CounterCurrents: Israel Copies Turkey's Takeover Of The Press, Belgian Authorities Had “Precise Intelligence Warnings” Of Brussels Bombings, Messes Reopened As A Huge Relief To Students, Emergency Like Situation Still Prevails In University of Hyderabad

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Messes Reopened As A Huge Relief To Students, Emergency Like Situation Still Prevails In University of Hyderabad
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc240316.htm

As a big relief to student community besieged inside the University of Hyderabad (UoH) campus messes were opened in their hostels this morning. It was apparently opened after students decided to approach the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) as their basic right to food and water were denied. Gates of the university are closed and free movement of students is denied. Some 3500 students are trapped inside the campus. An emergency like situation still prevails in the campus with huge police force roaming the campus and internet and all communication to the outside the world cut off. Media persons are denied access to the campus. Students fear that there will be another brutal police action against them soon


Stop Police Brutality On Hyderabad University Students, Now!: AHRC
By Asian Human Rights Commission

http://www.countercurrents.org/ahrc240316.htm

The Asian Human Rights Commission unequivocally condemns the barbarities that have been committed on the students, and urges the government of India to back off from the campus now. Furthermore, Vice Chancellor P. Appa Rao should not be permitted to resume charge until the completion of a fair and impartial investigation.The Commission also asks that the government fix command responsibility for yesterday’s action, and prosecute and punishe those responsible


Belgian Authorities Had “Precise Intelligence Warnings” Of Brussels Bombings
By Stéphane Hugues & Alex Lantier

http://www.countercurrents.org/lantier240316.htm

The day after the mass bombings in Brussels that killed 34 people and wounded another 230, it emerged that Belgian authorities had specific forewarnings of the attack and had already last year identified the men who carried out the assault as Islamist terrorists. These reports raise the most serious questions as to how and why Belgian and allied intelligence agencies allowed the Brussels bombings to occur. Intelligence agencies have at their disposal sophisticated spying techniques capable of tracking virtually all cell phone and Internet activity. Claims that the attack occurred because Belgian and allied intelligence agencies somehow failed to “connect the dots” are simply not believable


Israel Copies Turkey's Takeover Of The Press
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse240316A.htm

On March 11th, Israel shut down and arrested the top people at Palestine Today TV, but, because that station has offices not only in Ramallah in the West Bank but in Lebanon, it continues broadcasting despite the Israeli regime's efforts


If Syria Is To Fall, Others Will Follow: The Pandora’s Box Of Federalism 
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud240316.htm

It is safe to say that after five years of war in Syria, the conflict is entering into a new phase. No, not a political resolution, but a grand political game that could divide the country into several entities, according to sectarian lines. If that takes place, it will bode badly, not only for Syria alone, but the whole region. Division would then become the buzzword according to which all current conflicts would be expected to be settled. While Russia’s motives behind the withdrawal are yet to be clarified, the intrinsic link between it and the current talks, in which dividing Syria into a federations have been placed on the agenda, is unmistakable


NAFTA And Obama’s Proposed ‘Trade’ Deals Are UnConstitutional 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse240316.htm

Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court will have to decide whether the term “treaty” in the U.S. Constitution means “international agreement,” and whether “international agreement” means “treaty.” If they rule that those two are not synonymous, then the U.S. Constitution will be dead — in the sense that it will then be gone


Manufacturing Emotive Issues: Bharat Mata Ki Jai And hurling 'Anti Nationalism' For Dissent 
By Ram Puniyani

http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani240316.htm

It's only by keeping up emotive issues alive that society can be polarized on one hand and the issues related to deeper societal concerns can be kept at bay. Such emotive issues are used to distract the social forces from the core issues of the downtrodden sections of the society. In contemporary times the types of concern raised by Rohith Vemula and Kanhaiya Kumar have drawn the focus to the real issues of dalits, farmers suicide, betrayal of promises by Modi Sarkar to name a few. With Bharat Mata Ki Jai the emotive pitch is on the peak along with attempts to erase Rohith Vemula from public memory


Who Really Is An Antinational? 
By Shobha R

http://www.countercurrents.org/shobha240316.htm

Who exactly is antinational? Lets not jump up and give our own interpretations. Instead, let us look at our constitution for some answers. Our constitution guarantees certain fundamental rights to its citizens. If you fight to ensure that the rights guaranteed to you is upheld, there invariably can be people, especially those in powerful positions, who are not going to like it. Does this make you antinational? Well, its seems so


Stop Surveillance And Harassment Of Kashmiri Students!
By Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR)

http://www.countercurrents.org/pudr240316.htm

Peoples Union for Democratic Rights expresses its outrage at the harassment and arrest of Kashmiri students in Mewar University, Rajasthan, and other educational institutions, amidst an intensifying surveillance of Kashmiris across the country


BJP Fuelling Kashmir Militancy 
By Mohammad Ashraf

http://www.countercurrents.org/ashraf240316.htm

The recent actions of BJP Government have driven Kashmiri youth to a corner which is fuelling the new wave of militancy


Caste, The Hound Still Hungry With Lips Jutting Out 
By V. Maharathi

http://www.countercurrents.org/maharathi240316.htm

In this caste-driven society, women are equally ill-treated and denied the legal rights. The so-called savioursof Hindu religion don’t give a damn about the continuous harassment and murders of Dalits and women which now and then make headlines in the dailies and afterwards sink into oblivion