CounterCurrents: Armed Police Descend On Water Protectors At DAPL Site, Iran Inflicts Environmental Catastrophe In Ahwaz Region,

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Police descended on water protectors in North Dakota on Wednesday. People on the ground said women and children were being evacuated from the protest camps, multiple people had already been maced, and police had fired rubber bullets, injuring at least one person.

Another Nobel Peace Prize winner is in the fore front of violating human rights of its own citizen. Much revered Aung San Suu Kyi led government in  Myanmar has decided to arm and train the non Muslim local people to unleash them on the hapless Rohingya Muslims. 

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Armed Police Descend On Water Protectors At DAPL Site
by Nadia Prupis 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/03/armed-police-descend-on-water-protectors-at-dapl-site/

Police descended on water protectors in North Dakota on Wednesday, as images on social media showed a dramatic standoff along a creek that borders a construction site for the long-opposed Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)





Report From Standing Rock—Fierce Resilience As The Black Snake Approaches The River
by Sarah van Gelder 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/03/report-from-standing-rock-fierce-resilience-as-the-black-snake-approaches-the-river/

After watching the police actions of last Thursday, I decided I had to come back to Standing Rock. Here’s my first report …






Myanmar Police To Arm, Train Non-Muslims In Conflict Area Of Rakhine State
by Dr Vivek Kumar Srivastava 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/03/myanmar-police-to-arm-train-non-muslims-in-conflict-area-of-rakhine-state/

In Myanmar government has decided to arm and train the non Muslim local people in order to enhance the security in the Rakhine State where the ethnic problems between the Rohingya Muslims and Buddhist residents prevail. The move is being treated as to crush the Rohingya Muslims who have been denied any substantial rights within the state and the ethnic persecution of this tiny community is underway.






Why Palestinians Want To Sue Britain: 99 Years Since The Balfour Declaration
by Dr Ramzy Baroud 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/03/why-palestinians-want-to-sue-britain-99-years-since-the-balfour-declaration/

Last July, the Palestinian Authority took the unexpected, although belated step of seeking Arab backing in suing Britain over the Balfour Declaration. That ‘declaration’ was the first ever explicit commitment made by Britain, and the West in general, to establish a Jewish homeland atop an existing Palestinian homeland.






OROP: Lies, False Claims, Suicide
by S G Vombatkere 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/03/orop-lies-false-claims-suicide/

Veteran Subedar Ram Kishan Grewal, aged 70 years, unhappy at government not providing OROP to Veterans, committed suicide in Delhi on November 2, 2016, by consuming poison.






Iran Inflicts  Environmental Catastrophe In Ahwaz Region
by Rahim Hamid 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/03/iran-inflicts-environmental-catastrophe-in-ahwaz-region/

Ahwazi     environmental activists are reporting an accelerating environmental catastrophe in the once verdant Hor al Azim marshlands in Ahwaz near the Iraqi border with Iran.  The latest reports reveal that Iranian authorities recently excavated large areas of land in the marshlands, covering these in thick plastic sheeting to use as open pits for the storage of millions of barrels of oil.






Is Popular Support For Suicide Terrorism Growing In Bangladesh?
by Taj Hashmi 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/03/is-popular-support-for-suicide-terrorism-growing-in-bangladesh/

It’s absurd! It’s preposterous to suggest that around 40 per cent of Bangladeshis favour suicide terrorism. Yet this is what some American think tanks and “expert analysts” have recently come up with in their reports, to the detriment of Bangladesh’s reputation. Muslims in Bangladesh – around 90 per cent of the population – are peaceful, liberal, devotional, and even syncretistic, unlike their counterparts in the Middle East, Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.





A Man Who Makes Videos To Tell The Agony Of Oppression!
by Nilantha Ilangamuwa

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/03/a-man-who-makes-videos-to-tell-the-agony-of-oppression/

“I make videos, that’s my tool, I believe this is one of the significant ways to raise the voice of the voiceless,” the man  behind a remarkable work on recording, editing and publishing the stories of the victims of suppressed society across Asia, has started narrating.





Kashmir: Barometers Of Political Normalcy
by Mohammad Ashraf 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/03/kashmir-barometers-of-political-normalcy/

The reality of the ground situation in Kashmir cannot be hidden by using some activities as barometers of Political Normalcy.






PC&PNDT Act: No Implementation In 23 States/UTs Despite 1.3 Million Girls Missing Every Year
by Asian Centre For Human Rights

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/03/pcpndt-act-no-implementation-in-23-statesuts-despite-1-3-million-girls-missing-every-year/

Asian Centre for Human Rights released its 290 page report, “The State of the PC&PNDT Act: India’s losing battle against female foeticide”, the first ever comprehensive study on the status of implementation of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PC&PNDT) Act, 1994






The Search For Radical Alternatives: Key Elements And Principles
by Ashish Kothari 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/03/the-search-for-radical-alternatives-key-elements-and-principles/

Can there be a collective search for paradigms and pathways towards a world that is sustainable, equitable and just? How can such frameworks and visions build on an existing heritage of ideas and worldviews and cultures, and on past or new grassroots practice? How can they be fundamentally different from today’s dominant economic and political system, which has brought the world to the brink of ecological collapse and the depths of socio-economic inequalities and despair? Can they provide rays of hope in what currently seems to be a worsening situation of social tension and conflicts, the resurgence of regressive right-wing forces, and suffering caused by environmental damage.