CounterCurrents: U.S. Public Don’t Care If Politicians Lie, Assange, Manning And Snowden; Standing Up For The Conscience Of Truthtellers, US Aid Deal Gives Green Light To Israel’s Erasure Of Palestine

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We've bad news from Indi-Pakistan front. The armies of India and Pakistan  exchanged gunfire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir. On Sunday, an army camp was attacked by militants in Uri killing 17 army personnel. 

News comes that NATO  is to deploy an additional 4,000 soldiers in Poland and the Baltic states in May 2017, with some units sent to Eastern Europe in advance. Surround Russia! For What?

North Korea is conducting Nuclear theatre in Korean peninsula.    Whatever the reason, the world is not going to be a better place. 

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NATO Sends 4,000 Combat Troops To Poland And Baltic States
  by Johannes Stern 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/20/nato-sends-4000-combat-troops-to-poland-and-baltic-states/

NATO will deploy an additional 4,000 soldiers in Poland and the Baltic states in May 2017, with some units sent to Eastern Europe in advance. This was confirmed by a NATO spokesman after the US-led military alliance held consultations in Split, Croatia at the weekend. According to a Wall Street Journal report, about 1,000 American soldiers from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment are to be relocated to Poland in April from their German base in Vilseck. The German Bundeswehr (Armed Forces) will take command of a 1000-strong battalion in Lithuania. The UK and Canada will provide about 1,000 soldiers each in Estonia and Latvia.





US Aid Deal Gives Green Light To Israel’s Erasure Of Palestine
  by Jonathan Cook 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/20/us-aid-deal-gives-green-light-to-israels-erasure-of-palestine/

The announcement last week by the United States of the largest military aid package in its history – to Israel – was a win for both sides. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu could boast that his lobbying had boosted aid from $3.1 billion to $3.8bn a year – a 22 per cent increase – for a decade starting in 2019.





Kashmir: Tired Revolution
b by Altaf Bashir 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/20/kashmir-tired-revolution/

he journey of young people in Kashmir from childhood to adulthood nowadays is rumbling around Prison. These young people are meeting on this journey with probation officers, instead of teacher; they are going to court dates instead of class; they are emerging from their 20s not with degrees in business and science, but with criminal records.


Kabul River And Standing Rock Sioux
by Our Journey To Smile 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/20/kabul-river-and-standing-rock-sioux/

Solidarity message to Standing Rock Sioux protesters from Kabul





Political Underworld And Adventure Journalism
by Ish N Mishra 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/20/political-underworld-and-adventure-journalism/

Review of the Book "Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up" By Rana Ayub





Share or Die: A Challenge For Our Times
by Neal Gorenflo 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/20/share-or-die-a-challenge-for-our-times/

The threat is not only one of biological death. Those like me – who are in no danger of starving anytime soon – face a spiritual death when we act as if well- being is a private affair, deny the influence we have on each other, and gate ourselves off from the rest of humanity with money and property. We can neither survive nor live well unless we share.




Nuclear Theatre: The North Korean Show
  by Dr Binoy Kampmark 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/20/nuclear-theatre-the-north-korean-show/

It is a performance where few are laughing.  The DPRK has demonstrated again why it remains by far the most theatrically foolish yet prescient of powers.  Held hostage by the plump boyish leader, Kim Jung-un the nuclear program of that benighted state has been doing more than just stuttering along. It seems to be positively screaming away.





An Open Letter To The People Of The United States: Election or Revolution?
by Robert J Burrowes 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/20/an-open-letter-to-the-people-of-the-united-states-election-or-revolution/

As citizens of the USA with a presidential election approaching you have a wonderful opportunity to ponder whether to participate in this election or to participate in the ongoing American Revolution.





Pakistan’s Civil War In Balochistan Goes International
  by Abdus Sattar Ghazali 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/20/pakistans-civil-war-in-balochistan-goes-international/

Indian government’s recent decision to provide shelter to the secessionist Baloch leaders has internationalized the issue of low intensity civil war in Pakistan’s largest province of Balochistan where the army of Pakistan has launched a brutal operation to control the rebellion of Baloch nationalists.





