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Kanhaiya Kumar Attacked Inside JNU Campus
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc100316.htm

JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar was ttacked on JNU campus allegedly by an outsider today evening. The attacker entered the campus and attacked Kanhaiya Kumar when he was going to attend an evening class. Kanhaiya Kumar is reportedly safe and the attacker has been detained by fellow students


Arnab Goswami And Sudhir Chaudhary Must Claim Responsibility 
For Attack On Kanhaiya Kumar And Reward The Attacker
By Samar

http://www.countercurrents.org/samar100316.htm

Not so dear Sudhir Chaudhary and Arnab Goswami, I am sure that both of you would be very happy today. You have a big reason for the happiness, after all. It is not everyday that self-designated champions of a very violent and bigoted mutant of nationalism find someone responding to their call. You must be happy for your increased reach, it is not only lumpens organized in this or that Senas or Dals who carry out your orders. You must be happy for your message is spreading to loners, as it appears for now, and finding Vijay Chaudhary, a Ghaziabad resident travelling all the way to JNU to teach ‘traitor’ Kanhaiya a lesson


Refugee Bloodlines: America And Europe Can't Be Hypocrites Any Longer 
By William Hawes

http://www.countercurrents.org/hawes100316.htm

In 2015, approximately 1.3 million migrants applied for asylum in the European Union. Estimates show an expected similar or higher amount for this year, in the range of 1.5-2 million. Over 3,000 refugees died trying to cross the Mediterranean in 2015. Conditions are simply brutal for those who do make it to the EU. In Greece and Hungary, refugees wait patiently as surveillance is increased, checkpoints and fences multiply, militarized police battalions patrol, and razor wire is strung up on their way to their destinations


Western Reporter In Syria Finds U.S.-Backed Fighters Are Jihadists 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse100316.htm

Eva Bartlett, an independent journalist who is the first Western reporter who has travelled through the areas of Syria that have been freed from jihadist control by the Syrian government with Russian air-support, is reporting, at the sott.net website, that everyone she speaks with has stories of horror to tell, and that in many instances the jihadists who were inflicting the horrors were U.S.-armed and backed, basically supported by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey — often “al-Nusra,” the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda. As Seymour Hersh and others have reported, the U.S. has worked with the Sauds, Qatar, and Turkey, to get men and weapons to al-Nusra


Politics Not As Usual: Is This The Age Of American Fascism? 
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud100316.htm

Regardless of the outcome of the American presidential primaries, or even the result of the general elections next November, a frightening phenomenon is under way. The US has decidedly moved to the Right, in fact the Ultra-Right; class differences are more pronounced than ever before, thanks to decades of neoliberal policies, the kind of capitalism that has concentrated the wealth in even fewer hands; racism is on the rise and the unmistakable signs of fascism are evident whenever Donald Trump holds a campaign rally


The War Of The Sexes: The Origins Of Gender Inequality 
By Ugo Bardi

http://www.countercurrents.org/bardi100316.htm

The story of Scheherazade of the 1001 Arabian Nights is the quintessence of the "war of the sexes" and of how women tend to lose it. It is said that King Shahryar would have a new lover every night and every morning he would have her killed. He stopped only when Scheherazade started telling him stories. It shows, among other things, that males behave much better when they listen to females


How We “Make In India”: Is It By Bulldozing The Education System? 
By By Rakesh S

http://www.countercurrents.org/rakesh100316.htm

Is the attack on India's higher educational system an attempt to create cheap labour for the corporates to expand its base in India?


Emergence Of A New Left or A New Turn By The Old: Some Propositions
On Recent Movements In India 
By Mithilesh Kumar

http://www.countercurrents.org/mk100316.htm

Is this current phase emergence of New Left or just the old mainstream left taking a new turn. The contingent answer is that it is the latter for the contradiction in the praxis of the former has yet to play out. Also, there is the small matter of radical/revolutionary left who now are grappling with the problem of how to do class politics by eschewing populism. It is the dilemma that has wracked the left and continue to do so. At least, this has not changed


The Death Of Two Airlines 
By B.F. Firos

http://www.countercurrents.org/firos100316.htm

Two decades ago we saw the demise of another carrier: East West Airlines, promoted by the Wahid brothers from Kerala. The meteoric rise and melancholic fall of East West remains etched in India’s aviation history with the avant-garde entrepreneurship of its managing director Thakiyudeen Wahid. If Kingfisher died because of the corporate skullduggery by its owner, East West died after its promoter Thakiyudeen succumbed to a spray of bullets


Escalate The struggle Against The Anti-Worker, Anti-Peasant 
And Anti-National Program Of The Ruling Class!
Statement of the Communist Ghadar Party of India

http://www.countercurrents.org/gpi100316.htm

Workers, peasants, women and youth – We constitute India! We are her master!


Kashmir’s Missing Kings And Queens! 
By M.Ashraf

http://www.countercurrents.org/ashraf100316.htm

Kashmir in ancient times was ruled by Kings and Queens who were born to be so and in the recent times we have had democratically elected Kings but right now we have none!


Mandal Commision At 25: Silver Jubilee Of Bahujan Politics
Press Release By Solidarity Youth Movement

http://www.countercurrents.org/sym100316.htm

Solidarity Youth Movement organized a campaign titled ‘India will outlive the Sangh’. A seminar organised in this regard carried title, Mandal Commission @25: quarter century of Bahujan Politics. It was held on 6th February 2016 at Kozhikode. Thinker and dalit activist Professor Kancha Ilaiya inaugurated the seminar. He called for the joint efforts to ensure the representation of all the communities in education, job and power