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Brutal Rape And Murder Of Dalit Law Student Creates Outrage In Kerala
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc030516.htm

A 29 year old dalit law student was raped and brutally killed at her home in Kerala. More than 30 injuries were found on her body. According to the post-mortem report the woman was beaten savagely using a sharp weapon that pulled out her intestines. Two sides of her chest were pierced to almost two inches deep using a sharp knife. She was also struck in the genitals with an iron rod. A severe injury on her head is cited as the main reason of her death. The police inquest report says that the girl's nose was severed due to receiving a blow from a hammer- like object. When the victim's body was found, only her Churidar top was remaining on her body


Washington Brings Regime Change To Venezuela
By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts030516.htm

According to President Obama, the world’s only superpower, the unipower, the exceptional country is threatened by small Venezuela in South America ! In an executive order last year, renewed this year, President Obama declared Venezuela to be an “unusual and extraordrinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States” and declared a “national emergency” to counter the “Venezuelan threat”


Trump, The Unavoidable: Is Political Polarization Destroying Democracy? 
By Ugo Bardi

http://www.countercurrents.org/bardi030516.htm

Trump is not the cause of anything, he is just the unavoidable result of the rising internecine competition within an increasingly poorer society. He may fail in his bid for the presidency, but the social and political factors that created him will remain. And these factors might easily lead to something much worse than Trump if the economic situation deteriorates further, as it probably will. So, where is the institution we call "democracy" going? It is difficult to say, but, in order for democracy to exist, there must exist certain conditions, in particular a reasonably equitable distribution of wealth in society. And this is something that we are rapidly losing. As we slide down the Seneca Cliff, democracy may be rapidly lost as well


Debt: The Key Factor Connecting Energy And The Economy 
By Gail Tverberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/tverberg030516.htm

There are many who believe that the use of energy is critical to the growth of the economy. In fact, I am among these people. The thing that is not as apparent is that growth in energy consumption is dependent on the growth of debt. Both energy and debt have characteristics that are close to “magic,” with respect to the growth of the economy. Economic growth can only take place when growing debt (or a very close substitute, such as company stock) is available to enable the use of energy products


I Set Fire To The Mountains
By Aparajita Sengupta

http://www.countercurrents.org/sengupta030516.htm

A personal reminiscence of the forest fires in Uttarakhand, which have devastated acres of green cover in the hills


Gagarin In Space: The Politics Of Cosmic Discovery 
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark

http://www.countercurrents.org/kampmark030516.htm

Aristotle thought notions of humanity as a supreme species atopos – absurd. In contrast, the Romans had a very defined term that distinguished humans as humans, impressive relative to other species: humanitas. Hannah Arendt, in considering these contrasts in “Man’s Conquest of Space”, a piece penned for the American Scholar (Autumn, 1963), turned her mind to those questions that remain, more broadly speaking, the staple of inquiring minds: “Has man’s conquest of space increased or diminished his stature?”


Russians Calling Medvedev a "Traitor" for Not Vetoing 
UN NATO War On Libya In Larger Context
By Jay Janson

http://www.countercurrents.org/janson030516.htm

Article's larger theme is the willingness of humanity to accept five centuries of white world profitable investments in genocide that will end when world economic power shifts from Europeans and their descendant nations overseas to the six sevenths of humanity they plunder. Realizing this, speculative investment bankers have Donald Trump demanding policy changes. Article portrays the immediate before and after of the preposterous US UN NATO destruction of Libya as an omen


Donald Trump In South Sudan 
By Nick Turse

http://www.countercurrents.org/turse030516.htm

What Trumps the Horrors of a Hellscape? The Donald! 


“Modernization Theory” And “Third Wave Democracy”: 
Internal And External Impediments To Democracy And Development
By Jon Kofas

http://www.countercurrents.org/kofas030516.htm

All empirical evidence indicates that the neoliberal model is leading toward varieties of authoritarianism. The irrelevant vacuous theoretical rhetoric of the Modernization theory, Third Wave Democracy, End of History are intended to obfuscate the empirical realities of peoples’ material lives when history has proved Joseph Schumpeter correct. Democracy is simply an electoral process where citizens have the right to select competing elites whose goal is to perpetuate their economic, social and political privileges


The Double Life Of A Muscular Militant 
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz030516.htm

The corporation eventually phased out their gym facility but just before my last day, I saw Mary and complimented her on how hard she’d been training. She leaned close to me and whispered: “When the revolution comes, I’ll be ready.”


Balraj Madhok: RSS Pracharak As Chronicler Of 
Degeneration In The RSS Top Brass 
By Shamsul Islam

http://www.countercurrents.org/islam030516.htm

With Balraj Madhok's death on May 2, 2016 an era of old guards of Hindutva politics comes to an end. A senior RSS pracharak till his death was paid handsome tributes by the RSS leaders including PM Modi, himself a senior pracharak, for being a "stalwart leader of Jan Sangh. Balraj Madhok ji's ideological commitment was strong & clarity of thought immense. He was selflessly devoted to the nation & society. [I] had the good fortune of interacting with Balraj Madhok ji on many occasions". It is intriguing that memory of Madhok was being reduced to being a leader of Jan Sangh. He was a leading RSS pracharak on whom his organization relied for initiating prominent Hindutva projects. This reductionist attitude of the present RSS leadership towards his contributions to the politics of RSS is the outcome of a design to hide Madhok's role as a chronicler of the degeneration which was spreading as an epidemic in the high echelons of the RSS in 1970s and 80s


My Years With Satyajit Ray's Cinema 
By Rutuja Deshmukh Wakankar

http://www.countercurrents.org/wakankar030516.htm

When one talks of Satyajit Ray, one is not talking of a person – Ray was a phenomenon, an institution, and a rare one at that. One of his contemporaries, the legendary Japanese filmmaker, Akiro Kurosawa, had once said: “Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon”! I am happy that I managed to see the sun and moon in a different light and shadow through Ray’s cinema