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The Sucicide Of Dalit Scholar Rohith Vemula: A Caste Instigated Political Murder
By Samar
http://www.countercurrents.org/samar180116.htm
Rohith Vemula’s suicide cannot be seen as an act of desperation. Neither was his struggle an individual one, for grades for instance, nor there was a reason for him to go desperate suddenly. His suicide note makes it clear too. His letter is not a suicide note in fact, it is an indictment of the republic that had been failing its vulnerable citizens for long and has started to shed even the pretence of justice of late. This is our turn to not let his sacrifice go in vain
One Of The Rusticated Dalit Students Of Hyderabad Central University Commits Suicide
By Countercurrents.org
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc170116.htm
Rohit Vemula, one of the five rusticated students of Hyderabad Central University committed suicide. He was found dead hanging in his room this afternoon. Five students were rusticated from the university and forced to vacate their hostel rooms . They were sitting on dharna in the campus for the last 10 days
I Loved Science, Stars, Nature And People....... Rohit Vemula's Final Letter
http://www.countercurrents.org/vemula180116.htm
I loved Science, Stars, Nature, but then I loved people without knowing that people have long since divorced from nature. I am writing this kind of letter for the first time. My first time of a final letter. Forgive me if I fail to make sense
You Are Brave, Rohith
By Farooque Chowdhury
http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury180116.htm
Rohith, your silent funeral will blossom with our pain, with our untold pain, with our tears. Pardon us friend, we can’t stop shedding tears. The system is responsible for your act of killing yourself. The system has instigated you, we know, dear friend. Rohith, our beloved brother, you will travel to the stars as you aspire. Our love will be travelling with you
Rohit Vemula’s Is A Day Light Murder By Casteist State
By P Victor Vijay Kumar
http://www.countercurrents.org/kumar180116.htm
Rohit Vemula’s death is not a suicide. Rohith has not hanged himself. He was given death punishment by this State. Rather, this is a day light murder of a life….not just that …it is a murder of hope !
Need To Cleanse The Education From The Dronacharayas
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat
http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat180116.htm
An insensitive institution can not create sensitive students. We hope the government will wake up. The suicide of Rohit Vemula is a warning to India's brahmanical establishment to mend its ways. We hope the government in 125th year of Dr Ambedkar's birth centenary will act in good faith otherwise things might go out of control
The Continuing Threat Against Eritrea Under The Pretext Of Human Rights
By John Graversgaard
http://www.countercurrents.org/graversgaard180116.htm
How come that Eritrea has been targeted as a big human rights issue? Demonizing Eritrea has become an obsession in the ruling circles of the west and especially among people that have never been to Eritrea. Human rights is precious, but is being misused as an ideological weapon to crush and isolate nations not subservient to the designs of Washington. The establishment of a Special Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea(COI) must be seen in this light
Shout King Held All Americans Responsible For Atrocity Wars
For Lucrative Predatory Investments
By Jay Janson
http://www.countercurrents.org/janson180116.htm
What the world and most every Americans under the age of fifty, do not know (for it having been criminally suppressed in all US media for nearly a half-century), is that exactly one year before being assassinated, Rev. King condemned the US war in Vietnam and all previous "atrocity wars and covert violence on three continents since 1945 meant to maintain unjust predatory investments" and held all Americans, including himself, responsible for these atrocity wars for "not being willing to give up the pleasures and privileges that come from the immense profits from those predatory investment the wars and violence had been protecting
What Do Almost All War Criminals And Dictators Have In Common?
By Mickey Z.
http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz180116.htm
From Harry Truman and his terror bombing of Japan to Saddam Hussein’s mass murders in Halabja. From Suharto’s bloody rise to power in Indonesia to the Contras making Reagan proud in Central America. From Ariel Sharon in Sabra and Shatila to Henry Kissinger’s legacy amongst the Vietnamese, the Kurds, the Chileans, the East Timorese, the Bangladeshis, etc. etc. etc. From the earliest of recorded history right up to Barack Obama and his drones, his kill list, and his Nobel Peace Prize, ruthless rulers are ubiquitous and seemingly inevitable. But what do almost all of them have in common?
Vice President Dick Cheney in Iraq. March, 2008. By soldiersmediacenter (iraq) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
For many people, the term “war criminal” means swastikas and concentration camps. Give it further thought and the more open-minded among us may recall grainy black-and-white images of My Lai. Hear the word “dictator” and perhaps your mind’s eye conjures up Hollywood-inspired images of Third World “banana republics.”
