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Warming World: Can India Cope With Drought? 
By Swati Agarwal

http://www.countercurrents.org/agarwal110616.htm

Rural communities across the country face the wrath of drought leading to distressed selling of lands, movable assets, and migration. This is aggravating poverty of the people affecting their nutritional standards rendering them more vulnerable to disease and ill-health and loss of productivity


Severe Environmental Impacts, Massive Sea Water Ingress, Till 40 Kms In Bharuch, Gujarat
By National Alliance of People’s Movements

http://www.countercurrents.org/napm110616.htm

Several Newspapers in Gujarat have reported about the Arabian Sea ingress up to 40 Kms and depleting width of the river Narmada near Bharuch city, exposing the severe environmental impacts of a series of dams built upstream. This clearly indicates the serious impact of Sardar Sarovar in Gujarat on to agricultural land, famers, fish workers as well as the industries in the Dahej coastal areas


People For A Shared Program: YES, There Is An Alternative! 
By Michael Albert

http://www.countercurrents.org/albert110616.htm

Do you want bottom up solidarity? Do you want participation? Do you want coherent agenda? Do you want activists and organizations to maintain focus but also support one another in growing unity? Of course you do. Pursue it. It won’t come to pass unless we make it happen


Clinton And Trump Represent The Same Entity: Conspiracy Theories And Beyond 
By Taj Hashmi

http://www.countercurrents.org/hashmi110616.htm

The Democratic and Republican parties have made presumptive nominations of their Presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Both are among the least popular candidates in the history of US Presidential elections. While many Americans think Clinton is least trustworthy, and a hawkish representative of Washington and the Wall Street, they think Trump is a bully, racist, inexperienced, unpredictable, and least Presidential. Then again, thanks to multiple conspiracy theories about the two candidates, their mutual relationship, and about the nomination and election process, Americans and people across the world are sceptical, puzzled, worried, and uncertain about the next Presidential election and its short- and long-term effects on global peace and order


Italian Lessons 
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh110616.htm

A broken economy destroys communities. War, too, obviously. This world will be increasingly immersed in both


Michael's Motion To God For Habeas Corpus 
By Mary Hamer

http://www.countercurrents.org/hamer110616.htm

I present to the world Michael’s letter to me of 6/5/16 regarding his: Wrongful conviction of murder, wrongful sentence to death & 18 years of wrongful incarceration in Florida’s highly flawed criminal justice system on Florida’s Death Row. Note: On 6/7/16 Michael was admitted to the Prison Medical ward due to severe health issues


The Beleaguered Identity 
By Sheikh Javaid Ayub

http://www.countercurrents.org/ayub110616.htm

The Western identity, its culture and civilization, its democratic ethos is projected as a beleaguered one, besieged by an alien force – Islam. Islam is thus projected in such a way one gets the notion that it is invariably found in a confrontational relationship with whatever is Western. Islam becomes the most dangerous civilization for the West – thus an inevitable clash of civilizations. Islam has bloody borders, a barbarian spirit, genetically angry at modernity, a static religion with a myopic vision of humanity and development. This is how fear replaces knowledge about Islam. Islam, thus, is compared with everything the West dislikes regardless of accuracy and authenticity


Foreign Policy As ‘Performing Art’ And ‘Deals As Indispensable Liabilities’ 
By K.M. Seethi

http://www.countercurrents.org/seethi110616.htm

In the course of his speech, Modi said that the US is “an indispensable partner.” Nobody denies that the US is an important factor to be reckoned with in global politics. In that case, can Obama or the new incumbent in the White House next year say that India is an ‘indispensable partner’ for the US? If India cannot ‘assume’ that role, obviously the role that is reserved for India is a ‘junior partner.’ Junior partners’ will always be at the receiving end—serving the cause of the senior partner, on the one hand, and shouldering the liabilities of the ‘cause’ without any payoff for the latter


Normalisation Of Rape Culture In India: Eroticised Regressive Nationalism 
By Parul Verma

http://www.countercurrents.org/verma110616.htm

What I am going to focus in the article is the how Rape gets trivialized in the form of most mundane rules and regulation , that Indians follow , thinking of these rules as a Prevention strategy rather than passive Normalisation. Before we critically drown into How And Why we are unconsciously promoting the idea that Rape is unavoidable , we need to put forth the basic questions. Why the collective cultural psyche of the Indian, view a Rape as inherent unavoidable sexualized event? How each one of us (yes, you the Feminist as well) are indulging in the trivialisation of rape in India that has categorised it as Normal? How the mundane usual laws like that of a segregation and assinging a different coach in the public transport for females, is a form of normalisation of a Rape Culture?


A Love Letter To FTII... 
By Shini J.K

http://www.countercurrents.org/shini110616.htm

Cutting the cake to celebrate the b'day of strike may look like an absurd idea. But, everything was absurd for us during the strike and even post-strike. This day and our gathering should bring back the normalcy in the campus, in every means, despite we all facing problems at multiple levels as individuals and as a community


Dalit Assertion – Strategic Considerations
By Jai Birdi

http://www.countercurrents.org/birdi110616.pdf

Dalit Assertion means the right to influence, assert, demand, express frustration, offer alternatives, and strategically align actions to achieve the overall objective of creating an inclusive society where caste is not a barrier or a discriminatory factor for the development of the self, the community, or the nation