Dear Friend,
The linking of Aadhaar to food rations in India are taking even more lives. Three More Aadhaar Linked Starvation Deaths Reported In Karnataka
The jailing this week of the leaders of the largest separatist organisations in Catalonia—Jordi Sànchez of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) and Jordi Cuixart of Òmnium Cultural—was met with demonstrations throughout Catalonia culminating in a 200,000-strong protest in Barcelona on Tuesday night. The incarceration of the two marks the first jailings of political prisoners since the end of the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco.
Also more stories from around the world.
If you don't mind, and if you think the content of this news letter is critical for the dignified living and survival of humanity and other species on earth, please forward it to your friends and spread the word. It's time for humanity to come together as one family! You can subscribe to our news letter here http://www.countercurrents.org/news-letter/.
In Solidarity
Binu Mathew
Editor
www.countercurrents.org
Three More Aadhaar Linked Starvation Deaths Reported In Karnataka
Fact Finding Report
The New Indian Express on 16th July 2017 carried a report that three members of a Dalit family died within 15 days in Gokarna district, due to starvation. It was further stated in the report that the deceased possessed BPL cards but did not get ration since April, as they did not have Aadhaar numbers, however, the District Commissioner denied that the death was caused due to starvation and said that excessive consumption of Alcohol by the three victims was the reason for the deaths.
भूख – गुमनाम अंधेरा
by Shalini Newar
आधार ही क्या अब जीवन का अधार है
आधार ही से क्या अब जीवन का संचार है
बन्द किवाड़ो के पिछे से सुनाई पड़ती है सिसकती आहें
200,000 Protest Jailing of Catalonian Nationalist Leaders in Barcelona
by Paul Mitchell
The jailing this week of the leaders of the largest separatist organisations in Catalonia—Jordi Sànchez of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) and Jordi Cuixart of Òmnium Cultural—was met with demonstrations throughout Catalonia culminating in a 200,000-strong protest in Barcelona on Tuesday night. The incarceration of the two marks the first jailings of political prisoners since the end of the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco.
The Global Food And Health Crisis: Monsanto’s Science Is Bogus
by Colin Todhunter
Unfortunately, the public narrative on cancer has been hijacked by the very corporations responsible for much of the increase in these diseases, thereby conveniently diverting attention away from their role.
Australia’s Citizenship Bill Fails
by Dr Binoy Kampmark
This is a government that takes pride in its hard headedness and faux populism. Knowing it would have to brave a sceptical, even baffled Senate, Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, resembling a bit dictator struggling for traction, decided to ignore the signals.
Pardon Me
by Rachel Oxman
I titled this article the way I did because I truly believe in the mantra, O bailan todos o no baile nadie. As long as someone is being tortured I am being tortured. That’s kind of a spiritual statement. But on the mundane plane, it should be obvious to anyone paying attention to current events that (vis-a-vis blowback) no one in a gated community on a high hill or hiding behind arbitrary national boundaries is going to be able to dance while others are kept off of the dance floor and denied food on a toxic periphery.
NAFTA Talks Falter, Time To Increase Pressure
Co-Written by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
The NAFTA-2 negotiations seem to be faltering after the fourth round of talks recently held in the United States. The Trump administration is pushing Mexico and Canada aggressively to include provisions from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) in order to renegotiate NAFTA in a way that benefits US corporations. Mexico and the US are under particularly high pressure to complete the talks successfully as each country has major elections in 2018.
What Version Of The Future Do We Want?
by Sally Dugman
Some people have reluctance to continue in fostering the peace movement. It is easy to want to walk or run away. It is also easy to get discouraged or outright hopeless. Ironically, the first day that I joined the peace moment was the same one that I most desperately wanted to run away. I literally, wanted to flee with every part of my being, but somehow managed to sit still instead.
