CounterCurrents: Eliminate Tax Havens!, Circus Politics: Will Our Freedoms Survive Another Presidential Election?, Gaza Speaks: This Is What The Decade-Long Siege Has Done to Us

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Binu Mathew
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RIP Republic!
By Dr Akhileshwari Ramagoud

http://www.countercurrents.org/ramagoud270116.htm

The fragrance of Rohith has been overcome by the stink of Brahminism. This stink pervades the entire country, all the institutions, and all the so-called four estates that comprise a democratic system: the Legislature, the Executive, the Judiciary, and the media. Every single ‘estate’ stinks of Brahminism and casteism which is why Rohith had to die. Which is why hundreds and thousands of Rohiths are destroyed before they can begin to bloom


Hindutva Fanatics Threaten Sandeep Pandey In IIT-BHU Campus
By Subhash Gatade

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatade270116.htm

Close on the heels of the planned disruption of a speech by Siddharth Varadrajan, noted journalist and ex-editor of The Hindu on the Allahabad University campus by members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has come the news that Sandeep Pandey, who has been working as a guest faculty in IIT-BHU for the last two and half years was recently threatened allgegedly by members of the same fraternity on the Banaras Hindu University campus itself


Gaza Speaks: This Is What The Decade-Long Siege Has Done to Us 
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud270116.htm

“My kids feel scared when the electricity goes off, which is most of the time,” says the 33-year-old mother from Nuseirat Refugee Camp, who has a degree in Communication and is currently pursuing her MA. “They are still living the trauma of the 2014 offensive. War is still haunting my family, and life has become so hard for us.” Indeed, after years of trying, Mariam is yet to find work. Unemployment in Gaza is the highest in the world, according to the World Bank


PA's Complicity With The Israeli Occupying Power 
By Dr. Ludwig Watzal

http://www.countercurrents.org/watzal270116.htm

The Palestinian political class has come to terms with the Israeli occupation. The Oslo Accords turned the Palestinian Authority (PA) into a subcontractor of the occupier, and the top brass feels comfortable with this situation in Palestine


Circus Politics: Will Our Freedoms Survive Another Presidential Election? 
By John W. Whitehead

http://www.countercurrents.org/whitehead270116.htm

Clearly, “we the people” have a decision to make. Do we simply participate in the collapse of the American republic as it degenerates toward a totalitarian regime, or do we take a stand at this moment in history and reject the pathetic excuse for government that is being fobbed off on us?


“Not By Bread Alone”: Concerning Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor 
By Gaither Stewart

http://www.countercurrents.org/stewart270116.htm

I would transpose the Grand Inquisitor’s society into our times in the guise of the immoral, big brother, capitalist, imperialist, Orwellian state which is leading inexorably to the death of the nation-state and democracy, the result of the aesthetic choice of earthly bread and non-freedom of the brainwashed herd, as opposed to Dostoevsky’s ethical choice of oneself and the freedom of the thinking, truly social man


Eliminate Tax Havens! 
By Chandra Muzaffar

http://www.countercurrents.org/muzaffar270116.htm

Through its clarion call to bring tax havens to an end, Oxfam has thrown a challenge to the entire human family. Persuade governments to eliminate an institution which is a bane upon equality and justice. If we don’t, our grandchildren will inherit a world where there is greater divisiveness and destruction than what we are now witnessing


Rebuilding And Expanding The North American Relationship 
By Dana Gabriel

http://www.countercurrents.org/gabriel270116.htm

The TPP marks another step towards greater regional cooperation and integration. The U.S.-driven trade deal changes how member countries manage their economies and businesses. It sets the rules for a new global economic order, which would further erode national sovereignty. The TPP together with the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership are part of plans to merge North America with Asia and Europe