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"Protesters using children to attack forces". De ja vu! Haven't you heard this before? Yes, you have heard this hasbara talk from Bibi Netanyahu, Avigdor Lieberman, Ayelet Shaked and many other Israeli politicians about Palestinians. Ironically,    the previous headline was from Times of India, India's leading English daily and it was uttered by none other than Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti! We know why Israeli politicians hate Palestinians, but I just don't know why a Kashmiri politician hates its own children! 

Its Day 49 of  curfew and shut down  in Kashmir valley. One more youth was killed today. Death toll is 69 now.    Two Kashmiris pours their heart out in todays issue: Isma Zainab Arsheen and Naveed Qazi. Hear what Kashmiris have to say. 

Today we bring out Dr. Ambedkar’s historical speech (18th March, 1956) in which he had put forward his experiences and the future strategy of Dalit movement. So far this speech was available in Hindi only. SR Darapuri I.P.S.(Retd) translated it into English.

Long time writer of CC Emily Spence comes back with an inspirational piece, "We All Need Chutzpah". She draws in stories from her own life and history and points out that there are moments in life when truth stares at our face and asks us to make a decision. That's our Chutzpah moment. Great or small, we all face these Chutzpah moments in life. The decisions we make are crucial. Welcome back Emily, we all love you :-)

Dr Gideon Polya critques  Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) report on climate change. This is Business As Usual (BAU) for them at a time we all got to mobilise on war footing. 

The Enclosures are taking on newer and newer forms to close out us Commons from our space writes Herve Le Crosnier. The cyber space, our gene pool, intellectual proterty are closed out to us and are the new forms of enclosures.  

And many more stories from around the world. 

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Kashmir: Overshadowed Plebiscite
by Isma Zainab Arsheen

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/26/kashmir-overshadowed-plebiscite/

It’s pitch dark outside as I write this as though life has decided this day to be last one. Army patrols on deserted lane outside my house are silhouettes laced with arms. Dogs are howling at a distance across street in repeated rhythms adding wilderness to imprisoned night. A faint light at a distance meets my eye as I peep through curtain crevices.  We are under curfew again. Indefinite one is the call this time. A brave heart has fainted every heart of my land by adieu to land he loved more than his budding youth. There is a strange calm outside, something of mixed feelings, something defining uneasiness, something of defiant voices muzzled and something about conspiracy of cheap blood. This is seventh night since Burhan’s death, a young boy who kissed death in mad love of his beloved – Kashmir.




Kashmir: Struggle Of A Long Forgotten People
by Naveed Qazi  

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/26/kashmir-struggle-of-a-long-forgotten-people/

As violence runs unabated and no reactionary measures growing, world sees a political struggle of a long forgotten Kashmiri people.




Dr. Ambedkar’s Historical Speech At Agra
by Dr B R Ambedkar 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/26/dr-ambedkars-historical-speech-at-agra/

This is Dr. Ambedkar’s historical speech (18th March, 1956) in which he had put forward his experiences and the future strategy. So far this speech was available in Hindi only. SR Darapuri I.P.S.(Retd) translated it into English




We All Need Chutzpah
by Emily Spence 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/25/we-all-need-chutzpah/

There are moments when truth stares back in our face and asks us to make a decision. That's our Chutzpah moment. Great or small, we all face these Chutzpah moments in life. The decision we make is crucial....




Critique Of CEDA’s  “Economics Of Climate Change” – Neoliberalism Dooms Planet
by Dr Gideon Polya 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/26/critique-of-cedas-economics-of-climate-change-neoliberalism-dooms-planet/

The highly influential but neoliberal Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) has published a detailed analysis entitled The Economics of Climate Change. However this report ignores a veritable Herd of Elephants in the Room apparent to science-informed climate change analysts, ignores the acute, existential  seriousness of the worsening climate emergency, and absurdly argues for effective Business As Usual (BAU) now to enable  a better    positioning for climate mitigation or climate adaptation in the future.




Subtle But Effective: Modern Forms Of Enclosures
by Herve Le Crosnier 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/26/subtle-but-effective-modern-forms-of-enclosures/

The history of the commons can be read as the expansion of the market sphere and of private decision-making over goods that hitherto were subject to common rules. From this point of view, the late 20th century technologies are double-edged: They have made it possible to expand the commons by offering new modes of regulation, favoring the non-market sphere and creating new opportunities for human activity, particularly in cyberspace. Yet they can also empower private control over common resources, especially in the living world and the biosphere




What Makes A Hate Group?
by Brian Terrell 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/26/what-makes-a-hate-group/

“As a matter of fact, you have had a person attend your protests in Camp Douglas who has threatened to kill our Deputies.”This piece of startling news was revealed to me in a letter from Juneau County, Wisconsin, Undersheriff Craig Stuchlik dated July 25.




September 11 Reflection And The USS Liberty
by Eileen Fleming 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/26/september-11-reflection-and-the-uss-liberty/

Fifteen years ago on September 11, America and most of the World were united. Today the USA is more divided than since the Civil War.




How Veterans Are Losing The War At Home 
by Ann Jones 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/26/how-veterans-are-losing-the-war-at-home/

A friend of mine, a Vietnam vet, told me about a veteran of the Iraq War who, when some civilian said, “Thank you for your service,” replied: “I didn’t serve, I was used.” That got me thinking about the many ways today’s veterans are used, conned, and exploited by big gamers right here at home.




Hillary Clinton Is Spreading Islamist Extremism
by Andre Vltchek 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/26/hillary-clinton-is-spreading-islamist-extremism/

If the West in general and the United States in particular, left the Arab and Muslim world alone and in peace, we would most likely never see all those terrorist attacks, which are rocking the world from Indonesia to France. There would be no Mujahedeen and its mutation into al-Qaida; in Afghanistan or elsewhere. There would be no traces of the ISIS (or ISIL or I.S. or Daesh or however you choose to call it), in Syria, Iraq, Libya or anywhere else.




Turkey And The End Of An Era Of Imperial Control
by Junaid S Ahmad 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/26/turkey-and-the-end-of-an-era-of-imperial-control/

All of the talk concerning Erdogan and his desire to revive some Turkish sultanate, Islamism and/or nationalism (take your pick) going wild in Turkey and in Pakistan, is fundamentally about one thing: the geopolitical anxieties of an empire in decline, unable to exert much muscle in bullying as it used to, only able to profit from billions in weaponry being sold to its ‘moderate’ Arab allies like Saudi Arabia. And ultimately, attempts at the reassertion and projections of American power by ‘pivots’ and expanding bases are crude cover-ups for the moral, political, and economic decay of the American imperium.




Despots “Donate” To Clinton Foundation, Receive Weapons From Hillary: Leaked Docs
by Robert J Barsocchini 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/26/despots-donate-to-clinton-foundation-receive-weapons-from-hillary-leaked-docs/

Newly leaked documents provide further details on what Harpers magazine calls the Clinton family’s “slush fund”, the Clinton Foundation. As Secretary of State (the US government position chiefly responsible for coordinating US international arms trafficking), Hillary Clinton accepted millions of dollars in “donations” from the dictator of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa al Khalifa, then increased US weapons sales to him by 137% during his brutal, Saudi-backed crackdown on pro-democracy protestors.





The Affordable Care Act: A Litmus Test For American Capitalism?
by Mateo Pimentel 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/26/the-affordable-care-act-a-litmus-test-for-american-capitalism/

There is a pressing issuein American health care that warrants at least a modicum of airtime from radio talk show pundits—a soft headed lot that continues to spin the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, as a textbook failure of state meddling in the marketplace.