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Istanbul Airport Attack Leaves 36 Dead, 147 Injured

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/29/istanbul-airport-attack-leaves-36-dead-147-injured/

At least 36 people were killed and 147 injured when suicide attackers opened fire and blew themselves up at Istanbul’s main airport on Tuesday night, in the latest in a string of terrorist attacks in Turkey. Shortly before 10 p.m. two gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons at a security checkpoint outside Istanbul’s Ataturk airport and then detonated their explosives. A third attacker detonated explosives in the parking lot.

Brexit An Initial People’s Victory In The War On Terracidal Neoliberalism
by Dr Gideon Polya 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/29/brexit-an-initial-peoples-victory-in-the-war-on-terracidal-neoliberalism/

The  British  working class,  millions of other ordinary  Brits  and a swathe of British  nationalists    have voted for Brexit, the exit of Britain from the EU, with immigration and national self-determination being major issues. The  British political Establishment, the political elites, Mainstream media, EU officials  and the Americans view Brexit as irresponsible and  damaging,    and the Brexit supporters have been falsely maligned as ignorant, stupid, and racist xenophobes. However a view from the Left is that the Brexit vote was a courageous vote against the dominant, monolithic, socially-damaging, terracidal  neoliberal agenda and a vote for national self-determination for a decent and equitable society.


Accusation Claims Syrian And Russian Troops Are Looting Palmyra! Indictment Not Proved
by Franklin Lamb 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/29/accusation-claims-syrian-and-russian-troops-are-looting-palmyra-indictment-not-proved/

It is my submission that the current culture here in Palmyra, and the security posted throughout the area, render it very unlikely that looting has been committed here by Syrian or Russian forces.


The US Problem With Immigration: Railroaded By The Supreme Court
by Dr Binoy Kampmark 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/29/the-us-problem-with-immigration-railroaded-by-the-supreme-court/

Immigration, blood source of the United States, its motor of development, has been rocked by judicial pronouncements of late. The Obama administration had put much stock in reforming the general approach to immigration in 2014, ostensibly employing a wide reading of executive power against the possible deportation. It was always going to be haphazard, merely another periodic panacea in a continuing problem.

Need For ‘Compassion Of Buddha’ On The Road
by Shura Darapuri 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/29/need-for-compassion-of-buddha-on-the-road/

A newspaper recently published an alarming report stating that ‘according to 2015 data released by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, 400 people die daily in road mishaps, ten times the entire global toll of the number killed by terrorism.Personal injuries sustained across Indian roads occur too frequently. The number of fatal road accidents in India is 1.8 lakhs every year and increasing. Further, 350 people die and 7000 people are injured everyday due to road accidents. That translates to 1,27,750 and 25,55,000 each year respectively. The ratio of injured to killed is reported to be 1: 20. The most disillusioning part is that more than half of these fatalities are of people between the ages of 15 and 44 years, making them ‘the family bread winners’.

Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee: BJP/RSS Hindutva Icon Was A Collaborator Of British Rulers And Muslim League
by Shamsul Islam 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/29/dr-syama-prasad-mookerjee-bjprss-hindutva-icon-was-a-collaborator-of-british-rulers-and-muslim-league/

The Hindutva brigade is fond of declaring Dr. Mookerjee as great nationalist and patriot who laid down his life for the unity of the nation. Modi described him as “a statesman, thinker and a patriot who devoted his life towards strengthening national integration”.The Hindutva rhetoric about patriotism of Dr. Mookerjee needs to be cross-checked with the contemporary documents available even in RSS and Hindu Mahasabha archives.

Lament For Humanity: A 50 Year Reflection
by Robert J Burrowes 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/29/lament-for-humanity-a-50-year-reflection/

Deeply affected by the death of my two uncles in World War II, on 1 July 1966, the 24th anniversary of the ‘USS Sturgeon’ sinking of the Japanese prisoner-of-war ship ‘Montevideo Maru’ which killed the man after whom I am named, I decided that I would devote my life to working out why human beings are violent and then developing a strategy to end it. Here is my report on 50 years of concerted effort to understand and end human violence.


State Repression During The Indian Emergency Of 1975-77 And Its Afterlife
by Meenakshi Gogoi 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/29/state-repression-during-the-indian-emergency-of-1975-77-and-its-afterlife/

During Emergency of 1975-77, India had witnessed a coercive form of hard state, to retain power by Mrs. Indira Gandhi, to protect the internal security, and to control political disturbance but in contemporary times, the state appears like a hard state largely, to tackle its choicest matters of National security, boost economy, development and matters which goes against the established state norms. Unlike during Emergency, press and social media is not under censorship, officially, but news of frequent killings of journalists is hinting at the crisis in the voice of democracy

Athirappalli Project: Development For Whom And At What Cost?
by K P Sasi 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/29/athirappalli-project-development-for-whom-and-at-what-cost/

What was the need to repeat the same arguments from Silent Valley to Pooyankutty to Pathrakkadavu to Athirappalli except to educate the politicians who unfortunately had the electoral mandate to decide on the ecological future of Kerala? During all these struggles for the protection of rain forests in Kerala, the question `development for whom and at what cost’ followed. And during all these struggles, the politicians who advocated `development fundamentalism’ were forced to retaliate on `strategic grounds’. The question also is, during these long stretches of public debates on environment, development and people, are our politicians educated enough? 


Knowledge Through Entertainment
by Suraj Kumar Thube 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/29/knowledge-through-entertainment/

Will knowledge have to play second fiddle to entertainment as always? If the secular rise of technology gives ample avenues for both of them to thrive and prosper, why does knowledge seem to play an already lost battle. Knowledge not able to usurp the benefits of  technological prowess has really led the motley variants of entertainment to assert its authority. Is this going to be the culmination of a future redundant of a desire for knowledge coupled with a pervasive hunger for entertainment. 

Tremors Of Crony Capitalism In Education
by Akshai J 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/29/tremors-of-crony-capitalism-in-education/

Recent decision of the MHRD to hike the fees of IITs, NITs and IISERs has once again made it clear that the paradigm of this government is to betray the masses and to serve the profit hungry corporates


Between The Void – A Poem by K.P. Sasi

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/29/between-the-void/

Celebrate the journey
Create meanings on the route
Between emptiness to emptiness.
From void to void.