The #Geopolitics of the #Kashmir #Crisis

Kashmir and the US-Russia Power Play in South Asia
By Andrew Korybko
Russia is reluctant to jeopardize its ultra-profitable arms relationship with India by strategically “balancing” South Asia, which is why the US decided to play this irreplaceable role instead by actively seeking to cut deals in both Afghanistan and Kashmir since Moscow lacks the political will to do so. Read more...

Indian Assault on Kashmir in Third Week, Thousands Arrested
By Deepal Jayasekera and Keith Jones
Cell phone and internet access continue to be denied to many of the region’s 13 million residents; and tens of thousands of Indian Army troops and paramilitaries remain deployed in J&K’s cities, towns and villages to intimidate the population and brutally suppress any and all signs of opposition to New Delhi’s August 5 constitutional coup. Read more...

Kashmir and Palestine: Solidarity and Unity in Opposing Global Militarization
By Palestinian BDS National Committee

The #Crisis in #HongKong

Hong Kong in the Crosshairs of Global Power and Ideological Struggles
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Hong Kong is one of the most extreme examples of big finance, neoliberal capitalism in the world. As a result, many people in Hong Kong are suffering from great economic insecurity in a city with 93 billionaires, second-most of any city. Read more...

Follow the Money Trail Behind the Hong Kong Protests
By Sara Flounders
The demonstrations in Hong Kong, now an open confrontation with the People’s Republic of China, have a global impact. What are the forces behind this movement? What provides the funds and who stands to benefit? Read more...

How Washington Is Meddling in the Affairs of Hong Kong

#India’s #Kashmir #Crisis

Iran Might be About To Change Its Approach Towards India
By Andrew Korybko
Iran had hitherto allowed India to make a fool out of it without uttering even the faintest protest in response, yet the Islamic Republic’s previously servile attitude might be changing if two recent statements by its leadership are any indication of a new approach taking shape towards the South Asian state. Read more...

Hair-trigger Nuclear Alert over Kashmir
By Eric Margolis
Two of the world’s most important powers, India and Pakistan, are locked into an extremely dangerous confrontation over the bitterly disputed Himalayan mountain state of Kashmir. Both are nuclear armed. Read more...

Could The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Contribute to Resolving the Kashmir Crisis?

#Syria’s #WhiteHelmets: #Fiction and #Reality

By Global Research News

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Syria’s “White Helmets”: Fiction and Reality

By AhmadSalah, October 14 2016

A young man, wearing a white helmet and a distinctive yellow-and-blue badge on his arm, digs for four hours in the rubble of a destroyed building in Idlib Province in northwest Syria. Finally, he sees what he’s looking for: an infant. He takes her to an ambulance like she is his own child. This is how the Western media portray the volunteers of Syria Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets. But what does the reality look like? 

Monsanto, the Pentagon’s Soldier and the Colombian “Peace Process”.The Use of Glyphosate Herbicide against the FARC

By Elena Sharoykina, October 14 2016

For decades Colombia has been some kind of battlefield where the USA try to restrain anti-US tendencies in South America. Washington has been fighting the ideas of neo-marxism, guevarism and Liberation theology, which inspire FARC rebels, as well as other left-wing fractions. However, it’s not widely known that in jungles of Colombia there is another war front – the ecological one. 

Kashmir: ‘Pivoting’ Toward War between India and Pakistan?

By Junaid S. Ahmad, October 14 2016

This past summer witnessed yet another people’s uprising in one of the longest running military occupations in modern times: the Indian occupation of Kashmir. The callous indifference to decades-old Indian atrocities against the people of Kashmir, including well-documented incidences of torture, disappearances, ‘encounter killings,’ rapes, and outright massacres, ought to put the international community to shame. This, after all, is a ‘conflict’ – a euphemism for a military occupation – that the UN and international law has clearly adjudicated on many decades ago, but Indian recalcitrance, Pakistani fumbling, and international criminal neglect have let the blood of Kashmiris spill uninterruptedly. 

 

Dr. Walter Rodney: Revolutionary Intellectual, Socialist, Pan-Africanist and Historian

Voices from #Syria: Contradictory Reports Regarding #Attack on #AidConvoy

By Global Research News

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Syria: Attack on Aid Convoy Kills Twenty, Destroys Aid, And Obliterates US War Crimes in Support of ISIS-Daesh Terror Group?

By Felicity Arbuthnot, September 21 2016

In the words of Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova: “We are reaching a really terrifying conclusion for the whole world: That the White House is defending the Islamic State. Now there can be no doubts about that”. 

Video: Contradictory Reports regarding “Humanitarian Convoy” Destroyed on Road near Aleppo

By South Front, September 21 2016

Heavy clashes resumed in Syria after the truce officially collapsed on September 19. The Jabhtat Fatah al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra) terrorist group and its allies launched a full-scale advance against the Syrian army, the National Defense Forces and Hezbollah in southwestern Aleppo.

Voices from Syria: “This Country is being Violated by Terrorists who Destroy History, and People”

By Mark Taliano, September 21 2016

Radwan Altaweel and his 24 year old son, Basel Altaweel, work at Shop.Altaweel Copper and Brass Designs. Basel’s 30 year old brother is currently in the military, serving with the Syrian Arab Army. The family name means “tall”, and they are both standing tall against the Western designs to destroy their homeland. 

Kashmir: “We The People” Should Stand Up