CounterCurrents: The Three U.S. Criminal Laws Clinton Broke With Her Email: Why Are ‘News’ Media Hiding Them From The Public?, Tears Don't Dry In Kashmir

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POSCO Must Publicly Announce The Withdrawal, Return The Occupied Land, Restore The Ecosystem  And Withdraw False Cases
By POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti 

http://www.countercurrents.org/ppss130416.htm

Many people think that the recent National Green Tribunal order means that POSCO has withdrawn and it is time for celebration. We would like to clarify here that though the recent hearing in NGT has enlightened us about POSCO’s confusing mindset but we are disturbed to know about its unwillingness to publicly declare its intention about the project and its future. Therefore, we demand the following: 1. POSCO be forced to make formal announcement to completely withdraw from the project from Odisha immediately. 2. The government should hand over the all land occupied for POSCO to the villagers immediately and recognise their land as per the FRA 2006. 3.The government should stop all types of repression to our people and withdraw all false and fabricated criminal charges against our villagers immediately. 4 The government need to replant the trees in our sensitive coastal areas where more than two lakh trees were indiscriminately cut down by the Government for POSCO. 5. Proper
  and
adequate Compensation should be paid by the government to the widows and children and the injured family members attacked by POSCO goons in the year 2008 and 2013


The Three U.S. Criminal Laws Clinton Broke With Her Email: 
Why Are ‘News’ Media Hiding Them From The Public?
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse130416.htm

Whereas Ms. Clinton obviously is a crook (in this matter if not for any other), what can we say about the U.S. national ‘news’ organizations? They are not violating any criminal law by hiding this crucial information from the public. But what they are doing is even more heinous than what she did. With a ‘news’ media such as this, we can only continue to be deceived into electing and even re-electing people such as George W. Bush who during 2002 and 2003 lied this country into the disastrous and unwarranted and illegal invasion of Iraq. And, if that’s not a heinous national ’news’ media, then what is? This is, before so many primary elections for the U.S. Presidency. Not allowing the public to know the truth. It’s as bad now as it was in 2002 and 2003. It’s a dictatorship. That’s what we have, with a press like this


Obscured American: Robert The Chef 
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh130416.htm

It’s not right. I came into the Friendly Lounge at 11:45AM, parked my bony ass there for three hours, and saw nobody. In the 90’s, I heard an exasperated crack whore kvetch, “Don’t nobody want a blow job no more!” It’s gotten much worse. In 2016, it’s, “Can’t nobody afford a beer no more?”


On Baba Saheb's 125th Birth Anniversary Let's Remember
What He Said About The Hindutva Gang
By Shamsul Islam

http://www.countercurrents.org/islam130416.htm

The RSS is terribly busy re-writing history these days. It will be more appropriate to call it guillotining of history, as these are facts and realties of history which are being sacrificed in this process at the altar political ambitions of the Hindutva gang. So far this creativity was restricted to the works and words of Mahatma Gandhi, Bhagat Singh and Sardar Patel but of late Baba Saheb Ambedkar appears to have become the latest victim of malafide manufacturing of history by the flag-bearers of Hindutva. Dr Ambedkar becomes a newest victim of RSS game plan being presented as a leader in league with K.B. Hedgewar and M.S. Golwalkar defending the cause of Hindu Rashtra in India


Of Handwara Killings And Beyond 
By Dr. Fayaz Ahmad Bhat

http://www.countercurrents.org/bhat130416.htm

The police have already come with the video of the girl who was allegedly molested by army personal. The video has been circulated by police on social media sites suggests that police have in advance given clean chit to army personal and they are prepared to put onus on the shoulders of youth. The first question is what police want to show by circulating video of the girl? Does law permits the circulation of the statement an allegedly sexually molested woman? A closer examination of the video shows that the girl was not speaking her own words


Tears Don't Dry In Kashmir 
By Mary Scully

http://www.countercurrents.org/scully130416.htm

The story of what happened yesterday in Handwara, Kashmir (a town about 70 km/37 miles from Srinagar) is undisputed, even if inadequately reported. Two young men were shot dead, & several others, including a 70-year-old woman, lie in hospital with critical injuries after Indian occupying troops opened fire on unarmed protesters who were protesting the molestation of a young girl by an Indian soldier who followed her into a public toilet

Speak Up, Women! Question The ‘Progressives’ 
By Nisha Biswas

http://www.countercurrents.org/biswas130416.htm

The tasks for democratic forces, for the progressive women’s movement are clearly laid out: To fight in all fronts, not only against the State but also against patriarchy in all its manifestations, anywhere and everywhere. It is this conspiracy of silence that is to be shattered in all spheres of life – private, public and political. Therefore women speak up! Anywhere, everywhere, anytime and every time!