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27Jan

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Literature, USA

Robert Gates’ Self-Serving and Duplicitous Memoir

NOVANEWS Crafting a False Legacy by MELVIN A. GOODMAN Robert M. Gates’s “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War” is the type of memoir that the Washington press corps savors. It is vivid, colloquial, and seemingly straight-from-the shoulder, which easily lends itself to reportage. The memoir is also self-serving, duplicitous, arrogant, and even venal, but understanding this requires the kind of analysis that the mainstream media too often abhors. The mean-spirited and angry memoir indicates that Gates realized that he had become an outlier in the Obama administration–just as Vice President Dick Cheney had become an outlier in the Bush administration. In the last year of his administration, President George W. Bush ignored the importuning of his vice president on the use of military force...

26Jan

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Africa, Literature

Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa: “An Eye-Opener and Essential Reading…”

NOVANEWS By Edward S. Herman Global Research ***NEW BOOK*** Available now at Baraka Books and on the Global Research online store Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa. From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction. *** Robin Philpot’s important new book Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa is an eye-opener and essential reading for anybody who wants to understand the recent history of Rwanda, ongoing U.S. and Western policy in Africa, and how efficiently the Western propaganda system works. As in the case of the wars dismantling Yugoslavia, there is a “standard model” of what happened in Rwanda both in 1994 and in the preceding and later years, a model that puts the victorious Tutsi expatriate and Ugandan official Paul Kagame, his Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF), and his Western supporters i...

25Jan

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Literature

New Book – Divide and Ruin: The West’s Imperial Strategy in an Age of Crisis

NOVANEWS Liberation Media announces the release of a new book by Dan Glazebrook Divide and Ruin: The West’s Imperial Strategy in an Age of Crisis is a collection of articles by British author Dan Glazebrook. Originally published in The Guardian, Morning Star, Counterpunch, Z Magazine and Asia Times, Glazebrook has assembled these writings to illustrate a new strategy by U.S., British and other imperialist powers. This new strategy employs proxy military forces to achieve regime change in any country that resists imperialism. Glazebrook shows the brutality of the West’s racist and exploitative foreign policy against the global South, citing examples from Libya, Syria, and elsewhere in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. He explores in detail the role of AFRICOM as an imperialist for...

15Jan

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Literature, USA

Robert Gates: The man who would ban Naziyahu from the White House

NOVANEWS Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates writes in his new memoir just how much Israeli PM’s ‘glibness’ ticked him off, Bloomberg reveals. Haaretz Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has been vocal that he has no love lost for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but his upcoming book reveals that he once tried to ban the Israeli from the White House, Bloomberg reported Monday. “I was offended by his glibness and his criticism of U.S. policy – not to mention his arrogance and outlandish ambition – and I told national security adviser Brent Scowcroft that Bibi ought not be allowed back on White House grounds,” Gates is quoted as writing in “ Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.” Gates tussled with the Likud party leadership in 2011, when he reportedly described the prime...

11Jan

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Literature

New Book – Divide and Ruin: The West’s Imperial Strategy in an Age of Crisis

NOVANEWS Liberation Media announces the release of a new book by Dan Glazebrook Divide and Ruin: The West’s Imperial Strategy in an Age of Crisis is a collection of articles by British author Dan Glazebrook. Originally published in The Guardian, Morning Star, Counterpunch, Z Magazine and Asia Times, Glazebrook has assembled these writings to illustrate a new strategy by U.S., British and other imperialist powers. This new strategy employs proxy military forces to achieve regime change in any country that resists imperialism. Glazebrook shows the brutality of the West’s racist and exploitative foreign policy against the global South, citing examples from Libya, Syria, and elsewhere in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. He explores in detail the role of AFRICOM as an imperialist for...

4Jan

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Literature, ZIO-NAZI

Inside I$raHell’s Apartheid State

NOVANEWS by JOSHUA FRANK Journalist Max Blumenthal’s latest book Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel has been one of the most controversial and enlightening books of 2013. It’s a fearless, no holds barred take on life in Israel and the brutal occupation of Palestine. Needless t0 say, not all have been happy with Blumenthal’s take on Israeli culture and politics. I recently caught up with Max to discuss his new book and the backlash he’s received from the pro-Israel coterie. -JF Joshua Frank: Max, seems your latest book Goliath has really caused a stir among right-wing Zionists and other liberal defenders of Israel, like your Nation colleague Eric Alterman. What’s all the fuss about? Max Blumenthal: Goliath is the first on-the ground, journalistic portrait of the real Israel that ...

31Dec

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Literature, ZIO-NAZI

Book about killing gentile children becomes bestseller in I$raHell

NOVANEWS Posted by EU Times JERUSALEM – A Jewish rabbi has issued a book giving Jews permission to murder non-Jews, including babies and children, who may pose an actual or potential threat to Jews or Israel. “It is permissible to kill the Righteous among non-Jews even if they are not responsible for the threatening situation,” Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, who heads the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in the Yitzhar settlement in the occupied West Bank, wrote in his book “The King’s Torah.” He argues that goyem (a derogatory epithet for non-Jews) may be killed if they threaten Israel. “If we kill a Gentile who has sinned or has violated one of the seven commandments – because we care about the commandments – there is nothing wrong with the murder.” Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro – co-author of the book Shapiro, ...

19Dec

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Literature

BOOK: DIVIDE AND RUIN: The West’s Imperial Strategy in an Age of Crisis

NOVANEWS Divide and Ruin: The West’s Imperial Strategy in an Age of Crisis is a collection of articles by British author Dan Glazebrook. Originally published in The Guardian, Morning Star, Counterpunch, Z Magazine and Asia Times, Glazebrook has assembled these writings to illustrate a new strategy by U.S., British and other imperialist powers. This new strategy employs proxy military forces to achieve regime change in any country that resists imperialism. Glazebrook shows the brutality of the West’s racist and exploitative foreign policy against the global South, citing examples from Libya, Syria, and elsewhere in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. He explores in detail the role of AFRICOM as an imperialist force operating on that continent. Economic and social issues in Britain also co...

18Dec

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Literature, USA

Despite the Era of Amazon.com, Indie Book Shops Rise Again

NOVANEWS 'We need intimate, small places like this that care about the books they pick' - Jacob Chamberlain (Photo: Curtis Cron / Flickr / Creative Commons)Even in the era of Amazon.com and the e-book, which have forced giant book-selling retail stores such as Borders to shutter their doors, underdog booksellers and local independent bookstores who offer a more nuanced approach to book sales are actually on the rise, theWashington Post reports Sunday. “We are a lot like Mark Twain: The rumors of our death are a little bit exaggerated,” said Oren Teicher, chief executive of the American Booksellers Association, which represents independent bookstores. “We have been counted out for a very long time.” According to the ABA, its membership has grown 6.4 percent in 2013, following an increa...

14Dec

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Literature, World

The Future of Planet Earth. Are We the Last Surviving Generations? Radioactivity and the Gradual Extinction of Life?

NOVANEWS By Dr. Rosalie Bertell Global Research How grateful we must be for this magnificent gift of life and all we have needed to sustain it over the last hundreds of thousands of years! Yet, today it is under threats never felt before in its entire unfolding journey!“ Rosalie Bertell (Slowly Wrecking Our Planet, 2010) We are presented with the chance of an awakening from the deceptive dream of a righteous way how things are working. We have the opportunity to recognize that in the end what counts are only the recognition and practice of the joy of living and the love of life! However, this life as it is possible on this earth – unique in our cosmos – is incredibly endangered today. If we manage to recognize this, then paradoxically we can grow toward the ability of perceiving and expe...