CounterCurrents: Hiroshima And Nagasaki: Contemporary Reflections, Sandra Bland's Killing Exposes The Impunity Of US Police More Starkly Than Ever, Debating Colonial “Hang-over”

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Hiroshima And Nagasaki: Contemporary Reflections 
By Romi Mahajan

http://www.countercurrents.org/mahajan260715.htm

Nuclear bombs have already done their ghastly work- if not on the entire world (Armageddon hasn’t happened) then certainly on our collective knowledge and culture. This is as true today as it was in 1945


Sandra Bland's Killing Exposes The Impunity Of US Police More Starkly Than Ever 
By Justin Podur

http://www.countercurrents.org/podur260715.htm

I found out about Sandra Bland's death after I watched the video of her arrest and abuse by Brian Encinia. When I watched it, I thought it was another routine example of police abuse and violence against black women in the US, like the crazed attack on a 14-year old girl in a swimsuit by Eric Casebolt in June. Instead, it turned out I was watching the beginning of a long, drawn out sequence of torture and murder


Non-Proliferation Dynamic: American ‘Soft Containment’ Of Iran And India 
By K.M Seethi

http://www.countercurrents.org/seethi260715A.htm

Contemporary debates on the ‘decline’ of American power in the global political landscape, initiated by some scholars and think tanks, tend to underestimate the pervasive-dynamic of the ‘techno-legit’ order which makes the United States ascendency in international relations an indispensable factor in the decades to come


The Iran P5 + 1 Nuclear Deal, Marks The Shift In The Changing 
Regional And Geopolitical Balance Of Power 
By Feroze Mithiborwala

http://www.countercurrents.org/mithiborwala260715.htm

The Nuclear Deal between Iran and the major global powers raises many complex political, strategic and economic issues in a warring world under transition to a post-colonial era of international relations


India-Israel: Increasingly Birds Of A Feather  
By Firdaus Ahmed

http://www.countercurrents.org/ahmed260715.htm

India and Israel today have ‘common values' as can be expected of majoritarians and Zionists. The danger is in the strategic fallout for India and the region


They Say Paraguay Is In Africa: Mosaic Of Horror 
By Andre Vltchek

http://www.countercurrents.org/vltchek260715.htm

I have always liked this country of red earth, mighty rivers and rough cobblestone streets. I have liked its bougainvillea, its long silent nights, and its endless open spaces. But almost everything that could went wrong for the Paraguayan people, or at least for its indigenous majority. Before Evo Morales became the President, Bolivia had been the most destitute country in South America. Paraguay was slightly “above it” – the second poorest nation. Now, most likely, it is the most deprived


Postcard From The End Of America: Lisa From Clayton, NJ 
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh260715.htm

An American who's at the bottom is no less representative than Steve Jobs, though only Jobs' biography is scrutinized. In fact, since the ratio of American “losers” to “winners” has become so askew, with the losing camp swelling to include just about everybody by now, one can understand nothing by ignoring the bottom. Let's meet, then, Lisa from Clayton, NJ (population 8,216). I found her sitting on Walnut Street near the Holiday Inn. At the time, Lisa had been homeless for 10 months. It was a gorgeous spring day, warm and sunny. Freezing temperatures would not return for at least four months


Debating Colonial “Hang-over” 
By K.M Seethi

http://www.countercurrents.org/seethi260715.htm

Why should Shashi Tharoor seek Britain's moral acknowledgement to atone for the depradations of its 200-year-rule over India? Many would repeatedly ask this question. It can safely be argued that it was just a debate at Oxford Union! Good, Tharoor's side won the debate 185 votes to 56! But the media seized the occasion to further debate on it. Even Prime Minister Modi found his views and performance ‘marvellous’ enough to bring back honour for India! But no one sees the danger of uncritical acceptance (if not celebration) of such reading of history


Public Hearing On the Hounding of Teesta Setalvad And other Activists
Press Release

http://www.countercurrents.org/pr260715.htm

A platform of democratic groups and activists is organizing a public hearing on the hounding of Teesta Setalvad and her colleagues, and the wider implications such a witch-hunt has for the health of our democracy on 27 July (Monday) at Press Club, New Delhi, 2 pm – 6 pm


Ecological Homage To Kashmir’s Sacrifices 
By Mir Faizan Anwar

http://www.countercurrents.org/anwar260715.htm

Kashmir is undoubtedly facing serious environmental challenges. Looking around, gloomy pictures catch our sight. The tattered Valley, looted of its resources, its encroached water bodies, polluted streams, logged forests, mined mountains, barracked and picketed meadows are now defining present-day Kashmir. One can better imagine the grave environmental crisis and climate change by the September flood fury, recurrent flood threats and prevalent strange weather pattern. Such calamites and misfortunes are our own sown seeds illustrated by miserable stories of Dal, Nigeen, Aanchar, Mansbal , Wular and other wetlands which have lost their potential soaking capacities


From The Humane Vision Of Charles Correa To The Vision Of Aditya Thackeray 
By Vidyadhar Date

http://www.countercurrents.org/date260715.htm

Only the rich can afford to live in Mumbai. This is no city for the poor. A documentary film, directed by celebrated architect Charles Correa made this point in 1975. And it is much more true now, 40 years later, of the present times


Ghalib’s Poetry In Dushambe Minaret 
By Sazzad Hussain

http://www.countercurrents.org/hussain260715.htm

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent trip to Central Asia is going to be remembered as a landmark one as it was the first highest level visit from India after the five former Soviet Republics attained independence in the wake of the breakup of the USSR in 1991. Though the presidents of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and other neighbouring states did make official visits to India in the first, it was not reciprocated by any governments in New Delhi till this year. From that perspective Modi’s visit completed a much overdue diplomatic initiative. Besides, this five nation trip by the Prime Minister bears much significance as it re-established the shared heritage that India has had to Central Asia for the last one thousand years