CounterCurrents: Terror Hub or Empire Of Fear, The Disingenuous Apologies For Israel's Assault On Palestinian Education, The Sauds' Impunity, Dozens Of Students Beaten Up And Arrested In FTII

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Dozens Of Students Beaten Up And Arrested In FTII
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc070116.htm

Dozens of students of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) were beaten up inside the campus, arrested and forcefully removed from the campus. The students were protesting against arrival of Gajendra Chauhan to take charge as the chairman of India's premier film institute. Two female students and 23 male students were arrested. Shini J.K, one of the female students arrested said the female students were attacked by male police, a gross violation of human rights


Humiliating Dr. Sandeep Pandey, A Shame On India!
By National Alliance of People’s Movements

http://www.countercurrents.org/napm070116.htm

IIT BHU, Take Back The Termination Of Gandhian Magsaysay Award Winner Socialist Sandeep Pandey, Stop Following The Dictates of RSS Ideologues, Re-instate Him With Honour Immediately


Reinstate Integrity Of University Of Hyderabad 
By Reinstating Five Expelled Students
By Dr Vacy Vlazna

http://www.countercurrents.org/vlazna070116.htm

Turning out Dalit students from their accommodation on political /racist grounds is not a good look for a university bent on attracting international interest. I urge UoH to reinstate the shamefully expelled 5 Dalit students immediately and unconditionally and respect student dissent against injustice by maintaining integrity against the Hindutva pressures


The Sauds' Impunity 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse070116.htm

No matter how bad the fundamentalist Sunni-Islamic Saud royal family are, America's government still supports them and condemns the countries that the Sauds hate: those are the Shia-led nations of Iran and of Syria


A Message Of Hope For The New Year 
By Jack Balkwill

http://www.countercurrents.org/balkwill070116.htm

The good news is we are growing, winning progress and getting stronger. If we continue our progress, 2016 will begin the era where the mass social movement cannot be ignored


The Disingenuous Apologies For Israel's Assault On Palestinian Education 
By Matt Peppe

http://www.countercurrents.org/peppe070116.htm

As the American Historical Association (AHA) prepares to vote this week on a symbolic resolution that affirms support for the right to education in the occupied Palestinian territories, apologists for the Israeli regime's policies against Palestinians are putting forward nonsensical rationalizations for their opposition to the measure. Writing in History News Network, University of Maryland History Professor Jeffrey Herf essentially argues that his profession has no practical value: "as historians we have neither the knowledge nor expertise to evaluate conflicting factual assertions about events in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza." If historians should not evaluate the veracity of factual assertions about an issue then what exactly is the use of historical studies? To merely compile and organize documents?


Ignorance Has Been The Fall Guy For Racist Attacks, Too Long 
By Mallika Kaur

http://www.countercurrents.org/kaur070116.htm

“Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past... Once we have more knowledge (light) about each other…a United front will be brought about,” said Malcolm X. To be sure, we need to continue countering ignorance. But, let’s face it: ignorance is not making murderers, something else is. Say its name


Terror Hub or Empire Of Fear 
By Mara Ahmed

http://www.countercurrents.org/ahmed070116.htm

Americans are 353 times more likely to die from a fall, while cleaning their gutters or putting up Christmas lights, than from a terror intrigue. But even those odds are not satisfactory. The policing of thought, preemptive arrests, the profiling of minorities, even the targeting of the mentally ill, are all permissible in the quest for perfect security. The rest of the world knows that such a quest is bound to fail and that fear is a miserable way to live. Let’s hope we catch on soon


Reading Phule - Now No More Silences! 
By Subhash Gatade

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatade070116.htm

Young Marx - who with his Communist Manifesto (1848) - became a voice of the exploited and the oppressed the world over- died in 1883 whereas Young Jyotiba - who started with the first public intervention by opening a school for Shudra-Atishudra girls way back in 1848 - died in 1890. Today, more than 125 years after their demise, when a real possibility exists for the coming together of both these streams, question arises whether they will be able to take benefit of it or not?


Being A Christian In Sri Lanka – Historical, Political, Social, And 
Religious Considerations - By Leonard Pinto
Book Review By Basil Fernando

http://www.countercurrents.org/fernando070116.htm

Being a Christian in Sri Lanka is a book with a striking cover, showing the view from the Sigiriya Rock Fortress (built 477 - 495 AD, a UNESCO World Heritage Site). Leonard Pinto, an ecologist and an author of works on ethics and social justice, has taught and researched at universities and industry in Australia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka. In this enjoyable book, he has put together a vast amount of information on historical, political, social and religious matters with lucid analysis and sober reflections


Rural India Needs Simple Solutions, Not Grandiose Plans 
By Moin Qazi

http://www.countercurrents.org/qazi071116.htm

Tackling poverty requires an approach that must start with the people themselves and encourages the initiative, creativity and drive from below. The strategy must be at the core of any transformatory exercise if the results are to be lasting and enduring. I had the privilege of watching the village women acquire a sense of dignity once they were given tools for self-sufficiency. And I learned, maybe most importantly, to listen with my heart and not just my head. Are poor clients last in the long list of our objectives?


Kashmir’s Many “Gabbar Singhs”! 
By Mohammad Ashraf

http://www.countercurrents.org/ashraf070116.htm

There are many characters like the notorious Gabbar Singh of the famous Hindi movie Sholay in the government, administration as well as in various other political parties of different“streams”in Kashmir!


The Mufti Of Symbolism 
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat070116.htm

Mufti was a farsighted pragmatic politician who was ready to go any length if the case was for the benefit of kashmiris. At the end, Kashmiris are needed to solve their own issues as it cant be resolved through political jargons and rhetoric of others elsewhere