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Date: Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:37 AM
Subject: CC News Letter, 13 June - Lying Down For Justice Children Show The Way
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Countercurrents.org
Educate! Organize! Agitate!
Lying Down For Justice Children Show The Way
By S.G.Vombatkere
http://www.countercurrents.org/vombatkere130611.htm
The people and especially the children of Dhinkia, Gadkujang, Govindpur and Nuagaon villages in Jagatsinghpur District in Odisha have shown the nation how people matter over governments' plans for development of business corporations at their cost. The children "illegally" lay down on the hot earth under in the blazing summer heat and refused to move to allow entry to government officials to take over forest land and their villages for the POSCO mega-project
Our Children Have Opened The Nation's Eyes
By POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti
http://www.countercurrents.org/ppss130611.htm
Splashed across the headlines and TV channels across India are the people of the proposed POSCO project area and their heroic fight to stop this illegal project from grabbing our lands. The bravery of the children and women of our villages - lying down in front of a thousand armed police poised to destroy their lives and homes - has captured the nation's attention
When Has The Environment Ministry
Believed In Dialogue, Discussion or Democracy?
By Campaign for Survival and Dignity
http://www.countercurrents.org/cfsd130611.htm
The Ministry has continues to violate the law. In the case of POSCO, the same Minister who today calls for democracy declared that he will be bound neither by law and democracy - and gave away the land without taking the consent of local communities or respecting their rights
Letter to NHRC On Violations Of
Human Rights In Jagatsinghpur, Odisha
By Concerned Citizens
http://www.countercurrents.org/posco130611.htm
Senior police officers are terrorizing the people through loud speaker announcements, by asking them to stop their protest, disperse and allow their cultivation to be destroyed. They are also threatening the use of lathi charges and brute force as well as demanding that the people should produce particular individuals. We apprehend imminent bloodshed and serious violation of the human rights of these people who are exercising their right to peacefully assemble and protest for their livelihood
Japanese Nuclear Crisis Worse Than
Previously Conceded
By Peter Symonds
http://www.countercurrents.org/symonds130611.htm
A detailed government report to the IAEA, leaked to the Japanese media last week, indicated that the nuclear disaster was far worse than previously acknowledged. TEPCO had admitted that the cores of three reactors—units 1, 2 and 3—underwent a meltdown after power supplies at the plant failed. However, the report indicated for the first time that a "melt-through" may have occurred
No Justice In Kafka's America
By Chris Hedges
http://www.countercurrents.org/hedges130611.htm
Justice has become as unattainable for Muslim activists in the United States as it was for Kafka's frustrated petitioner. The draconian legal mechanisms that condemn Muslim Americans who speak out publicly about the outrages we commit in the Middle East have left many, including Syed Fahad Hashmi, wasting away in supermax prisons
The Rich Are Destroying The Economy
By Shamus Cooke
http://www.countercurrents.org/cooke130611.htm
The corporate-led discussion around cutting social programs to fix the deficits -- on a state and national level -- can be challenged by a nationally coordinated campaign of unions and community allies demanding: Tax the Rich! This demand is significant because it can address both the deficits and the jobs crisis
On "The Issue Of Character" And Empire
By Phil Rockstroh
http://www.countercurrents.org/rockstroh130611.htm
Using any metric, the present system, based upon a zombie-like proliferation of exponential growth is unsustainable. By the destruction leveled on nature and public space, in combination with, the usurpation of time and identity (individual and collective) -- the very structure of the present system creates alienation and anomie
Mountaintop Removal: Environmental
And Human Destruction For Profit
By Stephen Lendman
http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman130611A.htm
Blair Mountain symbolizes a struggle anti-mountaintop removal activists don't intend to lose. For them and beleaguered Appalachian residents, winning can't come a moment too soon
Obama's Sinking Popularity
By Stephen Lendman
http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman130611B.htm
Growing numbers are awakening, the latest June 7 - 9 Zogby International poll showing recent lows in Obama's popularity: 56% disapprove of his job as president; 43% approve; 39% say he deserves reelection; 52% want change; congressional approval also dropped to 17%, a testimony to mass public disdain
Dr. King Spanks Obama: Part 6
By David Kendall
http://www.countercurrents.org/kendall130611.htm
Who says we must live in a 'global economy'? Who says there is any connection between so-called 'entitlement programs' funded by U.S. workers and tax increases for the wealthy? Who says American workers need to compete with Chinese workers for jobs? Who says wealthy 'investors' are needed to create new jobs? Who says 'jobs' are necessary for mere survival in a supposedly 'developed' society?
