CounterCurrents: I Am 16, Dalit, And A Video Of Me Being Tortured In Class Went Viral, Hottest September On Record Basically “Locks In” 2016 As Hottest Year: NASA, Zionism Is Racism,

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The Assault on Mosul is slowly gaining momentum. Advancing troops have captured 20 villages from Islamic State. However, a Peshmerga general has said that it will take at least two months to take control of the city. Even President Obama is circumspect. “Mosul will be a difficult fight and there will be advances and setbacks. Executing will be difficult and no doubt there will be instances where we see some heartbreaking circumstances. …. ” Confessions of the hitman who manufactured it in the first place! Jordan Shilton reports that there are chances that the Mosul assault could escalate into a wider sectarian conflict with Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, Turks, Iranians  getting involved in the conflict. 

Last month was the hottest September on record, which means 2016 is all but locked into being the hottest year on record, according to new NASA statistics released Tuesday. Dr. Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies tweeted “With data now available through September, 2016 annual record (~1.25ºC above late 19th [century]) seems locked in." This means that we are inches away from the dangerous threshold of 1.5 C. We are so far down the road to perdition!

Taj Hashmi who teaches security studies at Austin Peay State University warns that a “Gulf of Tonkin” situation may be emergin in the Red Sea. On Thursday Oct 13, US Tomahawk cruise missiles destroyed pro-Iranian / anti-Saudi Houthi rebels’ radar sites in Yemen, “retaliating after failed missile attacks this week on a U.S. Navy destroyer”, U.S. officials claimed. Washington has again complained about Houthi missile attacks on a US naval ship on Saturday, Oct 15. Meanwhile, Iran has deployed two warships off Yemen threatening to further escalate tensions after the US missile attacks. It’s most likely – if not inevitable – that the US military machine is going to invade Yemen, Syria, and finally, Iran.

The victim of the appalling video of the brutal beating of a dalit student in a school in Bihar speaks out in a heart breaking blog post

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Mosul Offensive Threatens To Inflame Sectarian Conflicts In Iraq And Syria
by Jordan Shilton 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/19/mosul-offensive-threatens-to-inflame-sectarian-conflicts-in-iraq-and-syria/

The offensive by the US-led coalition to retake Mosul continued Tuesday, as leading participants acknowledged the fighting could take months, and aid organizations issued dire warnings of the impact on the more than 1 million civilians living in Iraq’s second largest city.





Hottest September On Record Basically “Locks In” 2016 As Hottest Year: NASA
by Nadia Prupis 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/19/hottest-september-on-record-basically-locks-in-2016-as-hottest-year-nasa/

Last month was the hottest September on record, which means 2016 is all but locked into being the hottest year on record, according to new NASA statistics released Tuesday. “With data now available through September, 2016 annual record (~1.25ºC above late 19th [century]) seems locked in,” tweeted Dr. Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.





America’s New “Gulf of Tonkin” In The Red Sea: Another Excuse To Invade Yemen, Syria, And Then Iran!
by Taj Hashmi 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/19/americas-new-gulf-of-tonkin-in-the-red-sea-another-excuse-to-invade-yemen-syria-and-then-iran/

Signs are ominous! On Thursday Oct 13, US Tomahawk cruise missiles destroyed pro-Iranian / anti-Saudi Houthi rebels’ radar sites in Yemen, “retaliating after failed missile attacks this week on a U.S. Navy destroyer”, U.S. officials claimed. Washington has again complained about Houthi missile attacks on a US naval ship on Saturday, Oct 15. Meanwhile, Iran has deployed two warships off Yemen threatening to further escalate tensions after the US missile attacks. It’s most likely – if not inevitable – that the US military machine is going to invade Yemen, Syria, and finally, Iran.






Israel’s Bogus History Lesson
by Jonathan Cook 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/19/israels-bogus-history-lesson/

It was presumably intended as an Israeli history lesson to the world. A video posted to social media by Israel’s foreign ministry shows an everyday Jewish couple, Jacob and Rachel, in a home named the “Land of Israel”. A series of knocks on the door brings 3,000 years of interruptions to their happiness. First it’s the Assyrians, followed by the Babylonians, Hellenists, Arabs, Romans, Crusaders, Mamluks, and Ottomans – all straight out of Monty Python central casting.






Zionism Is Racism
by Dr Ludwig Watzal 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/19/zionism-is-racism/

Hardly any knowledgeable person doubts that Zionist ideology is the purest form of racism. Zionism is Jewish disguised racism as a raison d’etat. Israel comes right after the U. S., as far as racism is concerned. That is why the U. S. donates to this racist regime $ 3.8 bn per year in order to keep this occupation regime going. Should anybody doubt the racism of the Israeli leadership, read the following article.





Nauru, Refugees And The Torture Complex
by Dr Binoy Kampmark 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/19/nauru-refugees-and-the-torture-complex/

A closer look at the spectacle that is Nauru’s processing facility suggests a few illusions which the propaganda preachers have been at pains to engender. The pedantic will draw upon the point that those in the facility are not technically detained, being allowed, like protected animals in an enclosed safari park, to wander around – within reason.






The Appalling U.S. Presidential Election
by Dr Arshad M Khan 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/19/the-appalling-u-s-presidential-election/

On the eve of the last presidential debate, some observations on this unique election are in order.  In the forty years I have been following US presidential elections, I have never seen a more crass, a more vulgar and for most citizens a more embarrassing election campaign.  Bimbos to the left of them, bimbos to the right of them, onward charged the two candidates — with apologies to Lord Tennyson.





Revolutionary Islam And Regime Change In Ethiopia
by Thomas C Mountain 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/19/revolutionary-islam-and-regime-change-in-ethiopia/

With ethnic uprisings spreading across an Ethiopia now ruled by martial law there is only one nationally based organization in place to lead the eventual regime change in the country and that is the revolutionary Islamic movement.




I Am 16, Dalit, And A Video Of Me Being Tortured In Class Went Viral

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/10/19/i-am-16-dalit-and-a-video-of-me-being-tortured-in-class-went-viral/

The victim of the appalling video of the brutal beating of a dalit student in a school in Bihar speaks out