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Shah Alam Khan, a professor of Orthopaedics at India's premier hospital, All India Institue of Medical Sciences, writes a story of hunger. But it turns out to be perhaps the most horrific story that CC has ever published. Read and ponder.
Journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh's death has shaken India. Thousands are still protesting around the country and world.
Gauri Lankesh's lawyer says "We need to state this loud and clear: it is the work of hindutva terror units. Gauri knew this. She never spoke any other language”
Also more stories from the world.
In Solidarity
Binu Mathew
Editor
www.countercurrents.org
Heart of Hunger
by Prof Shah Alam Khan
Horror of Horrors .... Read and ponder
Hindutva Terror Units Killed Gauri Lankesh, Says Her Lawyer
by Geeta Seshu
Asked if her work on the surrender and rehabilitation of Maoists and whether there was a ‘naxalite’ angle to the killing, as alleged by a prominent English language television channel, Adv Venkatesh felt that such conjectures only served to destabilize the investigation. We need to state this loud and clear: it is the work of hindutva terror units. Gauri knew this. She never spoke any other language,” he reiterated.
A Letter Written Posthumously
by Anitha S
But somewhere hidden in your writings I do chance upon the solid citadel of hope you had managed to make : the hope in communicating to the young and gleaning out their vision of life and future, freedom and commitment, love and justice, courage and steadfastness. Your brief writings on Junaid breaks the heart with its promise of better times and attitudes
Bullet Proof
by Reena Prasad
The gun is gone but the smoke reaffirms
This was a salute
This is the way they honor us at our best
With their best
Celebrating ‘Vadh’ (Killing) Of Opponents Is Embedded In The Hindutva Politics
by Shamsul Islam
. Those criminals who are celebrating ‘vadh’ of Gouri Lankesh on social media or otherwise are hardened Hindutva practitioners who believe in converting democratic-secular India into a Hindu Pakistan. In fact, it has been an old practice of Hindutva practitioners to celebrate the killing of opponents as ‘vadh’. They did it after the killings of Narender Dhabolkar, Govind Pansare and Professor MM Kalburgi.
Now What?
by Mirza Yawar Baig
Gauri Lankesh was executed. What else do you call a bullet in the forehead? We know why. The question to those who did it and those with whose support they did it is, ‘Now what?’
Murder of Gauri Lankesh : An Attack On Media or Ideology ?
by Vidya Bhushan Rawat
Yes, to be candid, Gauri Lankesh died for a secular democratic cause. She became victim of hatred. She did not die because she was a journalist but because she fought against the Hindutva hatred in India.
Homage To Gauri Lankesh
by T H Sreerama
The killing spree continues
Like that of a serial killer
Looking out for targeted attacks
First Dabholkar, then Pansare
Then Kalburgi and Lankesh
Gauri Lankesh: A Bullet To Dissent
by Aabha J
The fascists today have come to power through the means of democracy but the only way to challenge the fascist trends is by confronting them head on with rage, humor, anger, with songs of dissent and words powerful enough to overthrow tyranny.
The Long Chain, A Tribute To Gauri Lankesh
by Sally Dugman
Her pathway forward was not for naught.
We’ll honor her by continuing her in perpetuity
and for as long as caring humans exist on this Earth.
No, we will not stop since we are one despite her murder,
and since she and we are bonded through ALL time to be the same.
Rally For Gauri Lankesh Held In BC, Canada
The local South Asian activists came together to hold demonstration against the gruesome murder of Gauri Lankesh at the Holland Park in Surrey on Wednesday evening
Remedying Rohynga Genocide
by M Adil Khan
In Myanmar’s game of things Aung San Su Kyi is nothing but a ‘whipping boy’ for the prince, the Junta and also given the lackadaisical attitude of the international community on the issue what is needed is a concerted and combined effort by the citizens to wage a movement right around the world (happily, this has already started) to get their governments to put pressure on the entity in Myanmar that matters most, its real rulers, the Juntato immediatelystop all violence and start adialogue to find a solution for Rohyngasthat is mutually acceptable and also permanent solution
Trump The Terrible
by Dr Arshad M Khan
How did a businessman and TV reality show star with absolutely no political experience, who was manifestly a diplomatic zero, get elected in the first place? As they say in the press, he was good copy — “… damn good for CBS,” said CEO Leslie Moonves. The coverage Trump attracted and received gratis from U.S. media was worth $5 billion according to mediaQuant. Trump has a knack for it, and the media are happy to go along — it generates ad revenues.
