CounterCurrents: U.S. Caves To Russia On Syria — Won’t Continue Protecting Al Qaeda, Wall Street’s Destruction Of Sacred Sioux Indian Burial Grounds

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Day 65 of Kashmir shut down. A youth from Wadwan area of central Kashmir’s Budgam district who was injured in forces’ action in Narbal  succumbed to his injuries today. The deceased, identified as Javaid Ahmad, son of Ghulam Muhammad Dar, breathed his last at the hospital around noon on Sunday.  Death toll now is 80. Meanwhile, clashes continue across the value between youth and security forces.

U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning announced she began a hunger strike in protest of her prison conditions as she serves a 35-year sentence for leaking classified documents.

An arrest warrant has been issued in North Dakota for Democracy Now! host and executive producer Amy Goodman. Goodman was charged with criminal trespassing, a misdemeanor offense. A team from Democracy Now! was in North Dakota last week to cover the Native American-led protests against the Dakota Access pipeline.

Irwin Jerome writes about the criminal conspiracy between Wall Street and the government in trying to dig up the  sacred burial grounds of the Standing Rock Sioux people for building the North Dakota Pipeline.

We've an inspirational urban gardening story from Berlin  where “indigenous” city dwellers work side-by-side with long-time Turkish residents to grow vegetables in neighborhood gardens and community gardens. They also use Web 2.0 technology to tag the locations of fruit trees whose apples and other fruits can be picked for free

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Chelsea Manning Begins Hunger Strike Against Prison Conditions

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/11/chelsea-manning-begins-hunger-strike-against-prison-conditions/

U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning announced she began a hunger strike in protest of her prison conditions as she serves a 35-year sentence for leaking classified documents.





Arrest Warrant Issued For Amy Goodman In North Dakota After Covering Pipeline Protest

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/11/arrest-warrant-issued-for-amy-goodman-in-north-dakota-after-covering-pipeline-protest/

An arrest warrant has been issued in North Dakota for Democracy Now! host and executive producer Amy Goodman. Goodman was charged with criminal trespassing, a misdemeanor offense. A team from Democracy Now! was in North Dakota last week to cover the Native American-led protests against the Dakota Access pipeline.





Wall Street’s Destruction Of Sacred Sioux Indian Burial Grounds
by Irwin Jerome 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/11/wall-streets-destruction-of-sacred-sioux-indian-burial-grounds/

Energy Transfer Partners and its coterie of Fat Cats recently sent in a fleet of Caterpillar tractors to intentionally destroy the culturally-sensitive, sacred burial grounds of the Standing Rock Sioux people before their legal representatives could address relevant state and federal protocols in a court of law, or North Dakota’s State Historic Preservation Office could do a proper survey of the area. One could either call it a stroke of genius or stupidity, matched only, perhaps, by the diabolical craftiness of North Dakota Governor Dalrymple who sought to cut off all the cell phone and internet WiFi reception in the contested Sioux lands of North Dakota to try to muzzle any factual accounts from ever reaching the outside world.





Practicing Commons In Community Gardens: Urban Gardening As A Corrective For Homo Economicus
by Christa Muller 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/11/practicing-commons-in-community-gardens-urban-gardening-as-a-corrective-for-homo-economicus/

The new gardening movement is young, colorful and socially heterogeneous. In Berlin, “indigenous” city dwellers work side-by-side with long-time Turkish residents to grow vegetables in neighborhood gardens and community gardens; pick-your-own gardens and farmers’ gardens are forming networks with one another. The intercultural gardening movement is continuing to expand in striking ways, as seen on the online platform Mundraub.org, which uses Web 2.0 technology to tag the locations of fruit trees whose apples and other fruits can be picked for free





American Muslims 15 Years After 9/11/2001
by Abdus Sattar Ghazali 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/11/american-muslims-15-years-after-9112001/

All is not downbeat for the American Muslims. Despite prevalent negative public opinion American Muslims get support from the fellow Americans in their time of distress.




U.S. Caves To Russia On Syria — Won’t Continue Protecting Al Qaeda
by Eric Zuesse 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/11/u-s-caves-to-russia-on-syria-wont-continue-protecting-al-qaeda/

On Friday, September 9th, America’s Secretary of State John Kerry, and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, came to an agreement on Syria, for the second time. (The previous agreement fell apart). Like the first ‘cease-fire’, this one concerns the ongoing occupation of many parts of Syria by foreign jihadists, who have been hired by America’s allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar, in order to overthrow Syria’s President, Bashar al-Assad. (It’s nothing like a democratic revolution there; it’s a war over pipelines.)