CounterCurrents: Anti-Mining Activist Deba Ranjan Sarangi Speaks Out, Justin Trudeau Is A Climate Denying Monster

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Anti-Mining Activist Deba Ranjan Sarangi Speaks Out
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc290416.htm

Deba Ranjan Sarangi has been a consistent and passionate voice against injustice both within and outside Odisha. As a writer, film maker and human rights activist, he has highlighted and critiqued policies of destructive development, unbridled mining practices, displacement, police impunity, atrocities on Dalits, Adivasi issues , growth of communal fascism in Odisha, violence on women and farmers’ suicide in the context of acute agrarian crisis. Sarangi was arrested on March 18, 2016, by plainclothes policemen from the Kucheipadar village of Rayagada District, Odisha. After he was released on bail Countercurrents.org conducted an Email interview with him where he speaks of the hidden agenda of mining not just in Odisha but all over India. He also puts forward an alternative model of development for India


The Killing Field And The Incoherent Politics Of Bangladesh 
By Taj Hashmi

http://www.countercurrents.org/hashmi290416.htm

The latest killings of scores of freethinking writers by “Islamist” or “unknown” assailants are fast turning Bangladesh into a killing field. The latest killings of an atheist blogger, one university professor, and two LGBT activists in Bangladesh have stirred the world outside Bangladesh. Even the UN has demanded prompt probe into the latest killings in the country. However, what we hear from Bangladesh is bizarre, and unfortunate. While the Home Minister thinks people live in absolute safety, the police chief has asked people to make their own “security circles”. Some politicians have already “identified” the killers, said to be BNP-Jamaat activists! Surprisingly, while the Home Minister asserts there is no ISIS in Bangladesh, the Information Minister has confirmed – with absolute precision – there are 8,000 al Qaeda activists in the country


Apple Sales Decline Points To Faultlines In Global Economy 
By Barry Grey

http://www.countercurrents.org/grey290416.htm

Apple Inc., the world leader in market capitalization, reported on Tuesday its first quarterly sales decline in 13 years. The fall in both revenue and profits was worse than analysts had predicted and was led by the first quarterly decline in sales of the company’s top-selling product, the iPhone, since its introduction in 2007. The sharp reversal of the company’s growth trajectory was a reflection not only of stagnation and slump in the real economy, behind the giddy heights on world stock markets, but a warning that vastly inflated asset values are unsustainable and will inevitably come crashing down


Justin Trudeau Is A Climate Denying Monster 
By Bill Henderson

http://www.countercurrents.org/henderson290416.htm

Canada's Prime Minister Trudeau thinks that you have to build pipelines to mitigate climate change; that you need to raise revenue by producing fossil fuels to pay for a transition to a renewable energy, post-carbon economy


Closing Manus Island’s Detention Centre 
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark

http://www.countercurrents.org/kampmark290416.htm

It was considered by the Australian Human Rights Commissioner Gillian Triggs to be inevitable and logical. The indefinite detention of 850 refugees and asylum seekers in the Manus Island Detention Centre, a large warehouse for humans seeking refuge from persecution, has been deemed illegal by the Papua New Guinea Supreme Court. Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill, has taken the next step in attempting to close down the processing centre


Open Letter To Vice Chancellor Of JNU 
By Sanjeev Kumar

http://www.countercurrents.org/kumar290416.htm

Our beloved ‘Vice Chancellor’, first of all I take this opportunity to congratulate you for your act of punishing some anti-national students for their act on 9th February 2016. But I have some grievances which I would like to bring into your consideration


State of Siege: Report On Encounters And Cases Of Sexual Violence 
In Bijapur And Sukma Districts Of Chhattisgarh
Press Release

http://www.countercurrents.org/pr290416.htm

Release of Fact Finding Report by Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisations (CDRO) and Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS) entitled, “State of Siege: Report on Encounters and Cases of Sexual Violence in Bijapur and Sukma Districts of Chhattisgarh”


Changing Nature And Character Of The Indian State In The Post Liberalization Era; 
State's Responses Towards The People's Movements In Koodankulam And Jaitapur
By Ajmal Khan A.T

http://www.countercurrents.org/khan290416.htm

State is becoming more strong in terms of using repressive measures against the discontents from the people as far as most of the people's movements in India are concerned, Koodankulam and Jaitapure are two different examples where state becomes the security agent for both the public and private corporations and agencies. It strongly repressed the discontents that is coming from the people. The needs are requirements of the private capital and the interests of the private players are met with even killing and charging seditions to the most vulnerable sections within the country


Nepal Should Be Proud Of Kanak Mani Dixit Instead Of Putting Him In Jail
Press Release

http://www.countercurrents.org/pr290416A.htm

112 film makers, academics, journalists and artists from India petition for the immediate release of Kanak Mani Dixit


People From Narmada Valley Observe Three Day Fast
By National Alliance of People’s Movements

http://www.countercurrents.org/napm290416.htm

People from Narmada Valley observed three day fast from 27-29 April in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh with a nationwide support and solidarity from people and other movements through protests, Peaceful demonstration and fast in their region against the corruption in Resettlement and Rehabilitation of Sardar Sarovar Dam oustees, demanding to make Justice Jha Commission report public and accessible to the people as well as to Narmada Bachao Andolan and Narmada Control Authority (NCA), the petitioners in the Madhya Pradesh High Court