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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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Monday, May 21, 2012

Fwd: CC News Letter, 21 May - No Agreement At G8 Summit



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No Agreement At G8 Summit On Deepening Financial Crisis
 By Nick Beams

http://www.countercurrents.org/beams210512.htm

The communiqué issued after a day of talks at the US presidential retreat at Camp David, however, revealed there was no plan to meet the crisis, just a decision to put the best face on a worsening situation


Occupy The G8
 By Brent Blackwelder

http://www.countercurrents.org/blackwelder210512.htm

This is the text of an address delivered by Brent Blackwelder to the Occupy Movement, in Frederick, Maryland, May 18, 2012 on the occasion of the annual meeting of the G-8 at Camp David


The First Domino Falls In Greece
 By Shamus Cooke

http://www.countercurrents.org/cooke210512.htm

Greece's situation is not an isolated event, but a bellwether for the industrial world and beyond. The fallout from the 2008 global crisis hasn't reached bottom yet, and the depths will be dug deeper as the Euro crisis spreads — political crisis will create economic crisis and vice versa, as periods of calm and stability are replaced by international turmoil and panic


Chicago: Peace Town
 By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson210512.htm

A huge crowd gathered for several hours and marched for over two miles in the hot sun to oppose NATO and U.S. wars on Sunday in Chicago. Finishing the march outside the NATO meeting, numerous U.S. veterans of current wars denounced their previous "service" and threw their medals over the fence, a scene not witnessed since the U.S. war on Vietnam


The Vital Chain: Connecting The Ecosystems Of Land And Sea
 By Carl Zimmer

http://www.countercurrents.org/zimmer210512.htm

A new study from a Pacific atoll reveals the links between native trees, bird guano, and the giant manta rays that live off the coast. In unraveling this intricate web, the researchers point to the often little-understood interconnectedness between terrestrial and marine ecosystems


Valuing Nature: Democracy or Economics?
 By Paul Anderson

http://www.countercurrents.org/anderson210512.htm

Aristotle asked how we as political animals could create and design institutions which assure survival with 'some measure of the good life in it'. Although the scope of Aristotle's question was that of the city, the question of institutional design is acutely relevant to efforts to arrest global resource degradation


The Case For A Morality Of Radical Caution
 By Robert Jensen

http://www.countercurrents.org/jensen210512.htm

Robert Jensen works through his underlying rationale for making moral judgments, as on meat-eating and abortion


Because You're Worth It: The Indian Premier League, Sex, Lies And Capitalism
 By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter210512.htm

The actual news bulletins in India also bear a striking resemblance to the 'newsworthiness' agenda used by western channels. In many respects, as in the West, the commercials and the news are becoming virtually one and the same

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