CounterCurrents: Why Hillary Clinton’s Email Case Is Still Not Closed, When Is Terrorism Not Terrorism To America?, Life Turned Upside Down In Gaza

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28 Pages Raise ‘Scores Of Troubling Questions’ On US-Saudi Ties
by Nadia Prupis 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/17/28-pages-raise-scores-of-troubling-questions-on-us-saudi-ties/

The just-released 28 pages of a 2002 congressional report into Saudi Arabia’s possible ties to the 9/11 hijackers have stirred speculation about the U.S. government’s continued relationship with the Gulf kingdom.


Narmada Project Affected Adivasis On Hunger Strike
by National Alliance of People’s Movements 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/17/narmada-project-affected-adivasis-on-hunger-strike/

Hundreds of adivasis affected by the Sardar Sarovar Project have begun their Dharna (sit in) and relay fast from yesterday, the 15th of July. They have been demanding full and fair rehabilitation which they haven’t yet got despite being displaced in the late 1980’s and 1990’s.These adivasis who sustained their livelihood on the land, forests and water (as well as fish)were forced to leave their access tothese natural resources and shift to the resettlement sites; where they have found it difficult to fit into the cash driven market economy

How To Prevent Anti Democratic Forces In Turkey
by Dr Vivek Kumar Srivastava 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/17/how-to-prevent-anti-democratic-forces-in-turkey/

Though much has changed since those days but a shift from conservatism in domestic politics, abandoning the aggressive foreign policy and keeping military and anti democratic ideologies at bay is needed in Turkey. Erdogan is key to it. If military increases the control in anyway then region may go more  into troubles

Avoid ‘Miracle’ Rice, Just Eat A Carrot!
by Vandana Shiva 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/17/avoid-miracle-rice-just-eat-a-carrot/

The Nobel laureates accuse Greenpeace of killing millions by delaying ghost rice — something the biotech industry accuses me of doing, for the same reason. Unlike golden rice — whose failure to launch is the industry’s own failure, the opposition to genetic engineering (and hence golden rice) is very real and successful. As Glenn Stone, a rice scientist at Washington University, states: “The simple fact is that after 24 years of research and breeding, golden rice is still years away from being ready for release.”


Why Hillary Clinton’s Email Case Is Still Not Closed
by Eric Zuesse 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/17/why-hillary-clintons-email-case-is-still-not-closed/

Normally, when the head of the FBI under one President says something like “no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case”, as the FBI reported regarding Hillary Clinton’s emails, that would be the end of the matter; but Clinton actually still isn’t off the prosecutorial hook of this criminal case, unless and until she becomes President herself.


Economic Hegemony Loss To China Looming! Powerful Investors Have Trump Call For An About Face
by Jay Janson 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/17/economic-hegemony-loss-to-china-looming-powerful-investors-have-trump-call-for-an-about-face/

The willingness of humanity to continue to accept the white world’s profitable investments in genocide will end in 25 years when world economic power shifts from Europeans, and their descendant nations, to the six sevenths of humanity they plundered. Realizing this, leaders of 1/10th of 1% who rule America have Trump demanding investment in the US instead of in the low wage 3rd World that China will soon lead.  

When Is Terrorism Not Terrorism To America? 
by Taj Hashmi 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/17/when-is-terrorism-not-terrorism-to-america/

Black Lives Matter (started in 2013) is posing a new challenge to White supremacists. On Thursday 7 July 2016, Micah Johnson, a Black lone wolf terrorist killed five White police officers in Dallas, apparently in retaliation against the killing of two Black suspects by White policemen in Minnesota and Louisiana, on Tuesday and Wednesday. The police later found at the killer’s house explosives and bomb making manual as well. Yet for some strange reasons, neither the Obama Administration nor American media ever used the “T” word to classify the attack as domestic terrorism.

Between El Kharada And Nice
by Nesreen Melek 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/17/between-el-kharada-and-nice/

I heard the news about the explosion at al Kharadah district at midnight in Toronto. I called my relatives in Baghdad who live in the neighborhood; they all assured me they were well, but I was told that the news they were hearing were devastating. I called a dear friend a few times but didn’t hear from him and was worried. I kept emailing him and calling him but in vain. Finally he responded after a few days saying: “I was in the area of the explosion. I pulled my best friend’s deceased body with my own hands. I pulled other bodies and buried them all the same day. I apologize for not being able to respond or talk. The smell of death is still in my nose. Life has no meaning any more. Am I living? I don’t want to live anymore.”

Life Turned Upside Down In Gaza
by Sarah Algherbawi 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/17/life-turned-upside-down-in-gaza/

Rajaa Abu Khalil does not know how much longer she and her children will have to live in a caravan. UNRWA has taken note of the damage to her home, but has been unable to tell her when it will be rebuilt. “There is no cement for the reconstruction,” she said. “Until now, it’s all promises. Nothing has happened on the ground.”

Will Indians Start Listening To Kashmiris?
by T Navin 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/17/will-indians-start-listening-to-kashmiris/

Will out ‘nationalists’ have a similar accommodative approach towards our minorities. Are they willing to reach out to protesting Kashmiris, listen to them and understand them. This is instead of playing a Hindu-Muslim, Kashmiri-Kashmiri pandit card.


Cow Worshippers Chew Up The Rule Of Law
by Samar 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/17/cow-worshippers-chew-up-the-rule-of-law/

A magisterial / judicial order directing the police to register a first information report and investigate a family that lost its provider in a mob lynching would seem impossible for anyone living in a rule of law system. But in the self-designated largest democracy of the world, this is what happened on 14 July 2016.


IS In Sri Lanka: Intelligence Hoax or the Real Threat?
by Nilantha Ilangamuwa 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/17/is-in-sri-lanka-intelligence-hoax-or-the-real-threat/

Interesting but frightening reports are coming out from the mainstream media in India on the ongoing ideological covert operations by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria known as ISIS or ISIL or IS, in Sri Lanka. Almost all news stories are able to quote the Indian intelligence sources anonymously, while those news pieces have been dramatically decorating the imminent threats. However, great stories require substantive investigation, so that they will have the authentic shreds of evidence to prove, which, unfortunately, is almost absent in the news of IS presence on Sri Lankan soil.