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NOVANEWS Despite tough tactics by security units, Occupy Central and its pro-democracy supporters use 'peace and love' to hold ground and increase numbers by: Jon Queally Protesters block the main road to the financial Central district in Hong Kong September 29, 2014. (Photo: Reuters/Tyrone Siu) Despite deployment of increasingly harsh tactics over the weekend aimed at forcing pro-democracy protesters off the streets of Hong Kong, by Monday it was police units forced into retreat while the number of those backing democratic reforms and promising to hold 'central' areas of the city appear to be growing. Initially organized under a call to 'Occupy Central with Peace and Love,' the growing protest movement in Hong Kong has now also been dubbed 'the Umbrella Revolu...

NOVANEWS  Target China by F. William Engdahl …by  Cara  St. Louis   “Step-by-step, just as with the boiling of frogs, Washington has been turning the heat up on China since about 2005. Today it is dangerously close to a boil. It is not too late for China but its people and leaders must have absolutely no illusions about the ruthlessness and determination of their adversary, the elite policy circles of the Anglo-American axis. The book you are about to read details how US policy circles increasingly plan to mortally wound and eventually kill China’s economic wonder.” (Engdahl, Target China). F. William Engdahl, Geopolitical Analyst, Lecturer, Author So says F. William Engdahl, one of today’s pre-eminent geopolitical analysts, who has spent years studying China and the west’s ve...

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NOVANEWS Democracy' is Not Enough by ALEXANDER COCKBURN Alexander Cockburn was born on the 6th of June in 1941. Today would have been his 73rd birthday, always a festive time in Petrolia. In honor of Alex’s birthday (and the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests), we’re running one of his most trenchant columns from the June 12th, 1989 edition of The Nation. –JSC Transfixed by a million people in Tiananmen Square, the press seems unfazed by the fact that though some students plainly want capitalist democracy, others sing “The Internationale.” Workers carry pictures of Mao. But then, these journalists don’t seem to notice very much. How come, if Deng Xiaoping has been the most hated man in China, we had to wait for a million people to tell us the news? Speaking as one who has s...

NOVANEWS The massacre that wasn’t By Brian Becker Tank set on fire by protesters outside of Tiananmen Square, June 4, 1989 Twenty-five years ago today, every U.S. media outlet, along with then President Bush and the U.S. Congress were whipping up a full scale frenzied hysteria and attack against the Chinese government for what was described as the cold-blooded massacre of many thousands of non-violent “pro-democracy” students who had occupied Tiananmen Square for seven weeks. The hysteria generated about the Tiananmen Square “massacre” was based on a fictitious narrative about what actually happened when the Chinese government finally cleared the square of protestors on June 4, 1989. The demonization of China was highly effective. Nearly all sectors of U.S. society, includi...