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NATGRID, UIDAI & NPR Emerging As India’s NSA
By Gopal
Krishna
http://www.countercurrents.org/krishna271213.htm
Judge
Richard Leon of U.S. District Court's verdict is readily applicable to the
“indiscriminate” biometric and demographic databases being created in India by
the Planning Commission’s UIDAI and by MHA’s Registrar General & Census
Commissioner for NPR besides National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID), the Indian
incarnation of NSA. Indeed these initiatives along with the bitterly opposed
proposal of National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) and Goods and Services Tax
(GST) Network constitutes “abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and
silent encroachments by those in power” in our country. Political parties and
citizens need to examine whether or not NATGRID, UIDAI & NPR emerging as
Indian incarnation of NSA
Edward Snowden: Power, Privacy And The
Public Good
By Colin Todhunter
http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter271213.htm
While
a fossilized remnant of Empire delivered her message by a Christmas tree in
Buckingham Palace’s Blue Drawing Room, Snowden’s setting was sober and devoid of
the trappings of privilege or connotations of a violent colonial past. His
message concerned the US and British governments’ mass surveillance and the
erosion of personal privacy. He stated that a child born today will grow up with
no conception of privacy at all, and they will never know what it means to have
a private moment to themselves - an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. This is
because, according to Snowden, a system of worldwide mass surveillance has been
created
US Prepares Strikes Against Islamists In Iraq
By Bill Van
Auken
http://www.countercurrents.org/auken271213.htm
Two
years after President Barack Obama declared that his administration had ended
the catastrophic US war in Iraq “responsibly… leaving behind a sovereign, stable
and self-reliant” government, the US has rushed emergency shipments of Hellfire
missiles to Baghdad and appears to be preparing for a possible renewal of direct
military intervention in the form of drone missile attacks
Little Hala
And The Herods Of Israel
By Vacy Vlazna
http://www.countercurrents.org/vlazna271213.htm
On
Christmas Eve, while Christians knelt in churches to honour the birth of the
eternal light of the Child of Bethlehem - the Child of peace, Israeli Herods
struck Gaza and the life-light of little Hala haemorrhaged into eternal
death
Slouching Towards Gaza: Operation Cast Lead And The
Dismembering Of A People
By Vincent Di Stefano
http://www.countercurrents.org/stefano271213.htm
Two
days after Christmas in 2008, the isolated and densely populated city of Gaza
was visited by volley upon volley of deadly missile and mortar fire. The intense
bombardment of "one of the most densely populated places on earth" continued
unabated for a period of three weeks. By the end of the assault, over 1,400
Palestinians had been killed and more than 5,000 wounded, many seriously.
Between three and four hundred of the dead were children. A total of 13 Israelis
were killed during the same time, four of them by the action of their own
troops
Postcard From The End Of America : Marcus Hook
By Linh
Dinh
http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh271213.htm
First
settled by Europeans in 1640, Marcus Hook was once called Chammassungh , Finland
then Marrites Hoeck, from which the present name derives. The Hook, however,
does serendipitously evoke its pirate past, when Blackbeard plied the Delaware ,
and one of his mistresses, Margaret, lived here, in a plank house still
preserved
Anarchy In U.S.A.
By Mickey Z.
http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz271213.htm
This
positivity, though, is based on action -- both individual and collective -- and
perhaps therein lies the rub. Until the pervasive presence/threat of cultural
violence is diminished and ultimately eradicated, we must never stop exposing
it, factoring it into our words and actions, and finding ways to sabotage
it
Benazir Was Indeed Benazir (Without Equal)
By Riaz Ali Toori
http://www.countercurrents.org/toori271213.htm
Today we
are remembering Benazir Bhutto — a Pakistani woman who was a lot more courageous
than many men, brighter than many scholars and more visionary than all the
politicians put together. She was a lady who put her life in danger and left
behind her footprints, dyed in her own blood, for the guidance of Pakistani
democrats
Statue of Unity: How The Varna Media Is Loving It !
By
Subhash Gatade
http://www.countercurrents.org/gatade271213.htm
The
media - the supposed watchdog of democracy - or rather its majority has refused
to put Narendra Modi's dream project, the Statue of Unity, under scanner over
its ‘Social, Economic and Environmental Impacts’ nor the manner in which it
allegedly '[v]iolates the law of the land, constitution of India and concerns of
poor, tribals and environment'
India's Auto Voracity: The Way
Capitalism Fuels Desires
By Dr. Narendra Kumar Arya
http://www.countercurrents.org/arya271213.htm
The
possession of cars as indispensible symbolism of psychological strengthening in
Indian society is much more real phenomenon than its utilitarian aspects. The
later is very faintly true. The social competition is much more determining
factor than individual needs or reasoning
Hindu American Foundation
Fails To Counter Mounting Evidence Of
Links To Violent Hindu Nationalist
Movement
By Coalition Against Genocide
http://www.countercurrents.org/cag271213.htm
The
Coalition Against Genocide today published "Part II" of its report on Hindu
American Foundation (HAF) titled "Affiliations of Faith - Joined at the Hip" -
with further evidence of HAF leadership's ties and dedication to the global
Hindu Nationalist Movement that functions under a conglomerate of organizations
known as the Sangh Parivar
Condemn Killing of Media Persons by CPI
(Maoist)
By Asish Gupta & D Manjit
http://www.countercurrents.org/manjit271213.htm
Peoples
Union for Democratic Rights condemns the killing of Sai Reddy, a correspondent
of Deshbandhu, a Hindi newspaper, based in Bijapur in south Bastar, Chhattisgarh
on December 6, 2013. In a statement issued on December 10, 2013, the South
Regional Committee of CPI(Maoist) claimed that Sai Reddy had “played an active
role against the people’s movement in Basaguda and Usur areas over last two
decades”, and therefore was condemned to death. Ironically, Sai Reddy not only
wrote against Salwa Judum but was arrested by the police in 2008 and charged
under Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act for allegedly being a Maoist
supporter
Friday, December 27, 2013
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