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More Than 2,500 Refugees Drowned In Mediterranean So Far This Year 
By Martin Kreickenbaum 

http://www.countercurrents.org/kreickenbaum020616.htm

The mass deaths of refugees in the Mediterranean Sea has reached a new, grim record over the first five months of 2016. According to the UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR), at least 2,510 refugees drowned between January and May during their attempts to cross to Europe. The European governments and European Union bear full responsibility for turning the Mediterranean into a mass graveyard for refugees


Dreams Of Control: Israel, Global Censorship, And The Internet 
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark

http://www.countercurrents.org/kampmark020616.htm

Israel’s military censor, Col. Ariella Ben Avraham, who is part of the IDF’s Directorate of Military Intelligence, gave a good example of this in February by insisting that social media activists and bloggers submit material relevant to security matters for approval prior to posting. The move also revealed an increasing interest to police the digital realm, previously considered an anarchic jungle incapable of effective policing


Fossil Fuel Energy Gave Us Power And The Illusion Of Security, So Far 
By Lionel Anet

http://www.countercurrents.org/anet020616.htm

Oil has soar civilisation to an incredible wealthy state and managed to feed the ever increasing population to a standard for many of the world people that would be unimaginable a century ago. Yet it’s hardly acknowledged the role oil plays in bolstering our lifestyle. The impossible has become the norm for road transport, shipping, air transport, agriculture, mining including coal, and most important for capitalism, all aspect of warfare. Without oil, capitalism is kaput, but with it people are finished. Our ultimate choice is to abandon both, although late, if we had used our foresight we would have phased out oil and capitalism by the end of last century and be living simple worthwhile life


Veterans For Peace Calls for Nuclear Disarmament in Our Lifetime 
By Veterans For Peace

http://www.countercurrents.org/vfp020616.htm

U.S. presidents may never apologize for what our country did at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But we do. Veterans For Peace expresses our deepest condolences to all those who were killed and maimed, and to their families. We apologize to the Hibakusha, the survivors of the nuclear bombings, and we thank them for their courageous, continuing witness. We apologize to all the Japanese people and to all the people of the world. This hugely atrocious crime against humanity should never have happened. As military veterans who have come to see the tragic futility of war, we promise that we will continue working for peace and disarmament. We want to see nuclear disarmament inourlifetime


What We Can Learn From Leaked Terrorist Torture Videos 
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz020616.htm

Trigger warning: graphic descriptions of extreme terrorist torture techniques


Harassment And Intimidation Of Rights Delgation In Bastar:
Sitaram Yechury's Letter To Chattisgarh CM
By Sitaram Yechury

http://www.countercurrents.org/yechury020616.htm

All political parties must be allowed to conduct their legitimate political activities in the Bastar region without any fear and journalists must be allowed to report truthfully the ground realities. Can I hope that you will instruct the Bastar police and administration not to harass and falsely implicate activists of opposition parties, journalists and others


Two Years Of Modi Sarkar- Broken Promises: Sectarian Agenda 
By Ram Puniyani

http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani020616.htm

Two years down the line Modi, the RSS prachrak, is on the job of pushing the country towards Hindu nation and undermining Indian nationalism. Indian nationalism has liberal space and place for diversity built into it. As such communal politics resorts to emotive issues and that’s visible in propping issues like beef, nationalism and Bharat Mata ki jai. While three more years are to go for this government the divisive agenda and policies which are detrimental to the welfare of average people is on the display. India needs to march on the path of inclusive growth and amity among the people that seems to be missing at the moment


Waiting For Hakeem Suyya! 
By Mohammad Ashraf

http://www.countercurrents.org/ashraf020616.htm

Jammu &Kashmir Government seems to be still waiting for someone like Hakeem Suyya of Avanti Varman’s time to expedite measures for prevention of future floods!