“The Dead Cannot Make A Comeback” – Is India About To Make A Catastrophic Mistake With GM Mustard?
by Colin Todhunter 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/20/the-dead-cannot-make-a-comeback-is-india-about-to-make-a-catastrophic-mistake-with-gm-mustard/

Global oilseed, agribusiness and biotech corporations are engaged in a long-term attack on India’s local cooking oil producers. In just 20 years, they have reduced India from self-sufficiency in cooking oil to importing half its needs. Now the government’s attempts to impose GM mustard seed threaten to wipe out a crop at the root of Indian food and farming traditions.





U.S. Public Don’t Care If Politicians Lie
  by Eric Zuesse 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/20/u-s-public-dont-care-if-politicians-lie/

Everybody knows that both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are inveterate liars; but, do Americans really care? The vast majority of us care only as partisans in politics, not as partisans for truth and against lies





Assange, Manning And Snowden; Standing Up For The Conscience Of Truthtellers
by Nozomi Hayase 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/20/assange-manning-and-snowden-standing-up-for-the-conscience-of-truthtellers/

The massive US government persecution of truthtellers over the past years has exiled conscience from civil society, locking it behind bars and driving it into asylum. Yet, despite these attacks, it refuses to die.





Who Is Devinder Sharma? Whose Interests Does Kisan Ekta Serve?
  by Anandi Sharan 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/20/who-is-devinder-sharma-whose-interests-does-kisan-ekta-serve/

Devinder Sharma is a founder member of Kisan Ekta, – that claims to be a union of 65 farming organisations. He has no doubt that his Ekta represents ‘400 million farmers, fishermen and farm workers’, and he a member of the three person coordinating committee of the recently launched outfit. But does Devinder Sharma, a close associate of the controversial yoga teacher-turned businessman Baba Ramdev, understand the ground reality of the politics of food, agriculture and hunger, as his blog claims? And whose interests does his new organisation, Kisan Ekta, serve?

CounterCurrents: Obama Ignores Russia’s Valid National Security Worries, NATO Threatens Europe With Annihilation

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NATO Threatens Europe With Annihilation 
By John Scales Avery 

http://www.countercurrents.org/avery180616.htm

Do the people of Europe really want to participate in the madness of aggression against Russia? Of course not! What about European leaders? Why don’t they follow the will of the people and free Europe from bondage to the United States? Have our leaders been bribed? Or have they been blackmailed through personal secrets, discovered by the long arm of NSA spying? To save itself from the danger of nuclear annihilation, Europe must declare its independence from America, just as the United States once declared its independence from Britain


Obama Ignores Russia’s Valid National Security Worries 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse180616.htm

We have blatant NATO propaganda spread on German public television, asking “Is NATO expansion to blame for Crimean crisis?” and answering: not only no, but "just change NATO's name” and we all should ignore Russia’s worries about the hostile U.S. military alliance that has spread right up to Russia’s borders and that’s intent upon posting nuclear missiles minutes from Moscow. Do Western leaders really think that Western publics are stupid and callous enough to believe that? Is the leaders’ presumption, about this, correct? Is this the reason why nuclear war is getting perilously close while Western publics are worried about it little if at all?


Financing For Indigenous People, Land Reforms And Protection Of 
Forests And Other Natural Ecosystems in India - Part II 
By Anandi Sharan

http://www.countercurrents.org/sharan180616.htm

India cannot afford to wait till the US Empire and western civilisation collapses before picking itself up and going it alone. Too many are starving. The time to chuck out the upper castes and make India fit for purpose is now


Bengaluru’s Erasure: One Exhibition At A Time 
By Rashmi Munikempanna

http://www.countercurrents.org/munikempanna180616.htm

The exhibition which happened over a weekend in June, at Venkatappa Art Gallery in Bengaluru, responded to an archive of photographs of Stephen (Simon) Simmons, a British military man stationed in Bengaluru during the 1930s, about the Bangalore hunt. This exhibition is an important marker within the larger framework of the battle over Venkatappa Art Gallery

