Thursday, April 20, 2017

CounterCurrents: Trump – In North Korea You Will Be Murdering Human Beings!





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Trump – In North Korea You Will Be Murdering Human Beings!
by Andre Vltchek


Currently, as Donald Trump’s “armada” is speeding towards China and DPRK, I keep recalling those moments: the cliff, the lovers and a lone fisherman with his long rod at the other side of the river. Everything in my memory connected to those dawns is now motionless, serene.




China Reinforces Border Claims Within Days of Dalai Lama’s Visit To Arunachal Pradesh
by Abdus Sattar Ghazali


China has renamed six places in Arunachal Pradesh in retaliation against the Dalai Lama’s visit to India’s easternmost state. The move is apparently aimed at reaffirming Beijing’s territorial sovereignty to the region.




Review: Black Subjugation in America
by Kim Scipes 


Books Reviewed in this Essay:

Theodore W. Allen, The Invention of the White Race. London and New York: Verso, 2012.
Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. New York: Basic Books, 2014.
Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.




Kashmir Flood 2017: Yet Another Nightmare!
by Mohammad Ashraf 


Srinagar has once again passed through a nightmarish situation due to a sudden flood in River Jhelum. It is nature’s warning for a big one which may hit us soon unless preventive measures are taken on a war footing!





The Army As The Politicians Human Shield?
by S G Vombatkere 


The recent video clip of a civilian strapped to the front of an army vehicle deployed in internal security (IS) operations in Kashmir has made headlines. Many army veterans are defending it as a tactical means to avoid stone-pelting and thus permit operations with minimal bloodshed of protestors and army personnel alike. Some journalists aver that this tactic is “effective”, thereby obliquely justifying it, and there are of course journalists and citizens who outrightly approve of it.







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