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Kakrapar Nuclear Accident Enters Third Week, Lethal Gamble Continues 
By Dr. Surendra Gadekar

http://www.countercurrents.org/gadekar260316.htm

Even days after the incident, the accident is not fully under control. Heavy water and ordinary water is still coming out from some unknown tubes. The reactor is in a cold shutdown state, but the reactor building is still cordoned off. Only workers with “Green” clearance are allowed to go in. The entry of casual workers (more than 80% of the whole workforce) is still not allowed. Although construction work at units 3 and 4 is still continuing. Contractors are being asked to get workers with Green clearance to come and work in Kakrapar


Initial Report Gathered At Cherlapally Jail From Arrested HoU Students
By Prasheel Anand Banpur

http://www.countercurrents.org/banpur260316.htm

The arrested students were beaten continuously by the police while being transported from one police station to another, their phones were snatched, not given any information regarding their arrest or where they were being taken. The FIR and cases filed without intimation and knowledge of the arrested students; All the time during the arrest the arrested students were abused constantly, humiliated, and were called insulting names and labelled as naxalites and vandals. When asked why they are being treated as if they were hardcore criminals, the police replied that they were anti-nationals and that they had no Human Rights. They reiterated that all their Human Rights had collapsed and no negotiation was possible. The two professors were slapped repeatedly, their shirts torn and were humiliated in the worst of ways regarding their profession and duties


A Fig Leaf Called ‘Vandalism By UoH Students’ 
Statement By SC and ST Faculty Forum and Concerned Teachers of University of Hyderabad

http://www.countercurrents.org/thcu260316.htm

For the past three days the news media has been circulating widely, stories about ‘vandalism’ by students of the University of Hyderabad that led to the police crackdown. Surprisingly little information is actually there on the actual context, timing, duration and nature of the vandalism. It appears that the claim that a group of students indulged in acts of vandalism is enough to justify a full scale war on the entire campus community of over 4000 students. Yet this charge of vandalism is no more than a fig leaf


Why UoH Escaped The Delhi Media? 
By Mithilesh Kumar

http://www.countercurrents.org/mkumar260316.htm

Let us now look at what Delhi media actually is. They are corporates every single one of them. They are profit making and profit maximizing units. It is the news which is the commodity. All of these are not novel arguments. Let us see how slowly and stealthily the terms of debate are set by the channels

Rare or Routine? Video Captures 'Cold-Blooded Execution' By Israeli Soldier
By Jon Queally

http://www.countercurrents.org/queally260316.htm

The release of video footage showing the extrajudicial killing of a wounded Palestinian man on Thursday has led to the arrest of the Israeli Defense Force soldier who pulled the trigger, but rights groups say the documented incident only confirms their warnings regarding how the Israeli military routinely behaves in the Occupied Palestinian Territories when cameras are not rolling


The Occupation Of The American Mind
By Dr. Ludwig Watzal

http://www.countercurrents.org/watzal260316.htm

An excellent film has just been released from the public relations war in the United States and the manipulation of the American mind by the Israeli Hasbara Ministry (Propaganda Ministry) with the massive help of the media. But anyone who waits for a media conspiracy will be thoroughly disappointed. The film explains why the conflict could drag on for almost seven decades, not to speak of the Zionist incursion into Palestine since the end of the 19th Century. The film makes also crystal-clear that without the massive help and support of the different U. S. governments Israel couldn't have sustained its brutal subjugation of the Palestinian people


The Difference Between Baghdad And Brussels 
By Tom Engelhardt

http://www.countercurrents.org/engelhardt260316.htm

I was struck by this story overnight. A suicide bomber hits a soccer stadium near Baghdad with a death toll similar to that in Brussels recently (29 in Baghdad to 31 in the Belgium capital). The difference, however, is striking. You're not hearing about this strike 24 hours a day. Extra police aren't pouring into American facilities. Hysteria is not the mode of the media. Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are not talking about banning Muslims here or patrolling American Muslim neighborhoods. The world is clearly not particularly endangered by this set of deaths. They portend nothing


