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31 Years After The 1984 Massacre Of Sikhs The Perpetrators Are Yet To Be Traced 
By Shamsul Islam

http://www.countercurrents.org/shamsul311015.htm

India State is still searching for the criminals behind 1984 massacre of Sikhs even after elapsing more than three decades. In the case of 1984 massacre it is generally believed that the Congress cadres were behind this genocide. This may be true but there were other forces too which actively participated in this massacre and whose role has never been investigated. We are republishing a document circulated by a prominent ideologue and luminary of RSS, Nana Deshmukh on November 8, 1984 which may help in unmasking the whole lot of criminals involved in the massacre of innocent Sikhs who had nothing to do with the killing of Indira Gandhi


Obama Orders Special Forces Troops Into Syria 
By Bill Van Auken

http://www.countercurrents.org/auken311015.htm

The announcement by the Obama White House that up to 50 US Special Forces troops are being deployed on the ground in Syria represents a qualitative escalation of Washington’s illegal intervention in the war-ravaged country


REDD+ And Carbon Trading Will Not Resolve The Climate Crisis
By GRAIN, Attac Gabon

http://www.countercurrents.org/grain311015.htm

The great majority of the preparatory proposal documents for REDD (commonly called R-PP) being worked out in Africa single out agriculture as the principal driver of deforestation, being careful not to point out that it is industrial agriculture with its focus on productivity and intensive use of chemical products which is the cause, to the detriment of small farms which have for decades always known how to respect the climate and protect the environment


Thousands Attend Hebron Funerals After Israel Returns 5 Bodies
By Ma'an News Agency

http://www.countercurrents.org/maan311015.htm

Thousands of Palestinian mourners on Saturday filled the streets of Hebron for the joint funeral of five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces after alleged and actual attacks in the occupied West Bank city this month. The bodies of Dania Irsheid al-Husseini, 17, Bayan Ayman al-Essili, 16, Tariq Ziyad al-Natsha,16, Hussam Ismail al-Jabari,17, and Bashar Nidal al-Jabari,15, were handed over by Israel Friday night


The Zionist Lies And The Third Intifada 
By Dr Salim Nazzal

http://www.countercurrents.org/nazzal311015.htm

Netanyahu's lies about Palestine role in the Holocaust comes in a time Palestine witnessing a Third Intifada against the occupiers


Palestine: Silent Compromises 
By Justin Podur

http://www.countercurrents.org/podur311015.htm

What started this round of violence? Israel's armed settler movement is attempting to change the way that Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque is run. In fact, they want the mosque torn down, like the Babri Mosque was torn down in India in 1992. The Israeli government, which the settler movement has largely taken over, has a strategy that probably involves ultimately dividing the mosque site and banning Palestinians from it, as has been done in Hebron. As with the second intifada in 2000, Israel put pressure on the al-Aqsa site until Palestinians resisted. When Palestinians resisted, Israel escalated with lethal force, and now continues to escalate with no end in sight


Time To Stop Worshipping Economic Growth 
By Brent Blackwelder

http://www.countercurrents.org/blackwelder311015.htm

Our global economy is treating the planet as if it were a business in a liquidation sale. Even environmental organizations—devoted to environmental protection— have been slow to acknowledge the major causes of environmental degradation, such as perverse economic incentives encouraging raw resource extraction and non-renewable energy use. We need environmental leaders to speak out for a new, just, and true-cost economy; and to challenge the mindless embracing of economic growth—even ruthless and futureless growth. Environmental leaders should be driving the push toward refocusing economic thinking on the changes that we will have to make if we are going to move to a healthier economy that exists within the nine planetary boundaries. Only if humanity stays within these nine boundaries can it continue to develop and thrive for generations to come


Syria’s ‘Monument Citizens’ Taking Risks Saving The Future Of Our Past 
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb311015.htm

Increasing numbers of Syria’s women and men, considered by this observer as this war-torn country’s ‘Monument Citizens’ have recently expanded the scope and range of cultural heritage site protection and preservation on behalf of humanity. In addition to documenting heritage site damage through 3-D photography at the scene, many reconstruction projects are also underway. A few have been nearly restored including in Lattakia al Mahalbeh Castle, in Old Homs, and nearby Crac des Chavaliers, the 11th Century Crusader Castle, al Khawabi Castle , Tartous, Al Omari Mosque, Bosra, Tell Mozan, Al Hassakeh and the Citadels of Salah ad-Din, Masyaf, and the Damascus Citadel to mention a few


