CounterCurrents: They Don’t Spare Even Old Women, U.S. Leaders Didn’t Stop The Nazi Holocaust. They Won’t Stop The Next One Either

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India is falling deeper and deeper into economic crisis. Economic activities in small towns and villages, about 80 % of India, is grinding to a halt. Respected journalist P. Sainath reports from  Chikalthana village where Prime Minister Narendra Modi's dream of cashless India has already been achieved!

Aabha Joshi, Neethu Saji and Kritika brings out a short video of the plight of an old women fighting diabetes, has a heart condition and just came out of ICU who stood for a whole day in front of a bank and still didn't get money. Such stories are abound in India. 

USA is going through a different kind of political churning. While some are shouting "Not My President", The Sioux and others are showing the way with their defiance, standing up for the whole country and the whole world. Irwin Jerome writes, "Many Americans now are still caught up with navel-gazing over the cause of the U.S. Election results, or bemoaning, “Woe is Me! What Are We All To Do?” But while America continues to spin its wheels the Sioux and their allies are now engaged in the same pitched hot war that America will have to one day fight if it intends to survive. America has to wake up and realize that the  struggle in which the Sioux currently are engaged is also theirs, and come to their aid very soon – LIKE TODAY. Otherwise, the same hot war will eventually explode in every hamlet, village, town or city across the land. When it does, who will then come to their aid?"

Daag Ujjala questions the system that threw up Donald Trump as President and asks the question "Is what democracy really is?". This question should reverberate all around the world where the so called 'democracy' is practiced. Yes, it's time we cleaned up the 'system' for a better world. 

What if your child is afraid to play 'hide and seek'? What if while playing it, an army man puts a gun on the head of a 7 year old? Rameez Bhat writes from Kashmir. 

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The Cashless Economy Of Chikalthana
by P. Sainath 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/20/the-cashless-economy-of-chikalthana/

In Chikalthana village, on the edge of and merging with Aurangabad town in Maharashtra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream of a cashless economy seems to have been realised. Nobody has any cash. Not the banks, nor the ATMs and certainly not the people queuing up in and around them in despair. Even the policemen sitting in the vans outside bank branches haven’t any.





Demonetisation: India Speaks -Part V – They Don’t Spare Even Old Women
Video by Aabha Joshi, Neethu Saji and Kritika

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/19/demonetisation-india-speaks-part-iv-they-dont-spare-even-old-women/

Here is the plight of an old women fighting diabetes, has a heart condition and just out of ICU





U.S. Leaders Didn’t Stop The Nazi Holocaust. They Won’t Stop The Next One Either
by Mickey Z 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/20/u-s-leaders-didnt-stop-the-nazi-holocaust-they-wont-stop-the-next-one-either/

Who also knew that as a fascist rose to power in the most powerful nation in the history of the world, so many people would downplay the consequences and decide to “wait and see”?  Men’s Rights Activists and white supremacists are being placed into positions of power but all around me, I see “good Germans.” Thus, since the current situation is evoking WWII/Holocaust comparisons, I thought it’d be helpful to recall and rebuke the silence and complicity that greeted the Final Solution.





Sioux Already Battling On The Front Lines: Why Is The Rest Of America Still AWOL or MIA?
by Irwin Jerome 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/20/sioux-already-battling-on-the-front-lines-why-is-the-rest-of-america-still-awol-or-mia/

Many Americans now are still caught up with navel-gazing over the cause of the U.S. Election results, or bemoaning, “Woe is Me! What Are We All To Do?” But while America continues to spin its wheels the Sioux and their allies are now engaged in the same pitched hot war that America will have to one day fight if it intends to survive. America has to wake up and realize that the  struggle in which the Sioux currently are engaged is also theirs, and come to their aid very soon – LIKE TODAY. Otherwise, the same hot war will eventually explode in every hamlet, village, town or city across the land. When it does, who will then come to their aid?






Why Democracy Lovers Can’t Wait
by Daag Ujjala 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/19/why-democracy-lovers-cant-wait/

Since Donald Trump’s victory in the most bizarre US presidential election in memory, pundits, Rightists, “democrats” and even Barack Obama himself have called upon people to support ideas and results that go against their own feelings, ethics, and desires.    This, apparently, is what “Democracy” is all about.  






Of Kashmir’s Current Eerie Calm
by Mohammad Shoaib 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/20/of-kashmirs-current-eerie-calm/

During an unstable situation of extreme difficulty one gets pained by not only pointing out the cruelties of State but also of different stakeholders who are showing their shrewdness and fictitious character by doing lamentful acts. Such selfish persons are many, but to my touching experience real culprits are those persons who sell consumer goods at sky touching prices. 





Kashmir: In Search Of Lost Paradise
by Rameez Bhat 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/20/kashmir-in-search-of-lost-paradise/

Our blooming buds (children) are psychologically depressed now. When I was in a 2nd standard I used to play hide and seek with my friends. One day a call from the neighbour frightened us as the army had cordoned off our village in search of a militant. While we still continued to play, an army man unluckily approached where I had hidden myself. He ruffled his gun and pointed on my head as if he thought a 7 year old child would be the chief of the commander of the guerilla group. I screamed in front of him till somebody told him that these children were playing hide and seek. Only then did he leave. That day was the last day when I said good bye to the hide and seek game; as my parents didn’t allow me to play it again