In reality, however, living under the yoke of relentless necrophilic rule provides an endless supply of despots, war-mongers, and the inevitable atrocities they command and commit. These criminals come from all walks of life, from every corner of the globe, e.g. Mobutu of Zaire, the Shah of Iran, Noriega of Panama, and Marcos in the Philippines -- to name but a few.
Manuel Noriega. By U.S. Marshals Service in Miami, Florida [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
From Harry Truman and his terror bombing of Japan to Saddam Hussein’s mass murders in Halabja. From Suharto’s bloody rise to power in Indonesia to the Contras making Reagan proud in Central America. From Ariel Sharon in Sabra and Shatila to Henry Kissinger’s legacy amongst the Vietnamese, the Kurds, the Chileans, the East Timorese, the Bangladeshis, etc. etc. etc.
From the earliest of recorded history right up to Barack Obama and his drones, his kill list, and his Nobel Peace Prize, ruthless rulers are ubiquitous and seemingly inevitable.
But what do almost all of them have in common?
President Obama. 2009. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Michael J. Ayotte [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
For starters, the list I offered above is made up of Americans, U.S. allies, and those funded and supported by the Land of the Free™ (I was just checking to see if you were paying attention.) However, I could spend another 1,000 pages discussing the catalogue of thugs that pre-date the founding of God’s Country™. Yes, the Home of the Brave™ is the current king of atrocities but is still merely the latest in a long lineage of murderous monarchs.
War criminals and dictators come in many age ranges, are found in just about every geographical location, and run the gamut of religions, ethnicities, and financial classes. So, if none of these is the most universal marker for recognizing such predators, what is?
Think it over. I’ll wait.
A few more examples, while you ponder: Bill Clinton, Idi Amin, Kenji Doihara, Augusto Pinochet, and Curtis LeMay.
Go ahead. Say it.
Adolf Eichmann, Tariq Aziz, Colin Powell, Kim Jong-Il, and Efrain Rios Montt.
You know what it is, so just admit it.
Kang Kek Iew, Robert McNamara, Charles Taylor, Donald Rumsfeld, and Benjamin Netanyahu.
Do the thing.
Tojo, Hitler, FDR, Stalin, Mussolini, Bush, Pol Pot… I could keep going for days.
Name the problem.
Please. Just name the problem, before it’s too late to address the problem.
Mickey Z. is the author of 13 books, most recently Occupy these Photos: NYC Activism Through a Radical Lens. Until the laws are changed or the power runs out, you can “like” his Facebook page here and follow his blog here. Anyone wishing to support his activist efforts can do so by making a donation here.
Women –The Key Motors In Rural Financial Democracy
By Moin Qazi
http://www.countercurrents.org/qazi180116.htm
In remote crannies of developing countries, poor women are pooling their talents and resources to build a new synergy of collective empowerment to transform their lives. These small clusters or collectives of women are known as Self-Help Groups
Who Will Speak For The Human Rights Defenders?
By Pushkar Raj
http://www.countercurrents.org/raj180116.htm
The Bombay high court judgment cancelling Prof. Sai Baba’s bail and initiating contempt proceedings against the writer Arundhati Roy is a major blow to the human rights defenders in the country
Supreme Court’s Verdict On Archaga’s Case: A Trickery To Legitimize
Brahminical Hegemony And Untouchability
By APSC-IITM
http://www.countercurrents.org/apsc180116.htm
The Supreme Court’s verdict on a case moved by the brahmin priests of Madurai meenakshi amman temple against 2006 Tamilnadu governments GO states that “Any person who is a Hindu and possessing the requisite qualification and training can be appointed as a archaka (priest) in Hindu temples” has been delivered with deceitful statements to shield brahminical tyranny and untouchability
"Red Maize": Fiction Rooted In Truth
Book Review By Haleem Qarrar
http://www.countercurrents.org/qarrar180116.htm
Red Maize is set in a nondescript village – Morha Madana whose geographical location is clear to the extent that it lies close to the Chenab river and the Doda town. It’s a gut wrenching tale about a widow who loses all three sons to the conflict. Set in the period of late 90s the plot beautifully portrays the Kashmir conflict spilling over into the adjoining regions and the human tragedy associated with it thereof
Revamping Srinagar Airport
By Mohammad Ashraf
http://www.countercurrents.org/ashraf180116.htm
Will Srinagar ever have a truly International Airport? Yes, only if NAMO takes the initiative in his typically unconventional style!
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