CounterCurrents: Ms. Clinton, Stop Russian ‘Bear Hunting’!, The Great 9/11 Cover-Up

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Day 64 of Kashmir shut down. One more youth died of pellet firing. Medical Superintendent District Hospital Anantnag Dr Majeed Mehrab said: “The youth had suffered pellet injuries in his chest and abdomen. He was declared dead on arrival.” Death toll now is 78. 

Meanwhile, minister of State for External Affairs V.K. Singh, also a former Indian Army chief, on Saturday described pellet firing as non-lethal and said it was a "sensible and well-thought" decision by the Union Home Ministry to use the weapon for controlling protesting crowds in the Kashmir Valley. However, pellet firings have caused at least six deaths. Hundreds of civilians, including minors, have lost their eyesight partially or fully after they were hit by pellets in the restive valley.

India’s beef ban politics has taken a turn for the bizarre with Haryana police have started collecting samples of Biryani sold in Mewat district, the states only Muslim dominated district. The biryani checks are taking place days ahead of Eid festival. The biryani checks have taken many by surprise asking whether the police should be focusing on other crimes in the state which sees the second largest number of complaints to the police.

Striking a blow to the vibrant, Indigenous-led resistance movement that has sprung up against the four-state oil pipeline, a federal judge on Friday denied the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s attempt to halt its construction. Shortly afterward, however, the Department of Justice, the Department of the Army, and the Department of the Interior issued a joint statement indicating that “important issues raised by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other tribal nations and their members regarding [DAPL] specifically, and pipeline-related decision-making generally, remain.”

We also have a photo feature on the historic resistance by Sarah van Gelder.

And a lot of stories from around the world. 

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Now, Haryana Cops Ask “What’s In Your Biryani?”

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/10/now-haryana-cops-ask-whats-in-your-biryani/

India’s beef ban politics has taken a turn for the bizarre with Haryana police have started collecting samples of Biryani sold in Mewat district, the states only Muslim dominated district. The biryani checks are taking place days ahead of Eid festival. The biryani checks have taken many by surprise asking whether the police should be focusing on other crimes in the state which sees the second largest number of complaints to the police.





Media Clampdown: Modi Regime And Broadcast Journalists

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/10/media-clampdown-modi-regime-and-broadcast-journalists/

Since the campaign to push and promote Narendra Modi as a prime ministerial candidate began, and was remorselessly funded by corporate houses from 2013 on, the current dominant Indian political regime’s relationship with an autonomous media has been the subject matter of furious debate. Heavy corporate investment in the election campaign and the same corporate share in television network holdings have given a further twist to the debate. Now, in 2016, even a Canadian Radio network appears to have succumbed to pressures to stifle free expression





US Government Steps In After Judge Rules Against Standing Rock Sioux
by Deirdre Fulton 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/10/us-government-steps-in-after-judge-rules-against-standing-rock-sioux/

Striking a blow to the vibrant, Indigenous-led resistance movement that has sprung up against the four-state oil pipeline, a federal judge on Friday denied the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s attempt to halt its construction. Shortly afterward, however, the Department of Justice, the Department of the Army, and the Department of the Interior issued a joint statement indicating that “important issues raised by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other tribal nations and their members regarding [DAPL] specifically, and pipeline-related decision-making generally, remain.”




In Photos: Northwest Canoe Tribes Arrive At Historic Gathering At Standing Rock
by Sarah van Gelder 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/10/in-photos-northwest-canoe-tribes-arrive-at-historic-gathering-at-standing-rock/

The occupation to stop construction of the Dakota Access pipeline has become the largest gathering of the nation’s tribes in more than 100 years. It’s the first time all seven bands of the Sioux Nation have come together since the Battle of Little Bighorn. A photo story





Can Zoos Teach Us Compassion?
by David Korten 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/10/can-zoos-teach-us-compassion/

Zoos will not save us. Yet, especially for urban dwellers, they might become places where we experience and connect with other animals in ways designed to help us realize our humanity and the responsibility that comes with our distinctive ability to shape the habitats on which they—and we—depend. Acceptance of this responsibility sets the ground for our journey to a living Earth economy and a future in which all life can thrive.




School Of Commoning
by George Por 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/10/school-of-commoning/

The School of Commoning is a commons-based social enterprise established in London under UK law, as a Community Interest Company, in May 2011. Our mission is to enhance individual and collective competences in the creation, protection and governance of commons of all types – natural, cultural and intellectual.





Kaepernick Gate
by Romi Mahajan 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/10/kaepernick-gate/

We hate not only heretics and witches but even skeptics as well. And we believe we have the right to act upon that hate. That is what Kaepernick Gate has revealed about us.





The Great 9/11 Cover-Up
by Eric Zuesse 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/10/the-great-911-cover-up/

Did you happen to notice that after more than a decade of the ‘news’ media’s demanding publication of “the missing 28 pages” (which turned out actually to have been 29 pages) from the U.S. Congress’s investigation into 9/11, the document’s press-coverage, finally, on 15 July 2016, turned out to have been little-to-none? 





Free Homa Hoodfar
by Justin Podur 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/10/free-homa-hoodfar/

Homa Hoodfar's imprisonment occurred on one of her frequent visits to Iran in February 2016. Her plan was to visit family and conduct some archival research. In March, her place was raided, her passports and belongings confiscated. She spent from March to June being interrogated, and on June 6, she was imprisoned. She has been in solitary confinement. Her health is deteriorating, and she has been hospitalized. There has still been no charge, only a newspaper article on June 24 claiming that Hoodfar was “dabbling in feminism and security matters.”




Ms. Clinton, Stop Russian ‘Bear Hunting’!
by Andre Vltchek

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/10/ms-clinton-stop-russian-bear-hunting/

While Donald Trump is lashing out at the ‘enemy within’, during his dark moments that are increasingly resembling an advanced stage of delirium tremens (complete with a mad chase after white mice and promises to cleanse society from some imaginary and filthy rapists and social benefits guzzlers, that are constantly pouring from the south), Ms. Clinton is saddling her horse, and preparing the West for yet another crusade, this time against Russia.




The United States — Proud Sponsor Of Democracy Propaganda
by James Rothenberg  

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/10/the-united-states-proud-sponsor-of-democracy-propaganda/

Could be we don’t really care that politicians deceive us so long as they entertain us. Look how long it’s been going on. By our actions we seem to enjoy it. The roots, cheers, and chants are symptomatic of a defeated personality. Our willing participation in Washington’s two-party election charade is a form of surrender. To be exact (and I can’t remember where to credit the phrasing) it is surrender by appointment.





Guarding The Flame. Reflecting On The Herbal Medicine Traditions
by Vincent Di Stefano 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/10/guarding-the-flame-reflecting-on-the-herbal-medicine-traditions/

The Western herbal medicine tradition represents a neglected and devalued repository of much of the knowledge developed over many thousands of years of medical experience in Europe, the Mediterranean and the Americas. Practitioners of herbal medicine throughout the world continue to make use of several hundred medicinally-active plants many of which have a long and established history.