CounterCurrents: Amid Zika Scare, FDA Clears Way For GMO Mosquito Trial In Florida, Hiroshima – Nagasaki And U.S. Mythology,

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Sunday. A lean day for yours truly, the editor!  But that doesn't mean that content of today's dispatch anyway leaner. Narmada water is rising in feet and meters which will submerge the livelihood of 45,000 families. People are bravely resisting. We've a small photo story. Another scary from Florida. Amid Zika scare U.S. Food and Drug Association has cleared the experimental release of genetically modified mosquitoes in Key Haven, Florida. Ron Forthofer analyses the US imperialist mythology on Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombing. Franklin Lamb reports from inside the Clinton camp that if she becomes POTUS she is going to correct all the 'mistakes' that Obama made in Syria. In our Commons series Martin Beckenkamp explains how instiutions work in a just world. Shamsul Islam lays bare the hypocrisy of the Hindutva camp on Quit India Movement.

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Narmada Water Rising In Feet And Meters
by National Alliance of People’s Movements 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/07/narmada-water-rising-in-feet-and-meters/

Narmada water is rising in feet and meters as the gates of the upstream dams are opened up, thousands of cusecs of water are reaching the most downstream of the dams, Sardar Sarovar, filling the reservoir, partly formed.




Amid Zika Scare, FDA Clears Way For GMO Mosquito Trial In Florida
by Lauren McCauley 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/07/amid-zika-scare-fda-clears-way-for-gmo-mosquito-trial-in-florida/

In a move that public health advocates are calling “irresponsible and frightening,” the U.S. Food and Drug Association on Friday cleared the experimental release of genetically modified mosquitoes in Key Haven, Florida.





Hiroshima – Nagasaki And U.S. Mythology
by Ron Forthofer 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/07/hiroshima-nagasaki-and-u-s-mythology/

The U.S. public has been kept in the dark or misled about foreign policy for much of our history. For example, as we commemorate the 71st anniversary of the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, let’s re-examine the myth of necessity of those barbaric acts. The myth that just won’t die and is believed by most Americans is that these bombings saved millions of lives and were necessary to end WWII in the Pacific.





Team Clinton Focuses On The Demise Of Hezbollah
by Franklin Lamb 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/07/team-clinton-focuses-on-the-demise-of-hezbollah/

According to sources at the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) Judicial Council on which this observer served representing his State of Oregon many moons ago. One staffer reports that the Neocon-Zionist lobby has a Middle East Policy deal with the Clinton campaign as a linchpin of her pledge to “eternally cover Israel’s back.”  The Clinton camp, which appears to be gaining adherents within the CIA, the State Department and the Pentagon, believes that the Obama administration’s policy toward Russia and Syria is badly flawed partly because, so they claim, Obama wrongly assumes that Russia wants to limit its involvement in Syria.




Institutions And Trust In Commons: Dealing With Social Dilemmas
by Martin Beckenkamp 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/07/institutions-and-trust-in-commons-dealing-with-social-dilemmas/

Trust is an important component of cooperation in the commons because commons are extremely vulnerable





Quit India Movement And The Hindutva Gang: A Story Of Betrayal
by Shamsul Islam

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/07/quit-india-movement-and-the-hindutva-gang-a-story-of-betrayal/

Most of us know that the then Communist Party of India opposed the Quit India Movement    thus betraying a great phase of mass upsurge in the history of the freedom struggle. However, what role the then Hindutva camp—consisting of the Hindu Mahasabha and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh —played in the QIM is under wraps for reasons unknown. The Hindutva camp not only opposed QIM but also provided multi-faceted and multi-dimensional support to the British rulers in suppressing this historic mass upsurge. In this connection shocking documents are available; these should be read to be believed.