CounterCurrents: It's Time To Call The Shale Gas Revolution As Well As "The Mighty Marcellus" A Bust, Everything You Know About 'Sex Work' Is Wrong (Part 2)

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Binu Mathew
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Adivasi Leader Soni Sori Brutally Attacked
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc210216.htm

Adivasi leader from Chhathisgarh, Soni Sori was attacked near kodenar in bastar. About three men threw some some substance on her face causing intense burning and pain. She was taken to the geedam hospital and is now being taken to the Jagdalpur hospital

Mother India Attacked

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Human Rights Defenders Under Police Attack In Chhattisgarh
By Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS)

http://www.countercurrents.org/wss210216.htm

Soni Sori, local adivasi leader and the Aam Aadmi Party coordinator for Bastar Division, was attacked by three goons on her way home on the 20th of February in Geedam at 11 pm. Soni Sori has communicated that the attackers threw a chemical substance on her face and threatened her saying "stop complaining against the IG, stop raising the issue of Mardum. If you don't behave yourself, we will do this to your daughter as well." She was also warned against attempting to file an FIR against the IG of police again


Contours Of A Citizen: The Nationalist, The Patriot, The Radical, And The Voiceless
By Srestha Banerjee

http://www.countercurrents.org/sb210216.htm

Though oppression by the power machineries is a way of life in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada region (and many more), but the recent attack on the JagLAG (Jagdalpur Legal Aid Group) and the attack on Soni Sori once again came out at a time when the National Capital is being rocked


JNU Episode: Comedy Of Errors Glares At India’s Kashmir Policy 
By Syed Ali Mujtaba

http://www.countercurrents.org/sam210216.htm

The new position on Kashmir now being held by the current government after sending police to arrest the dissenting students at JNU slapping sedition charges throw out the positions so far held by India on Kashmir since 1948. However, it raises the question where does the Indian hard-line nationalist policy on Kashmir will fall in line in the scheme of things of the League of Nations? Will the United Nations concur to India’s new position on Kashmir? The answer is very simple. India has to choose between International commitment and the nationalist position on Kashmir


Solidarity Statement Of Students From Northeast India, TISS, Mumbai
By Concerned Students

http://www.countercurrents.org/tiss210216.htm

We, the undersigned, students and research students from various states of northeastern region of India studying in Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai would like to highlight on the unprecedented shrinkage of academic spaces across various universities in India. We condemn the politically motivated interferences of the state in Jawaharlal Nehru University and in Hyderabad Central University (HCU), and other universities. We also condemn the mob justice perpetrated by lawyers against students, journalist, activists etc in the Patiala House Courts, New Delhi, and media trial led by prominent journalists from New Delhi


It's Time To Call The Shale Gas Revolution As Well As "The Mighty Marcellus" A Bust 
By Nicholas C. Arguimbau

http://www.countercurrents.org/na210216.htm

The entire US shale gas industry is being brought down by its largest play, the Marcellus, in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Here's how things look on the ground. Restaurants that used to be packed are now virtually empty. Almost every drilling company has laid off workers and reduced its capital budget. Drilling rig counts, a surrogate for future new production, dropped by half, from 120 to 59, between 2013 and 2015, and dropped by half again, from 59 to 29, in the last nine months, leaving total production supported primarilly by pre-exiating, "legacy" wells which in shale gas plays typically lose about one third of their present production each year


Everything You Know About 'Sex Work' Is Wrong (Part 2) 
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz210216.htm

I first spoke with Rachel Moran in September 2015 when her uncompromising, riveting memoir Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution was being released in the United States. Since that time, she’s traveled extensively, talking about her book and meeting with women and girls in need of help. I’ve used those five-plus months to continue my efforts in learning more about this and related issues. Now here we are, picking up our conversation as if we never stopped!


Dr. G.N Saibaba Denied Basic Medical Facilities In Jail
By Vasantha Kumari A S

http://www.countercurrents.org/vk210216.htm

Dr.G. Ramadevudu, brother of Dr. G.N Saibaba met him in Nagpur Central Prison recently. He was witness to the shocking details of the torturous conditions within the prison in which Saibaba is struggling for his life. His brother was appalled by the denial of basic medical facilities despite Court Orders as well as a country wide outrage against the inhuman treatment that is being meted out to Saibaba in the Prison. If his treatments are not revived at an emergency basis and if he is forced to stay in the hostile prison conditions Saibaba’s growing ailments will become life threatening