CounterCurrents: Pakistan Develops Low-Yield Smart Nuclear Weapons, Israel: Racist Mob Lynches Migrant As Violence Intensifies, Syria And Afghanistan: The Limits Of Bombing

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Pakistan Develops Low-Yield Smart Nuclear Weapons 
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali

http://www.countercurrents.org/ghazali211015.htm

Foreign secretary of Pakistan, Aizaz Chaudhry, has confirmed that his country has made low-yield nuclear weapons to deal with India's so-called cold-start doctrine that envisages limited war against Pakistan. There have been persistent reports that Pakistan was developing smart nuclear weapons. However, it is the first time that a senior Pakistani official has given an explanation of the country's decision to make tactical nuclear weapons, renaming it as the country's proactive strategy


Israel: Racist Mob Lynches Migrant As Violence Intensifies 
By Jean Shaoul

http://www.countercurrents.org/shaoul211015.htm

An angry Jewish mob lynched an unarmed Eritrean migrant worker in the southern city of Beer Sheba after an Israeli security guard repeatedly shot him on Sunday. The crowd cursed and kicked him, chanting, “Death to Arabs!” “Arabs out!” and “Am Israel Hai!” (“The people of Israel still live”)


Syria And Afghanistan: The Limits Of Bombing 
By Justin Podur

http://www.countercurrents.org/podur211015.htm

Today, the U.S., Israel, the Saudi Kingdom, Turkey, and a few other countries are similarly pouring ever more investment into groups of fighters (some of the same groups as fought in Afghanistan, including al-Qaida) trying to change a regime in Syria. There is every reason to believe that if regime change succeeds, the winners will be al-Qaida and the Islamic State group


They Profit, We Die: Chemical-Intensive Agriculture 
And the Poisoning of Soils, Human Health And The Environment 
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter211015.htm

The problems are not confined to Europe and the US; they are global. Spiralling cancer rates in Argentina linked to the use of glyphosate spring to mind. In Punjab, India, pesticides have turned the state into a 'cancer epicentre'. Moreover, Indian soils are being depleted as a result of the application of ‘green revolution’ ideology and chemical inputs. India is losing 5,334 million tonnes of soil every year due to soil erosion because of the indiscreet and excessive use of fertilisers, insecticides and pesticides. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research reports that soil is become deficient in nutrients and fertility. As small holders the world over are being driven from their land and the chemical-industrial farming model takes over, the problems continue to mount


Germany Against Itself 
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh211015.htm

In Germany the dissident crowd are often not just against the state, but their country and, perhaps only subconsciously, even their heritage. Many openly advocate for the dissolution of Germany. Even if this is only youthful, nihilistic posturing, its pervasiveness is telling


El Salvador: In Power, Former Guerrillas To Hold First Congress 
By Federico Fuentes

http://www.countercurrents.org/fuentes211015.htm

Thirty-five years after its founding, El Salvador's historic Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) is set to hold its first national congress at the end of October. The congress has been called to help re-arm the activists of the left-wing party that began life in 1980 as a front of revolutionary groups engaged in a guerilla war. Today, 13 years after peace accords ended the armed conflict, it is in government


Modi And His Mess: Basic Rights And Freedom In India At Stake 
By Shamim Zakaria

http://www.countercurrents.org/zakaria211015.htm

The recent incidents apparently put bright light on dark patches that the country is presently going through. India which fought relentless battles for upholding the virtue of secularism and unity in diversity, the values are certainly losing it hue under the black shadow of saffron fringe. With hopes of ‘make in India’ and dream of being an entrant in global powerhouse Prime Minister Modi may keep making rounds of the globe. However, when his partymen are cognizant about the language of communalism, polarisation and bloodshed, the dream will be far from reality


Cow Is A Political Animal
By Parul Verma

http://www.countercurrents.org/verma211015.htm

Recent outbreak of swine flu cases in india was due to the mutated strain but the on-going communal tension around the nation is more than just any mutated strain,for the religious manipulation is dominating its strain. Indians are being haunted by the basic questions around this new political animal of the nation (THE COW)


Pepsi Mocks Striking Students With Its New Ad 
By Nakul Singh Sawhney

http://www.countercurrents.org/Sawhney211015.htm

Students are striking all over India against growing communalism, curbing of academic freedom and free speech. But in your ad, you decided to not mock the authorities that have violated every principle of democracy and human decency while dealing with young striking students. You instead chose to mock the striking students