Tony Blair’s “Apology” Makes No Sense 
By Taj Hashmi

http://www.countercurrents.org/hashmi311015.htm

This Sunday (Oct. 25), former British Prime Minister Tony Blair told Fareed Zakaria on CNN that the 2003 Iraq invasion was an “honest mistake”; and there were “elements of truth” in the assertion that the invasion was principally responsible for the rise of the Islamic State. By imputing the decision to invade Iraq to “weak intelligence”, he (sort of) felt sorry for the unnecessary deaths of allied and Iraqi soldiers. In view of his wishy-washy and deceptive statement, one has no reason to call it an apology. Not at all!


Why I Think Indian Women Should Not Fast On Karvachauth! 
By Nikita Azad

http://www.countercurrents.org/azad311015.htm

Karvachauth sends me chills. It horrifies me. The idea of fasting an entire day, for somebody who is supposedly my master, and I, his slave, torments me, even in dreams. The belief that my fasting would add certain years to my pati-parmeshwar's life, makes me feel hysterical. When I look at my facebook account, or any site in general, I find pictures, glossy images of women wearing really heavy sarees, clad in jewellery, holding a sieve and looking at her husband, blushing. All the glamour and blushing literally brings my mind to a standstill. Not for its magnificence, but for its acceptance. This Karvachauth, I want every Indian women to realise that, Karvachauth is not about love, it is about subjugation


‘Fifteen Years Of Hunger Strike’ And ‘57 Years Of Bloody AFSPA’ 
By Lalit Shukla

http://www.countercurrents.org/shukla311015.htm

On 2nd November 2000, Irom Chanu Sharmila was in Malom preparing for a peace rally when she came to know the news of 10 innocent people being gunned down by Assam Rifles personnel. She was deeply shocked after this massacre of innocent people. On 5th November, she started indefinite hunger strike to repeal AFSPA. Her hunger strike is still on after 15 years!


A Reality Check On Farmer Suicides 
By Moin Qazi

http://www.countercurrents.org/qazi311015.htm

For every Indian farmer who takes his own life, a family is hounded by the debt he leaves behind, typically resulting in children dropping out of school to become farmhands, and surviving family members themselves frequently committing suicide out of hopelessness and despair. The Indian government's response to the crisis—largely in the form of limited debt relief and compensation programs—has failed to address the magnitude and scope of the problem or its underlying causes


We Can't Eat Money : The Plausible Outcome Of 
Building A Colossal Capital City For Andhra Pradesh 
By Narayan Rao

http://www.countercurrents.org/rao311015.htm

A farmer who sold his land declares innocently, my one acre land which was 10 lakhs previously is worth a crore. We can't eat money, and its an unkillable truth. The proposed and acquired area for building the capital city for the state of Andhra Pradesh, southern India, namely, Amaravati, happens to be the rice-bowl of the state itself with the most fertile and productive land on the premises of river Krishna


Odisha Govermnent’s Attempt To Conduct Gram Sabhas In Niyamgiri 
Is Illegal And Contempt Of Supreme Court Order
By National Alliance of People’s Movements

http://www.countercurrents.org/napm311015.htm

It seems the government is planning to reconvene Gram Sabhas in Niyamgiri more particularly in all the 12 villages which voted against the proposed mining in Niyamgiri in earlier convened Gram Sabhas, during July 18 – August 19, 2013 as held under direction from Supreme Court of India and under judicial supervision. It may be recalled that all the 12 villages had said unanimously said “No to Mining”


The Dagger: Dominating Interests’ Class War In East Bengal, 1946 And After 
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury311015.htm

Part IV: Denial & Silence


The Reforms I Need! Do Teachers Have To Teach 
Their Students' Parents Marketing Skills?
By Romi Mahajan

http://www.countercurrents.org/mahajan311015.htm

I got a call from one of my children’s teacher last year. She was very vocal with me about my marketing practice and about my lack of deftness with new varieties of digital advertising and social media. She went further indicating that I needed to spend more time in the office, suggesting in unambiguous terms that I was lazy and incompetent to boot. She topped it off with a cherry- that I was poor in dealing with clients and universally unrespected in the community