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Jan 11, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |Hong Jian |Bill McKibben |Niles Niemuth
Net Zero/2050 Fantasy or Reality may be the most significant issue of the 21st century. Net Zero refers to the balance between the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG), such as CO2, that’s produced and the amount that’s removed from the atmosphere. It can be achieved through a combination of emission reduction and emission removal.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Hong Jian |Bill McKibben |Niles Niemuth |Thiago Doria Barral
Fires continue to rage through communities in and around Los Angeles imperiling entire neighborhoods and choking millions of people with toxic smoke. At least six people have been confirmed dead and large swathes of previously idyllic neighborhoods in the Pacific Palisades, Altadena and Pasadena resemble a war zone. On Thursday, local fire officials estimated that at least 9,300 but as many as 10,300 structures, mostly homes, had already been damaged or destroyed in the Palisades and Eaton fires.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Bill McKibben |Niles Niemuth |Thiago Doria Barral |Binoy Kampmark
What’s happening right now in Los Angeles is almost too painful to write about. I’ve spent much of the day writing and calling back and forth with friends and colleagues. All report: horror. And since it’s playing out against the most familiar backdrop on earth, the scene of more movies and tv shows than any place on our planet, I think it will be as iconic as Pompeii in our collective imagination. If, you know, people in Pompeii had had smartphones.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | K M Seethi |John Graversgaard |Joycia Thorat |Niles Niemuth
PUCL’s detailed response to the observations made by the Special NIA Court, Lucknow; against the PUCL and other Human Rights organisations. FIR 60/2018; Case numbers 1049/2022, 1758/2022 and 2766/2022Targeting human rights activism: Shocking comments by the NIA Court, Lucknow, against PUCL for promoting the constitutional values of ‘spirit of harmony’ and ‘brotherhood’. The PUCL hope that these prejudiced and invidious observations are suo motu expunged from the reported judgment.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Niles Niemuth |Thiago Doria Barral |Binoy Kampmark |Neha Saigal
California is facing what could be its most devastating wildfire in history, with fires burning uncontrolled throughout Los Angeles County. Images shared widely on social media show whole neighborhoods and city block after city block completely burned to the ground, amid reports that firefighters have been unable to even access water to extinguish the flames as their lines have run dry.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Philip Farruggio |Sonali Kolhatkar |Niles Niemuth |Bharat Dogra
• Respectable life is the responsibility of the government – Prabhat Patnaik • There is no dearth of resources in the country – Professor Arun Kumar • Right to Employment law should be enacted – Prashant Bhushan • Concentration of capital is ending democracy – Akhilendra Pratap • National conference cum meeting of Rozgar Adhikar Abhiyan was held at Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi • 19-member steering committee formed and advisory committee discussed, dialogue on employment to be held in...
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
le-blog-sam-la-touch.over-blog.com | Niles Niemuth
Le premier ministre canadien Justin Trudeau a rejoint ses partenaires impérialistes en soutenant une attaque israélienne directe contre l'Iran en réponse aux tirs de missiles de Téhéran sur l'infrastructure militaire israélienne mardi.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Philip Farruggio |Sonali Kolhatkar |Niles Niemuth |Frida Berrigan
Many thanks to Bob Dylan’s great song of the same name. What rankles me is how so many of my friends, neighbors and acquaintances seem to accept how far down the rabbit hole our Amerikan society has fallen. We live under the broken umbrella of an nation whose political leaders care not to protect the overwhelming majority of us.
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Mar 16, 2024 | 
le-blog-sam-la-touch.over-blog.com | Niles Niemuth
Le vote de 352 à 65 de la Chambre des représentants des États-Unis cette semaine pour interdire ou forcer la vente de l’application populaire de médias sociaux TikTok par son propriétaire ByteDance, basé à Pékin, est une attaque contre les droits démocratiques du peuple américain, en particulier des plus de 170 millions de personnes, principalement des jeunes, qui utilisent régulièrement cette application.
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
countercurrents.org | Niles Niemuth
Global climate developments in the month of July, which have shattered heat records and brought devastating fires and flash floods, have made clear that capitalist-induced global warming, fueled by the unrestrained emission of carbon into the atmosphere in the pursuit of profit, has reached a tipping point, with the direct effects being felt in real time by much of the world’s population.
