CounterCurrents: NATO Says It Might Now Have Grounds To Attack Russia, Why Global Capital Fears ‘Brexit’, GMOs, “Biggest Fraud In The History Of Science” – Some 'Questions And Answers' For The UK's Royal Society

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Rape And Murder In Sukma: Soni Sori On Indefinite Fast 
Press Release

http://www.countercurrents.org/pr160616.htm

Soni Sori and other members of AAP party are right sitting on Dharna outside the Sukma Collectorate of Chhattisgarh state, India against the recent incident of Rape and Fake Encounter of Madkam Hidme, a young girl from Gompad village. Additionally, Soni Sori has decided to go on Indefinite Fast. On 13th June, the Sukma police announced a successful encounter where a woman Maoist, Madkam Hidme, was killed in an encounter close to village Gompad, Konta Tehsil, Sukma district. Villagers called up yesterday to say that this was incorrect and that Madkam Hidme was not a Naxalite, but a villager, picked up from her home, gang raped by the police and then killed, and body returned to the villagers


Rapes, Arbitrary Arrests And Fake Surrenders Rampant In Bastar
All India People’s Forum’s Fact-Finding Team Visit To Bastar

http://www.countercurrents.org/aipf160616.htm

An 8-member fact-finding team of All India People’s Forum visited four districts of Bastar, Chhattisgarh between 8-11 June 2016. The fact-finding team found several incidents of communal violence against Christians; as well as fake encounters; rapes; fake cases and arbitrary arrests; and fake surrenders


Why Global Capital Fears ‘Brexit’ 
By Helena Norberg-Hodge, Rupert Read & Thomas Wallgren

http://www.countercurrents.org/hodge160616.htm

There are some who would believe that collaboration at the pan-European level could facilitate a path to genuine economic decentralization. Others are convinced that those steps to localize can best be taken by first leaving the EU. Still others don’t favor either of these paths. We are not trying to tell UK readers how (or even whether) to vote; we are asking you to help us shed light on and bring sanity to this volatile situation. Whichever way you vote, please reject the glaringly stupid rhetoric in the media. Speak out, let your voice be heard for ecological and economic sanity, for a fundamental turnaround


The London Bubble, Brexit And Smug Incompetence 
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark

http://www.countercurrents.org/kampmark160616.htm

London is snared by the Brexit debate, with posters and placards festooning the city speaking to the benefits and catastrophes of remaining in the European Union. But for all that, such activity is taking place in the beast of Britain’s political and financial establishment. For all that, it remains a supremely padded cacoon, a vast bubble of protection against so much about what the rest of Britain is saying


GMOs, “Biggest Fraud In The History Of Science” – 
Some 'Questions And Answers' For The UK's Royal Society 
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter160616.htm

The decision on whether to renew EU approval for the herbicide glyphosate is to go to an appeals panel on 23 June after a last ditch attempt to get a temporary re-authorisation failed on 6 June (for some background information, see this). It is unclear if the meeting will produce the majority vote needed to pass the authorisation. The current licence for glyphosate in the EU expires on 30 June


Financing For Indigenous People, Land Reforms And Protection Of 
Forests And Other Natural Ecosystems 
By Anandi Sharan

http://www.countercurrents.org/sharan160616.htm

Sadly the educated castes in India do not care to take up such work in rural areas, preferring to go where they get the recognition of the global economy. One may say that the criminal killing of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe people in India would be less if educated people of upper castes took up the opportunities in rural areas along with their brethren from SC ST families, instead of pursuing the dead-end of city life. Not only the political system, but our entire education and culture is ill-suited to ecological reality


Tiptoeing Through The Renewable Energy Minefield 
By Richard Heinberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/heinberg160616.htm

It is no exaggeration to say that the transition from climate-damaging and depleting fossil fuels to renewable energy sources is the central cause of our times. And it will demand action from each and every one of us


NATO Says It Might Now Have Grounds To Attack Russia 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse160616.htm

On Tuesday, June 14th, NATO announced that if a NATO member country becomes the victim of a cyber attack by persons in a non-NATO country such as Russia or China, then NATO’s Article V “collective defense” provision requires each NATO member country to join that NATO member country if it decides to strike back against the attacking country


