortured by their US jailers told an audience at a journalism conference last month that American soldiers are now executing prisoners in Afghanistan

'Unprecedented' Use Of Subsea Dispersant
To Combat BP Oil Disaster
By Rady Ananda

http://www.countercurrents.org/ananda130510.htm

On May 12, the Deepwater Horizon Incident Unified Command held a media advisory regarding the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, which began on April 20 th . Officials advised that subsea dispersants, the effects of which are widely unknown, are being used for the first time

US Farmers Are Bailed Out, Indian Farmers Are
Left To Die
By Devinder Sharma

http://www.countercurrents.org/dsharma130510.htm

In India, nearly 200,000 farmers have taken the fatal route to escape the humiliation that comes along with growing indebtedness (in the absence of direct income support) between 1997 and 2008. The US has paid a quarter of a trillion as farm subsidies in almost the same period, between 1995 and 2009

Can David Cameron's Coalition Government
Deliver Justice?
By Andy Worthington

http://www.countercurrents.org/worthington130510.htm

Today, the UK adapts to new political realities — a Tory Prime Minister, for the first time since 1997, a unique coalition between the Tories and the Liberal Democrats, and a Labour party, leaderless and in opposition. Those of us who are concerned about the erosion of civil liberties under the Labour government, and the assault on human rights as part of the "War on Terror," will be watching the government closely

My Brother Faces A Lifetime Of Solitary Confinement On A Spurious Terror Conviction
By Mariam Abu-Ali

http://www.countercurrents.org/abuali130510.htm

Ahmed Abu Ali is not in a foreign prison or at Guantanamo; he is in a supermax prison in Colorado

Anti-Communism, Alive And Well
By William Blum

http://www.countercurrents.org/blum130510.htm

Anti-communism continues to have a detrimental effect upon the intelligence and honesty of Americans

After Money
By John Michael Greer

http://www.countercurrents.org/greer130510.htm

Most people won't have the option of separating themselves completely from the money economy for many years to come; as long as today's governments continue to function, they will demand money for taxes, and money will continue to be the gateway resource for many goods and services, including some that will be very difficult to do without. Still, there's no reason why distancing oneself from the tertiary economy has to be an all-or-nothing thing

Peak Soil: It's Like Peak Oil, Only Worse
By Matthew Wild

http://www.countercurrents.org/wild130510.htm

The world is facing a hydrocarbons peak, right as we are beginning to struggle with soil, the nutrients required for large scale agriculture, environmental change and availability of water. When you put the disparate elements together, it begins to look like a perfect storm

Tearing Down The Walls
Chuck D interviewed by Dave Zirin

http://www.countercurrents.org/zirin130510.htm

In the wake of Arizona's draconian anti-immigrant law SB 1070, "By the Time I Get to Arizona" has been remixed and revived by DJ Spooky. A group of hip-hop artists in Arizona also remade the song, calling it "Back to Arizona." And Chuck D recorded his own track several months before the bill was passed, called "Tear Down That Wall." Dave Zirin spoke to Chuck about the music and the nexus between immigration politics and sports

Yemen's Sorrowful Options: 'Revolt, Migrate or Die'
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud130510.htm

Afghanistan remains the starkest illustration of how poor countries are used, then betrayed when their usefulness runs out. But Afghanistan is not an exception; US relations with many other countries, including Pakistan, Somalia and the Palestinian Authority remain hostage to this very model. Yemen is now emerging as the newest casualty

Skeletons Come Stumbling Out Of Modi Cabinet
By Nachiketa Desai

http://www.countercurrents.org/desai130510.htm

In what amounts to a blatant case of contempt of the Supreme Court, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat took to streets on Wednesday in support of a rogue police officer arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation on the charge of fake encounter killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kauserbi

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