Literature Archives - Page 22 of 55

1Mar

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Education, Literature

Academic Freedom: Hoax or Hardhat

NOVANEWS Rachel Notley Mahon University eggheads seem to claim that academic freedom entitles them to run around saying or doing whatever the hell they want. That’s annoying to say the least. They should be challenged. First of all what is a university supposed to be? There are lots of attempts at that one, from a few words to long boring books. Here’s a short version many years ago by Frank Scott, Dean of Law at McGill. During his time he was deemed the expert on laws relating to universities. He wrapped up all that tiresome claptrap like this: A university consists of a group of scholars and students working together to discover, test, and impart knowledge in the various fields of higher learning. It is a non-profit institution, dedicated to the search for an ever-expanding truth. The g...

14Feb

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Literature, Politics

Islamophobia and the “Negative Media Portrayal of Muslims”

NOVANEWS An Exposition of Sufism, A Critique of the Alleged "Clash of Civilizations" By Dr. Belinda F. Espiritu Global Research Originally published on Global Research in April 2015 There is a current obsession in mainstream media and academic discourse pertaining to Islam and the West. This current obsession is tinged with negative signifiers with the global media’s predominantly negative portrayal of Islam and Muslims, depicting Muslims generally as violent, fanatical, bigoted, or as extremists and terrorists. Islamophobia, fear of Islam and Muslims, has intensified with the 9/11 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, the Taliban’s fundamentalist proscriptions and restrictions in Afghanistan, the Charlie Hebdo attack in France, and the emergence of the self proclaim...

20Jan

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India, Literature

The Story of Independent India

NOVANEWS The Story of Independent India: Capitalist Accumulation Grapples with Semi Feudal Dis-Accumulation. Book Review Nasir Tyabji Chirashree Das Gupta State and Capital in Independent India: Institutions and Accumulation (Delhi, Cambridge University Press: 2016) hb. pp. xiii+315. Rs. 795 Chirashree Das Gupta’s book can be read at two levels: firstly, as an account of India’s industrial growth experience from the time of independence to the 1980s; and secondly (and to this reader, and hopefully to readers of RD, more profitably) as an examination of the features of the capital accumulation process that led the country to be what it was, at the beginning of the neo liberal phase, starting with Indira Gandhi’s return to power in 1980. Colloquially put, while in the first phase the s...

10Jan

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Literature

Democracy Is Not a Choice

NOVANEWS By Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen, AlterNet Book Excerpt People hold banners during a protest in response to violence erupting at the white supremacist rally those organized by racist and nationalist groups in Charlottesville, at Federal Plaza Square in New York City on August 14, 2017. (Photo: Selcuk Acar / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images) As we enter 2018, one thing is clear: just as we need it most, Americans' commitment to democracy seems to be fading. Frightened by President Trump's lies about the prevalence of voter fraud, a majority of Republicans say they're open to the idea of postponing the 2020 election. Even more disturbing, one in six of us now say we'd settle for military rule. It's time American patriots face a hard but liberating truth: Democracy -- gov...

23Dec

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Literature, USA

“Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It”

NOVANEWS By Shane Burley, AK Press Donald Trump, flanked by Republican lawmakers, celebrates Congress passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on the South Lawn of the White House on December 20, 2017, in Washington, DC. The tax bill is the first major legislative victory for the GOP-controlled Congress and Trump since he took office almost one year ago. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) Shane Burley's Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It looks at the rise of fascist politics in the US, how the different strands work, and the different, intersecting movements that have arrived to confront fascist violence. In the below excerpt, Burley discusses what exactly fascism is beyond the hype and misinformation. Building on a wealth of scholarship and research, Burley analyzes the f...

22Oct

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Literature

PLUTO -POEMA

NOVANEWS By: Teresinka Pereira PLUTO To Alan Stern* A cold and distant world, a planet is a small dream paradise in the solar system: Pluto, the dwarf planet stays three billion years from the Sun and almost ten years of the spacecraft Horizon from Earth. Alan Stern waits: there will be photographs of the Plutonic five Moons, enough to drive an astronomer or a lunatic poet out of their minds. *Alan Stern is an astronomer and great supporter of the mission to Pluto. ..............................

9Jul

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Literature, USA

Hiding US Lies About Libyan Invasion

NOVANEWS By Joe Lauria | Consortium News In George Orwell’s 1949 dystopian novel 1984, the protagonist Winston Smith’s job was to delve into The Times of London archive and rewrite stories that could cause trouble for the totalitarian government ruling Britain. For instance, if the government made a prediction of wheat or automobile production in their five-year plan and that prediction did not come true, Winston would go into the archives and “correct” the numbers in the article on record. In writing a response the other day to a critic of my recently published book on Hillary Clinton’s electoral defeat, I was researching how the U.S. corporate media covered a 2016 British parliamentary report on Libya that showed how then Secretary of State Clinton and other Western leaders lied about...

9Jul

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Literature, ZIO-NAZI

One Third Of The Holocaust

NOVANEWS Related Deborah Lipstadt: Trump Administration Engaged In Softcore Holocaust Denial In "Full Spectrum Dominance" Is “the Holocaust” Eurocentric? In "Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism" 10 Hard Facts About the Holocaust In "Deception"

19Jun

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Literature, ZIO-NAZI

Book: I$RAHELL State of Terror

NOVANEWS Thomas Surez’s “State of Terror” Book Review by Eve Mykytyn Thomas Surez’s “State of Terror” is a meticulously documented history of Zionism from its early stages in Israel until 1956. It is the story ofhow a number of secular Jews successfully installed a religious state located on the land of another nation. The established myth is that after centuries of antisemitism culminating in the Holocaust, the Jews ‘deserved’ Israel, the ‘land without a people for people without a land.’ Historical accounts often deepen and are refined with time and study. Suarez’s book (along with a few others such as Alison Weir’s “Against Our Better Judgement”) convincingly refutes the generally accepted history entirely. Suarez points out that in 1897 an early Zionist cabled the news to his cocons...

15Jun

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Literature, USA

The Forward publishes criticism of Alison Weir, but refuses to publish response

NOVANEWS If Americans Knew The website of the Forward newspaper recently published an opinion piece by political hitman Spencer Sunshine, in which he slammed the American Left and specific individuals for alleged antisemitism, including Alison Weir. Sunshine is a writer/activist who focuses on antisemitism, and specifically on seeking it out — or inventing it — among leftists and supporters of Palestinian rights. (More on Sunshine below.) While slurring those he disagrees with is Sunshine’s modus operandi (he throws around accusations of bigotry with the abandon of a spoiled schoolboy), we expect better of the Forward. Journalistic ethics require that media allow people to respond when they’ve been criticized, yet the Forward has failed to publish Weir’s response. (More on the Forward ...