CounterCurrents: Russia Accuses Obama Of Supporting Al Qaeda In Syria, The TTIP Leaks, The Danger Of Fascism In The United States, Noam Chomsky Predicted The Rise Of Trump Six Years Ago

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The Condition Of Hunger Striking Students In JNU Worsen, Kanhaiya Kumar Admitted To AIIMS
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc060516.htm

The indefinite hunger strike of JNU students against rustication of students and other punishments handed down by High Level Enquiry Committe has entered 9th Day. Many of the students are weak and JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar is admitted to AIIMS, New Delhi


Noam Chomsky Predicted The Rise Of Trump Six Years Ago 
By Jake Johnson

http://www.countercurrents.org/johnson060516.htm

In an interview with Chris Hedges in 2010, Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned linguist and dissident intellectual, remarked "What are people supposed to think if someone says 'I have got an answer, we have an enemy'?" Chomsky asked. In Germany, he added, "it was the Jews. Here it will be the illegal immigrants and the blacks. We will be told that white males are a persecuted minority. We will be told we have to defend ourselves and the honor of the nation," Chomsky continued. "Military force will be exalted. People will be beaten up. This could become an overwhelming force."


The Danger Of Fascism In The United States 
By John Scales Avery

http://www.countercurrents.org/avery060516.htm

There is a real danger that Donald Trump, who is not only xenophobic. racist and hatemongering, but also misogynistic, wildly erratic and manifestly unqualified for the post, could be elected to the US Presidency in November. It could happen in the following way. If the Democratic Party's establishment succeeds in making Hillary Clinton their candidate, young voters and independents could become disillusioned. Without their support Hillary could lose to Trump


The TTIP Leaks 
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark

http://www.countercurrents.org/kampmark060516.htm

As diversely opposed as the parties are, movement, of the negative sort, is possible. Positions can, as was all too evident in the TPPA negotiations, bend. In some cases, they can be abandoned altogether. That remains the greatest danger: the document continues to flicker, and it will take more than Gallic opposition, Germanic scepticism, and general European stubbornness, to sink it


Russia Accuses Obama Of Supporting Al Qaeda In Syria 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse060516.htm

On May 4th, Russia’s Sputnik news agency headlined "Lavrov: US Tried to Include Al-Nusra Front Positions in 'Silent’ Period”, and reported that Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, speaking in Moscow about the lengthy negotiations between himself and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to agree on conditions for a Syrian ceasefire and peace talks to take place between Syria’s government and Syria’s rebels, said, "During the negotiations, our US partners actually tried to draw the borders of this ‘zone of silence’ to include a significant number of positions occupied by al-Nusra [Front]. We managed to exclude this as it is absolutely unacceptable.” Al Qaeda in Syria calls itself “Al Nusra."


Salman Abu Sitta’s, Mapping My Return: A Palestinian Memoir 
Book Review By Vacy Vlazna

http://www.countercurrents.org/vlazna060516.htm

Dr Abu Sitta’s life is an Opus Magnus preserving the integrity of the land of Palestine, past, present and future in preparation for the certain return of all its stranded children. The outstanding feature of the memoir is its invitation to ‘meet’ a distinguished colossus of Palestinian sumoud


Dialogue With A Revolutionary Who Commited Suicide 
By Daljit Ami

http://www.countercurrents.org/ami0605016.htm

Satnam’s suicide unveils the covert and the overt violence of our times when questions arising with every kind of resistance are labelled seditious. That is why it becomes essential to ask why someone like Satnam commits suicide?Who is responsible for this suicide and who owns the responsibility to evaluate its genesis?


Future Options: From Militarism And Monsanto To Gandhi And Bhaskar Save 
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter060516.htm

What future humanity? A future based on uncontrolled urban sprawl, worklessness, massive inequalities (and subsequent political repression) and conflict over finite resources, which continues to push the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation, as well as the appropriation of all facets of life from water and land to forests, seeds and food by powerful corporations. Or a future that adheres to a model based on certain Gandhian principles, such as indigenous capability and local self-reliance, wherein people limit their needs, live within the limits imposed by the environment and work with the natural ecology rather than by forcing it to bend to the will of profiteering industries


National Convention Against“Illegal Takeover Of Forest Resources” 
By Campaign for Survival and Dignity

http://www.countercurrents.org/csd060516.htm

Campaign for Survival and Dignity(CSD) , a national level outfit consisting of the tribals and forest dwellers which struggled for the enactment of the historic Forest Rights Act, 2006 and presently monitoring its implementation across the States organised a national convention against illegal takeover of forest resources by the Central Governments and by many of the States governments in ISI, New Delhi on 4th May 2016