Campaigns

NOVANEWS   January 4, 2011 by Paul J. Balles In the face of corporate dominance robbing the American people of their capacity to think: TIME TO TURN TO ALTERNATIVE MEDIA Paul J. Balles looks at the hazards of relying on the mainstream media, which are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small number of conglomerates and moguls, such as Rupert Murdoch, and suggests some websites and commentators in alternative media. For me, as a journalist, the web offers the most interesting and often most reliable sources because they are shorn of the consensual bias, and a censorship by omission, that pervades broadcasting. (John Pilger) Today, increasing numbers of people have become fed up with lies, omissions and cover-ups by both governments and the mainstream media. One reason for the ...

NOVANEWS An Answer to 2011′s Austerity Arguments: ‘We Won’t Pay For Their Crisis’ January 4, 2011 by Michael Leon   First, Washington squandered our tax dollars enriching the corporate contractors that profiteer upon unnecessary and seemingly endless wars. The cost figure just for the Iraq imbroglio is now far in excess of $3 trillion, according to The Washington Post. By John Nichols Next, Washington bailed out the big banks and the multinational corporations that got so greedy they wrecked themselves and the U.S. economy. How much did that cost? In addition to the initial $800 billion shifted their way by President Bush and the Congress in 2008, there’s the little matter of the Federal Reserve’s “backdoor bailout”: low-interest loans and other deals doled out to the largest banks and ...

NOVANEWS January 02, 2011 See this from Mondoweiss: This is Entry 22 in the Mondo Awards end-of-year Inspire-us contest. The author is secretary of Americans AGAINST Apartheid UK We would like to nominate our personal hero, Deborah Fink, a UK activist (as well as a talented soprano and cabaret artist) from London, a dynamo of activism who has inspired me, as well as many other people in the Palestine solidarity movement here in the UK.

NOVANEWS Thu 6 Jan 2011   On 29th December, MPACUK made headlines at the Jewish Chronicle. It seems the Ilford team with their recent boycott campaign has caused a slight stir, the Jewish Chronicle even commented that "if activists truly wanted to help the plight of the Palestinians they should work towards encouraging dialogue, not the opposite." Oooh, touchy! If we don’t make a difference then why take the time and effort to record and publish our actions? The purpose of this campaign was to raise awareness of boycotting settlement goods as well as educating the Muslim masses on the importance of boycotting Israeli produce. We wanted to raise awareness and educate Muslims and people of morals and ethics to take up this boycott campaign and to stop buying products that are produced i...

NOVANEWS Interview with David Cronin How Europe aids the occupation  by Sarah Irving* In his new book Europe’s Alliance with Israel: Aiding the Occupation, journalist David Cronin traces the intricacies of the relationship between the State of Israel and institutions such as the European Union and NATO. In doing so, it exposes the bad faith behind Europe’s position as a neutral force and its claims to support the basic rights of the Palestinian people. Below, David Cronin responds to Sarah Irving’s questions. 2 JANUARY 2011 Sarah Irving: Your background is mainly as a writer on European affairs and institutions. What made you want to write about Europe’s relationship with Israel and the Palestinians? David Cronin [1]: A couple of things. Firstly, I was in Israel and t...

NOVANEWS More on the Zionist Federation on Gaza There's a childish pun there somewhere, I'm sure there is. This Jonathan Hoffman of the Zionist Federation seems to have caused a fair amount of outrage among Independent readers with what looked like a justification for Zionist killing rather a lot of innocent woman and children lately.   Of course in the context of the woman and two children who were reportedly shot by a sniper after soldiers ordered them from their house, they do not tell us that civilians have been frequently used as suicide bombers. I already posted one response. Here's another: Suspected bombers In attempting to justify civilian deaths in Gaza, Jonathan Hoffman of the Zionist Federation reminds us that civilians may be suicide bombers (letter, 23 March). Is it his posit...

NOVANEWS June 16, 2010 by Jeff Gates     by James M. Rockefeller Zionist operatives ambushed veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas, a friend and a great American. When they won, America lost. When reviewing the unedited video of her “interview,” what you see is a rabbi rephrasing her answers to a question about Israel. Her response: “They should get the hell out of Palestine.“ The United Nations long ago endorsed that stance. It was not Thomas but the rabbi that offended the Jewish community. Language cited as “anti-Semitic” came not from her but from responses that the rabbi restated as leading questions. She simply spoke the truth: Jewish settlers should leave the occupied territories and, as she rightly said: “go home.” The rabbi, an operative for the Anti-Defamation Lea...

NOVANEWS July 21, 2009 by Jeff Gates      Unless President Barack Obama resolves to expunge “special” from the U.S.-Israeli “special relationship,” this entangled alliance will continue to ensure that the U.S. is portrayed as guilty by its association with Tel Aviv’s thuggish behavior in Palestine and elsewhere. And by the U.S. insistence that Israel not be held accountable under international law. On July 3rd, Israeli ambassador Michael Oren claimed “Iran nuke could wipe Israel off the map in seconds.” An accurate translation reveals that what the president of Iran proposes is that Zionism be “erased from the pages of history.” But why quibble over words and their intent when Israel’s intent is to create a consensus that ensures war with Iran? Two days after Oren’s saber-rattling spee...

NOVANEWS December 31, 2010 by Jonathan Azaziah by Jonathan Azaziah www.maskofzion.com New York (City) is a place that is heavily influenced, and in the majority of instances, utterly controlled by the obscenely wealthy Zionist elite. The governorship is currently occupied by David Paterson, who replaced the disgraced Zionist Eliot Spitzer. Just two days after Spitzer stepped down, New York’s Zionist leaders fully endorsed Paterson, who had been well known for his charity activities in the Zionist community even prior to becoming governor (1). His lieutenant governor, who controls the state senate, is Richard Ravitch. Though his ascension to the position was ruled unlawful (2), he remains in power. Ravitch is a powerful Zionist whose construction company built Manhattan Plaza and Watersi...