CounterCurrents: Coalition forces Enter Mosul, Maersk Scraps Ships At Dangerous Shipyards In India

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The coalition forces have entered Mosul. It is reported that street fighting is going on between coalition forces and ISIS in Mosul. Coalition forces have taken over the TV building. Meanwhile nearly 40,000 people have fled the city. Jordan Shilton reports that  the various forces currently aligned against ISIS are pursuing conflicting and even mutually antagonistic goals that threaten to tear Iraq apart as well as escalating into a wider war. 

The India-Pakistan border also is simmering. A teenage girl was killed and three others injured as India and Pakistan exchanged heavy gunfire and shelling along the border in Jammu and Kashmir today.  The 19-year-old girl was killed in Ramgarh sector of Samba district in Jammu.Three civilians were injured in heavy mortar shelling in Kalal village of Nowshera sector of Rajouri district. Forward villages of Mendhar sub-division of Poonch district have also come under heavy mortar shelling. 

Maersk has sent two ships to be recycled at a shipyard in India considered by experts to be dangerous. It is in violation of many international conventions on ship breaking. Toxics Watch Alliance in India has  demanded a probe into the murky deals of Maersk

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Sectarian Tensions Rise In Iraq As Mosul Offensive Enters Third Week
by Jordan Shilton

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/01/sectarian-tensions-rise-in-iraq-as-mosul-offensive-enters-third-week/

Iraqi government troops entered the eastern outskirts of Mosul Monday, as the US-backed offensive launched October 17 to recapture the country’s second largest city from the Islamic State began its third week. But the advances of Iraqi government soldiers, Peshmerga fighters and Sunni and Shia militias could not conceal the fact that growing sectarian tensions are threatening to vastly intensify the bloody conflict in Iraq and Syria and draw the major powers into a direct military clash. 





Forget The Trump-Clinton Charade: It’s Time To Wake Up America!
by Colin Todhunter 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/01/forget-the-trump-clinton-charade-its-time-to-wake-up-america/

There will only be one group of winners: the interlocking oligarchy of financial, oil, military, agribusiness and pharmaceuticals interests than run the U.S. Whether it’s Trump or Clinton, policy nuances aside, Washington’s empire will stumble on. And it will do so not because of its inherent dynamism but because of its lies, manipulations, militarism and ability to crush any tendencies that exist towards a multi-polar world.





Maersk Scraps Ships At Dangerous Shipyards In India
by Claus Nordahl 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/01/maersk-scraps-ships-at-dangerous-shipyards-in-india/

Maersk has sent two ships to be recycled at a shipyard in India considered by experts to be dangerous. Cancer, mutilation and death caused by a lack of protective equipment threaten employees, according to occupational safety experts that have reviewed Danwatch’s documentation. Maersk concedes that there are problems.





Revealed Maersk’s Murky Deals Promote Waste Imperialism And Lobbying For Proposed Regressive Hong Kong Convention
by Toxics Watch Alliance 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/01/revealed-maersks-murky-deals-promote-waste-imperialism-and-lobbying-for-proposed-regressive-hong-kong-convention/

Toxics Watch Alliance demands a probe into the murky deals of Maersk 






Having A Flutter: The Melbourne Cup And The Australian Gambler
by Dr Binoy Kampmark

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/01/having-a-flutter-the-melbourne-cup-and-the-australian-gambler/

Over the course of the day, the relevant spectacle is not that of dashing horses and their desperate jockeys dashing to the finishing line, but of collapsing punters, their fascinators and suits crumpled and soaked, flailing in mud and excreta. 






Poor Women: A Voiceless Underclass
by Moin Qazi 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/01/poor-women-a-voiceless-underclass/

Over the years several strategies have been used to empower women .One of them relies on community groups whose members   can be trained and equipped to use their collective strength and wisdom to tackle their problems. It needs great emotional intensity to break through age old barriers .This can be possible only through groups who share the same emotional values and are driven by   strong impulses of mutual goals.  Together the women create a critical mass and change the perception of what women can do .





End Repression In Kashmir: A Call From The Civil Society

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/01/end-repression-in-kashmir-a-call-from-the-civil-society/

We, the undersigned, are dismayed over the ongoing crisis in Kashmir. We have watched in horror and shock the repetitive cycle of state aggression leading to violence, deteriorating state of civil liberties, violation of fundamental rights and ever escalating loss of human life and dignity in Kashmir. In the last 115 days, we have lost over 100 lives in Kashmir.More than 15,000 civilians have been injured, out of which 4500 persons have suffered grievous injuries due to pellet-guns, 4664 have been injured by bullets






Why Even After 32 Years Of 1984 Sikh Massacre Perpetrators Roam Free?
by Shamsul Islam 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/01/why-even-after-32-years-of-1984-sikh-massacre-perpetrators-roam-free/

The Indian State which claims to be committed to get justice to Sikh community for 1984 massacre must look at one crucial document of the period to locate large numbers of perpetrators. This document can be a crucial source of finding out many more sadist killers. This document may throw some light on the unhidden aspects of the genocide. It was authored and circulated by a veteran ideologue of the RSS, Nana Deshmukh on November 8, 1984. Interestingly, this document was published in the Hindi Weekly Pratipaksh edited by George Fernandes (Defence Minister of India 1999-2004 who continued to be a great pal of the RSS) in its edition of November 25, 1984 titled ‘Indira Congress-RSS collusion’ with the following editorial comment





PUCL Demands Judicial Enquiry Into Malkangiri Encounter Killings
by People’s Union for Civil Liberties 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/01/pucl-demands-judicial-enquiry-into-malkangiri-encounter-killings/

PUCL expresses its strongest sense of outrage and condemnation for the killing of about 39 members of the CPI (Maoist) party and other Adivasis near Balimela reservoir in Malkangiri district of Odisha close to the Odisha – AP border on 24th October, 2016. Though the police claim that the killings were a result of a sudden encounter and resultant fire-fight, all the available circumstantial information indicates that there is sufficient ground to disbelieve the story put forth by the police and Government.