Nineteen years ago, one of the most diabolical slaughters in war history occurred in Iraq. Despite the assurances of the Bush I regime that retreating Iraqi soldiers would not be attacked, just the ...

The Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), created in 1968, has assumed a significant status in the formulation of India's domestic and foreign policies, particularly the later. Working directly under the ...

From the late nineteenth century, efforts began to revive Buddhism in the land of its birth. Much has been written about this, particularly focusing on Babasaheb Ambedkar's conversion to Buddhism and ...

What we found inside the Palestinian camp at ten o'clock on the morning of September 1982 did not quite beggar description, although it would have been easier to re-tell in the cold prose of a medical ...

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It all began on the 18th of February when the Adivasi Gothrasabha volunteers captured and made hostage 10 police men, three foresters and 43 others who came into the Thakarapadi forest. There are two ...

The Chronology of Conflict: Kashmir By Naveed Qazi 21 January, 2011 Countercurrents.org K ashmir wasn't always dyed in blood. The people of Kashmir had seen an intellectual renaissance under the rule ...

In India, the fascistic ascent of Hindutva ravages society. Tolerance and inclusion is the sine qua non of Indian democracy. Hindu extremists contend that national commitments to secular religious ...

My visit back home to the Galilee coincided with the genocidal Israeli attack on Gaza. The state, through its media and with the help of its academia, broadcasted one unanimous voice -- even louder ...

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, women whose lives were disrupted by the storm face numerous gender-specific vulnerabilities that commonly occur with disasters of this magnitude. For instance, while ...

Srinagar: Eight more people including 8- year old boy were killed in police and paramilitary firing on Monday as violence continued across the Kashmir Valley with the curfew proving ineffective to ...

VE Day 70th Anniversary, German Holocaust, Bengali Holocaust And Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust By Dr Gideon Polya 09 May, 2015 Countercurrents.org 8 May 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the ...