Fwd: CC News Letter, 30 June - Activists Who Spoke At The Rio+20 Peoples’ Summit Killed

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Subject: CC News Letter, 30 June - Activists Who Spoke At The Rio+20 Peoples' Summit Killed
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Activists Who Spoke At The Rio+20 Peoples' Summit Killed
 By Front Line Defenders

http://www.countercurrents.org/fld300612.htm

On 24 and 25 June 2012 the bodies of human rights defenders Mr Almir Nogueira de Amorim and Mr João Luiz Telles Penetra were found following their disappearance on 23 June 2012


2 More Die, Yet Few Care For Mavallipura's People Dumped On By Bangalore's Waste
 By Leo F. Saldanha, Bhargavi S. Rao & K. R.Mallesh

http://www.countercurrents.org/mallesh300612.htm

Muniraju (35) Narayanappa ( 55) are two people who died recently owing to pollution related illness caused by 40 acres solid waste landfill facility in Mavallipura, where Bangalore city's waste is dumped


EU Summit Averts Split With Deal To Bail Out Spanish, Italian Banks
 By Stefan Steinberg & Barry Grey

http://www.countercurrents.org/grey300612.htm

The two-day European Union summit concluded Thursday with an agreement, reached after 14 hours of acrimonious talks, to provide short-term relief to besieged Spanish and Italian banks by allowing the EU bailout fund to directly aid euro zone banks


Finding Real Economic Leadership In The Wake Of Rio+20
 By Brent Blackwelder

http://www.countercurrents.org/blackwelder300612.htm

Change must begin with the structure of the economy because a nation's economic policy is also its social and environmental policy. National economies all over the world are failing — failing to provide economic stability, failing to secure resources for future generations, failing to protect ecosystems and non-human species, and failing to achieve social justice


Netanyahu To Obama Regarding November's Election:
 When We Say "Jump" You Answer, "How High"!
 By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb300612.htm

Presidential candidate Barack Obama is being targeted by the US Israel lobby from A to Z, (Ackerman, Gary & Aipac to Zuckerman, Mort & the Zionist Organization of America) as no American President seeking re-election has been in the country's 236 year history


Simulating An Iranian Attack On Israel – Why?
 By Alan Hart

http://www.countercurrents.org/hart300612.htm

According to reports in Israeli newspapers, the U.S. and Israel are going to hold their largest ever joint military exercise in October, shortly before American voters decide whether to give Obama a second term in the White House or replace him with Mitt Romney. The exercise, involving thousands of soldiers and the most advanced anti-missile defense systems, will simulate simultaneous attacks from Iran and Syria


Former High U.S Defense Official Warns Against Attacking Iran
 By Sherwood Ross

http://www.countercurrents.org/ross300612.htm

"A unilateral preventive attack" on Iran by the United States would be viewed by many countries "as a breach of international law," a former high American Defense Department official has warned his country


Sanctions Portray West's Duplicity On Iran
 By Kourosh Ziabari

 http://www.countercurrents.org/ziabari300612.htm

As Iran refuses to bow down to the illegitimate demands of the United States, Israel and their European allies to abandon its peaceful nuclear program, the inhumane economic sanctions against Tehran are being intensified, putting an excessive and unjustifiable pressure on the ordinary Iranian citizens who are unquestionably the victims of the West's hostility and antagonism toward the Islamic Republic

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