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Subject: CC News Letter, 16 June - Fukushima: ' Biggest Industrial Catastrophe In History' ‎
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 Fukushima: 'Biggest Industrial Catastrophe
 In History'
 By Dahr Jamail

http://www.countercurrents.org/jamail160611.htm

Scientific experts believe Japan's nuclear disaster to be far worse than governments are revealing to the public


Obama Defends Libya War, Rejects
 Need For Congress Vote
 By Bill Van Auken

http://www.countercurrents.org/auken160611.htm

The Obama administration argued Wednesday that the War Powers Act, requiring congressional approval for undeclared US wars, does not apply to the nearly three-month-old war against Libya


There Was No Libyan Peaceful Protest,
 Just Murderous Gangs And Nic Robertson
 By Jay Janson

http://www.countercurrents.org/janson160611.htm

This latest war would seem far fetched, but for CNN boldly leading enough of the rest of corporate owned Western media in public deception with repeating war-justifying sound-bites colored by almost obvious psyops of "now you see it, now you don't' film shots


Greek Prime Minister Proposes Government Of
 National Unity As Protests Spread
 By Stefan Steinberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/steinberg160611.htm

Yesterday Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou he would reshuffle his cabinet and call for a vote of confidence in his government to ensure the implementation of his austerity program


Greek Game: General Strike,
 Government Goes Down
 By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury160611.htm

Amidst an angry Athens razing with petrol bombs, a general strike, and defections in own rank the Papandreou government in Greece has essentially collapsed as he offered to resign and form a national government


How The West Was Lost
 By Chip Ward

http://www.countercurrents.org/ward160611.htm

Arizona is burning. Texas, too. New Mexico is next. If you need a grim reminder that an already arid West is burning up and blowing away, here it is. As I write this, more than 700 square miles of Arizona and more than 4,300 square miles of Texas have been swept by monster wildfires. On an overheating planet, if the West is still our place of desire and exception, then fire is our modern manifest destiny -- and the West is ours to lose


Profligacies Of Scale
 By John Michael Greer

http://www.countercurrents.org/greer160611.htm

In the face of a future where small, cheap, localized approaches that are sparing in their use of resources, relying on massive, expensive, centralized, resource-intensive power plants of any kind is not an economy but a profligacy of scale, and one that we very probably will not be able to afford for much longer


Who Is Tim DeChristopher?
 By Subhankar Banerjee

http://www.countercurrents.org/banerjee160611.htm

Whatever happens with the sentencing on June 23rd, one thing has become clear to me is that Tim DeChristopher's journey did not start with a single heroic act of disrupting an oil lease sale during the George W. Bush administration, nor will it end inside Barack Obama's prison cell. Let us stay engaged


Did Egypt Really Open Rafah Crossing?
 By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud160611.htm

All the announcements are proving to be no more than rhetoric. The latest 'permanent' reopening has come with its own conditions and limitations, involving such factors as gender, age, purpose of visit, and so on


Navlakha's Deportation: Something Is
 Brewing In Kashmir
 By Fahad Shah

http://www.countercurrents.org/shah160611.htm

With the deportation of noted Human Rights activist, Gautam Navlakha the state proves there is something brewing in Valley which they try hard to ignore and hide. For being pro-people in India means anti-state, proves the last month's government action. While the government said "his presence in Valley is not needed"


Growing Drug Addiction In Kashmir
 By Ibrahim Wani

http://www.countercurrents.org/wani160611.htm

Drug addiction among the youth is a growing concern in Kashmir


Israel: An Impediment To Nuclear-Free
 Middle East
 By Kourosh Ziabari

http://www.countercurrents.org/ziabari160611.htm

The Tehran conference on nuclear disarmament has concluded that all of the non-NPT members should ratify this treaty and allow the inspection of their nuclear facilities. It has also proposed that Israel should be disarmed as soon as possible, because it's the only owner of nuclear weapons in the Middle East


Dismissively Ignoring Hard Times
 By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman160611A.htm

Despite a deepening global depression, Washington, Wall Street and America's media remain largely in denial, for how much longer isn't certain as hard times get tougher for growing millions worldwide


"The Politics of Cancer"
 By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman160611.htm

Samuel S. Epstein's "The Politics of Cancer" explained how exposure to environmental and occupational carcinogens causes cancer. Yet they're avoidable because safe substitutes exist. Nonetheless, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and American Cancer Society (ACS) - groups Epstein calls "the cancer establishment" - ignore preventable causes, searching for non-existant magic bullet cures


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