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Towns And Villages Totally Devastated And 90% Clinics And Schools Are Unusable In Nepal
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc010515.htm

With further rise in death toll, devastation of thousands of villages and slow pace of rescue and relief operations the survivors in Nepal earthquake are facing a desperate situation. In areas, towns and villages suffered total devastation. Today, a report said some 600,000 houses have been destroyed in 13 districts


Invest in Activism, Not Bernie Sanders
By David Swanson

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson010515.htm

So, here I am in the role of "that jerk" telling Bernie Sanders fanatics that it's hopeless -- a self-fulfilling prophecy of doom if ever there was one. But we have limited time, energy, and money. I don't think saving the planet is hopeless. I just think the best place to put our resources is into uncorrupted, principled, policy-driven, nonviolent, creative activism -- including the activism needed to create fair, open, verifiable elections


Salute The Nation That Brought The US Empire To Its Knees
By Kenny Coyle

http://www.countercurrents.org/coyle010515.htm

On the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, April 30, 2015, the momentous events that made it possible are recalled


The May 2nd Odessa Massacre: Why Obama's Coup-Regime Still Runs Ukraine
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse010515.htm

The May 2nd Ukrainian massacre of anti-regime pamphleteers last year at the Odessa Trade Unions Building, burning these pamphleteers alive there, was crucial to the Obama Administration's solidification of its control over Ukraine. That massacre was designed to, and it did, terrorize the residents in all areas of Ukraine which had voted overwhelmingly for the man whom Obama had just ousted, Viktor Yanukovych. Especially in the Donbass region, Yanokovych had received 90%+ of the votes. In Odessa, he had received three-quarters of the votes


A Time Will Come, Muslims In India Will Have To Form Their Own National Party: Kancha Ilaiah
Interview By Ajmal Khan & Anish

http://www.countercurrents.org/ilaiah010515.htm

Professor Kancha Ilaiah had well predicted that Narendra Modi would become the next prime minister under BJP, and he has also been instrumental in raising criticism on how Indian left failed to understand the caste question. After the parliament elections, he described how the caste equations has been used in the country by BJP . As soon as BJP came into power, many decisions have already been taken by the ruling Government, which will make far reaching consequences on the lives of Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims and Bahujans. In this context, Ajmal Khan and Anish are engage in conversation with Kancha Ilaiah on contemporary politics in India, particularly on Muslim, Dalit and Bahujan politics. He argues, that Muslims will have to form their own national party or a national coalition of all the Muslim parties by retaining their political and social identity


United States Commission On International Religious Freedom Places India On Tier 2 List Of Countries
By Shehzad Poonawalla

http://www.countercurrents.org/poonawalla010515.htm

Although the Modi government has responded by stating that it "does not take cognisance of such reports", it is a fact that world over, the stifling of religious freedoms in India is becoming a debate and is reflecting badly upon us as a plural, liberal democracy. Hence, authorities including the courts, investigative agencies, statutory bodies like National Commission for Minorities and National Human Rights Commission and the Ministry of Home Affairs must treat every case of religious atrocity and discrimination with seriousness so that no country or international agency can point fingers upon a vibrant democracy like ours. Mr.Modi's government must walk the talk on 'Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas'


Illusory Superiority, Related Psychological Phenomena, And The Importance Of Cross-Cultural Exposure
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini010515.htm

In addition to direct conflicts of interest inherent in the structure and functioning of media, the following psychological phenomena underscore the importance, in terms of approaching truth, of reading and researching on as broad a spectrum and as cross-culturally as possible. People creating and disseminating narratives in any one society or larger group (ie “the west”), are subject to these features of human psychology; to claim or believe they are not is merely to exhibit them

Main Stream Media ignores Vietnam!

This is why we need an INDEPENDENT MEDIA!

Corporate Media has ignored the Legacy of Vietnam, pretending there are no similarities with Afghanistan and Iraq, pretending the US isn't the War Monger clearly revealed.

We can't ignore HISTORY!   

How The Vietnam War Resonates 40 Years After The Fall Of Saigon

On the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, we’ll look back on the end and long resonance of the Vietnam War.

Americans and Vietnamese run for a U.S. Marine helicopter in Saigon during the evacuation of the city, April 29, 1975. (AP)

etnam War was unforgettable. After so many years of blood and protest and napalm and drama – American and Vietnamese – there was the image of the helicopter taking desperate, fleeing people off the very rooftop of the US embassy in Saigon. Of choppers being shoved off the sides of a US aircraft carrier into the sea to make room for more waves of desperate evacuees. Of history turning. Nations’ fates, parting. This hour On Point: Forty years later, we look back on the fall of Saigon and the epic war it ended.

– Tom Ashbrook

Guests

H.D.S. Greenway, long-time foreign correspondent, formerly of theWashington Post and TIME magazine. He covered the fall of Saigon.

Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of the new book, “The Sympathizer: A Novel.” (@viet_t_nguyen)

From Tom’s Reading List

Boston Globe: The unlearned lessons of Vietnam — “The unlearned lessons of Vietnam are that, in the post-colonial age, military intervention and occupation is hard to maintain both at home and abroad.”

New York Times: Our Vietnam War Never Ended — “For anyone who has lived through a war, that war needs no name. It is always and only “the war,” which is what my family and I call it. Anniversaries are the time for war stories to be told, and the stories of my family and other refugees are war stories, too. This is important, for when Americans think of war, they tend to think of men fighting “over there.” The tendency to separate war stories from immigrant stories means that most Americans don’t understand how many of the immigrants and refugees in the United States have fled from wars — many of which this country has had a hand in.”

Washington Post: ‘The Sympathizer’: A cerebral thriller about Vietnam and its aftermath — “In the opening pages of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s extraordinary first novel, ‘The Sympathizer,’ that terror feels so real that you’ll mistake your beating heart for helicopter blades thumping the air. Nguyen brings us right inside the barbed-wire-encircled home of a South Vietnamese general just waking from his faith in American resilience. Thrashing all around him, officers and cronies are bargaining for survival: Who will get out? Who will be left to the hands of their inexorable enemy?”

Special WBUR Series

WBUR: 4 Mass. Marines Recall The Vietnam War’s Chaotic Final Hours

WBUR: How The Last 2 U.S. Service Members Killed Finally Made It Home

Full WBUR Series: 40 Years Later: A Return To Vietnam

Read An Excerpt Of “The Sympathizer” By Viet Thanh Nguyen

https://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/04/29/40th-anniversary-vietnam-saigon

40th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon

The War in Vietnam tore apart the nation, destroyed a generation, left many traumatized and asking questions.

Little note has been paid to the anniversary beyond NPR and PBS, a sad commentary on our Corporate Media.

There are lessons to be learned.

How The Vietnam War Resonates 40 Years After The Fall Of Saigon

On the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, we’ll look back on the end and long resonance of the Vietnam War.

Americans and Vietnamese run for a U.S. Marine helicopter in Saigon during the evacuation of the city, April 29, 1975. (AP)

For anyone who lived through it, the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War was unforgettable. After so many years of blood and protest and napalm and drama – American and Vietnamese – there was the image of the helicopter taking desperate, fleeing people off the very rooftop of the US embassy in Saigon. Of choppers being shoved off the sides of a US aircraft carrier into the sea to make room for more waves of desperate evacuees. Of history turning. Nations’ fates, parting. This hour On Point: Forty years later, we look back on the fall of Saigon and the epic war it ended.

– Tom Ashbrook

 

 

 

 

https://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/04/29/40th-anniversary-vietnam-saigon




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