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NOVANEWS Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders sponsorship of Jerusalem marathon   Didi Remez | December 12, 2010   Categories: Direct Action, Jerusalem | URL: http://wp.me/pHlQV-L9 This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I'll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and then discovers that the route runs through some of the most egregious examples of discrimination and dispossession in East Jerusalem: Sheikh Jarrah, Issawiya, the Shufat Refugee Camp, Jabel Mukaber and Sur Baher (see map on right.) He approaches the Meretz representatives on the Jerusalem city council and t...

NOVANEWS   December 11, 2010     Gilad Atzmon   The promotion of a loyalty oath by the extreme right in Israel has presented yet another window through which the thoroughly racist nature of the Jewish state can be glimpsed by those outside its national boundaries. This should not cause any surprise. It is common knowledge, or perhaps ought to be, that Israel was founded in 1948, as a colonialist enterprise promoted exclusively for the benefit of Jews.  Therefore a loyalty oath which requires citizens to swear to uphold the ‘Jewish’ character of the state of Israel, is completely in line with its founding principles.  However, what has also been revealed by this promotion of a loyalty oath, is the Zionist nature of the response to it by the so-called ‘left’ in Israel. They have been moti...

NOVANEWS modernityblog | 09/12/2010 at 00:09 | Tags: Anti-Muslim Bigots, Anti-Muslim Racism, antifascism, EDL, English Defence League,neo-fascism, People Smuggler, Racism | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p4XPG-2zc   Thanks to Liverpool Antifascists for reminding us about the EDL's Convicted People Smuggler: "A prominent member of the English Defence League is a convicted people smuggler. Ex-serviceman Allan Hetherington-Cleverley, 55, [pictured, left] is a regular at protests for the far-right group that advocates kicking Muslims out of the UK. But the Daily Star Sunday can reveal he spent four years in prison for smuggling Chinese immigrants across the Channel in an inflatable speedboat. The former Grenadier Guard was paid £20,000 by an Albanian gangster to f...

NOVANEWS December 6, 2010 by Debbie Menon   INTERVIEW BY KOUROSH ZIABARI   Wayne Madsen -- American investigative journalist and columnist   INTERVIEW Kourosh Ziabari:  There are many unanswered questions regarding the catastrophic attacks of September 11, 2001 about which you’ve written extensively. Several investigative journalists believe that the attacks were an inside job planned by the FBI and perpetrated by Israel or elements connected to Mossad. Former Italian President Francesco Cossiga has categorically expressed that the 9/11 attacks were a joint operation of FBI and Mossad. General Hamid Gul, the former head of Pakistan’s Intelligence Service believes that Israel was behind the attacks, too. What’s your estimation of these theories, their veracity and reliability? Is it dem...

NOVANEWS December 7, 2010 by Gordon Duff      ACCUSED AIPAC SPIES, ROSEN AND WEISSMAN A LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor (Media Appearance Note: Senior Editor Gordon Duff will appear on The Hour, the flagship Current Affairs Program of IQRA TV. 8.30 – 9.30 pm BST, on Sundays at Channel 826, on Sky.  This program offers a serious analysis of political, social and cultural issues for a mature viewership.) In a unique interview with an official at the highest policy levels of the Pentagon, White House and, eventually, CIA, we are offered a unique “behind the curtains” look at areas of policy making during the period between 1999 and 2007.  Extensive notes have been taken of meetings with President Bush and all his top policy advisers.  This is only a teaser...

NOVANEWS WarIsACrime.org Get "War Is A Lie," But Boycott Amazon Thank you for making "War Is A Lie" a top seller on Amazon.com.  Please do not buy the book there anymore.  Not only does Amazon falsely claim the book is unavailable for weeks.  Amazon has answered threats from the U.S. government by attempting to prevent the U.S. public from accessing Wikileaks. Wikileaks has found a way around Amazon and so can we.  100Fires.com will sell you "War Is A Lie" at the lowest price and ship it to you immediately.  Buying from 100Fires.com avoids supporting corporate quasi-monopolies like Amazon and helps limit their dominance. http://tinyurl.com/100fires "David Swanson’s War Is A Lie may be the most comprehensive antiwar statement available in the English language." — Kevin Young, ZNet "No...

NOVANEWS   Report, The Electronic Intifada, 3 December 2010  Veolia has stated it will withdraw its involvement with the light rail project in occupied East Jerusalem. (Anne Paq/ActiveStills) In a significant victory for the global Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, French companies Veolia and Alstom have dropped out of the Jerusalem light rail project due to sustained pressure from Palestine solidarity groups. The companies were contracted by the Israeli government to construct and manage the tramway linking Jerusalem to several illegal Israeli settlement colonies in the occupied West Bank. The Associated Press reported on 28 November that Yoni Yitzhak, the spokesperson for Veolia Israel, "denied the company had succumbed to political pressu...

NOVANEWS   http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/369-wikileaks/4129-daniel-ellsbergs-goodbye-letter-to-amazon   Daniel Ellsberg Says Boycott Amazon Posted By Daniel Ellsberg December 2, 2010    Open letter to Amazon.com Customer Service: December 2, 2010 I’m disgusted by Amazon’s cowardice and servility in abruptly terminating today its hosting of the Wikileaks website, in the face of threats from Senator Joe Lieberman and other Congressional right-wingers. I want no further association with any company that encourages legislative and executive officials to aspire to China’s control of information and deterrence of whistle-blowing. For the last several years, I’ve been spending over $100 a month on new and used books from Amazon. That’s over. I ask Amazon to...

NOVANEWS Just in case you have not received this. DON'T buy it's items. while there are many Zio=Nazi and multinational companies that benefit from Zionist apartheid, we but together this list to highlight ten specific companies to target. Many of these produce goods in such a way that directly harms Palestinians-exploiting Labor, developing technology for Zio=Nazi military operations, or supplying equipment for illegal Zionist settements. #BDS: All I want for Christmas is an end to apartheid – Top ten brands to boycott While there are many Zionist and multinational companies that benefit from apartheid, we put together this list to highlight ten specific companies to target. Many of these produce goods in such a way that directly harms Palestinians — exploiting labor, developing technolog...

NOVANEWS Campaign against Climate Change     www.campaigncc.org NEWSLETTER Climate March and Cancun special Marching about global warming? In this weather? YES! After last year’s debacle in Copenhagen, it was always going to be a challenge to get public attention on this year’s COP16  talks in Cancun, but the early snowfalls aren’t helping!  UK media attention is focused on the current disruption caused by snow rather than the future impacts of climate change. Unfortunately snow in early winter in the UK doesn’t alter the evidence showing climate change is happening. NASA found average global temperatures over January to July 2010 were the warmest ever recorded. In fact it looks like the snow and wintry weather is actually be caused by a warming Arctic. This was predicted as lo...