To Deduce or Not To…. Existential Observation And The Deep State
by Denis A Conroy
As the 20th century progressed, the fiat respectability of the ‘exceptional’ nation, secure in the belief that God was managing its’ destiny decided…with the assistance of the CIA…to implement a reign of terror in many parts of the non-white, non-Christian world. Using a mixture of unctuous diatribes and assertive military force to serve its’ purpose of selling itself as the leader of the ‘free’ world, the new-great-nation conducted a policy of regime change…a euphemism for killing all opposition to its’ mission to acquire evermore more power.
“We Are At War!” Oh, Really? Some Questions
by Ernest Partridge
As the American media pumps up its Russophobic rhretoric, escalating the status of the Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation from “rival” to “adversary” to “enemy, ” and the crisis from “rivalry” to “The equivalent of war,” finally to (unqualified) “war,” numerous urgent questions arise. These questions are, for the most part, ignored by our “mainstream media” (MSM) by which I mean I mean the 90% of all American media that is owned by just six mega-corporations, together with the portion of the remaining 10% following the party line. Absent a serious discussion of these questions by the MSM, I will pose some of these question and suggest a few answers.
Ideological Murders And Political Suicide
by Padmaja Shaw
In 2013 Narendra Dhabolkar, who was fighting to get the Anti-Superstition law passed in Maharashtra and led a campaign for rationalism, and against blind faith all his life, was killed. This was followed by the killings of Govind Pansare and MM Kalburgi in 2015. And this year, Gauri Lankesh. All of them have reputation for being fiercely opposed to caste and communal prejudices, and superstitious beliefs. All of them wrote and spoke to the people in language that they understood.
Declining Democracy, And Reclining Leadership In Bangladesh
by Taj Hashmi
While democracy has become problematic in several countries, on 5th January 2014, Bangladesh crossed the threshold of “illiberal democracy” to enter the domain of “authoritarian dynastic democracy” under Indian tutelage. The symptoms of the disease called “Orwellian State” are already visible here. The fictional Big Brother of Nineteen Eighty-Four is already breathing on the neck of Bangladesh, from across the border. The growing influence and power of India, which wants to turn the country into a subservient entity, devoid of freedom and democracy, is the biggest security threat for Bangladesh, since its inception in 1971.
Chhattisgarh: Nationality Movement And The Oppressed
by Ish N Mishra
This article was published in a book Social Movements in Contemporary India edited by SK Chaube in 1996
‘Encounter’ Illustrates How Women’s Bodies Continued To Be Used As Battlefield By The Indian Forces
by Gurpreet Singh
Encounter currently playing at the Cultch theater in Vancouver is a drama worth watching for those who continue to idealize India as the world’s so called largest democracy.
Urban Arts Commission In The Time Of Damning Of The Taj Mahal
by Vidyadhar Date
Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis’s announcement last week to set up an urban arts commission for Mumbai is well intentioned. But it comes at an odd time. Several leaders of his party, the BJP, at the national level have shown little respect for some of the finest monuments of the country and now party MLA Sangeet Som calls the Taj Mahal a blot on Indian culture.
Will Taj Mahal Meet The Fate Of Mosque At Ayodhya?
by Shamsul Islam
A Hindutva icon from western UP, Sangeet Som after inaugurating a statue of 8th century Hindu king Anangpal Singh Tomar at Sisauli village near Meerut (October 16, 2017) was once again on in top gear while denigrating Muslims and Islam. However, it was not from his earlier repository of hate like cow, love jihad, ghar wapsi etc. etc. On this occasion he chose a new theme. It was Taj Mahal being denigrated as part of Hindutva polarizing agenda.
As Caligari Looms Large…
by Sudeesh Yezhuvath
Germany under Hitler and the Nazis saw its people turn a blind eye and even support one of the worst genocides in human history. After the war, when they were released from the clutches of the Nazis, the horror hit them in its full force. They couldn’t come to terms with their acquiescence and what they allowed to happen. In India, we see the signs of Fascism rearing its ugly head, of people losing their mind and ability to think and starting to view anyone who dares to question, to be different, to be non-confirming, with suspicion. It is here that Deepan steps in with an intervention in the form of this play.
No comments:
Post a Comment