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Sham Declarations: The Media And Hillary Clinton’s “Presumptive” Presidency 
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark

http://www.countercurrents.org/kampmark080616A.htm

The Associated Press release came before the primary verdicts in six states, including California, were in. No one cast a vote on Monday. This, however, has been the pattern in the Sanders-Clinton tussle. From the moment he won New Hampshire, the senator has faced a media barrage of inflated leads in the superdelegate stakes. With each victory in the popular vote, the rebuff from Clinton was that he could not shake the aptly antidemocratic core, despite doing very nicely with pledged delegates. What transpired was that some plain badgering on the part of AP reporter Stephen Ohlemacher of various superdelegate worthies yielded material suitable for publication. Hitherto untapped views streamed forth, to be caught by AP reporters. These worthies remain, as such, nameless


NATO Launches Largest Anti-Russian War Game Since Cold War 
By Alex Lantier

http://www.countercurrents.org/lantier080616.htm

Military tensions surged in Europe as NATO launched Operation Anaconda, the largest NATO military exercise in Eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War a quarter century ago, when the Stalinist bureaucracy dissolved the Soviet Union in 1991. Some 31,000 troops, 3,000 vehicles, 105 aircraft, and 12 warships are participating in war games based on a scenario that war erupts between NATO and Russia, a nuclear-armed power


PM 2.5 And O3 Exposure Is Killing India 
By Dr. Vivek Kumar Srivastava

http://www.countercurrents.org/srivastava080616.htm

According to a recent report `Premature Mortalities due to PM 2.5 (finer particulate matter) and Ozone Exposure in India' prepared by Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), the life expectancy in the country is severely affected by the PM 2.5 and O3 exposure. There is huge fall in the life expectancy as the deaths due to these air pollutants have affected most the Uttar Pradesh, population wise the largest state in the country, also a dirty state because dirt is a common phenomenon with unrestricted roaming of pigs and other animals in several areas, the maximum people i.e. about 15% die premature, followed by Maharashtra where 10% people die every year out of country's deaths because of pollution. West Bengal, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu , Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh , Orissa and Rajasthan are also adversely affected


The Case For The Green State 
By William Hawes

http://www.countercurrents.org/hawes080616.htm

If there are to be nation-states that persist long into the 21st century and beyond, they will be green states, ecologically minded states. There is no complex argument needed, as it is a matter of survival: we can collectively form nations based on sustainable development, zero-growth, run with renewable energy, with abundant food, health care, housing, and basic incomes for all, or our societies will perish, and international relations will devolve into a Hobbesian nightmare


False Promises, Smears And Golden Rice: Is This The Solution 
For Disease, Poverty And Malnutrition? 
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter080616.htm

Many critics regard Golden Rice as an over-hyped Trojan horse that biotechnology corporations and their allies hope will pave the way for the global approval of other more profitable GMO crops. The Rockefeller Foundation might be regarded as a ‘charitable’ entity but its track record indicates it has been very much part of an agenda which facilitates commercial and geopolitical interests to the detriment of indigenous agriculture and local and national economies


Hunting Sharks: Unnatural Justice And Human Revenge 
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark

http://www.countercurrents.org/kampmark080616.htm

Every so often, when a human wades in absurd company with a majestic shark, a predictable spectacle unfolds. The shark, interest piqued, attacks human. The human can be fatally wounded, though not always. Shark is thereby hunted – this, deemed the automatic reaction of the outraged and incensed. The shark is but one animal, incapable of understanding the false notion of a social contract it is meant to abide it. Similarly, humans assume that notions of revenge and deterrence have some role to play. You killed one of our species, and must account


Disseminating Zionist Fascism By Libelling Art 
By Vacy Vlazna

http://www.countercurrents.org/vlazna080616.htm

Palestinian-Australian Samah Sawabi’s finely crafted lyrical play, Tales of a City by the Sea, continues to be under fire from B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission Chair, Dvir Abramovich since the play was added to the Victorian curriculum


Why Is The UK Government Scared Of An Online Petition? 
By Kieran Kelly

http://www.countercurrents.org/kelly080616.htm

I started a conspiracy to harm Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (HMGUKGB&NI). I wanted to deal as much damage to them as possible so I conspired with a poet to plant an explosive and incendiary petition right in the heart of their own website. It was a petition to make the UK Government respond or debate the question of appearing before the International Court of Justice and allowing it to rule on the case of the Chagos Archipelago


