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Hundreds of National Football League players took part in symbolic protest actions against police violence Sunday, kneeling or sitting during the playing of the US national anthem before professional football games, or locking arms with those who did.
#TakeAKnee went viral as people across USA saw how players and teams respond to calls by President Donald Trump to punish players who do so.
Irwin Jerome calls it Trump's BDS movement and people stood up collectively and trashed it.
After being physically attacked in his home state by a crowd of upper castes, Dalit writer Kancha Ilaiah wrote "I am losing faith in the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of Speech also."
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In Defiance Of Trump Threats, US Athletes Protest Police Repression
by Patrick Martin
Hundreds of National Football League players took part in symbolic protest actions against police violence Sunday, kneeling or sitting during the playing of the US national anthem before professional football games, or locking arms with those who did.
Trump’s BDS Movement To Stop American Athlete’s Right To Protest!
by Irwin Jerome
President Trump has picked the right argument in America’s Cultural War, but his BDS Movement against America’s protesting NFL, NBA, MLB athletes First Amendment ‘Freedom of Speech’ rights is totally wrong-headed.
Angela Merkel: The Ikea Politician
by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Modular furniture divinities, or corporations, may not be the best points of comparison for a politician, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel has invited it. She is stable, reliable, self-assembled from history. But more to the point, she has managed to forge a workshop of political viewpoints, angles, and perspectives, a tent so vast it has neutralised opponents within and without her political base. Her capacity to deal in “flat pack centrism,” otherwise termed the “IKEA principle” has become textbook.
I Am Losing Faith: Kancha Ilaiah
by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
After being physically attacked in his home state by a crowd of upper castes, Dalit writer Kancha Ilaiah wrote "I am losing faith in the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of Speech also."
Children As Fodder – Review of Class War: The Privatization of Childhood
by Romi Mahajan
For Americans with means, Parenting has become pathology. In Class War, Megan Erickson explains this phenomenon with a combination of economic and sociological analysis coupled with enormous empathy. Drawing on broad-ranging knowledge, Erickson identifies causes of parents’ legitimate stress of which much is rooted in the Education System which itself derives its spirit not from notions of Citizenship but of Capitalism.
Imran Khan’s PTI: The New Face of Liberal Nationalism
by Nauman Sadiq
Unlike the elitist People’s Party, however, which is led by the Westernized Sindhi feudals and represents the traditional and rural masses of Sindh province, the broad-based and urban middle class vote bank of Imran Khan’s PTI is genuinely representative and liberal.
Is Health Care A Commodity Or Right?
Co-Written by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese
With just a week left before Congress’ budget reconciliation process ends, the Senate is once again peddling a poorly-thought out plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). If Senators vote before the September 30 deadline, they only need 50 votes instead of the filibuster-proof 60 votes to pass amendments. And once again, people are rising up in opposition to the plan, making it unpopular and unlikely to pass.
Poroshenko And Trudeau
by Jim Miles
Canada’s Ukrainian attitude is supported by its internal Ukrainian cohort and more broadly by its warmongering imperial backing of U.S. adventurism to capture…well, the world.
Western Propaganda In Southeast Asia — A True “Success Story”
by Andre Vltchek
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/09/25/western-propaganda-in-southeast-asia-a-true-success-story/
As the anti-imperialist coalition is getting stronger and wealthier, there could actually be some serious changes of heart in foreseeable future, at the top of several Southeast Asian countries. Even Communism could be finally legalized again, but only if it manages to disperse some funding, scholarships, and substantial grants.
Mr. Shantanu Bhowmik
by Atindriyo Chakraborty
This song is for Agartala-based journalist Shantanu Bhowmik who fell last Wednesday to the marauding wrath of Hindutva-Fascist forces who are stirring race-violence based on historical indignations and inequities in Tripura today
Light At The End Of The Tunnel
by Professor Francis A Boyle
The future of American foreign policy and the peace of the world lie in the hands of American citizens—not the bureaucrats, legislators, judges, lobbyists, think-tankers, professors, and self-styled experts who inhibit Washington, D.C., New York City, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Hyde Park/Chicago, Illinois. Civil resistance is the way to go! This is our Nuremberg Moment now! Thank you.
The Intolerance of Tolerance: Tony Abbott’s Head Butt Episode
by Dr Binoy Kampmark
It came, less out of the blue than out of the ether of the expected. “A 38 year old North Hobart man has been charged,” went the note from the Tasmanian Police Force, “following an alleged incident on Hobart’s waterfront yesterday afternoon.”[1] Former Australian prime minister and conservative high priest Tony Abbott had received a Liverpool kiss, a head butt that had left him, by his own admission, a slightly swollen lip. “I just want to shake your hand and just went bang,” came the description from a Hobart DJ, Astro ‘Funknuckl’ Labe.
The Female Face Of Poverty
by Moin Qazi
We increasingly have the tools to combat poverty. We know what to do; what we really need is to summon the political will.
Populism And The Current Crisis In Liberalism
Co-Written By Antaripa Bharali & Ankit Kawade
Populism does bring out the fallacies of the liberal-consensus model of democracy, and the relative popularity of populism as witnessed in many countries surely presents a case of a ‘crisis of legitimacy’ for liberalism. Nonetheless, populism does not get out of its reactionary mode in that it has so far failed in presenting an alternative model of a good life and ordering a new set of principles for a political community. The vacuum populism creates for itself after digging the grave of liberalism reveals that it faces its own ‘crisis of replacement’. It is the same paradox which Gramsci had faced, confronting a time when “the old is dying and the new is powerless to be born”. “In this interregnum”, he wrote “a great variety of morbid symptoms arise.” Populism just might be the morbid symptom of our time, and it is fatal to mistake the symptom for a cure.
South Asians Hold Rally For Rohingyas In Surrey
About 50 demonstrators showed up at a rally for Rohingya refugees at Surrey’s Holland Park on Saturday evening.
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