CounterCurrents: Arianna Huffington As Agent For The Democratic Party, All Angles Covered: Is The EU Completely In The Pocket Of The Biotech Industry?

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Binu Mathew
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www.countercurrents.org

Violence As A Spectacle:The Dalit Question 
By Parvin Sultana

http://www.countercurrents.org/sultana090516.htm

While these incidents point to extremely tragic realities—Dalits not having access to basic amenities like sanitation, drinking water, being forced to live outside the villages, not allowed to own land, the rapes of Dalit women must be acknowledged as caste violence and not only sexual violence because their bruised and mutilated bodies are used as exemplars to carry the threat of not subverting caste hierarchy and embedded power relationship. Not acknowledging it will deny both justice and dignity to the victims. Justice for the dalit law student of Kerala must begin with acknowledging the intersectionality of caste and gender as one kind of oppression cannot be opposed without acknowledging the other


Castes In India: Their Mechanism, Genesis And Development 
By Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

http://www.countercurrents.org/ambedkar090516.htm

Paper presented by Dr, B. R. Ambedkar in the Anthropology Seminar of Dr. A. A. Goldenweizer at The Columbia University, New York, U.S.A. on 9th May 1916. On the 100th anniversary of the presentation of Dr. Ambedkar's seminal paper "Castes In India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development" we are republishing it as a tribute to him


Bhoomi Adhikar Andolan In Madhya Pradesh Demands 
Distributive Justice In Land Rights
By National Confederation of Dalit Adivasi Organisations

http://www.countercurrents.org/baa090516.htm

Thousand of Dalits Adivasi of Bhoomi Adhikar Andolan, a movement of landless Dalits Adivasis promoted by National Confederation of Dalit Adivasi Organisations (NACDAOR) met the district administration of Umriya district in Madhya Pradesh on 3rd March and demanded five acres of land for every rural landless Dalit and Adivasi family. Thousands of Dalit and Adivasi leaders from interior pockets of Umriya district participated in this march to assert their rights over land. On this day, the leaders of Bhoomi Adhikar Andolan pledged to continue their struggle to fulfil their vision that every Dalit and Adivasi household will have cultivable land


The Unpeople Rohingya: Expose The Duplicity Of Aung San Suu Kyi 
By Mary Scully

http://www.countercurrents.org/scully090516.htm

Solidarity with Rohingya Muslims against genocide & for justice means educating about their struggle against genocide and part of that education requires exposing the murderous duplicity and collusion of Suu Kyi


All Angles Covered: Is The EU Completely In The Pocket Of The Biotech Industry?
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter090516.htm

On 9 May, Corporate Europe Observatory posted an article on its website that described how Genius, a lobby consultancy firm based in Germany, has been employed to distort the debate on glyphosate in favour the biotech industry. Genius ‘translates’ the science on its toxicity for its clients from the pesticide industry by writing on the Glyphosate Task Force website that it does not cause cancer, and saying that the IARC “should withdraw the decision” to classify glyphosate as a Group 2A carcinogen


Twenty-Four Hour Banality: The Australian Election Campaign Begins 
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark

http://www.countercurrents.org/kampmark090516.htm

“Big fan of LBJ, me mum,” said Chris Uhlmann, journalist for the ABC’s Twenty-Four hour television news network. And that, perhaps, was the only thing of any interest in what must be regarded as one of the most boring exhibitions of television in decades. The topic? Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s journey to seek the Governor General’s permission to dissolve both houses of parliament. An election looms


Arianna Huffington As Agent For The Democratic Party 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse090516.htm

Something’s profoundly wrong with the American press — of all sorts. All of it is owned by, and funded by advertisements in and donations from, the U.S. billionaires and centi-millionaires, the people who make the real decisions that control this country. Arianna Huffington is cited here as merely one, and a very typical, example of this pervasive rot in the U.S. ‘news’ media. It applies throughout both the Democratic and the Republican Parties. Nothing personal is intended here: this rot is pervasive — it is systemic, not merely personal


Postcard From The End Of America: Brooklyn 
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh090516.htm

I first heard of Brooklyn through Welcome Back, Kotter. It was 1975 and I was learning American culture mostly through a black and white television. I became very fond of Shirley Temple, Jimmy Snuka, Donny and Marie Osmond, Bugs Bunny and The Beaver. Since this was Tacoma, Washington, I also started to worship Slick Watts


Iranian Regime Introduces European Languages In School 
But Denies Minorities Right To Learn In Their Own Language
By Rahim Hamid

http://www.countercurrents.org/hamid090516.htm

While tens of millions of Iranian citizens from various ethnic minorities are denied the right to education in their mother language, the regime has now announced the introduction of a new compulsory language syllabus in five European languages. The regime’s newfound enthusiasm for education in languages other than Farsi doesn’t extend, however, to the native languages of many of its citizens, with Arabs in Ahwaz, Kurds in East Kurdistan, and Turks in South Azerbaijan denied the right to education in their mother tongues and brutally persecuted for using their own languages