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Subject: CC Issue 25 August - CounterMedia.in Launched
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CounterMedia Launched
By CounterMedia

http://www.countercurrents.org/cm250810.htm

CounterMedia is a civil society initiaitive that will offer voices of dissent and help improve the quality of news in Kerala. As the first point of action a website www.countermedia.in is launched. The website is edited by the eminent journalist BRP Bhaskar


Civil Liability For Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010:
An Ideological Twin Of Indian Atomic Energy Establishment
By Yash Thomas Mannully & V.N. Haridas

http://www.countercurrents.org/mannully250810.htm

The provisions of the Nuclear Bill further continue the ideology supported by the Indian Atomic Energy Establishment; an ideology based on secrecy, individual centralism and personality cult and bureaucratic dominance


Letter To NHRC On Nuclear Liability
For IAEA's Treaty
By Gopal Krishna

http://www.countercurrents.org/krishna250810.htm

It is humbly prayed that this Hon'ble Commission may enquire /investigate into the problem of radioactive radiation and issue necessary directions/recommendation for its prevention and appropriate remedial steps to the Central Government/State Governments and Union Terrritories


America's Gulf: Greatest Ever Environmental Crime
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman250810.htm

It'll be years before the full extent of damage is known. However, it's already extensive and extremely dangerous, containing 50 micrograms per liter of "a group of particularly toxic petroleum compounds," 6 - 7% of it a deadly benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene cocktail - released from BP's Macondo well, the evidence clearly showing it according to research team head Richard Camilli


UID Not In The Public Interest
By Campaign For No UID

http://www.countercurrents.org/cfnu250810.htm

Scheme is deeply undemocratic, expensive and fraught with unforeseen consequences


"Like Living In A Big Factory" In Gaza
By Rami Almeghari

http://www.countercurrents.org/almeghari250810.htm

"Uff, uff, uff, you can never get time to rest or sleep quietly and you can't even work. Wherever you are, you hear sound of power generators which makes it seem we are all living in a big factory," Ahmad al-Bar explained, expressing the frustration of many Palestinians in Gaza at the electricity crisis there, now going on three years


Roundabout As Conflict-Avoidance Versus
Malcolm X's Psychology Of Liberation
By Denis G. Rancourt

http://www.countercurrents.org/rancourt250810.htm

In the present essay I introduce the general notion of "roundabout" as a mechanism of conflict avoidance used by privileged social justice activists. I then contrast this pseudo-liberation activism with the needed true liberation activism of Malcolm X, which I argue to be consistent with the model of liberation of Freire


Letter To An Unborn Kashmiri
By Sajad Hamid

http://www.countercurrents.org/hamid250810.htm

You are an eternal creature, for in your little body dwells a never dying soul. You represent our very best hopes and dreams. Sleep well and gain lots of strength. You'll need it for what lies ahead of you. Who knows what the future holds for you?


There Isn't Always A Second Ramadhan
By Nawaz Gul Qanungo

http://www.countercurrents.org/qanungo250810.htm

The Ramadhan of 2008 struck the first and last nail in the coffin of the spectacular rise and fall of the Hurriyat's power to negotiate a political deal, in the wake of protests against the Amarnath land transfer. Two years later, people have brought the Hurriyat to the same strategic advantage. But the monotony of the so called protest calendars so far seems to suggest that an overwhelmed Hurriyat is clueless of the road beyond the turn


Dual Standards Of International Aid Agencies
By Bilal Hussain

http://www.countercurrents.org/hussain250810.htm

To some it might be geek that religion, ethnicity, political ideology and geographic location are few criteria, which international humanitarian organizations look for before stepping in a calamity, as it might not be case elsewhere but in Kashmir, it is so. At times even organization might take respite in the kind of disaster that has stuck in is natural or manmade, which makes some lives precious over others


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