CounterCurrents: Bad news from America again, Violent Arrests As Police Begin Evacuating Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Camp

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Bad news from America again.

Riot police began violently arresting the remaining Dakota Access Pipeline protesters in the Oceti Sakowin Camp, following yesterday’s eviction deadline set by North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum. The first arrests occurred a few hours after the 2:00 pm deadline. Police rushed and tackled unarmed protesters and independent journalists, then retreated down the road, only to rush at protesters again. Eric Poemz, one of those attacked, was slammed onto the ground by the police, injuring his left hip and rendering him unable to walk.

Anti-Semitism raises its ugly head in America. Some 200 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in University City, Missouri, in the suburbs of St. Louis, were damaged or overturned by vandals late Sunday or early Monday, in the most serious in a wave of anti-Semitic threats and actions this year.

The Trump administration officially adopted new immigration enforcement policies yesterday that place all undocumented immigrants living in the US at risk of deportation. The new policies were outlined in Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memos leaked over the weekend. These memos were subjected to only minor changes before DHS Secretary John Kelly made them official on Monday.

Today is the 16th anniversary of the shameful Kunan Poshpora rapes in Kashmir. The victims are still seeking for justice.

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Violent Arrests As Police Begin Evacuating Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Camp
by Zaida Green 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/23/violent-arrests-as-police-begin-evacuating-dakota-access-pipeline-protest-camp/

Riot police began violently arresting the remaining Dakota Access Pipeline protesters in the Oceti Sakowin Camp, following yesterday’s eviction deadline set by North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum. The first arrests occurred a few hours after the 2:00 pm deadline. Police rushed and tackled unarmed protesters and independent journalists, then retreated down the road, only to rush at protesters again. Eric Poemz, one of those attacked, was slammed onto the ground by the police, injuring his left hip and rendering him unable to walk.





Mounting Anti-Semitic Attacks In US Draw Half-Hearted Response From Trump
  by Niles Niemuth 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/23/mounting-anti-semitic-attacks-in-us-draw-half-hearted-response-from-trump/


Some 200 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in University City, Missouri, in the suburbs of St. Louis, were damaged or overturned by vandals late Sunday or early Monday, in the most serious in a wave of anti-Semitic threats and actions this year.





Trump Administration Adopts Ruthless New Immigration Protocol
by Eric London 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/23/trump-administration-adopts-ruthless-new-immigration-protocol/


The Trump administration officially adopted new immigration enforcement policies yesterday that place all undocumented immigrants living in the US at risk of deportation. The new policies were outlined in Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memos leaked over the weekend. These memos were subjected to only minor changes before DHS Secretary John Kelly made them official on Monday.






Negative Hallucination à la Trump
by Mustapha Marrouchi 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/23/negative-hallucination-a-la-trump/


The English Language gave birth to William Shakespeare, John Keats, and James Joyce, to name but a few of the many bright stars.  It also spawned the likes of Donald J. Trump, a kind of genetically-modified product grown in a hothouse; a man who not only stumbles over every word he utters but coins new and bizarre phraseology to convey what he has in mind.    Think of ‘very amazing,’ ‘like never before,’ ‘extremely very bad people’ and the point will be clear enough.






The Trump-Netanyahu Circus: Now, No One Can Save Israel From Itself
by Dr Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/23/the-trump-netanyahu-circus-now-no-one-can-save-israel-from-itself/


The President of the United States can hardly be taken seriously, saying much but doing little. His words, often offensive, carry no substance, and it is impossible to summarize his complex political outlook about important issues. This is precisely the type of American presidency that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, prefers.





It’s Not Complicated
by Jeff Berg 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/23/its-not-complicated/

A great many find it hard to understand why we are doing so little to address the issue of climate change. They find it equally difficult to understand the size and reach of the ‘denial’ movement. Which brings me to the title of this piece. It’s not complicated.






MEDEAS: The Next Step After The Paris Climate Agreement
  by Ugo Bardi

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/23/medeas-the-next-step-after-the-paris-climate-agreement/

Giving an answer to this question is the ambitious task of the MEDEAS project which has now reached a full year of work and set up the basis for an extensive modeling effort. MEDEAS takes an approach mainly based on system dynamics, similar to the one of the well-known “The Limits to Growth” approach. It is not the only ongoing project in this area, others projects take different lines of approach.






The Child and the Chainsaw
by Richard Oxman  

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/23/the-child-and-the-chainsaw/

A rose doesn’t decide to provide its fragrance only for good people, nor deny its beauty to even the most evil people on earth. And a tree offers shade to anyone who comes under its umbrage. Also, with no discrimination.





A Little More Matriarchism And Egalitarianism
by Peter Van Els 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/23/a-little-more-matriarchism-and-egalitarianism/


Give women more opportunity to realize the world of tomorrow, because male dominance has not brought the promised Kingdom so far, and has not brought the Paradise on Earth, which is truly around us, but simply not seen. There is currently no world peace, which every sensible person strives for and desires.






Where’s The Justice For Kunan Poshpora?
by Sabarish Suresh

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/23/wheres-the-justice-for-kunan-poshpora/

On the night of February 23rd, 1991, the members of the 4thRajputana Riffles engaged in a cordon and search operation of two villages of Kashmir- Kunan and Poshpora. What was meant to be a cordon and search operation soon turned into a horrid gang-rape of at least 23 women, many estimates placing the numbers even beyond 100.





Conflict And Rapes In Kashmir
by Mushtaq Ul Haq Ahmad Sikander 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/23/conflict-and-rapes-in-kashmir/

Since the inception of armed insurgency in Kashmir, the military approach towards the insurgency has resulted in numerous rapes of innocent women. Various tactics were employed by the soldiers to rape women, who on the excuse of searching militants or arms would barge into a house and rape women, during crackdowns. A whole area would be sealed with men assembled at a community ground and women and girls left behind in the houses would be gang raped, during nocturnal raids women were raped, women were intimidated that if they wouldn’t comply and resist the gang rape their sons and husbands would be killed, revenge rapes were also perpetuated on innocent victims when an army man would be killed in the militant assault the army would rape women by barging into their homes, in some cases the male members of the family were first killed and then the women were raped.






Kashmir: A Simmering Volcano!
by Mohammad Ashraf 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/23/kashmir-a-simmering-volcano/

In spite of a lull after the last year’s upheaval, the whole of Kashmir seems to be simmering like a volcano waiting to eruptanytime without any warning!





Unfolding JNUSU AMUSU Deadlock
by Shafat Maqbool 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/23/unfolding-jnusu-amusu-deadlock/

The recent controversy between JNUSU and AMUSU has become one of the burning topic in the academic circles. The whole controversy started cooking up around “ALL INDIA STUDENTS LEADERS MEET” which was scheduled to be held on 18th Feb 2017 at Kennedy Auditorium, AMU.