Extra-Judicial Killings In Pakistan
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali
http://www.countercurrents.org/ghazali130611.htm
According to the Asian Legal Resource Centre, in the past eight months, over 120 persons are thought to have been killed extra-judicially following abduction and disappearance by the State. The ALRC estimates that thousands of people are reported to have been subjected to enforced disappearance in recent years, in particular in resource-rich Balochistan
WW2 Bengali Holocaust: "Churchill's Secret War"
By Madhusree Mukerjee
By Dr Gideon Polya
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya130611.htm
The important book "Churchill's Secret War. The British Empire and the ravaging of India during World War II" by Madhusree Mukerjee is an account of the forgotten World War 2 Bengali Holocaust, the man-made, 1942-1945 Bengal Famine in which 6-7 million Indians were deliberately starved to death by the British under Churchill
Some Fundamental Issues in Anti-Caste Struggle
By Anand Teltumbde
http://www.countercurrents.org/teltumbde130611.htm
The transcription of the Inaugural Speech delivered at the biannual conference of the Kula Nirmulan Porata Samiti in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh on 11 June 2011
'Self Immolations'- Darker Side Of Shining Gujarat
By Newzfirst Correspondent
http://www.countercurrents.org/nfc130611.htm
The recent self immolation incidents have exposed the burning side of 'shining' Gujarat. Several human rights' and civil rights' activists have raised their concerns over the trend of 'self immolation' taking place in Gujarat now a days
Countercurrents And You !
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From: Countercurrents <editor@countercurrents.org>
Date: Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:37 AM
Subject: CC News Letter, 13 June - Lying Down For Justice Children Show The Way
To: palashbiswaskl@gmail.com
Dear Friend,
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 humanity should come together as one family! You can subscribe to our news letter here http://www.countercurrents.org/subscribe.htm. You can also follow us on twitter, http://twitter.com/countercurrents and on Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/countercurrents
In Solidarity
Binu Mathew, Editor,
Countercurrents.org
Educate! Organize! Agitate!
Lying Down For Justice Children Show The Way
By S.G.Vombatkere
http://www.countercurrents.org/vombatkere130611.htm
The people and especially the children of Dhinkia, Gadkujang, Govindpur and Nuagaon villages in Jagatsinghpur District in Odisha have shown the nation how people matter over governments' plans for development of business corporations at their cost. The children "illegally" lay down on the hot earth under in the blazing summer heat and refused to move to allow entry to government officials to take over forest land and their villages for the POSCO mega-project
Our Children Have Opened The Nation's Eyes
By POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti
http://www.countercurrents.org/ppss130611.htm
Splashed across the headlines and TV channels across India are the people of the proposed POSCO project area and their heroic fight to stop this illegal project from grabbing our lands. The bravery of the children and women of our villages - lying down in front of a thousand armed police poised to destroy their lives and homes - has captured the nation's attention
When Has The Environment Ministry
Believed In Dialogue, Discussion or Democracy?
