http://www.countercurrents.org Educate! Organize! Agitate! Countercurrents.org Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:25:23 +05-30 Super Simple RSS http://www.countercurrents.org/selvam071109.htm <strong>By Trevor Selvam </strong><br>This is now imperative, that what the Maoists have raised through sometimes irrational activities be understood as Constitutional Issues. Never before in the post-independence period has fundamental constitutional issues been brought to the forefront with such intensity, as now. The PM knows that very well. He knows that the Naxalites have exposed Indias chancre, in his own words, the poorest of the poor.He has to either change the Constitution or he has to engage in settler colonialism. Those are his historic choices Sun, 8 Nov 2009 01:24:18 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/dungdung071109.htm <strong>By Gladosn Dungdung </strong><br>The failure of the state, growing social inequality and non justice delivery are the main reasons of spreading the Naxalism therefore the state has no moral rights for crying foul at this moment. The conflict between the state and the Maoist will never come to an end till the marginalized people were ensured social, economic and cultural justice and also they are made stakeholders to the development and welfare schemes Sun, 8 Nov 2009 01:23:32 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/sharma071109.htm <strong>By Devinder Sharma </strong><br>The ruthless exploitation has gone on for generations, and what do you expect the simple folks in the tribal areas to do. They cant go on chanting bhajans and hope that someday the gods would listen to them. Picking up the gun comes as a last resort, and we must accept that it is because of our failure as a society that the tribals are on a warpath. No amount of fire-fighting or sending the army to fight the tribals in the guise of Maoists is going to be helpful, the Prime Minister must know this Sun, 8 Nov 2009 01:22:40 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/boga071109.htm <strong>By Dilnaz Boga </strong><br>The Naxal conflict in India affects Indian states like Orissa, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. Militant uprisings in these states have the more fundamentals in common with the separatist or terrorist movements in Kashmir and Indias North Eastern states than wed like to admit. People in these states lack the basics, and like Suresh and his brother, they have to choose sides Sun, 8 Nov 2009 01:21:49 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/pilger071109.htm <strong>By John Pilger </strong><br>In a speech at the Sydney Opera House to mark his award of Australias human rights prize, the Sydney Peace Prize, John Pilger describes the unique features of a political silence in Australia: how it affects the national life of his homeland and the way Australians see the world and are manipulated by great power which speaks through an invisible government of propaganda that subdues and limits our political imagination and ensures we are always at war -- against our own first people and those seeking refuge, or in someone elses country Sun, 8 Nov 2009 01:20:53 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/deen071109.htm <strong> By Thalif Deen</strong><br>The Goldstone report, which was favourably voted by the 47-member Human Rights Council in Geneva last month, received overwhelming support Thursday in the 192-member General Assembly. The vote was 114 in favour and 18 against, with 44 abstentions Sun, 8 Nov 2009 01:20:24 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/carter071109.htm <strong> By Jimmy Carter</strong><br>Without ascribing blame to either of the disputing parties, it is imperative that the United States and the international community take steps to assure that the rebuilding of Gaza be commenced, and without delay. The cries of homeless and freezing people demand relief Sun, 8 Nov 2009 01:19:51 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/coval071109.htm <strong>By Kevin Coval </strong><br>I am a Jewish person who stands with Palestinian people relegated to second-class citizenship and Israeli soldiers who refuse to enact racist militarism. I am not a nationalist; therefore I am not a Zionist. I am against the oppression of any person and people. I am not a builder of walls. I believe in equity and democratic practice, therefore I am not pro-Israel. I am an advocate for truth, justice and reconciliation. I believe in this. I believe in this now. I believe in the work ahead Sun, 8 Nov 2009 01:19:03 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/hoodhoy071109.htm <strong>By Pervez Hoodbhoy </strong><br>The immediate future does not appear hopeful: increasing numbers of mullahs are creating cults around themselves and seizing control of the minds of worshippers. In the tribal areas, a string of new Islamist leaders have suddenly emerged. Poverty, deprivation, lack of justice and extreme differences of wealth provide the perfect environment for these demagogues to recruit people to their cause. Their gruesome acts of terror are still being perceived by large numbers of Pakistanis merely as a war against imperialist America. This could not be further from the truth Sun, 8 Nov 2009 01:18:13 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/jamail071109.htm <strong>By Dahr Jamail</strong><br>While soldiers returning home are routinely involved in shootings, suicide, and other forms of self-destructive violent behaviours as a direct result of their experiences in Iraq, we have yet to see an event of this magnitude on a base in the U.S Sun, 8 Nov 2009 01:17:34 +05-30 http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani071109.htm <strong> By Ram Puniyani</strong><br>It must be a real ingenuity of RSS combine to rope in the Kerala Bishops Council to fight against the Love-Jihad, a word coined by their propaganda mill, a word which combines two words and converts them in to a tool to torment the lovers, in case the boy happens to be a Muslim and the girl a non Muslim. It is the latest tool to launch attack against Muslim minorities Sun, 8 Nov 2009 01:16:46 +05-30