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NOVANEWS Why Boycott Israel? The Palestinian people are experiencing their 42nd year of military occupation. The siege by the Israeli army and the economic blockade have devastated their daily lives so that 'normal' life is impossible. Israel operates an entrenched system of racial Apartheid against its own non-Jewish inhabitants and has been illegally occupying Palestinian land in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights since 1967. It has sought to further annex these lands and has systematically transferred its own civilian population into these occupied territories in contravention of international law. Israel continues to build the illegal Apartheid wall, annexing vast swathes of Palestinian land in the West Bank and creating Palestinian ghettos, despite the rul...

NOVANEWS Zuheir Andreus: We are all Zuabi The Palestinians in Israel will not agree to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. The Palestinians, the authentic owners of the land here, are an inseparable part of the Arab nation. They were here before Israel, they are not transients and they are certainly not guests in their native land. Read more » August 18, 2010 | Posted in Israel, Others | Read More » Gideon Levy: “Arabs, get out” The fact that [Israeli Arabs] have yet to choose to boycott the state and its institutions and to stop participating in the game of democracy, which is corrupt to begin with, as far as they are concerned – a game from which they are almost completely excluded – is nothing short of amazing. Read more » August 15, 2010 | Posted in Gideon Levy, Israel | Read More » Mi...

NOVANEWS September 18, 2010 This is the way in Amarillo Many thanks to Joe 90 for posting this youtube clip about how a multi-faith group prevented a Quran burning  ceremony from taking place in Amarillo, USA.   With the Pope visiting the UK and denouncing what he sees as secularism, it's good to see a display of what democratic secularism is all about. It is not about intolerance towards religion per se or of this or that religion. On the contrary, it is about tolerance and acceptance of the adherents of all religions and none.

NOVANEWS Dear friends, A media giant has launched a massive attack on Avaaz after we mobilized against government favours for a new radical-right propaganda network in Canada. They're threatening to sue us if we don't take down our campaign in 24 hours. Let's show them their tactics will only backfire, and donate to give them their answer and keep the fight alive against crony-media across the world: Avaaz has come under attack from a major media-mogul. Huge numbers of Canadian Avaazers recently mobilized against government favours for a new radical-right propaganda network run by the Prime Minister's former spin doctor. The media empire behind the network and its billionaire owner, Pierre Karl Peladeau, has attacked our community with several smear pieces in their own newspapers...

NOVANEWS September 16, 2010 by Debbie Menon Yes, there is quite a lot to examine and if anyone is seriously interested in genuine threats against the United States AIPAC and the Israel Lobby are good places to start.  But to do so would not be welcomed in many influential circles and there would be inevitable retaliation from the chattering class and the media. By Philip Giraldi via My Catbird Seat The Bipartisan Policy Center’s National Security Preparedness Group’s September 10th report ”Assessing the Terrorist Threat” concludes that there is a growing threat to the United States derived from the radicalization of some American Muslims, a number of whom have joined extremist groups abroad.  The report and its conclusions have received wide distribution in the United States mainstream m...

NOVANEWS OR Books Home Our Books Going Rouge, edited by Richard Kim and Betsy Reed In Deep Water: The Anatomy of a Disaster, The Fate of the Gulf, and How to End Our Oil Addiction, by Peter Lehner with Bob Deans Inferno (a poet’s novel), by Eileen Myles Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for Digital Age, by Douglas Rushkoff The Autobiography of Jenny X: A Novel, by Lisa Dierbeck ‘This Time We Went Too Far,’ by Norman G. Finkelstein Rich People Things, by Chris Lehmann with illustrations by Peter Arkle Collected Fictions, by Gordon Lish Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict, edited by Moustafa Bayoumi Book Ordering F.A.Q. About Us Contact Us ...

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NOVANEWS   Veterans Today Update. September 15, 2010 THIS IS A ZIO=NAZI PROPAGANDA POST In a previous post I had highlighted racism and conspiracy theories found that Veterans Today. Mistakenly, I had assumed that it was a legitimate organisation populated by sincere, if slightly misguided, individuals, but now I find out that it is a one-man band, run by Gordon Duff. Duff is apparently a conspiracy crank and holds some very weird views on 9/11. I apologise to readers for giving the impression that Veterans Today might have been a legitimate organisation concerned with the welfare of veterans. In reality, the web site is just the product of a fevered mind with a chip on its shoulder against Israelis, best ignored. Arnaud de Borchgrave's piece explains it all: "WASHI...

NOVANEWS   Listen to the interview linked above, cross-posted from Pulse. It's of Jeff Blankfort interviewing Grant Smith from IRMep. The Smith/Blankfort duo unearth a lot of valuable information. But I do not think they know what to do with that information. The question is not the existence of the Lobby, and the point is not to minimize the Lobby's power. The Lobby exists and it is powerful. I am not concerned with the factual question of whether it exists or the evaluative question of how powerful it is. I have two other questions: what is the correct analytical framework for understanding the Lobby, and what is the correct way to organize upon this information.  This is also not a question of what Blankfort and Grant are right about. You can listen to the audio and extract that informa...

NOVANEWS     The Ugly Truth Podcast Sept 9, 2010 crescentandcross | September 10, 2010  Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p2dGk-u9 The Ugly Truth Podcast Sept 9, 2010 Dr. Sam Hamod of www.todaysalternativenews.com joins the program for a great discussion surrounding all things relevant to today’s crises arising from Zionism, Jewish power and the ‘war on terror’.