http://www.countercurrents.org/cc020513.htm The 2012 brought the warmest recorded sea surface temperatures in 150 years for the US east coast between Cape Hatteras, N.C. and the Gulf of Maine Thu, 02 May 2013 15:09:09 GMT ListGarden Program 1.3.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.countercurrents.org/henderson020513.htm Bill Henderson writes a speech for Obama Thu, 02 May 2013 15:09:03 GMT http://www.countercurrents.org/cantarow020513.htm Now, a new generation of downwinders is getting sick as an emerging industry pushes the next wonder technology -- in this case, high-volume hydraulic fracturing. Whether they live in Texas, Colorado, or Pennsylvania, their symptoms are the same: rashes, nosebleeds, severe headaches, difficulty breathing, joint pain, intestinal illnesses, memory loss, and more. “In my opinion,” says Yuri Gorby of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “what we see unfolding is a serious health crisis, one that is just beginning.” Thu, 02 May 2013 15:08:47 GMT http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud020513.htm The official purpose of Hagel’s recent visit to Israel was to finalize US arms sales to Israel and other countries which total about $10 billion. Knowing how such weapons have been used in the past, one can hardly appreciate the ‘sarcasm’ in Eric Rush’s tweet of wanting to ‘kill them all.’ Per the history of US foreign policy, violent words often translate into violent action and here lies the real danger of the supposedly crazy bunch who equate Islam to Brazil and wish to incarcerate women for wearing scarves Thu, 02 May 2013 15:08:30 GMT http://www.countercurrents.org/vlazna020513.htm The villages, Lidice in former Czechoslovakia and Deir Yassin in Palestine are harrowing examples of ethnic cleansing and collective punishment perpetrated on the innocent by Nazis and Israelis respectively. Significantly, on moral grounds, they serve to demonstrate that profound human lessons of WWII went tragically unheeded Thu, 02 May 2013 15:08:15 GMT http://www.countercurrents.org/linhdinh020513.htm Each of my visit to San Jose is a kind of homecoming, for my father, brother and, uh, absolutely composed, considerate and non-screaming stepmother are still here, and have lived here for decades. Though I have no sentimental attachment to this place, I also don't hate it. Personal crap can be tedious, and I'm not trying to bore you, only clarifying that I have my own rather lengthy Story Road in San Jose Thu, 02 May 2013 15:07:57 GMT http://www.countercurrents.org/anand020513.htm Whose side are you on? The question is addressed in particular to Indian Muslim supporters of the violence-promoting Jamat-Shibir outfits in Bangladesh as much as to the Left Front and the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, both of whom seem to have granted to local Muslims the right to hold the state to ransom as often as they please Thu, 02 May 2013 15:07:41 GMT http://www.countercurrents.org/alexander020513.htm Observations of a UK based Methodist Minister on his visit to South India Thu, 02 May 2013 15:07:22 GMT