Corporate Media Backing Clinton Exploits Orlando Shooting 
For Passive Holocaust Denial 
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini160616.htm

Within hours of the mass shooting in Orlando, the corporate media backing neoconservative favorite Hillary Clinton began, almost unanimously, to exploit the opportunity to passively promote holocaust and genocide denial


Gaza: Resistance Through Poetry 
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud160616.htm

True, the wars have devastated Gaza and the siege is severely diminishing its ability to develop the massive and promising human capital it has. But it has not disfigured its essence, or lessened its humanity. Gaza remains a place of poets, artists, dabka dancers and untamable spirits of utterly resilient and refreshingly stubborn people


Ahwazi Municipality Workers Jailed For Protesting Over 
Six Months Of Unpaid Salaries 
By Rahim Hamid

http://www.countercurrents.org/hamid160616.htm

Twenty-four Ahwazi Arab municipality workers in the regional capital were arrested by Iranian regime security personnel on Monday, June 13 for participating in a peaceful sit-in demonstration in front of the local municipality building to protest against non-payment of their salaries for six months. Seventy staff members at the municipality headquarters in District 4 of the capital, Ahwaz, took part in the demonstration after months of complaints over non-payment of their wages failed to elicit any response from the management


Fact-Finding Report On The Alleged Exodus Of Hindus From Kairana
Press Release

http://www.countercurrents.org/mg160616.htm

After this “Hindu list of exodus”, local Muslims too have issued a list of Muslims who left the town showing that the migration was mainly for earning a better livelihood outside. The ruling classes in Delhi and Lucknow are not listening to such voices. They didn’t pay attention for the uplift of the town and now they are playing the polarisation game. They promise development but deliver hate and fear instead trying to divide society which easily gets influenced due to illiteracy and lack of trust manfucatured by the right-wing extremist groups which spread rumours to garner votes and grasp power. Uttar Pradesh Police is yet to file even an FIR against the BJP MP who made such ruckus without any logic and proof


BJP Two Year Rule: Economic Slowdown, Social Divide And Institutional Erosion 
By Pushkar Raj

http://www.countercurrents.org/raj160616.htm

The BJP has completed two years in office recently showcasing its achievements with public money followed by the national executive meeting of the party. The prime minister has congratulated his government for its achievements of ‘development’ of the country. In reality, however, while the Indian economy has underperformed in the last two years as compared to a recent past, socially and institutionally too the country’s performance tumbled downwards which is a matter of concern not a celebration


Kashmir: Self-Rule To Self-Reliance! 
By Mohammad Ashraf

http://www.countercurrents.org/ashraf160616.htm

Mehbooba Mufti’s assertion that Horticulture and Handicrafts have more potential than Tourism is a very bold statement based on reality which,if followed up honestly could make Kashmir’s economy self-reliant


Separate Settlements: A Divisive Politics 
By Ghulam Mohammad Khan

http://www.countercurrents.org/khan160616.htm

With the present political brouhaha going on the return of Kashmiri Pandits (KPs) in mind, I believe that instead of further deracinating the already deracinated community by setting up separate settlements, government should put in all possible efforts to revive the lost social and cultural connections, or the earlier community kindredship between the two estranged communities


Kashmir: Towards A Literature Of Our Own 
By Basharat Shameem

http://www.countercurrents.org/shameem160616.htm

With the emergence of many indigenous voices now, particularly in the literary realm, we are witnessing fresh perspectives as these voices aim to portray their lived experiences of the conflict, and hence offer a break from the previous narratives. Among the various narratives published in the recent years, many important novels which have caught readers’ attention worldwide are Mirza Waheed’s The Collaborator and The Book of Gold Leaves, Shahnaz Bashir’s The Half Mother and The Scattered Souls, Siddhartha Gigoo’s The Garden of Solitude, to mention a few. Basharat Peer’s memoir The Curfewed Night is another literary feat. Besides these writers, many others are taking to different artistic expression like poetry, music, painting and graphic arts to express their profound angst at the existing conditions of the conflict