CounterCurrents: Will Russia Succumb To Washington’s Economic Attack?, The Desperate Plight Of Petro-States

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The NUIT DEBOUT Protests Of French Workers Spreading Across Europe Like Wild fire
By Jamindar Buddiga

http://www.countercurrents.org/buddiga260516.htm

The NUIT DEBOUT (Up all night) protests of French workers spreading across Europe like Wild fire. Workers trade unions, students, women, artists, pensioners and unemployed youth are protesting in hundreds of thousands against President Francois Hollande’s proposed changes in labor laws announced on 31 March this year. Nuit Debout or these night-time sit-ins first started in Paris’ Republican square on the night of March 31st are now a daily ritual that had spread to cities such as Toulouse, Lyon and Nantes and are even spreading fast to other European cities like Madrid, Brussels and Lisbon


The Desperate Plight Of Petro-States 
By Michael T. Klare

http://www.countercurrents.org/klare260516.htm

With a busted business model, oil economies head for the unknown. Pity the poor petro-states. Once so wealthy from oil sales that they could finance wars, mega-projects, and domestic social peace simultaneously, some of them are now beset by internal strife or are on the brink of collapse as oil prices remain at ruinously low levels. Unlike other countries, which largely finance their governments through taxation, petro-states rely on their oil and natural gas revenues


On (Not) Loving Henry Kissinger 
By Richard Falk

http://www.countercurrents.org/falk260516.htm

There is an irony that would be amusing if it was not depressing about news that Donald Trump has been courting the 92-year old foreign policy sorcerer Henry Kissinger. Of course, the irony is that earlier in the presidential campaign Hilary Clinton proudly claimed Kissinger as ‘a friend,’ and acknowledged that he “relied on his counsel” while she served as Obama’s Secretary of State between 2009-2013. It is indeed strange that the only point of public convergence between free-swinging Trump and war-mongering Clinton should be these ritual shows of deference to the most scandalous foreign policy figure of the past century


Trump And The Polls Of Loathing 
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark

http://www.countercurrents.org/kampmark260516.htm

Caught between a cynical Clinton machine and a shape-changing reality television show, US politics has featured its latest twist in the saga of surges and poll ratings. Now, we are being told that Donald Trump does have a chance against Hillary Clinton, spluttering ahead in some of the figures


When Thomas Friedman Sees Israel's “Dark Hour” 
By Kenneth E. Bauzon

http://www.countercurrents.org/bauzon260516.htm

The Rift Between Netanyahu and the Israeli Army: Parsing the Rhetoric in the Mainstream Media in the Case of Thomas L. Friedman’s 'Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the State of Israel-Palestine', New York Times, May 25, 2016


Time To End The ‘Hasbara’: Palestinian Media And The Search For A Common Story 
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud260516.htm

Merely being in the company of hundreds of Palestinian journalists and other media professionals from all over the world has been an uplifting experience. For many years, Palestinian media has been on the defensive, unable to articulate a coherent message, torn between factions and desperately trying to fend off the Israeli media campaign, along with its falsifications and unending propaganda or ‘hasbara’. It is still too early to claim any kind of paradigm shift, but the second Tawasol Conference in Istanbul, which took place May 18 to 19, served as an opportunity to consider the vastly changing media landscape, and to highlight the challenges and the opportunities facing Palestinians in their uphill battle


Will Russia Succumb To Washington’s Economic Attack? 
By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts260516.htm

Yesterday State Department deputy propaganda spokesperson Mark Toner reminded US companies that there are economic and reputational risks associated with doing business with Russia until Russia gives Crimea back to Washington’s puppet government in Kiev. I see the matter differently from the US State Department


The Concept Of Women In Communal Ideologies: 
A Study Into The ideologies Of RSS And Jamat-e-Islami 
By Ish N Mishra

http://www.countercurrents.org/mishra260516.htm

The RSS and the Jamat, the organizations under discussion bear tremendous similarities in terms of their ideological standpoints on socio-political and economic issues as also in their treatment of women’s question


Discrimination Against Women’s Right To Temple Entry In India: A Critique 
By Meenakshi Gogoi

http://www.countercurrents.org/gogoi260516.htm

Discriminating women from entering temples is not a part of any Hindu ritual but with passing of time, since, several decades, the patriarchal brigade has imposed discriminatory norms on women that snatched away her very rights to worship. Recently, with the passing of courts verdict on securing women’s rights for temple entry, has not only attacked the misogynist attitude of patriarchy on women but also, make it realisable to our society that worshipping is very much a matter of personal choice and devotion. The message is very sound that women are equally free, like men to enter temples. It is a question of human rights, from a larger perspective and Indian constitution has granted everyone to worship and practice their own religions, freely, irrespective of, different castes, genders and religions in our country


History Is Not About The ‘Greats’ Any Longer 
By V. Krishna Ananth

http://www.countercurrents.org/ananth260516.htm

A letter from V.K.Singh, Junior Minister in the Ministry of External Affairs asking that Akbar Road be renamed as Maharana Pratap has now turned into a public debate. While it is one thing to debate on the role of kings and queens in history and whether at all such memory should be ensured by way of naming streets and roads in our towns, there is indeed a larger issue involved in these and it is one that involves the understanding of the discipline called history


Public Burdens Of Religion And The Lightness Of Atheism 
By Sanjay Kumar

http://www.countercurrents.org/kumar260516.htm

By freeing humans from attachment to any illusory Ultimate, Final or Absolute being, atheism makes them aware of their finitude. However, the recognition this necessity is also the ground for real freedom. In return, the atheistic conception gives humans the freedom to build their own relationships with the world. By making humans take care of their own weight in the world, it also helps them fly on their own. That is the lightness of an atheistic being


Broken Green 
By Priti Gulati Cox

http://www.countercurrents.org/cox260516.htm

As the Narendra Modi government turns 2 today (May 26, 2016), here’s something to reflect upon. Today’s meal design “Broken Green” and the ingredients come to you from our farm and restaurant Discomfort Farm, where it’s all unnatural


Bastar And The Bogey Of Anti-Nationalism
By Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression

http://www.countercurrents.org/wss260516.htm

Statement of WSS in response to the attacks on an independent study team in Bastar and local villagers helping them, and a solidarity event in Kolkata


PUCL Condemns Chhattisgarh Police Threats
Press Release

http://www.countercurrents.org/pucl260516.htm

The People’s Union for Civil Liberties strongly condemns the shocking action of the Chhattisgarh state police and district administration threatening criminal prosecution against a team of academics and members of the CPI and CPI(M) parties who had visited Kanker, Bastar, Dantewada and Sukma districts of Southern Chhattisgarh between 12th to 15th May, 2016 to enquire into the conditions of life of ordinary adivasis caught in the conflict between the State and the Maoists. This is apart from the vicious witch hunt launched by the district police against all local tribals who accompanied and assisted the team during the Fact Finding visit