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JNU Students Go On Hunger Strike
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc280416.htm

Led by JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, a group of students from Jawaharlal Nehru Univeristy, (JNU) Delhi started an indefinite hunger strike demanding a rollback of the university authorities' punishment for them. Students participating in the indefinite hunger-strike are Kanhaiya Kumar, Rama Naga- General Secretary JNUSU, Shweta Raj, Chintu Kumari, Anant Prakash Narayan, Sraborni Ahmed , Aqsa Asger, Nitisha Kholkar, K. Feyaz Ahmed , Pratim Ghoshal, Anand, Pankhuri Zaheer, Samanth Singh, Sunaina , G. Suresh, Birendra, Awadesh, Sanjeev and Parthipan


The Kanhaiya Phenomenon 
By Vijaya Kumar Marla

http://www.countercurrents.org/marla280416.htm

If you observe Kanhaiya’s speeches and interviews, we can discern a definite direction in which he intends to go. First of all, he says that the lack of unity between the Left and Dalit sections has been the main reason for the rise of Hindutva Right. He was focusing his attack throughout on Hindutva, false nationalism and attack on educational institutions


More Steps Toward WW III 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse280416.htm

Also related to the step-up to war, Russia has reported on April 25th, that it's responding to America’s recently announced quadrupling of its troops and armaments in the Baltic republics on and near Russia’s northwestern Black Sea borders, by Russia's sending “more than ten” warships of its own to coastal waters there, for “training exercises,” just as the U.S. troops and weapons are likewise there for “training exercises”, as both sides prepare for an increasingly likely war between NATO and Russia


Arriving In Erbil And Wondering: What Lies Ahead 
By Cathy Breen

http://www.countercurrents.org/breen280416.htm

“Much attention is on Syria and the European refugee crisis. That there are 3.4 million IDPs (internally displaced) in Iraq is unknown. The Kurdish have been very generous, but now they are barely keeping their heads above water. The surge capacity has been reached. If another 100,000 come, it will be unthinkable. Kurdistan has taken more refugees than the E.U., and yet they have to get on their knees to beg for assistance.”


Stories By The Fire 
By Cathy Breen

http://www.countercurrents.org/breen280416A.htm

It’s hard to put my feelings into words. "People far from the fire don't feel the heat." Here in Kurdistan I find myself feeling the heat of the fire as I watch so many good people who are being burnt


Did The Arabs Betray Palestine? - A Schism Between 
The Ruling Classes And The Wider Society
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud280416.htm

Hajah Zainab wept for two reasons: taking pity on me as I was fighting a deportation order in Cairo – for no other reason than the fact that I was a Palestinian at a time that Arafat endorsed Saddam Hussein while Hosni Mubarak chose to ally with the US. I grew desperate and dreaded the possibility of facing the Israeli intelligence, Shin Bet, who were likely to summon me to their offices once I crossed the border back to Gaza. The other reason is that Hajah Zainab’s only son, Ahmad, had died fighting the Israelis in Sinai


Can Responsibility To Protect (R2P) Preserve Our Cultural Heritage In Syria? 
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb280416.htm

This month’s Trafalgar Square exhibition in London of a digitally modeled replica of Syria’s 2000 year old Roman Triumphal Arch at Palmyra (Tadmor), which was destroyed by ISIS in October, 2015, is sparking yet further discussion about the rights and wrongs of restoration at ancient sites


Counter Thinking The Medical Industry 
By Prof. BM Hegde

http://www.countercurrents.org/hegde280416.htm

Science should learn from nature; neither from the laboratory alone nor try to teach nature a lesson or two. Nature tells us that health is man’s birth right and any deviation from the normal (which is the rule rather than exception, called healthy chaos in science) is being managed by the human immune system. The range of change in blood pressure, sugar, cholesterol or any other of the millions of chemical molecules that humans have ( a single human cell cytoplasm has 10,000 protein molecules: there are one hundred thousand billion cells in all) all been managed properly by the immune mechanism. We have recent increase in diseases now, thanks to our messing up with our life styles and environment


The Kerala Binary: Us And Them 
By Anamika Aami

http://www.countercurrents.org/ami280416.htm

The journey was an introspection of the self. I thought of the way I was afraid on seeing them, how easily I judged them. But then when I started talking, how the fear vanished, how the compassion came, how easily was I able to relate to them, their worries and how their tragedies became my personal tragedies. It was no more ‘them’ speaking’; but ‘us’. And it was beautiful


Sociology Of Kashmiri Nicknames
By Mohammad Ashraf

http://www.countercurrents.org/ashraf280416.htm

Kashmiris have a nickname for everyone and everything