CounterCurrents: US Sells Battle Tanks To Saudi Arabia As It Renews Assault On Yemen

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Doctors who are treating Insha Malik, Victim Of Pellet Attack in Kashmir, suggest that she is suffering from deadly brain infection. More skeletons are coming tumbling down off the Clinton cupboard. It's really getting murky. Staying more on the positive side we have a story on the importance of story telling by Vanessa Spedding.  John Scales Avery delves deep into the human evolutionary history to chart a way forward for universal human brotherhood. Silke Helfrich warns us that common goods will remain Common only if we take care of them. Of course, there are many more stories from around the world. 

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Insha Malik, Victim Of Pellet Attack, Suffering From Deadly Brain Infection

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/12/insha-malik-victim-of-pellet-attack-suffering-from-deadly-brain-infection/

Insha Malik, the 14 year old victim of Indian Army’s use of indiscriminate pellet attack on protesters in Kashmir valley, may be suffering from deadly brain infection.I nsha who keeps crying in pain without a break, occasionally makes unnatural utterances. “My get me oranges. Get me Anarkali dress, I want to wear it,” the girl, blindfolded for around a month recently told her parents. Doctors said “These are simply symptoms that her brain is not working properly.” “In other words secondary infection has affected her brain…She is not in proper senses.”


The Flagging Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: The US Election And Free Trade Politics
by Dr Binoy Kampmark 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/12/the-flagging-trans-pacific-partnership-agreement-the-us-election-and-free-trade-politics/

Heartening here is that much of the sabotage is coming from within Washington itself, an entirely apt state of affairs, given that the very concept began there.  But if Clinton does win, a change of opportunistic heart may well be in the offing.



US Sells Battle Tanks To Saudi Arabia As It Renews Assault On Yemen
by Thomas Gaist 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/12/us-sells-battle-tanks-to-saudi-arabia-as-it-renews-assault-on-yemen/

In a clear signal of American imperialism’s unrelenting commitment to the Saudi monarchy and its ongoing war against Yemen, the United States’ State Department approved the sale of one hundred and fifty Abrams main battle tanks to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.




New Emails Shed Further Light On Hillary Clinton’s Corruption As Secretary Of State
by Evan Blake 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/12/new-emails-shed-further-light-on-hillary-clintons-corruption-as-secretary-of-state/

The newly released emails, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, implicate Clinton in incriminating conflict-of-interest deals, in which Clinton’s aides worked to hire a Clinton Foundation associate and provided political connections for at least one of the Foundation’s wealthy donors. Another email directly connects the finance giant and Clinton backer Morgan Stanley to her diplomatic maneuvers in China.




Why Say No To The TPP? Corporations Already Have Too Much Power
by Sarah van Gelder 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/12/why-say-no-to-the-tpp-corporations-already-have-too-much-power/

Instead, our hope lies in shifting power to communities and regions—urban and rural—that prioritize safety, clean air, children’s health, and locally rooted livelihoods. The benefits might be invisible to economists and policy makers, because they can’t all be measured in profits and dollars. But human well-being and ecological resilience are what matter, whether in the streets of our cities and towns or in Nebraska’s abundant harvest of heirloom red corn.




Obama And Clinton Co-Founders Of ISIS?
by Jon Kofas 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/12/obama-and-clinton-co-founders-of-isis/

The lesson here is not just the lengths to which a presidential candidate would go to secure more popular support using rhetoric one would associate with politicians in less developed countries where political opponents have no qualms suggesting it may not be a bad idea to eliminate the other. The lesson is that no matter the propaganda by the media, pundits, politicians, academics, and all who pretend that terrorism came like the blob from another planet are now unable to hide behind this enemy.




Hilary Clinton – History Repeats Itself?
by Andre Vltchek 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/12/hilary-clinton-history-repeats-itself/

Both of this year’s US Presidential candidates have, undoubtedly, their doubles in the not so distant past. While Donald Trump’s ones lived in the 20th Century in Germany and Italy, Hilary Clinton had a homegrown predecessor; a man who was defending slavery and the status quo and who, most importantly, turned the United States into an aggressive imperialist and neo-colonialist power.




Hillary Clinton Invoked Possible Assassination Of Obama As Reason To Stay In Race in ’08
by Robert J Barsocchini 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/12/hillary-clinton-invoked-possible-assassination-of-obama-as-reason-to-stay-in-race-in-08/

“Clinton in 2008 sa[id] she won’t drop out of the primaries because if someone assassinates Obama she can still win”: Indeed, Keith Olberman here chastises Clinton for almost 11 minutes about her inappropriate comments, in which, unlike Trump, she actually used the word “assassination” in reference to the reason why she should stay in the presidential primary against Obama.




Common Goods Don’t Simply Exist – They Are Created
by Silke Helfrich 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/12/common-goods-dont-simply-exist-they-are-created/

We can turn our attention to the question of what we want to do with our common resources. That is what really matters, for common goods exist only if we produce them – and they will remain only if we take care of them.



Language Patterns, The Media, And Cultural Re-Storying
by Vanessa Spedding 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/12/language-patterns-the-media-and-cultural-re-storying/

It falls to us all to be more mindful of the language we use and the stories we tell, especially educators, policy-makers, authors, song-smiths, parents and performers. Stories can indeed change the world — and if they are used carefully, wisely, and with love, they can change it for the better. That, though, will require us all to move from the language of dominion to a language of belonging.




Human Nature: An Evolutionary Paradox
by John Scales Avery

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/12/human-nature-an-evolutionary-paradox/

The religious leaders of today’s world have the opportunity to contribute importantly to the solution of the problem of war. They have the opportunity to powerfully support the concept of universal human brotherhood, to build bridges between religious groups, to make intermarriage across ethnic boundaries easier, and to soften the distinctions between communities. If they fail to do this, they will have failed humankind at a time of crisis.




Review: Samah Sabawi’s‘Tales Of A City By The Sea’
by Gillian Hunt 

Australian-Palestinian playwright and poet, Samah Sabawi knows better than most how quickly a conversation stalemates when it turns to Gaza, her birthplace. She is also deeply aware of the power of story to open that conversation and gently draw people into the reality of what it is to live in Gaza, to love Gaza, to suffer there and to want the world to understand and respond. Her play, Tales of a City by the Sea, tells the story of different people living and working in Gaza in recent times. It is written with the compassion of one born there, yet one who is able to step outside to witness what life is like for its inhabitants and those who are motivated to offer assistance.




Pakistan’s Dirty War In Balochistan
by Abdus Sattar Ghazali 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/12/pakistans-dirty-war-in-balochistan/

The Pakistani government has branded Baloch separatist organizations as “terrorists.” The Balochs suffer from high rates of poverty, low literacy and other woes — all of which serve to fuel an insurgency. According to the World Bank, eight of Pakistan’s 10 most deprived districts are located in Balochistan. Just 22 percent of Balochs are literate, versus 47 percent for Pakistan as a whole, and only 20 percent of Balochs have access to drinking water, versus 86 percent for the country.