CounterCurrents: Saudi Arabia, The Mainspring of Islamic Radicalism, UN Resolution Papers Over Deep Divisions On Syria

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UN Resolution Papers Over Deep Divisions On Syria 
By Bill Van Auken

http://www.countercurrents.org/auken201215.htm

The United Nations Security Council Friday unanimously approved a draft resolution setting out a timetable for ending the nearly five-year civil war in Syria and negotiating a political solution to the crisis created by the Western-backed campaign for regime-change. It provides the bare bones of a process that is supposed to begin in early January with a simultaneous push for a ceasefire and the opening of talks between the government and opposition forces on the formation of a transitional government, which is supposed to be set up within six months. Then, 18 months after the start of the process, UN-supervised elections would take place


Venezuela: It’s Not The Concluding Chapter 
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury201215.htm

It’s not the conclusion in Venezuela. The time to infer conclusively on Venezuela on the basis of developments there is yet to arrive. It’s only the beginning. One can make a minor change in Mao’s famous saying, and write: It’s only the beginning to have the answer to the question that whether wind from the South will dominate the Northern wind or the wind from the North will flow to the South. However, one trend is explicit: The world is changing, the days are changing. Today, masses of people in many countries can raise their courageous voice: This sky is ours, this land is ours, this light is ours, resources whatever are there, are ours, ours, and ours


Saudi Arabia, The Mainspring of Islamic Radicalism 
By Nauman Sadiq

http://www.countercurrents.org/sadiq201215.htm

The real culprit behind the rise of Islamic extremism and jihadism in the Islamic world is Saudi Arabia. The “Aal-e-Saud” (the descendants of Saud) have no hereditary claim to “the Throne of Mecca” since they are not the descendants of the prophet, nor even from the tribe of Quresh. The phenomena of religious extremism and jihadism all over the Islamic world is directly linked to the Wahhabi-Salafi madrassahs which are generously funded by the Saudi and Gulf’s petro-dollars


'Won't Let Injustice Happen To You', Rajnath Singh Tells Christians: 
Sorry Home Minister You'r Bluffing 
By Shamsul Islam

http://www.countercurrents.org/islam201215.htm

The august guests present at the Christmas Dinner which included leading clergy, laity and politicians unfamiliar with the Hindutva game plan of cleansing India of minorities like Muslims and Christians did not question Honourable Home Minister. If they had known some basic facts about RSS, it would have been relevant to ask Rajnath Singh—"Whom to believe Sir, your pious words spoken here or your RSS and your guru? It is high time we realize that minorities are not dealing with a normal political trend but Hindutva politics which has eternal belief in Casteism, totalitarianism and racism. Like all such organizations in the past it thrives on double-speak. To overlook it will be at our own peril


The Northern Student Movement
By Andy Piascik

http://www.countercurrents.org/piascik201215.htm

College students were an integral part of the popular upheaval of the 1960’s. Beginning with the lunch counter sit-ins one month into the decade and continuing on through 1969 and beyond, college students around the country rallied to the cause of justice and freedom. The two best known student organizations of that time were the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Students for Student a Democratic Society (SDS). Another important group, though less well known, was the Northern Student Movement (NSM) and it was founded in Connecticut on the campus of Yale University.


Nirbhayas Need Justice, Not Revenge or Catharsis 
By Samar

http://www.countercurrents.org/samar201215.htm

Most of this outrage against him, just one of the convicted accused of committing a rape in a country that sees thousands of rapes being committed in India, comes not from any quest for justice. They are mostly rooted in the need for a closure, a forced closure, by turning the body and person of a criminal into the site of cathartic release of collective anger against rape crimes