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-original message- Subject: [AI] Fwd: CC News Letter Feb 09 - Afzal Guru Hanged, Whose Conscience Satisfied? From: Sri Nagamani Yalamanchali <[email protected]> Date: 09/02/2013 11:23 PM ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Countercurrents <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 09:11:29 -0800 Subject: CC News Letter Feb 09 - Afzal Guru Hanged, Whose Conscience Satisfied? To: [email protected] 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 for humanity to 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 www.countercurrents.org Afzal Guru Hanged, Whose Conscience Satisfied? By N. Jayaram http://www.countercurrents.org/jayaram090213.htm Afzal Guru was hanged on the morning of 9 February 2013 following his highly questionable conviction over the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament. Many eminent lawyers, scholars and journalists have written extensively, pointing out gaping holes in the entire trial and appeal process as well as the rejection of petitions to the president of India on Afzal Guru’s behalf. They include senior lawyers Nandita Haksar and Indira Jaisingh, writers Arundhati Roy, Praful Bidwai and Nirmalangshu Mukherji and the late K.G. Kannabiran Afzal Guru's Hanging Was Illegal By The Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners http://www.countercurrents.org/crpp090213.htm The central home minister and the home secretary have gone on record saying that every procedure has been followed in the case of Afzal Guru. None of his family members are aware of this decision of the Government of India. Nor do the lawyers of Afzal Guru The Secret Execution of Afzal Guru Raises Questions of Fairness By Human Rights Forum http://www.countercurrents.org/hrf090213.htm Afzal Guru did not have adequate legal representation in the course of his trial. According to Amnesty International, the trial did not conform with India’s obligation under international human rights law. The secrecy surrounding Afzal’s execution, like in the Kasab case, is very disturbing and raises serious questions about procedural fairness Assassinate, Rape, Calls A Section of Islamist Clerics In Egypt By Countercurrents.org http://www.countercurrents.org/cc090213.htm Hard-line Egyptian clerics have called for the assassination of opposition leaders and claimed sexual assaults against women protesters were justified Protestors Try To Storm President's Palace In Cairo By Countercurrents.org http://www.countercurrents.org/cc090213A.htm Protestors in Cairo tried to storm Presidential Palace in Cairo while thousands participated in demonstrations in cities across Egypt . More than hundred demonstrators were injured during clashes with police US Officials Confess To Targeting Iran’s Civilian Population By Franklin Lamb http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb090213.htm US Vice-President Joe Biden and outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in discussing US relations with the Islamic Republic, openly admitted that the US-led sanctions against Iran (and Syria) are politically motivated and constitute a "soft-war" against the nearly 80 million people of Iran (23 million people in Syria) in order to achieve regime change Is Iraq on Its Way To A Civil War? By Adil E. Shamoo http://www.countercurrents.org/shamoo090213.htm All indicators are pointing to a looming sectarian civil war on Iraq’s horizon. It is possible to avoid this civil war, but so far, the country’s leaders are not willing to compromise, and outside parties show little interest in stopping it. They should care more than they do: if not resolved, a bloody civil war in Iraq will fuel the rising conflict among Sunni-Shia across the Middle East — now in Lebanon and Syria — with the potential of spreading into other countries and inviting extremists to take advantage of the conflagration Charting A New Course For The U.S. And The Environment Roger Cohn Interviews Gus Speth http://www.countercurrents.org/speth090213.htm After more than four decades as a leading environmentalist, Gus Speth is disillusioned with what has been accomplished. What’s needed now, he says in an interview with Yale Environment 360, is a transformative change in America’s political economy that will benefit both society and the planet Rationally Speaking, We Are All Apocalyptic Now By Robert Jensen http://www.countercurrents.org/jensen090213.htm Rather than claiming divine inspiration, we can come to greater clarity about the desperate state of the ecosphere and its human inhabitants through evidence and reason. It is time for a calm, measured apocalypticism that recognizes that the ecosphere sets norms, which we have ignored for too long, and that we need to develop a new sense of solidarity among humans and with the larger living world Mutually Assured Well Being: The Continuity Of Community And Individual Resilience By Carolyn Baker http://www.countercurrents.org/baker090213.htm Community resilience and personal resilience cannot be neatly separated, nor can we justly assert that one is more important than the other. They function interdependently and clearly need each other. Community activism is essential as societies and ecosystems continue their decline Beyond Control: America's Unrivaled Fetish For Guns By Timothy Dwight Smith http://www.countercurrents.org/smith090213.htm The dilemmas we presently face as a nation are not dissimilar to those we have endured since the founding of this republic. The republic has yet to resolve whether it desires for all of the people within its borders to be free. America in 2013 remains stuck in neutral, undecided on the fundamental ethos which undergirds its very existence, and until that most important self-evident truth, espoused in the founding documents of this country, that all people are created equal, is finally realized, the entire country inches closer to the complete crumbling of this would-be American democracy A First Hand Account Of What Went Down At The Anti-Modi Protests By Akhil Kumar http://www.countercurrents.org/akhil090213.htm Akhil Kumar shares his personal experience of what went down at the anti-Modi protests, yesterday, 6th February 2013 at the Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi Time To Rein In Lumpen Mobs And Rabble Rousers By Shajahan Madampat http://www.countercurrents.org/madampat090213.htm Unless the growing culture of intolerance and engineered hurt sentiments and subsequent violence is curbed forthwith, India will soon cease to exist as a secular democratic country Click here to find out how you can support CC http://www.countercurrents.org/subscription.htm You can unsubscribe from this news letter here http://www.countercurrents.org/subscribe.htm ................................................................ 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