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| name = ''Countercurrents.org''<br />
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| url = {{url|https://countercurrents.org}}<br />
| commercial = Noncommercial <br />
| type = News, analysis and opinions <br />
| language = English<br />
| owner = Binu Mathew<br />
| editor = Binu Mathew<br />
| launch_date = 2002<br />
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| current_status = Active<br />
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'''Countercurrents.org''' is a leftist India-based news, views and analysis website. It describes itself as non-partisan and taking "the Side of the People!"<ref>[https://countercurrents.org/about "About"]. Countercurrents.org. Retrieved 8 February 2020.</ref> Countercurrents.org publishes news stories, editorials, and opinion pieces of authors from around the world. It has an international audience. <br />
==History==<br />
Countercurrents.org was founded by journalist Binu Mathew,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forwardpress.in/2019/02/counter-currents-binu-mathew/|title='काउंटर करेंट्स' आर्थिक संकट में, बुद्धिजीवियों और पाठकों में चिंता|first=Pramod Kaunswal प्रमोद|last=कौंसवाल|date=6 February 2019|website=फॉरवर्ड प्रेस}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.21cir.com/2018/12/binu-mathew-editor-of-countercurrents-org-interviews-andre-vltchek/|title=Binu Mathew, Editor of Countercurrents.org interviews Andre Vltchek – The 21st Century|last=Andre Vltchek|publisher=}}</ref> and published its first article on 27 March 2002.<ref>{{Cite web|title=In conversation with Binu Mathew - YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfwTf6ItKKw&t=21s|access-date=2020-08-21|website=www.youtube.com}}</ref> During the first 16 years of its existence, Countercurrents.org published over 50,000 articles, fact-finding reports, research papers and news items on major social issues around the world.{{fact|date=May 2020}} Countercurrents.org was awarded the 2018 Solidarity Media award by [[Solidarity Youth Movement]] in [[Kerala]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://countercurrents.org/2018/10/27/countercurrents-org-receives-human-rights-award/|title=Countercurrents.org Receives Human Rights Award|date=27 October 2018|publisher=Countercurrent.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://sikhsiyasat.net/2018/10/27/countercurrents-org-receives-human-rights-award/|title=Countercurrents.org Receives Human Rights Award|date=27 October 2018|publisher=[[Sikh Siyasat News]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kashmirtimes.com/newsdet.aspx?q=84251|title=Counter Currents awarded|newspaper=Kashmir Times|date=29 October 2018|access-date=20 May 2020}}</ref><br />
==Book and video production==<br />
Countercurrents has published three books in 2019. These are ''The Political Economy of Beef Ban'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://peoplesbookshop.com/product/political-economy-beef-ban/|title=The Political Economy of Beef Ban|publisher=}}</ref> ''#MeToo – A Blow to Patriarchy''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://peoplesbookshop.com/product/metoo-a-blow-to-patriarchy/|title=#MeToo A Blow to Patriarchy - countercurrents.org|publisher=}}</ref> and ''Connecting the Dots: An Anthology''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://peoplesbookshop.com/product/countercurrents-connecting-dots-anthology/|title=Countercurrents Connecting the Dots An Anthology|publisher=}}</ref><br />
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Countercurrents coproduced [[K. P. Sasi]]'s documentary ''Voices from the Ruins: Kandhamal in Search of Justice'' on the pogrom against Christians in the Kandhamal district of Odisha.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sabrangindia.in/article/%E2%80%98voices-ruins-kandhamal%E2%80%99-and-why-i-cried-after-watching-film|title='Voices From The Ruins Of Kandhamal' And Why I Cried After Watching The Film|date=23 July 2016|website=SabrangIndia}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://countercurrents.org/2016/07/21/voices-from-the-ruins-of-kandhamal-and-why-i-cried-after-watching-the-film/|title='Voices From The Ruins Of Kandhamal' And Why I Cried After Watching The Film|date=21 July 2016|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5947390/|title=Voices from the Ruins|publisher=|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2020}}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [https://countercurrents.org/ Official website]<br />
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