CounterCurrents: A Week Before Rio Games, Protesters Extinguish Olympic Flame, Humanising Hillary Clinton: The Democratic National Convention

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A Week Before Rio Games, Protesters Extinguish Olympic Flame
by Bill Van Auken 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/31/a-week-before-rio-games-protesters-extinguish-olympic-flame/

Protesting workers and youth in Angra dos Reis, a coastal town about 100 miles south of Rio de Janeiro, blocked an Olympic procession Wednesday night, seizing and extinguishing the Olympic torch before being driven back by police firing teargas and rubber bullets.




Enough Is ‘Not’ Enough: Is Kerala Poised For Social Darwinism?  
by K M Seethi 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/31/enough-is-not-enough-is-kerala-poised-for-social-darwinism/

The row over the appointment of Harvard Professor, Gita Gopinath, as Economic Advisor to the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) Chief Minister of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan, has thrown open an ideological foray within the left camp. The veteran leader V S Achuthanandan had written to the CPI (M) central leadership expressing his concern over her appointment. But the CPI (M) Politburo, however, in its meeting held in Delhi on 31 July seemed to have adopted a policy of non-intervention on the issue even as some of the members of the PB expressed their reservation on the issue




The Deployment Of The US THAAD Missile In South Korea Signals Start Of New Cold War
by Dr Vivek Kumar Srivastava 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/31/the-deployment-of-the-us-thaad-missile-in-south-korea-signals-start-of-new-cold-war/

South East Asia is in the grip of new cold war. There are two clear signals, after the Hague International Tribunals ‘verdict which clearly rejected the Chinese claim on the sea; the first    is that China- Russia have come together on the issue of South China Sea, this is visible as Russia and China have decided to organize    a joint drill in the disputed sea, second US has decided to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system in South Korea which Seoul has accepted.





Why The Yemen Peace Talks Collapsed?
  by Abdus Sattar Ghazali 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/31/why-the-yemen-peace-talks-collapsed/

Riyadh-based Yemen government in exile Thursday pulled out of the peace talks underway in Kuwait after Houthi militants and their allies formed a 10-member “supreme council” to run the war-torn nation. “The negotiations have completely ended,” said Abdallah al-Olaimi, a member of the exile government team to the talks. UN special envoy Ismail Ahmad Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who has been brokering the talks aimed at a peaceful settlement, condemned the move without formally announcing the collapse of negotiations.





Humanising Hillary Clinton: The Democratic National Convention
by Dr Binoy Kampmark 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/31/humanising-hillary-clinton-the-democratic-national-convention/

Moving beyond idea, beyond type, beyond cardboard cuts, was always going to be a central feature of the Democratic National Convention in 2016. With a US presidential election set to run between two largely unpopular characters, Hillary Clinton needed to show that she was a touch more than merely the tried and the failed. To a large degree, the convention watchers felt that the task had been achieved, though that takes a good deal of presumption and make believe. The brush of humanity had been run over the candidate, and she was there, glowing away for the task at hand.





Can #DNCLeak Spark Movement For Real Democracy In America?
by Nozomi Hayase 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/31/can-dncleak-spark-movement-for-real-democracy-in-america/

The DNC emails released by WikiLeaks showed that the Democratic National Committee has been implementing a coordinated force to undermine Bernie Sanders’ campaign and also the media’s collusion with the DNC. It is now clear that the democratic presidential primary was rigged from the start.





Kashmir: Management Is No Solution
by Raouf Rasool 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/31/kashmir-management-is-no-solution/

So what is it the state government is, and will do, to account for the “police excesses”? Police are not covered under AFSPA, and fall under the state government – no central nod is needed for much-needed corrections in it — so that the summer 2016 is not yet another 2010 or 2008 for that matter even 2009, when civilians killings at the hands of the men in Khaki were taken as a “necessary collateral” and nobody bothered to account for them.