Over 100 Days In Jail
by Arun Kali Raja
Thirumurugan Gandhi, an activist and chief co-ordinator of the May 17 Movement and Daison, Ilamaran and Arun Kumar of Tamilarvidiyalkatchi are behind Bars in Tamil Nadu for over 100 days.
Profit Maximization Is Easy: Invest in Violence
by Robert J Burrowes
For those of us committed to systematically reducing and, one day, ending human violence, it is vital to understand what is causing and driving it so that effective strategies can be developed for dealing with violence in its myriad contexts. For an understanding of the fundamental cause of violence, see ‘Why Violence?’
Taking Aim: WikiLeaks, Congress And Hostile Agencies
by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Various scribbles have started to pepper the conversation started by the adventurous Mike Pompeo after he branded WikiLeaks a hostile intelligence agency before the Center for Strategic and International Studies. (This would have generated a wry smile of content from Julian Assange.)
Review: “Inglorious Empire. What The British Did To India” by Shashi Tharoor
by Dr Gideon Polya
“Inglorious Empire. What the British did to India” by writer and celebrated Congress MP Shashi Tharoor is a must-read, powerful, 294-page excoriation of 200 years of rapacious British rule over India that should be in every library, and especially those in British Commonwealth countries. However Tharoor is iconoclast-lite and massively understates the horrendous mass murder of Indians through imposed deprivation that occurred under the British and continues today in a neoliberal-dominated India.
Cheating American Workers Out Of Their Social Security
by Dr Nayvin Gordon
For decades billionaire Foundations and conservative politicians have been spreading the big lie that Social Security is broke. Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels wrote, “When one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it”. The fact is that the US Government has borrowed some $3 Trillion from the Social Security Trust Fund—money now owed by Uncle Sam to millions of working Americans. Social Security is only broke if Uncle Sam defaults on its debts to us!!
Will Demonetization Results Put An End To Bhaktism?
by T Navin
With Demonetization results out and with a clear verdict emerging about its failure, will it put an end to Bhakt culture? Will the Bhakts, the aspirtant middle class stop lending support to a Despotic leader? Or the world of illusion continues about a new India by 2022 and the despotic leader brought back in 2019? Time will perhaps decide.
Typical Deception By The New York Times
by Eric Zuesse
Here’s a common example of authentically fake-news journalism, the type that’s pervasive in the U.S. — not something like “Saddam’s WMD,” which changed history, but the ordinary everyday type of lies by the American press, being mixed-in with truths so as not to be 100% fictitious, but just enough truths so as to gild the lily of lies that all of the ‘news’media, right and left, glorify, in a bipartisan way, as ‘Truth’, which is the most normal type of American ‘news’-reporting of all — bipartisan, while still being extremely partisan against truth, which is carefully (and assiduously) hidden
A World in Which Pinochet Is Better Than Communists!
by Gaither Stewart
Reporting on the still unresolved abduction and murder of statesman, Aldo Moro, by the Red Brigades in 1978—or at least in their name—the current Rome occasionally left-wing investigative magazine, Espresso, reports that not only the USA but also many European leaders considered Premier Moro’s project to bring the Italian Communist Party (PCI) into the Rome government destabilizing and of the utmost danger to European security. Thus, on both sides of the Atlantic, the Premier himself was considered an obstacle to be removed at all costs.
Concession Fatigue in Connecticut
by John O’Connor
For the third time in eight years, public sector workers in Connecticut have voted for concessions. State employees have sacrificed a total of $7 billion to close budget deficits in 2009, 2011, and now 2017.
Utterances From Pakistan: Revealing, Startling
by Farooque Chowdhury
“According to Asif, the BRICS concerns about the militant groups should not be considered as China’s official stance as other countries — Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa — are also a part of the group. He, however, hailed China’s role in ensuring that the declaration also highlighted the name of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, which he said is based in Afghanistan and carries out terrorism attacks in Pakistan.
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