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BJP Fails To Flex Its Muscle In Assembly Elections, Assam A Consolation Prize
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc190516.htm

India's ruling Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failed to flex its muscle in all but one state when results were announced in the recently concluded State Assembly polls. In West Bengal ruling Trinamul Congress led by Mamata Banerjee secured majority with 209 seats, in Tamil Nadu the ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam(AIADMK) led by Jayalalitha retained power with 134 seats, in Kerala Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Left Front (LDF) won 91 seats out 140 seats to ensure a majority, in the union territory of Puducherry Congress won a simple majority. It must be noted that in all these states BJP is not traditionally a strong force. Event though, they won a seat for the first time in Kerala, 4 seats in West Bengal, BJP failed to win even a single seat in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. BJP's only consolation came from Assam where they Scripted history, by bagging a government in the North East of India for the first time dethroning Congress


An Uncertain Future For Humanity 
By David Anderson

http://www.countercurrents.org/anderson190516.htm

The Problem with the European Enlightenment and its Industrial Revolution


America’s And NATO's Outrageous Behavior, Greatest Threat That Exists 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse190516.htm

On May 18th, two top people at NATO, one being its current Secretary General — the very top person — laid out in preliminary form the case for war against Russia, which presumably will be presented in more detail at the NATO Summit to be held in Poland on 8-9 July this year


U.S. Financial Regulations Increase Starvation Among Syria’s Children 
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb190516.htm

As of May 15, 2016, according to Save the Children and an assortment of UN agencies and NGO’s, nearly 7 million people are displaced within Syria, half of them are children and more than two million of the youngsters are at risk of becoming ill, malnourished, abused, or exploited. In rural areas of Damascus one in 20 children is severely malnourished with 14 per cent classed as acutely malnourished. The charity’s chief executive Justin Forsyth recently told the UK Independent recently that “There is no room for delay or argument: Syria’s children must not be allowed to go hungry!”


Unpunished Ongoing Mass Murder By Australian And US Alliance State Terrorists Versus Life Imprisonment For Planning To Be A Jihadi
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190516.htm

Five allegedly jihadi Australians have been charged with making preparations for incursions into foreign countries to engage in hostile activities, an offence carrying punishment of life imprisonment. In contrast, successive Coalition and Labor Australian Governments have yet to face the International Criminal Court for actual involvement in the horrendous and ongoing US War on Muslims that has been associated with 32 million Muslim deaths from deprivation, 27 million, or from violence, 5 million, since the US Government's false flag 9-11 atrocity that killed 3,000


A Response To The Comment Of Dhaka University Students 
On My Article On The Hanging Of Motiur Rahman Nizami
By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar

http://www.countercurrents.org/muzaffar190516.htm

I am glad that some students at Dhaka University are prepared to engage in a discourse on the recent execution of certain political leaders in Bangladesh


Chhattisgarh: Danger Of Salwa Judum Style Displacement 
And Division Of Villages Arising Again
Press Release

http://www.countercurrents.org/pr190516.htm

A delegation comprising of Sanjay Parate, Secretary State CPI-M, Vineet Tiwari, Joshi-Adhikari Institute, New Delhi, Archana Prasad, Jawaharlal Nehru University and CC member AIDWA, and Nandini Sundar, Delhi University visited Bastar Division from 12 to 16 May 2016. We visited the following districts: Bijapur, Sukma, Bastar and Kanker. The focus of the visit was on the situation of ordinary villagers who are living through the conflict between the state and Maoists. The levels of Maoist presence and scale of state repression varies somewhat across the districts. The worst affected at the moment appear to be Sukma district and the Darbha/Tongpal block of Bastar district, but fake encounters and arrests are a problem everywhere


Why I’m On Look Out Notice? 
By Gladson Dungdung

http://www.countercurrents.org/dungdung190516.htm

Adivasi activist and author Gladson Dungdung on his experience of being prevented from boarding a plane to London to participate in a conference on environmental politics of South Asia at the University of Sussex


Revolutionary Bhagat Singh And Freedom Movement 
By Ram Puniyani

http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani190516.htm

History is always subject of debates for various reasons. The one which cropped up recently around Bhagat Singh had a new dimension to ‘looking at the past’. This relates to changed perception of a word in the context of current global terrorism. In one of the talk shows, which is the noisiest of them all, the anchor attacked legendary historian Bipan Chandra and the book ‘India’s struggle for Independence’ for calling Bhagat Singh and his comrades as terrorists. The anchor of the show accused the writers of this book, as intentionally maligning patriots, calling them court historians of Congress. Taking off from this BJP MP Anurag Thakur said that martyrs are being denigrated in the book and MHRD Minister Smriti Irani came with the verdict that this is the academic murder of sacrifice of great freedom fighters


Kashmir: Ideologies And Convictions, Not Personalities! 
By Mohammad Ashraf

http://www.countercurrents.org/ashraf190516.htm

It is time to end the personality cult which has plagued Kashmir’s popular movement from its very start!