CounterCurrents: Hillary Clinton Caused The Hell In Honduras, Justice Demanded Following Assassination Of Berta Cáceres, Erdogan Takes Over Zaman: Democracy Ends In Turkey

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Erdogan Takes Over Zaman: Democracy Ends In Turkey
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse050316.htm

The Turkish police entered the editorial offices of critical newspaper Zaman on Friday night. Accompanying videos there showed a police-state in which ‘security’ forces stormed through a crowd of protesters (readers of the newspaper) outside, into Turkey’s leading opposition newspaper, which is also Turkey’s leading English-language newspaper, Zaman, and arrested staffers there, taking them away, to who-knows-what fates


Justice Demanded Following Assassination Of Berta Cáceres
By Nika Knight

http://www.countercurrents.org/knight050316.htm

More than 50 humanitarian and environmental groups from around the world called on Friday for an independent international investigation into the assassination of Honduran Indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres, who was murdered in her sleep at 1am on Thursday by two unknown assailants


Hillary Clinton Caused The Hell In Honduras 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse050316A.htm

The murder in Honduras on March 3rd of the global prize-winning environmental activist Berta Cáceres is one of the current achievements (though indirect) of Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s decision in 2009 to allow the newly-installed coup-regime in that country to solidify and remain in power


Emergence Of Aggressive Nationalism In India 
By Shubhda Chaudhary

http://www.countercurrents.org/sc050316.htm

What we are witnessing now is the emergence of aggressive nationalism in India, which is baseless and very deluding. It endows greater voice and strength to people who have a mob mentality, ready to harass others with odious comments for the sake for defending the image of ‘Mother India’, in the process demeaning their own identity. The manner in which JNU had been ‘othered’ as an ‘Island of Dissent’ is very traumatizing, painting all the students of the campus in an ‘anti-national’ rhetoric. Any form of dissent is given so much of importance, creating a hullabaloo as if the ‘India of India is very fragile’


The Left Too Fall Into The Nationalist Trap
By Saswat Pattanayak

http://www.countercurrents.org/pattanayak050316.htm

Kanhaiya Kumar’s arrest was unfortunate and so his release on bail is a great relief. But beyond that, to seek revolutionary potential in the hoopla surrounding it, is to miss the point entirely. Competing for authentic nationalism to legitimize an oppressive power structure is not what the Communists do. Quite the opposite


JNU Movement: Dastan-e-Absence 
By Khatija Khader

http://www.countercurrents.org/khader050316.htm

Many authors have written about JNU as a critical and self-reflective space, a space that derives intellectual meanings out of debates and discussion, acknowledgement and engagement with various thoughts across the colour spectrum. However, now that the President of JNUSU has been released on bail and through unrelenting national, transnational and international solidarities, a broader consensus against Hindutva is emerging, it is time to ask if this movement led by JNU can integrate – not co-opt – the plurality of metaphors that can constitute various nationalisms or alternative visions. This is an important question, and a historic responsibility, that has been offered to JNU


Scourge Of The Scoundrels 
By Anand Teltumbde

http://www.countercurrents.org/teltumbde050316.htm

People lazily compare the situation with what prevailed in 1930s and 40s in Germany and Italy, when the storm troopers of Hitler and black-shirts of Mussolini beat up people on roads. But what is happening in India lately portends worse than Nazism and fascism. Because, the state today is far more powerful than Hitler’s or Mussolini’s, laced with technologies of precision surveillance and most importantly, matured to use liberal façade of democracy with fascist content not to show up ripples of repression anywhere


Who Is Soni Sori And What Does She Stand For? 
By Parijata Bhardwaj

http://www.countercurrents.org/bhardwaj050316.htm

As Soni now receives treatment it becomes important for us to not only get to know Soni Sori but also understand what she stands for and why the State is afraid of her


Biometric Aadhaar Bill Is An Exercise In “Colorable Legislation” 
By Citizens Forum for Civil Liberties

http://www.countercurrents.org/cfcl050316.htm

Fearing rejection of controversial biometric Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016[1] like The National Identification Authority of India Bill 2010, Union Finance Minister introduced the former as a Money Bill on March 3, 2016 in an exercise which is a fraud on the Constitution. It is a stark case of “cololorable” legislation in its essence. The ulterior motive is to legitimize the controversial “Aadhaar platform”


AMU Centres: Present And - Past Tense 
By Dr. Anwar Khursheed

http://www.countercurrents.org/khursheed050316.htm

The AMU virtually becomes sandwich in case of these centres; first we were pressed to establish them and now the same MHRD is bent upon to close them or if not so then create a situation of their slow death. The initial financial proposal was of Rs. 1400 Crore for Malappuram and Murshidabad Centres but as ever the dubious Congress sanctioned Rs. 349.55 Crore in XII five year plan and till date only Rs. 130 Crore is released. Only one year is left in this plan and the present government is in no mood to give anything more


Bhagat Singh 
By Periyar E.V.Ramasami

http://www.countercurrents.org/periyar050316.htm

The 1930s, especially the firt half of the decade, proved to be one of radical discontent in India. In the Tamil context, the Self-respect movement of E V Ramasamy Periyar urged forth a politics that brought together communist and anti-caste ideologies. It is in this context that this editorial in the Self-respect weekly, Kudiarasu (The Republic) ought to be read. It was written at a time when Periyar consistently and rigorously criticised Gandhi and the Congress – for their attempts to both mitigate the effect of and recoup socialism, the Poona Pact and their reliance on Indian capitalists. Bhagat Singh’s Why Am I an Atheist was translated into Tamil and published by the Self-respect movement during this period – and this resulted in the translator Jeevanandham and the publisher E V Krishnasamy being jailed


South Korea And The Art Of Collaboration 
By Andre Vltchek

http://www.countercurrents.org/vltchek050316.htm

If raw, naked propaganda makes you sick, stay away from South Korea (ROK)!


Hundreds Attend Ahwazi Rights Demonstration In Stockholm
By Rahim Hamid

http://www.countercurrents.org/hamid050316.htm

Hundreds of supporters of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz participated in a mass demonstration in front of the Iranian Embassy in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, on Friday, to express their solidarity with the Ahwazi Arab people and condemn the Iranian regime’s aggression against Ahwaz