The Outcome of Iran’s Parliamentary Elections 
By Akbar E. Torbat

http://www.countercurrents.org/torbat080616.htm

The results of Iran’s parliamentary elections held on February 26, 2016 were finalized in mid May. The elections were for the tenth parliament and the fifth Assembly of Experts (a clerical body) after the 1979 Iranian insurrection. As it appears, there is no hope that the elections’ outcome obliges the ruling clergy to make any changes to secularize the Islamic regime in Iran


Iranian Regime Denies Ahwazi Children Access To Water And Educational Supplies 
By Rahim Hamid

http://www.countercurrents.org/hamid080616.htm

In Bohor village, girls are deprived of education due to the lack of schools. The largest village in Soveyseh District has only one elementary school named Shaheed Hakim, where 380 girls and boys are enrolled. Adel Nasseri, the principal of the school, has said that the school built in 1993 has improper facilities for its students. He claims that the water in the school, like in other parts of Karun city, is completely undrinkable. For this reason, school officials have to buy filtered drinking water from outside which has the effect of increasing the overall expenses of a school which is already underfunded


When Malcolm X Met Cassius Clay 
By Thomas C. Mountain

http://www.countercurrents.org/mountain080616.htm

Malcolm X seems to have disappeared from anything to do with Muhammed Ali, at least from what has been running on the western media. Revolutionary black nationalism is not something Pax Americana and its lackeys in the west are about to promote in any way


Did Devout Muslim Muhammad Ali Ever Speak 
About US NATO Genocide in the Muslim Middle East?
By Jay Janson

http://www.countercurrents.org/janson080616.htm

Ali declared “murder and burn another poor nation [Vietnam] simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. ... such evils must come to an end" For lack of world public interest in prosecuting obvious US genocidal crimes against humanity and peace, "such evils" have remained profitable. As a devout Muslim, how did Ali feel as he watched the murder and burning of millions of Muslim children


Should George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Others Be Jailed? 
By Rebecca Gordon

http://www.countercurrents.org/gordon080616.htm

We're unlikely to see justice in the “war on terror” until that cruel and self-defeating exercise is well and truly over and the country has officially acknowledged and accounted for its crimes. Let's hope it doesn't take another 40 years


The Contempt Of Courts Law Unleashes Terror, Suppresses Freedom Of Expression 
And Shields Corrupt And Inefficient Judges
By Dr. P.S Sahni

http://www.countercurrents.org/sahni080616.htm

The Indian constitution embodies upon every citizen the duty to develop a spirit of enquiry and reform. Moreover as members of PIL Watch Group – a non-funded, non-party organization – we are mandated to keep a check on the accountability and transparency of the judiciary. Outlined below are two cases of complaints against two sitting judges of the Delhi High Court and the response of the establishment to these complaints


Examination, Prohibition, And Puritanism:
Politics Of Inquisition In The Republic of Bihar 
By Mithilesh Kumar

http://www.countercurrents.org/kumar080616.htm

What emerged from the recent controversy regarding the alleged cheating of Bihar School Examination Control Board (BSECB) examination toppers marks a definite shift in the politics of education. The socialist shenanigan of linguistic pride has given way to chauvinist belief in neoliberal conservative “merit.” In all this storm and stress what is being not discussed is the legality of the whole thing and the gross violation of rights of children


‘Gujarat Files‘ By Rana Ayyub
Book Review By P Victor Vijay Kumar

http://www.countercurrents.org/vijay080616.htm

Rana Ayyub, being a woman , that too from Muslim section, is being targeted with character assassination from the majoritarian fundamentalists. We need a diverse voice , we need a bold voice, we need an offbeat tone of issues, we need blatant lash against ghostly attitude of state which is steering genocides for the political survival. While that remains as the best reason why one should read this book, the other reason being not part of the dominant skewed collective conscience of India


'Thithi' : The Reality As It Is 
By Suraj Kumar Thube

http://www.countercurrents.org/thube080616.htm

When you have an old, wizened man sitting in an everyday place of his village, slurring people around him, you get a sense of getting introduced to a quintessential Indian village. The new Kannada film called 'Thithi' gives us the real, earthy village everyday life that we haven't seen in a long time. With a modest plot of depicting what transpires between the death of a famed centurion and to the day of his thithi, the director captures the remarkable ordinariness of the rural like a seasoned anthropologist