CounterCurrents: Review Of “The Occupation Of The American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War In The United States”, Russian Documentary Shows ISIS Documents Of Turkey’s Assistance

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24 Students, 2 Faculty And 1 Media Person Arrested In UoH Denied Basic Legal Rights
By Joint Action Committee for Social Justice 

http://www.countercurrents.org/jac250316.htm

Lawyers and members of human rights organizations approached the University and were denied entry to campus. When they contact the students about the same from the gate, the students were told by the campus security that they would have to go the VC Appa Rao Podile if they wanted lawyers to enter the campus so students could access their legal right to counsel, but they refused to give this in writing. We request all the supporters of the struggle for Justice for Rohith to raise their voice about the cruel and inhumane torture of students, faculty and media people


Delhi Media, Why The Silence On UoH? 
By Preeti Raghunath

http://www.countercurrents.org/pr250316.htm

I am only voicing the concerns of many students at the University of Hyderabad (UoH/HCU). This is a delayed reaction since I did feel that perhaps we would eventually get media coverage that is worthy of the kind of situation that HCU is in. I did feel that this was a momentary lapse on the part of the otherwise Breaking-News-hungry news channels


Russian Documentary Shows ISIS Documents Of Turkey’s Assistance 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse250316.htm

Russian Television is starting a series of documentaries showing captured ISIS documents, and Turkish-border-stamped passports of ISIS fighters. The initial news-report also refers to a ‘fatwa’ that allegedly allows infidels to be killed to supply fresh organs for transplantation into severely injured ISIS fighters


Events In Brussels Observed From A Spaceship 
By Andre Vltchek

http://www.countercurrents.org/vltchek250316.htm

If some intelligent extraterrestrial beings were circling over our planet in their spaceship, monitoring for decades and centuries all that has been and is taking place on its surface, they would, most likely, be horrified by our brutality, and shocked by the countless contradictions, double standards and inconsistencies


The Failure Of Democracy – American And Other 
By David Anderson

http://www.countercurrents.org/anderson250316.htm

This essay challenges the founding principle of the American constitutional form of government; expressed in the sanctity of human liberty and freedom. It makes the case that “liberty and freedom” as it is so defined in the American constitution and its amendments has now in this Anthropocene period become an intractable obstacle working against the survival of our species on this planet. It states the reason. It is a form of government that allows expression and gives power to the worst of the psychotic self


Trumpian Deportation Fantasies And American Realities 
By Tanya Golash-Boza

http://www.countercurrents.org/boza250316.htm

Should Donald Trump or Ted Cruz win the presidency, they are guaranteed to make life hell for millions of undocumented human beings living in and working extremely hard in this country, and their plans would fail dismally -- but that failure would undoubtedly prove to be a horror all its own


The Tragic Plight Of Aafia Siddiqui
By Ali Mohsin

http://www.countercurrents.org/mohsin250316.htm

While the cruel treatment meted out to Pakistanis in the Gulf countries has been highlighted by the media, the petition filed by the JPP also brings to mind what is perhaps the most notorious example of the Pakistani state’s impotence when it comes to defending the rights of its citizens overseas: the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui


Obscured American: Manon The Aspiring School Counselor
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh250316.htm

Next Obscured American profile will be of Manon, Friendly Lounge bartender, punk band singer and aspiring school counselor


The Art Of The Deal? More Of The Same! 
By Mateo Pimentel

http://www.countercurrents.org/pimentel250316.htm

For the unthinking, skim-milk conservatism in the US, the poster child for racially charged populism happens to be Trump this election cycle, who also happens to be the likely Republican presidential candidate. What he shares in common with his party members like Brewer is certainly more than just a line of racist, capitalist succession of governance.But what they all share in his ultra-nationalist rhetoric that panders to groups whose oppression they have propagated for years, and to whose false consciousness Trump now pays lip service


Review Of “The Occupation Of The American Mind:
Israel’s Public Relations War In The United States” 
By Robert Jensen

http://www.countercurrents.org/jensen250316.htm

In the conflict over the land of Palestine, Israel’s overpowering military superiority has produced decisive battlefield victories. But just as crucial to Israeli dominance in that region is its supremacy in the U.S. news media, which is captured in the title of an important new film from the Media Education Foundation, “The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the United States.”


An Open Letter To Prime Ministers Of India And Pakistan By A Kashmiri 
By Farooq Hussain Dar

http://www.countercurrents.org/dar250316.htm

It sounds a bit odd but I dare to write an open letter to the otherwise called custodians' of India and Pakistan. I am referring to none but Mr. Modi Ji and Mr. Nawaz Sharif Ji. I would love to remind you that people of both the countries have given you an opportune time to work for the welfare of people, nevertheless, it seems a distant mirage keeping the present pace of talks in view


Remembering Fr.Bernard Digal Who Washed Women's Feet
20 Years Before The Pope Did 
By Fr. Ajaya Kumar Singh

http://www.countercurrents.org/singh250316.htm

Kandhamal Martyr Fr.Bernard Digal had washed the feet of women in Kandhamal in 1996 as a gesture of equality and service. If Fr.Bernard were to be there today, he would have been well pleased that he was ahead of times. Sadly Fr. Bernard was killed in the Kandhamal pogrom unleashed by Hindutva fascists in 2008


Statement In Solidarity With The Ongoing Movement At University Of Hyderabad
By Concerned Citizens

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc250316.htm

We, the undersigned, unequivocally condemn police action in and around University of Hyderabad, from the 22 of March onwards. We criticize extreme police brutality, lathi charge, threats of rape and verbal abuse done to the students and faculty members of UoH