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FTII Strikers Protest At IFFI: Two Arrested
By Subhash Gatade

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatade211115.htm

Ultimately the roaring voice of the FTII students reached the IFFI (International Film Festival of India) inaugural held at Panaji, Goa. Two alumni of FTII found an empty block on top, where they were seated silently till the whole inaugural ceremony ended.’ Security people who were present there in large numbers pounced on the two of them – Kislay, a young film director, an alumni of FTII, who has received critical acclaim for his very first film and Shubham, another alumni of FTII – and according to a facebook post both of them have been badly beaten by the Goan police for showing the placards and shouting slogans… They are still under the police custody and being interrogated


12 Strategies The Government Is Adopting To Keep FTII Students' Mouth Shut In IFFI, Goa
By Shini J.K.

http://www.countercurrents.org/shini211115.htm

The potential conspirators' master plan for IFFI, Goa...


Paris Terrorists Operated “In Plain Sight” 
By Patrick Martin

http://www.countercurrents.org/martin211115.htm

Two conclusions are inescapable : (1) Official propaganda about this and other terrorist attacks, aimed at stampeding public opinion behind the state and the intelligence services, are based on half-truths and lies. (2) The imperialist governments, whose savage wars for oil and geopolitical advantage in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia have created the conditions for the rise of Islamist terror organizations, with which they have collaborated, are once again using a terrorist atrocity as the pretext to implement longstanding plans for military escalation abroad and the abrogation of democratic rights at home


From Pol Pot To ISIS: The Blood Never Dried 
By John Pilger

http://www.countercurrents.org/pilger211115.htm

ISIS is the progeny of those in Washington, London and Paris who, in conspiring to destroy Iraq, Syria and Libya, committed an epic crime against humanity. Like Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, ISIS are the mutations of a western state terror dispensed by a venal imperial elite undeterred by the consequences of actions taken at great remove in distance and culture. Their culpability is unmentionable in "our" societies, making accomplices of those who suppress this critical truth


Creating "Terrorism": The Western Quest For 
Sociopolitical Conformity And Imperialism 
By Jon Kofas

http://www.countercurrents.org/kofas211115.htm

Do US policies increase terrorism rather than decreasing it as the government claims? We must assume that policymakers are very smart people with experience who also rely on outside consultants to formulate policy. While this would be a safe assumption, it is not as safe to vouch for their mental stability, their blinding ideological frame of mind, and career-based opportunism that take precedence over everything else from human rights to social justice. It is safe to assume that those in policymaking, politicians, pundits, and the media believe the same formula that worked in bringing down the Communist bloc would work on ending terrorism, regardless of the reality that Communists were organized in states and employed conventional methods just as those opposing them. Finally, it is safe to assume that the more astute apologists of the bogus “anti-terrorism” industry that the US has created realize it is doomed to fail and in fact to bring about an increase in terrorism


At Night I Hear Victims Shouting 
By Andre Vltchek

http://www.countercurrents.org/vltchek211115.htm

One day, hopefully soon, humanism will win over dark nihilism; people will live for other people and not for some cold profits, religious dogmas and “Western values”. Imperialism will be defeated once and for all


Energy Revolution Is Possible.And It Would Only Take 782 Rich People To Pay For It
By Deirdre Fulton

http://www.countercurrents.org/fulton211115.htm

The analysis from Friends of the Earth International (FOEI) reveal "a gross injustice" when it comes to global inequality that should serve as "a shocking and stark reminder that the finance for an energy transformation is certainly available."


Political Salafism Has Failed Lebanon’s Palestinians.Will Jahadist Salafism succeed? 
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb211115.htm

In light of the failure of Arab political elites, including Lebanese and Palestinian leaders, to provide an alternative model for peaceful political change and for acquiring elementary civil rights, including the right to work in Lebanon, many of the angry Palestinian youth in Lebanon are concluding that they have few options to achieve civil rights and are listening to the new chorus siren calls from Jihadist Salafism


ISIS: How Islamic State Is The Most “Un-Islamic” 
By Nazia Nazar

http://www.countercurrents.org/nazar211115.htm

The figures show that the ISIS has perpetrated atrocities against the Muslim world more than it caused death and destruction in the west. According to a report by the United Nations, the ISIS was responsible for 9,347 civilian deaths only in Iraq in 2014. It seems ridiculous that the ISIS is ambitious to create an Islamic state, hence, its members are feeding on the blood of Muslims. The question arises that if the ISIS uphold the true Islamic ideology, why do they kill Muslims at all? Do they tend to create an ‘Islamic state without Muslims’?


Canada In Africa - 300 Years Of Aid And Exploitation
Book Review By Jim Miles

http://www.countercurrents.org/miles211115.htm

If you have ever wondered why Africa remains mired in poverty, constantly at war, and ripe for terrorist exploitation, Canada in Africa delivers a strong answer to that curiosity. It should be a must read for anyone interested in current affairs, modern history, or that dullest of affairs, political science. Yves Engler has written a valuable, well defined, and instructive compendium of Canada’s history and current activities in Africa


UN Peace Keeping Mission Of Bangladesh And Military’s Involvement In Politics 
By M Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury211115.htm

Bangladesh has been making peace outside the country though it failed to do so within. The country is one of the largest peacekeepers in the United Nations since the last part of previous century. As peacekeeping mission begun, it stopped military coup in Bangladesh. Although senior commanders’ bold position stopped 1996 coup attempt in Bangladesh, the UN peacekeeping mission also played a vital role to suppress the coup. However, 2007 military coup is a result of blackmailing of UN, which lasted for two years and also it was ended by UN with handing over power to politicians in 2009