CounterCurrents: North Korea Punished For Helping To Liberate Africa, The Ecomodernist Manifesto Is A Program For Genocide And Ecocide

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Beef Ban Hysteria Raises Its Ugly Head Again: Two Men Lynched To Death In Jharkhand
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc180316A.htm

The 'beef ban hysteria' whipped up by hindutva fundamentalists has claimed two more lives. Accroding to Times of India, two Muslim men herding eight buffaloes on their way to a local Friday market were bashed up and hanged to death from a tree by unknown assailants at Balumath forests in Latehar district, of Jharkhand state of India, in the wee hours on Friday. The buffaloes were freed by the men and locals claimed the assailants were Hindu radicals. "The sight suggested that the two of them were subjected to extreme levels of brutality. It means that the assailants were moved by extreme hatred," a police officer said.


Dr Saibal Jana Arrested In Chhattisgarh
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc180316.htm

Dr Saibal Jana, chief physician of Shaheed Hospital at Dalli Rajhara, Chhattisgarh has been arrested. He was picked up late at night by Chhattisgarh police. The hospital was founded Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha led by Late Shankar Guha Niyogi and run by money collected from the workers of the area. Dr. Jena's arrest comes close on the heels of the acid attack on Soni Sori and harrassment of her relatives


Should International Law Supersede Superstition In The 21st Century? 
By William A. Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook180316.htm

Does Yahweh’s Liberation of the Jews from Egypt Justify Israel’s Oppression and Occupation of Palestine?


The Ecomodernist Manifesto Is A Program For Genocide And Ecocide 
By Derrick Jensen

http://www.countercurrents.org/jensen180316.htm

Far from attempting to ‘decouple’ our well-being from that of the planet – which this culture has been trying to do for a few thousand years now, to the detriment of everyone this culture encounters – we need to recognize and remember that our own well-being has always been intimately dependent on the health of the planet. And those of us who care about life on the planet must stop those who are currently remaking – read, killing – this planet that is our only home


GMO And The Right To Know: But What's Hidden Beneath The Label? 
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter180316.htm

Mandatory labelling would be a good idea. People should know what they are eating, But GMO has a serious credibility problem. No amount of labelling can hide that


Obscured American: Vern The Vietnam Vet 
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh180316.htm

I just don’t feel that America needs to be the policeman of the world. You saw what happened with the Iraq War. It was bad information. We’re here in the middle of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. All that crap that comes out of the East and Far East… pick up your shit and do something for yourself!


'Bharat Mata' of RSS Is Not Our Democratic-Secular India
By Shamsul Islam

http://www.countercurrents.org/si180316.htm

It is as true as the sun light that ‘Bharat Mata’ of RSS is not which came into being on August 15, 1947. ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ in fact, is the slogan with which RSS oath (pratigya) ends. It is mandatory for all members of RSS to take this oath once a year. It is to be noted that in the functioning of RSS this oath apart from prayer (prarthana) are the two texts which express total commitment to the building and nurturing a Hindu Rashtra (nation)


Nation And Nationalism As Metaphors 
By V.Krishna Ananth

http://www.countercurrents.org/ananth180316.htm

Those who have gone berserk, only because they all have been assured that they will not be `dealt’ with under the law to beat up media-persons and students and using expletives against the teachers in JNU and elsewhere, are guilty of treating our nation as weak and incapable of taking dissent. Chanting Vande Mataram was indeed an act of dissent and brave men and women did that knowing they would be sent to jail for that. But then, it does not make one a nationalist to shout that in times we live in. And the nation and nationalism today will have to be seen in another context and not be reduced to a police-state sponsored act! The point is that the nation and our nationalism is not as fragile as it is made out that a few slogan shouters can bring it down. If it was so, we would have crumbled long ago. It did not happen and will not happen only if we as a nation agree to disagree; in other words learn to put up with dissent


North Korea Punished For Helping To Liberate Africa 
Text and Photos By Andre Vltchek

http://www.countercurrents.org/vltchek180316.htm

Like Cuba, North Korea dared to step onthe toes of Western colonialism and imperialism. Sacrificing its sons and daughters, it helped to liberate many African countries, and it provided assistance to the most progressive forces on the most plundered and devastated continent. This is one thing that the West never forgives


The “Grand Inquisition” Of The UN’s “Commission Of Inquiry” On Human Rights In Eritrea
By Daniel Wedi Korbaria

http://www.countercurrents.org/korbaria180316.htm

It was a clumsy attempt by the UN’s “Commission of Inquiry” (COI) on Eritrea’s human rights situation, to make the world believe that its fantasy on Eritrea was reality, and that this “reality” is no longer a comedy but a tragedy. Suddenly, the "hearsay" has become indisputable facts, the witnesses of dubious origin have become the only "voices of truth," and its 550 witnesses have weighed more than the six million of the remaining Eritrean population


Bulldozing Public Hearing On Bhadradri Thermal Power Plant
Press Release

http://www.countercurrents.org/pr180316.htm

The Human Rights Forum (HRF) takes strong exception to the manner in which the environmental public hearing was held on 17th March for the proposed 1080 MW Bhadradri Thermal Power Plant near Manuguru in Khammam district. The Telangana government has sought to, and managed to, bulldoze the public hearing by whatever means


What Does It Take To Beat Drug-Resistant TB? 
By Shobha Shukla

http://www.countercurrents.org/shukla180316.htm

I met Lucy in Khayelishta (near Cape Town) on the bright sunny morning of 4th December 2015 - just two days after she had celebrated the 10th birthday of her lovely daughter. A cured multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB survivor, her face glowed with the happiness and pride of winning her battle against two dreadful diseases