Scandal Mounts Over Failure By Belgian Police To Halt Brussels Attacks 
By Alex Lantier

http://www.countercurrents.org/lantier260316.htm

Friday saw a series of stunning new revelations of inexplicable lapses of Belgian and allied security forces that helped terrorists evade detection prior to the March 22 Brussels attacks. After the constitution of an all-party parliamentary commission of inquiry Thursday night, a government crisis is emerging in Belgium, which hosts the headquarters of both the European Union and the NATO military alliance. The new revelations involved both the individuals who carried out the Brussels bombings, which cost 31 lives and wounded 270, and Salah Abdeslam, who participated in the November 13 attacks in Paris and was captured by police only on March 18, four months after fleeing to Brussels


Trench Warfare In The Climate Wars: No Victory In Sight 
By Ugo Bardi

http://www.countercurrents.org/bardi260316.htm

trench warfare in the first world war didn't last forever. At some point, one of the two sides couldn't take it anymore and had to concede. Could something like that occur for the climate war? Possibly, yes. Indeed, many of us have been hoping for an event so major and so evident that the danger of global warming could not be denied anymore; the equivalent of a "decisive battle" in war. But even facing extreme events, reality can always be denied when ideological polarization takes hold. For the time being, we remain locked in trench warfare


Vast Majority Of Yemen Population Without Reliable Food, Water And Sanitation 
By Thomas Gaist

http://www.countercurrents.org/gaist260316.htm

More than 80 percent of the Yemeni population is confronting a desperate humanitarian catastrophe as the US-backed Saudi war against Yemen, launched in March 2015 as “Operation Decisive Storm,” enters its second year. Half of Yemen’s 22 provincial divisions face famine conditions. Some 20 million Yemenis are without reliable access to the most basic goods and services, including food, water and sanitation. More than 2.5 million have been displaced, 6,400 killed, and 30,000 wounded during the Saudi-led campaign, according to the latest UN statistics


America’s Election And Its Inability To Alter The Nation’s Deadly Course 
By John Chuckman

http://www.countercurrents.org/chuckman260316.htm

America is engaged in another of its sprawling and costly national election campaigns. A few of the events, such as the New Hampshire primary or the Iowa Caucus, I’m sure have participants seeing themselves as Thomas Jefferson’s sturdy yeomen doing their civic duty. But such humble and misty-eyed tableaux can be deceiving for the big picture is quite disturbing, including, as it does, billions of dollars spent and a lot of noise generated about things which will not change in any outcome


JatiIndia: A Flag Of Atrocities Caste, Present And Future 
By Priti Gulati Cox

http://www.countercurrents.org/cox260316.htm

The title for this series of painted flags, Jatiindia,is my name for the country of India, a nation of jatis(castes). India still practices this worst form of social exclusion in the world, now more violently than ever in this neoliberal age. In this new series of Jatiindia features Vinay Sirohi, Shaista Hameed & Danish Farooq and Lingaram Kodopi


The Death Of History 
By Suraj Kumar Thube

http://www.countercurrents.org/thube260316.htm

Looking at the present controversy regarding the removing of Mughals from textbooks, something that is wildly trending on social media, one cannot help but feel that the historicising of this diversity is under immense threat. Juxtapose this with the mindless hounding of eminent historian Sheldon Pollock for supposedly denigrating the Hindu civilisation in his monumental project under the Murty classical library of India, it is increasingly clear that an alternative interpretation of the ancient past is wantonly censured without giving a fair hearing to the same


Bangladesh People’s Liberation: Rising Up With Arms In 1971 
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury260316.htm

The Bangladesh people’s rebellion included deny the state’s authority and rise up with arms in 1971; and it cemented base of the people’s march to liberation, an eternal yearning of all the exploited and deprived, of all the victims of inequality and injustice, of all bombarded with lies, deceptions and hypocrisy in all ages, epochs and periods. In the people’s march to liberation, the rising and rebellion in 1971 embolden the rationale to the right to fight against all forms of bondage, deprivation, dishonor, exploitation, hypocrisy, ignorance, indignity, inequality, injustice, lies, oppression, suppression and tyranny


Early And Accurate Diagnosis Of TB And Lung Cancer Vital: 
No Excuse For Misdiagnosis!
By Bobby Ramakant

http://www.countercurrents.org/ramakant260316.htm

Early and accurate diagnosis is a public health imperative for both diseases of epidemic proportions in Asia Pacific: tuberculosis (TB) and lung cancer. But since TB of the lungs (pulmonary TB) imitates lung cancer in many aspects including risk factors, symptoms, signs and radiographic findings, often misdiagnosis has a serious public health consequence!