CounterCurrents: TTIP Leaked Documents Show Obama Demands Killing Paris Accord Against Climate Change. A Powerful Message For Peace Between India And Pakistan, US Military Whitewashes Attack On Afghan Hospital

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Fascism In Many Hues: Attack On Judiciary 
By Rakesh Sharma

http://www.countercurrents.org/sharma020516.htm

Eminent Justice of the Bombay High Court Abhay Thipsay has been abruptly transferred. Justice Rajiv Shakdher of the Delhi High Court was also transferred, despite protests from senior lawyers in February. Is it sheer coincidence that both passed judicial orders that the ruling party has been less than happy with? Once again, Gujarat carnage cases figure here - Justice Thipsay handled the landmark Best Bakery case! I dread the extension of the Gujarat model wherein the bureaucracy and the entire police machinery bent over backwards - with pliant officers rewarded and upright officers harassed & hounded out


TTIP Leaked Documents Show Obama Demands Killing 
Paris Accord Against Climate Change 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse020516.htm

"248 pages of leaked Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiating texts” show that the American negotiating position, as Greenpeace put the matter, allows "No place for climate protection in TTIP,” and, though "We have known that the EU position was bad, now we see the US position is even worse.” Jorgo Riss, Director of Greenpeace EU, said, "The effects of TTIP would be initially subtle but ultimately devastating. It would lead to European laws being judged … disregarding environmental protection and public health concerns.”


US Military Whitewashes Attack On Afghan Hospital 
By Peter Symonds

http://www.countercurrents.org/symonds020516.htm

The Pentagon’s final report into last October’s deadly US airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in northern Afghanistan is a brazen whitewash. The protracted attack by an AC-130 gunship on the medical facility in Kunduz killed 42 civilians, some of whom were burned alive in their beds, and others mowed down as they attempted to flee


For A New Rendezvous With Dr Ambedkar 
By Subhash Gatade

http://www.countercurrents.org/gatade020516.htm

These are no ordinary times to discuss Dalit vision or rather reach a consensus around what could be called Dalit Vision.You have on the one hand the upheaval witnessed in the country especially among educated young dalits and broader democratic sections symbolised by the institutional murder of Rohith Vemula and the mass movement which it has generated and at the other end of the spectrum renowned Dalit leaders paying obeisance before rabid reactionary forces. You have on the one hand slogans of Jai Bhim and Lal Salaam being raised in unison on campuses across the country and on the other the process of mythologising Dr Ambedkar and marginalising ‘his’ meaning being underway nonetheless


The Shameless Indian Celebrity 
By Vaidyananth Nishant

http://www.countercurrents.org/nishant020516.htm

It is time our celebrities stop endorsing brands and products just for profit. They carry a heavier responsibility on their shoulder; their responsibility towards the people of this nation. They must come forward and apologise if they have been responsible for any kind of degradation in the society and stop further degrading it with their greed for money. And above all, us citizens must sue such thieves and realise, it is these shameless beings who are the actual anti-nationals and not the ones who are blamed to be today. It is time to say it loud and clear that campaigning for Coca-Cola is indeed terrorism? It is not the refusal to say ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ that makes one anti-national; instead tax evasion and endorsing such products that are made looting our resources and depriving our people of those is what makes one a terrorist


Research That's A Blessing And Research That's A Threat 
By Anwar Khursheed

http://www.countercurrents.org/khursheed020516.htm

Science through its application brought terrific benefits to society, yet upon closer analysis environmental pollution, ecological imbalances, radiation causing indescribably horrific sufferings. There is a thin line between research that's a blessing and research that's a threat


A Powerful Message For Peace Between India And Pakistan

http://www.countercurrents.org/kaur020516.htm

A powerful message for peace between India and Pakistan. Also a poignant indictment of all wars. This video was produced by Gurmehar Kaur, from Jalandhar, India, who lost her father in 1999 India - Pakistan Kargil war


Asthma: We Can Beat It But Not Kill It 
By Shobha Shukla

http://www.countercurrents.org/shukla020516.htm

Prof Surya Kant advocates the 5-D approach for asthma management comprising; · Doctor—well trained and well informed · Diagnosis/Differential diagnosis— correct and accurate · Drug and dosage—appropriate inhaler therapy · Device—dry powder or multi dose inhaler · Deliberation—patient education and guidance