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Binu Mathew
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SAVE INDIAN DEMOCRACY! RESIST HINDUTVA FASCISM!

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10 Facts Exposing David Coleman Headley And His Role In The Mumbai 26/11 Terror Attacks 
By Feroze Mithiborwala & Kishor Jagtap

http://www.countercurrents.org/jagtap150216.htm

We must question the Headley narrative on many of the facts that have been brought to light since the Mumbai 26/11 terror attacks and his role. The terror attack Mumbai 26/11, was directed at India, all of South Asia & this point must be understood by all those who are committed to the cause of South Asian peace and solidarity. Therefore let’s consider the most obvious 10 facts


The Afzal-JNU Row: Facts That Are Sacred 
By Mir Uzair Farooq

http://www.countercurrents.org/farooq150216.htm

The Afzal-JNU row has rewound the storm which never settles or is never let to settle and keeps sweeping around between India and the valley of Kashmir. Going by a saying of Charles Scott that “comment is free, but facts are sacred”, one of the sides surely is conjecturing ‘commentaries’ and only one side is factual. With this as a pretext, why not revise some of the basic facts to filter out the truth?


Sedition Law And The Patriotism Of Those Who Have Never Been Patriotic
By Sukumaran C. V.

http://www.countercurrents.org/sukumaran150216.htm

The British used this law to crush the patriotism of the people before independence. And after independence the law has been used for the same purpose! And the UPA government used this colonial law to send Dr. Binayak Sen, the renowned human-rights activist, to prison. Dr. Saibaba, another human-rights activist is also charged with this draconian law. Now the ‘patriotic’ government that rules the country uses the same law against the JNU. I am a former JNU student and I know that JNU inspires the students to go beyond the theoretical dogmas that bind us to the political, religious and social oppression in the name of democracy. A university like the JNU is the oxygen of democracy, especially when democracy metamorphoses into fascism as is happening today in India


An Open Letter To Fellow Indian Citizens 
By Rutuja Deshmukh Wakankar

http://www.countercurrents.org/wakankar150216.htm

Today I write to all of you and especially the Indian upper and middle class (emphasize mine), as one amongst you. We are at the brink of destruction; by we I mean us as a nation. I fully understand the implication of my statement, which is very serious in nature. But I am afraid we have reached here with solely our indignant efforts and misinformed perseverance. In the recent times we have made ourselves prey of mindless propaganda, development agendas without really understand the meaning of truly developed state and hyper-nationalism


Condemn The False Case Filed Against JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar 
By Democratic Teachers' Network

http://www.countercurrents.org/dtn150216.htm

We condemn in the strongest terms the police raid upon student hostels in Jawaharlal Nehru University. JNU Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar, a charismatic voice of the democratic aspirations of students, was lifted by plain clothes police in what appeared to bystanders to be a vigilante attack rather than a police action. Male police have been breaking into and entering hostels including women’s hostels, in a blatant violation of the rule of law. The fact that a student leader was arrested on charges of sedition, a draconian colonial law intended to break the Indian National freedom struggle, demonstrates the anti-national character of the police and the fascist government directing them


Enslaving Intelligentsia 
By Ishaq Begh

http://www.countercurrents.org/begh150216.htm

Police raids in India’s prestigious institute Jawahar Lal Nehru University is nothing but terrorizing and a trap to enslave those intellectuals who always stand with the humanity. Some people even claim that the internal modus operandi of the varsity seems to be completely subverted and autonomy of this institution stands totally smashed. This is the ivory tower which has guaranteed India’s pride in all over the world and due to its stunning achievements in the past, social science essentials touched the heights with a stunning esteem


Arrest Of JNUSU President: Unite And Fight In Defence Of The Right To Conscience!
Statement of the Central Committee of Communist Ghadar Party of India

http://www.countercurrents.org/gpi150216.htm

The Communist Ghadar Party of India strongly condemns the arrest of the President of the Students Union of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Kanhaiya Kumar, in the evening of 12th February, 2016, on the charge of sedition. It is a blatant attack on the right to conscience of an elected student leader and against the right of all students to express their views freely on campus


