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Its Day 50 of curfew and shut down in Kashmir valley.  One youth drowns in Jhelum river after being chased by police during protest. A police man shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Pulwama, South Kashmir. 

Meanwhile Chief Minister Mehbooba meets Prime Minister Narendra Modi and blames Pakistan for Kashmir unrest. 

In today's issue  Dr Arshad M Khan puts forward a proposal to end the Kashmir imbroglio. 

World renowned law professor Francis Boyle, also an alumnus of University of Chicago, has an advise/ a warning? Don't send your children to University of Chicago where they will grow up to become warmongers like Wolfowitz and totalitarians like Ashcroft! 

Massimo De Angelis asks the important question, Does Capital Need A Commons Fix? Yes, Capital often needs the commons to fix the mess it creates, often it passes the burden on to the Commons. Capital is always trying to co-opt the commons into the system. Commons must resist it by addressing people’s basic needs and empower them to refuse the demands of capital by offering access to alternative means of life.

You can read  and sign the "Montreal Declaration For Nuclear Fission Free World" 

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Crises, Capital And Co-Optation: Does Capital Need A Commons Fix?
by Massimo De Angelis 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/27/crises-capital-and-co-optation-does-capital-need-a-commons-fix/

Capital needs the commons to deal with the crisis as much as social movements need to confront capital’s enclosures of the commons in order to construct serious alternatives and prevent capital’s attempts to co-opt the commons. Hence, it is crucial not only to defend existing commons from enclosures, but also to shape new commons as they become a crucial terrain of struggle. This value struggle lies at the heart of the commons’ potential as a social system and force that might overcome the hegemony of capital. This struggle between the value-generating logic of the two systems has not been sufficiently addressed in commons literature




Montreal Declaration For Nuclear Fission Free World
By Global Network for a nuclear-free world

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/27/montreal-declaration-for-nuclear-fission-free-world/

As citizens of this planet inspired by the Second Thematic World Social Forum for a Nuclear-Fission-Free World, conducted in Montreal from August 8 to August 12, 2016, we are collectively calling for a mobilization of civil society around the world to bring about the elimination of all nuclear weapons, to put an end to the continued mass-production of all high-level nuclear wastes by phasing out all nuclear reactors, and to bring to a halt all uranium mining worldwide.





Neo-Cons, Fundies, Feddies & Con-Artists: Bush To Obama
by Professor Francis A Boyle 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/27/neo-cons-fundies-feddies-con-artists-bush-to-obama/

For as long as I have been associated with it, the University of Chicago has been a Gang of die-hard bigots and racists against Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims and other People of Color.  Indeed, it is well-known  on the Southside of Chicago that the University of Chicago has always practiced Urban Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing against its surrounding African American Communities. Don’t be Conned by the Racist Neo-Conning University of Chicago!





Hillary Clinton’s Extreme End Game
by Dr Binoy Kampmark 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/27/hillary-clintons-extreme-end-game/

The loathsome two are moving into full view, mustering weapons and taking aim at each other in a US election campaign that continues to be filled with colourful missives. But the one to lose most is Hillary Clinton, whose nasty appropriation of the high ground of propriety seems more contemptible by the day




Ahwazi Protesters Demonstrate Against Recent Iranian Executions At Iran’s Embassy In Brussels
by Khalaf Al Kaabi 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/27/ahwazi-protesters-demonstrate-against-recent-iranian-executions-at-irans-embassy-in-brussels/

Members of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz (ASMLA) held a demonstration in front of the Iranian regime’s embassy in the Belgian capital, Brussels, on Friday August 26 to condemn the execution of three more sons of the Ahwazi resistance. The three young men, identified as Qais Disher Saleh, Ahmed Disher Saleh and Sajjad Hamid Saleh, were executed by the regime nine days earlier on August 17




Political Repression And Emergence Of Youth Uprising In Kashmir
by Mir Suhail 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/27/political-repression-and-emergence-of-youth-uprising-in-kashmir/

Kashmiri youth uprising or turmoil is not for the sake of any developmental concerns or employment but the tyrannical approach of the state. If India wants stability in Kashmir,first it needs to acknowledge Kashmir a dispute that needs to resolve with the consent of people of Kashmir. If masses of Kashmir will not be set free, then the future of Kashmir and Kashmiri youth will be extremely  agonizing and dreadful





The Devolution Model For Peace In Kashmir
by Dr Arshad M Khan 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/27/the-devolution-model-for-peace-in-kashmir/

So why not a vote in Kashmir? Give the Kashmiris a choice: remain, leave India and become an independent state, or join Pakistan. Neither of the two contesting powers wins with the second option, which might thus be palatable




Reversing Affirmative Action For Upper Caste Elitism: Usage Of Social Media By Anti Reservation Communities
by Jayashubha 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/27/reversing-affirmative-action-for-upper-caste-elitism-usage-of-social-media-by-anti-reservation-communities/

In Social Media one regularly comes across shared postings with originations from communities such as Índia against Reservation’, Índia against Caste based reservations’, Índia against Caste and Reservation’. The logic of their argument goes like this. India does not have respect for merit. As a result, a lot of the meritorious positions are lost to non-meritorious. The meritorious are hard working unlike non-meritorious. The reserved take over seats and positions which they do not deserve. As a result the deserved are losers and reserved are beneficiaries. The only place where their merit gets recognized is in other countries. India, it claims remains backward as it does not recognise the meritorious and offer them positions. Other countries move forward because they offer positions to the deserved from India.




Hindu Right, Ambedkar And JNU Politics
by Abhay Kumar 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/27/hindu-right-ambedkar-and-jnu-politics/

The ABVP activists are hopeful that their “achievement” of having the library renamed after Dr Ambedkar will help them woo lower-caste students, particularly Dalits. With the JNUSU elections approaching, the Hindutva organization is desperate to broaden its social base by such acts of appropriation and tokenism





Two Ladies, Who Made The Mission Possible!
by Pradeep Baisakh 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/27/two-ladies-who-made-the-mission-possible/

Meet Tabassum Adnan from Pakistan and Smriti Nagpal from India who won    Nelson Mandela –Graca Machel innovation award 2016





Will CPM Learn From Its Mistakes In Bengal?
by K P Sasi 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/27/will-cpm-learn-from-its-mistakes-in-bengal/

Whether the leaders of the communist parties in India have understood the debates on the implications of the profit oriented development model during the last four decades in India is not my concern at this moment. At least, they should learn from their own experiences of Nandigram and Singur. The Vizhinjam Transit Harbour is only a continuation of the same old mistakes. History repeats first time as a tragedy, second time as a farce, third time as a bigger farce, fourth time as the biggest farce and fifth time……?




Indian Drought 2015-16:  Lessons To Be Learnt
by Ashish Singh 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/27/indian-drought-2015-16-lessons-to-be-learnt/

ActionAid India, along with many other civil society organisations and social movements responded to the drought this year. ActionAid India regional offices came up with respective state level briefs. This volume presents the issues and challenges faced by people while keeping the government and Supreme Court’s directives and decisions in mind.