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Binu Mathew
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When Nationalism And Free Speech Bow Before  A Godman
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc090316.htm

In the past few months the country saw raging debate on nationalism, free speech and tax payers’ money being misused on educational institutions like JNU and seditions charges filed on students and even Rohith Vemula's suicide. The justification for all these was given as that the free speech we enjoy in India was provided by the brave soldiers guarding the national borders. Now our brave soldiers are forced into the mundane task of building bridges for the “Shri Shri” event, the question naturally comes to our mind is that are we degrading our soldiers by depriving them from their primary duty of guarding the borders so that we all can have free speech? Are we paying our tax money, which of course is being used to pay the salary of our brave soldiers, to build bridges for a private ceremony organized by a self styled god man? The Nation demands an Answer


Syria’s Truce Bodes Well For Salvaging Our Cultural Heritage 
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb090316.htm

If the truce holds and the war ends, there are many reasons to believe it will have helped save our cultural heritage in Syria. And that its protection, preservation and restoration will begin in earnest


China: Crisis Set To Deepen
By Socialistworld.net

http://www.countercurrents.org/sw090316.htm

The coal industry has shed 890,000 jobs in the past two years, according to Ernan Cui, a Beijing-based analyst at researcher Gavekal Dragonomics. This is almost 15 percent of the total workforce in coal mining. In the same period, 550,000 workers were laid off in the steel industry. In January, the State Council took a decision to close a further 4,600 coal mines


This Is How Corruption Works: A Hillary Clinton Example 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse090316.htm

Hillary Clinton approved the construction in South Africa of the world's two largest coal-fired power-plants, and helped them get Export-Import Bank financing (U.S. taxpayer backing); then, some of her friends received construction contracts to build them. This was revealed by Itai Vardi in a terrific investigative news report at the desmog blog, on March 7th. Here's an abbreviated version of it, courtesy of that extraordinary fine news-site


Australian And Western Mainstream Media Ignore Massive 
And Deadly Western Child Abuse In War And Peace 
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090316.htm

Australians are quite rightly upset because the Catholic Church hierarchy failed to act to expose and stop long-term, egregious child sexual abuse of about 40,000 Australian children by Catholic Church personnel. However look-the-other-way Australia resolutely ignores 4.4 million Australians adults who have been sexually abused as children, and the deaths this century of 11.9 million under-5 year old infants and 15.8 million avoidable deaths (half of children) in Muslim countries being war criminally violated by pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid Israel, US lackey Australia


Alexandria: How Christianity Destroyed The Pagan Culture Of The Hellenistic World
By Gaither Stewart

http://www.countercurrents.org/stewart090316.htm

I have long dreamed of the ancient city of Alexandria on the southern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, only 1200 miles east-south-east of my home in Rome, and only 400 miles west of the city of Damascus. The two cities, once the conscience of humanity and conservatory of its finest accomplishments, have both been maimed or destroyed by zealous religious fundamentalists and western meddling in this distant world the West does not even try to understand. The two cities epitomize both the zenith of the sublimity of human genius and the nadir of human fanaticism. I personally would hope to see both before the last vestiges, the last disconnected fragments of what they once represented, cease to be forever


Why Does The West Hate North Korea? 
By Andre Vltchek

http://www.countercurrents.org/vltchek090316.htm

New sanctions, and once again, new US-ROK military exercises right next door; new intimidations and new insults. For no other reason than because the country that never attacked anyone, is still determined to defend itself against appalling military, economic and propaganda provocations


Arab World And The Refugees: Could The Arab Leaders See The Mirror? 
By Mahboob A Khawaja

http://www.countercurrents.org/khawaja090316.htm

After the Palestinian refugees, why are there millions of more Arab refugees displaced and drowning in the Aegean sea? Who will deal with the pressing problems of life and deaths facing the Arab masses? Who will deal with restoration of peace, normalcy and conflict management? Do these leaders have any moral and intellectual capacity to extend security and sense of protection to the helpless people? Rationality is replaced by insanity. The coward and sadistic Arab rulers preoccupied with their greed and need are crossing the limits of the Laws of the Nature in killing the innocent masses just because they demands rights, human dignity and a voice to reason the unreason. Time and history are not on the side of the authoritarian dictators doomed to be crushed by the power of reason and political imagination of the new generation of Arab people


Obscured American: Tony The Cook 
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh090316.htm

Tony is my neighbor, and just about each afternoon, you’ll find him at the far end of the bar in Friendly. By evening, he might drag his scrawny ass to The Dive, a block and a half away. Fifty-five-years-old, Tony is a cook in an Italian restaurant. There are always five guys in the kitchen, but no matter the shift, Tony is the only white dude. Everybody else is Mexican


BDS India Convention Calls For Total Boycott Of Israel
Press Release

http://www.countercurrents.org/pr090316.htm

An appeal for the total boycott of Israel was made at the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions(BDS) India Convention held on 6 March 2016 at New Delhi’s Gandhi Peace Foundation as a mark of protest against the apartheid policies and the genocidal campaign of Israel against Palestine


The Myth And Reality Of Smart Cities And Governance 
By Vidyadhar Date

http://www.countercurrents.org/date090316.htm

Mr Modi wants to spend nearly one lakh crore rupees for the proposed high speed railway link between Mumbai and Ahmedabad. But look at the hypocrisy and inefficiency. Look at the state of the Bandra terminus in Mumbai from where currently trains leave for Ahmedabad. There is not even a proper access to the Terminus . In fact, its access has become more difficult