How Do Revolutionaries Die? 
By Daljit Ami

http://www.countercurrents.org/ami150216.htm

To our immense grief, after Rohith Vemula, Navkaran has also committed suicide. This suicide is yet another in the long list of suicides but it also illustrates complex questions related to the spate of suicides in recent times. Navkaran was a full timea ctivist of a communist group Revolutionary Communist League of India (RCLI). He was 22 years old. His last post on Facebook was pictures of the demonstration by students of Panjab University, Chandigarh in solidarity with Rohith Vemula. It is ironical that when the people were discussing Rohith Vemula's last letter, Navkaran was composing his suicide note


Counterposing Saheed Bhagat Singh Against Valentine Day -
Is It Not An Insult To Founders Of Our Indian Nation?
By Dhirendra Panda

http://www.countercurrents.org/panda150216.htm

The motives and actions of Sangh Parivar in opposing Valentine Day is understood. But, it is difficult to understand why they want to insult to the memory of Saheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh. It is a well-established fact that he was martyred on 23rd March 1931, hundreds documents/references are available with the Government of India and with the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, they are propagating that Bhagat Singh was hanged on 14th February. Why are they creating confusion and controversy on the Saheed Dibas ?


End NATO Now 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse150216.htm

The continuation of NATO, after its counterpart the Warsaw Pact ended in 1991, is an insanity that’s driving the world inexorably toward World War III


Lessons From The Holocaust For Our Times, A Personal Mythology -Part 2 
By Dianne Monroe

http://www.countercurrents.org/monroe150216.htm

I wonder the same thing today, when I look at the potential for global climate catastrophe, knowing that, like everything else, it will be those who have the least who will feel the impact the most. I wonder that same thing when I see rising tides (in our country and Europe) of anti-immigrant hostility, xenophobia, Islamophobia. We won’t all do the same thing in the same way, just as those who resisted the Nazis did not all do the same thing. The important thing for each of us is finding the right thing(s) to do – and doing it. It may just save your life – your spirit and soul life, and possibly your physical life as well


Performance Appraisal - The United States of America 
By David Anderson

http://www.countercurrents.org/anderson150216.htm

The American Thomas Jefferson form of Democracy and the English Parliamentary form of Democracy will not “cut the mustard.” What will be needed is a very large number of enlightened individuals throughout the world having authority to bring about change


Social Democracy 
By Gaither Stewart

http://www.countercurrents.org/stewart150216.htm

In these days I was struck by Walter Benjamin’s words in his Thesis on the Philosophy of History that the “conformism which has been part and parcel of Social Democracy from the beginning attaches not only to its political tactics but to its economic views as well. It is one reason for its later breakdown. Nothing has corrupted the German working class as much as the notion that it was moving with the current.” Benjamin was writing in the spring of 1940 when Nazism had crushed the entire workers’ movement, from modest Social Democrats to Revolutionary Communists and threatened the very homeland of Communism in practice, the Soviet Union. The realities, the disillusionments and the betrayals shaking the very essence and survival of Socialism prompted me to review the history of the Socialist idea since the era of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels


Conditional PDP Vs Unconditional BJP: Kashmir’s Unending Political Impasse
By Dr Adfar Shah

http://www.countercurrents.org/shah150216.htm

Hardly anybody would have expected such a prolonged political impasse after CM Mufti Mohamamd Sayeed’s death on January 07.More than a month has passed since the sayeed’s death and still no signs of government formation in the state currently under governor’s rule. Though talks between the ideologically opposite parties are on, however the impasse still continues, confusing one and all in the sensitive state


Role Of Literature To Stir People's Conscience 
By KR Rao

http://www.countercurrents.org/rao150216.htm

From a culture of passivity and inaction To A Culture of Concern, and Becoming Part of Agents of Change for a Better Tomorrow. Literature should stir people’s conscience and herald a Cultural Revolution


Make In India Campaign: A PR Exercise 
By Qazi Shibli

http://www.countercurrents.org/shibli150216.htm

The Vision of our visionary leader, Mr. Modi happens to be a copied idea from the neighbouring China. The answer to the above posed question is obvious of which companies from all over the world come to India and are given Indian labour on a platter. “Here take them and suck the blood out of them”