CounterCurrents: 2015: India’s Degrading Journalist Murder Index, Taliban Strikes Again And Again, New Year Could Be Happy If…

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New Year Could Be Happy If… 
By Satya Sagar

http://www.countercurrents.org/sagar010116.htm

The turning of a page in the calendar and the arrival of yet another New Year makes no difference to the way the world works– spinning as it does in tandem with the wheels of power, commerce, race, gender and human hubris. And yet it is a naïve tradition I have been maintaining for some time now – on the 1st of January - I write up a list of wishes I desperately want to come true in the New Year


Celebrating 22 Years Of Zapatismo 
By Hilary Klein

http://www.countercurrents.org/klein010116.htm

The anniversary of the EZLN’s uprising is a chance to reflect on the Zapatista movement’s achievements and lessons that are still relevant today


Notes From Kabul 
By Carolyn Coe

http://www.countercurrents.org/coe010116.htm

A few sketches of hope from war torn Kabul


Politics And Anti-politics—Thoughts About Most Beloved Greek Words 
By Gaither Stewart

http://www.countercurrents.org/stewart010115.htm

The synthesis of the two variants would require America’s cognizance of the reality that the consequence of its blind insistence on world domination will be universal conflagration and the probable extinction of the human species. America must join the rest of mankind. As a first step, America must show genuine atonement for the ills its hamartia—i.e. evil conviction of its exceptionalism—has wrought on mankind


Taliban Strikes Again And Again
By Mudassir Fatah

http://www.countercurrents.org/fatah010116.htm

The abrupt resurgence of the Taliban is seen as an outcome of many factors, mention may be made of the major withdrawal of the NATO from Afghanistan, and the transformational character of ISIS with its capability to wreak havoc across the continents which is now a key concern of the world community. The focus of the world community shifted abruptly towards the ISIS which allowed the Taliban to gradually intensify its operations and attacks on the Afghan security forces and installations, with relatively greater impunity the attacks didn’t invite any harsh condemnation from the international community


Cry Me A River 
By Suprabha Seshan

http://www.countercurrents.org/seshan010116.htm

Author Suprabha Seshan writes: ‘The words, thoughts and images in this piece are traces left in my life by various river people, including activists and ecologists. The voice however, is singular: of a woman by the Kabini River in southern India, listening to the news and thinking of women along the Chalakudy River fighting the Athirapally dam.’


Rural Development Tourism –A New Indian Fad 
By Moin Qazi

http://www.countercurrents.org/qazi010116.htm

There is a new phenomena catching up with the corporate world .It is,rural development tourism—brief visits which may be part of a CSR initiative of corporate houses who plant saplings in a few villages and then spend a fortune to run massive banner lines tomtomming their commitment to Rural India


2015: India’s Degrading Journalist Murder Index 
By Nava Thakuria

http://www.countercurrents.org/thakuria010116.htm

As the year passes off, India stands today at an awkward position losing as more as five journalists to assailants in 2015, which is higher than the tolls in previous year. While the robust media in the largest democracy of the globe had lost only two scribes (MVN Shankar from Andhra Pradesh and Tarun Kumar Acharya from Odisha) to goons in 2014, the statistics have gone up this time. In addition to the murders of five journalists, the year 2015 also reported several cases of assault and even suspected deaths of media persons across the country