By Campaign for Survival and Dignity
http://www.countercurrents.org/cfsd130611.htm
The Ministry has continues to violate the law. In the case of POSCO, the same Minister who today calls for democracy declared that he will be bound neither by law and democracy - and gave away the land without taking the consent of local communities or respecting their rights
Letter to NHRC On Violations Of
Human Rights In Jagatsinghpur, Odisha
By Concerned Citizens
http://www.countercurrents.org/posco130611.htm
Senior police officers are terrorizing the people through loud speaker announcements, by asking them to stop their protest, disperse and allow their cultivation to be destroyed. They are also threatening the use of lathi charges and brute force as well as demanding that the people should produce particular individuals. We apprehend imminent bloodshed and serious violation of the human rights of these people who are exercising their right to peacefully assemble and protest for their livelihood
Japanese Nuclear Crisis Worse Than
Previously Conceded
By Peter Symonds
http://www.countercurrents.org/symonds130611.htm
A detailed government report to the IAEA, leaked to the Japanese media last week, indicated that the nuclear disaster was far worse than previously acknowledged. TEPCO had admitted that the cores of three reactors—units 1, 2 and 3—underwent a meltdown after power supplies at the plant failed. However, the report indicated for the first time that a "melt-through" may have occurred
No Justice In Kafka's America
By Chris Hedges
http://www.countercurrents.org/hedges130611.htm
Justice has become as unattainable for Muslim activists in the United States as it was for Kafka's frustrated petitioner. The draconian legal mechanisms that condemn Muslim Americans who speak out publicly about the outrages we commit in the Middle East have left many, including Syed Fahad Hashmi, wasting away in supermax prisons
The Rich Are Destroying The Economy
By Shamus Cooke
http://www.countercurrents.org/cooke130611.htm
The corporate-led discussion around cutting social programs to fix the deficits -- on a state and national level -- can be challenged by a nationally coordinated campaign of unions and community allies demanding: Tax the Rich! This demand is significant because it can address both the deficits and the jobs crisis
On "The Issue Of Character" And Empire
By Phil Rockstroh
http://www.countercurrents.org/rockstroh130611.htm
Using any metric, the present system, based upon a zombie-like proliferation of exponential growth is unsustainable. By the destruction leveled on nature and public space, in combination with, the usurpation of time and identity (individual and collective) -- the very structure of the present system creates alienation and anomie
Mountaintop Removal: Environmental
And Human Destruction For Profit
By Stephen Lendman
http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman130611A.htm
Blair Mountain symbolizes a struggle anti-mountaintop removal activists don't intend to lose. For them and beleaguered Appalachian residents, winning can't come a moment too soon
Obama's Sinking Popularity
By Stephen Lendman
http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman130611B.htm
Growing numbers are awakening, the latest June 7 - 9 Zogby International poll showing recent lows in Obama's popularity: 56% disapprove of his job as president; 43% approve; 39% say he deserves reelection; 52% want change; congressional approval also dropped to 17%, a testimony to mass public disdain
Dr. King Spanks Obama: Part 6
By David Kendall
http://www.countercurrents.org/kendall130611.htm
Who says we must live in a 'global economy'? Who says there is any connection between so-called 'entitlement programs' funded by U.S. workers and tax increases for the wealthy? Who says American workers need to compete with Chinese workers for jobs? Who says wealthy 'investors' are needed to create new jobs? Who says 'jobs' are necessary for mere survival in a supposedly 'developed' society?
Extra-Judicial Killings In Pakistan
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali
http://www.countercurrents.org/ghazali130611.htm
According to the Asian Legal Resource Centre, in the past eight months, over 120 persons are thought to have been killed extra-judicially following abduction and disappearance by the State. The ALRC estimates that thousands of people are reported to have been subjected to enforced disappearance in recent years, in particular in resource-rich Balochistan
WW2 Bengali Holocaust: "Churchill's Secret War"
By Madhusree Mukerjee
By Dr Gideon Polya
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya130611.htm
The important book "Churchill's Secret War. The British Empire and the ravaging of India during World War II" by Madhusree Mukerjee is an account of the forgotten World War 2 Bengali Holocaust, the man-made, 1942-1945 Bengal Famine in which 6-7 million Indians were deliberately starved to death by the British under Churchill
Some Fundamental Issues in Anti-Caste Struggle
By Anand Teltumbde
http://www.countercurrents.org/teltumbde130611.htm
The transcription of the Inaugural Speech delivered at the biannual conference of the Kula Nirmulan Porata Samiti in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh on 11 June 2011
'Self Immolations'- Darker Side Of Shining Gujarat
By Newzfirst Correspondent
http://www.countercurrents.org/nfc130611.htm
The recent self immolation incidents have exposed the burning side of 'shining' Gujarat. Several human rights' and civil rights' activists have raised their concerns over the trend of 'self immolation' taking place in Gujarat now a days
Countercurrents And You !
Click here to find out
how you can support CC
http://www.countercurrents.org/subscription.htm
You can unsubscribe from this news letter here
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