CounterCurrents: Climate, Consciousness And Social Change, US-Modi Bonhomie, NATO Orders Four Additional Battalions To Russian Border

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NATO Orders Four Additional Battalions To Russian Border 
By Thomas Gaist 

http://www.countercurrents.org/gaist150616.htm

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is sending 4,000 additional troops to Eastern Europe in the name of reassuring Poland and the Baltic states, the alliance’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed on Monday. “We will agree to deploy by rotation four robust multi-national battalions in the Baltic states and Poland,” Stoltenberg told NATO officials


Climate, Consciousness And Social Change 
By Asoka Bandarage

http://www.countercurrents.org/bandarage150616.htm

Activists are confident that just as the struggle against the tobacco industry, which hid the connection between smoking and health from the public, was won, the people’s struggle against the fossil fuel industry can also be victorious. We must believe that the larger goals of environmental sustainability and social justice can be achieved and that ‘Another World is Possible’ if we work together to ‘Change the System, not the Climate’


Biodiversity And Land Reforms: Still A Neglected Linkage At The CBD 
By Anandi Sharan

http://www.countercurrents.org/sharan150616.htm

Practically all the forested lands of India are presently wrongfully occupiedin some way or the other at present, to the extent that rights are not being recognised and Gram Sabhas not being given their responsibilities. But once these rights are recognised, biodiversity will get a huge fillip; - no thanks to the CBD or the FAO


The Orlando Massacre: Time For Pondering And Not Populism 
By M. Adil Khan

http://www.countercurrents.org/khan150616.htm

in order to stop repeat of all forms of killings, mass or targeted that are perpetrated by both non-state and state actors we must look at the issue more holistically and not confine ourselves to one particular country or a group. Instead we need to go beyond the superficial and start looking at causes that connect the “dots between terrorism and mass killings” that on the one hand manipulate the system to kill to keep its control on wealth accumulation and on the other and as result, create the conditions for desperate acts such as witnessed in Orlando lately. If we keep on going the way we are going and not reflect, no one will be safe. Time for pondering, not populism


A Critique of Human Society Since The Neolithic Revolution 
By Robert J. Burrowes

http://www.countercurrents.org/burrowes150616.htm

My central questions are these? Is there a point at which a human activity ceases to be volitional – 'functional, meaningful and enjoyable' – and becomes something that is socially controlled, what we might now call 'work'? And what are the implications of this transition?


Peasants Battle Cry For Land In Punjab
By Janhastakshep

http://www.countercurrents.org/jhp150616.htm

An Investigation into Police and Land-lord Repression on Land Struggle of Dalit Peasants in Villages of Sangrur District of Indian Punjab


Muzaffarnagar +Dadri + Kairana=Love Jihad+Beef+"Hindu" Exodus=Hard Communalism=Votes
By Ram Puniyani

http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani150616.htm

Just before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections Muzaffarnagar erupted in violence in which nearly 80 Muslims died, and thousands fled their villages. Now with the 2017 Assembly elections due in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP seems to have activated its machinery yet again


US-Modi Bonhomie 
By Abdul Majid Zargar

http://www.countercurrents.org/zargar150616.htm

If it is presumed that USA has forgiven Modi, then we can only mourn the sad demise of core values from American hearts. Slobodan Milosevic must be wondering in his grave for the differential treatment he got at the hands of those whose priorities are guided more by revenue & market valuations. Whatever be the case, a caveat is in order. America by its odious behavior has undermined & debased the structure of democracy, it so enthusiastically promotes in rest of the world


Demand The Intervention Of Telangana Chief Minister In Resolving HCU Crisis
By Justice for HCU

http://www.countercurrents.org/jfhcu150616.htm

Please sign this petition, and share with colleagues and allies. We are trying to strengthen efforts to push the Telangana Government to put an end to the escalating repression of Dalit students and faculty in HCU