Literature

NOVANEWS Michigan school committee rejects mother's plea to remove edition of Diary of a Young Girl from students' eyes. Alison Flood guardian.co.uk, Thursday 16 May 2013  'Inappropriate'? Anne Frank. Photograph: Everett Collection / Rex Feature A mother's attempt to ban Anne Frank's diary from classrooms in Michigan over "pornographic" anatomical descriptions has failed, after a committee ruled that the title's removal "would effectively impose situational censorship". Earlier this month the mother of a 12-year-old in the Northville school district in Michigan raised concerns with the school about her daughter reading the "definitive" version of Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl, in which Frank writes how "until I was 11 or 12, I didn't realise there was a second set of lab...

NOVANEWS Susan Abulhawa, front right, Time of the Writer 2013. (Photo: Supplied) (For the trajectory of the Palestinian struggle, Abulhawa searches for lessons from the past, neo-liberal thought, and Black Consciousness) By Susan Abulhawa It’s safe to say that a book you can’t put down is a good one.  But I’ve come across a novel I can’t recommend enough, even though it took me months to finish.  TIME OF WHITE HORSES, by my friend, Ibrahim Nasrallah, was a fabulous read that I had to put down, repeatedly. I read the first 300 pages of this translated work from the original Arabic in just a few days.  Then the world changed and I moved through the next 300 pages slowly, tiptoeing through lives I recognised and characters I came to love.  I turned these pages with trepidation for nearly a ...

NOVANEWS “Europe’s Blindness” (Editorial, Feb. 12) gave new meaning to the September 11 phrase “intelligence deficits”.  Many Israeli Jews support the creation of a Palestinian state.  Are they guilty of anti-Semitism?  Many of Israel’s political leaders appeared in the 1940’s in British wanted posters for terrorist acts.  Many Palestinians still have keys to the homes that Israeli terrorists stole from them.   While you noted an unacceptable increase in terrorists killing Israelis, you didn’t note the larger number of Palestinians who’ve been killed or had their homes bulldozed by Israel.  In 1994, Rabbi Yaacov Perrin said:  “One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail.”   By your failure to condemn the Israelis for their terrorism against innocent Palestinians, you are ...

NOVANEWS P0sted by: Prof Paul Sheldon Foote by Joseph M. Canfield   Joseph M. Canfield’s thorough, critical review of the legends and historical inaccuracies about Cyrus Scofield and the Scofield Reference Bible (and later editions revised by others) included extensive documentation relating to Scofield’s divorce of his first wife and of his failure to provide for his daughters. Canfield observed that you will not find any Scofield Reference Notes (1917 Edition) for 1 Timothy 5:8 and for many other verses relating to Scofield’s personal failings. Even worse, Scofield’s notes have promoted dispensationalism and other false teachings used to promote endless wars and the destruction of Christianity. As a boy, I bought a Scofield Reference Bible because of its cross-referencing system. Th...

NOVANEWS http://www.cpgb-ml.org Lincoln , Stephen Spielberg's latest offering, hit US cinemas in October 2012 and opened in Britain in Jan 2013. From the outset, Hollywood was gearing up to declare it an epic - and at 2 ½ hours, it is certainly long. Early in the award season, it earned a 'best actor' Golden Globe for Daniel Day Lewis, and was nominated for a crop of Oscars. In the event, Spielberg failed to secure the best director award, and lost the best picture award to Argot - an anti-Iranian ' patriotic tub-thumper' that also fits well with the current US imperial agenda, of subverting sovereign governments in the Middle East. Lewis did however receive an Oscar - his third 'best actor' title - for his portrayal of Lincoln. This was recognition for his personal talents, no doubt, but ...

NOVANEWS Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq, why did the United States target the governments in Libya and Syria for destruction? Why did some “socialists” support these so-called revolutions that were backed by the Pentagon and NATO? Can the Pentagon ever play a progressive role? Brian Becker and Mazda Majidi make a unique contribution to the debate in Socialists and War. This timely piece answers important questions from a truly socialist perspective. Socialists and war: two opposing trends tackles the issues through current events and historical analysis. Given that wars waged by the United States and NATO are a dominant feature of the contemporary era, this book could not be more important for those who seek to replace the current capitalist and imperialist world order with a new soc...

NOVANEWS The British neo-fascist company Black House Publishing Ltd have published a new, 157 page glossy book, entitled 'Stalin: The Enduring Legacy', written by Kerry Bolton, a leading far-right author from New Zealand. The book praises Stalin for his campaigns against the 'rootless cosmopolitans' and the 'Jewish world revolutionaries led by Trotsky'. The publication is being distributed in the UK by Steven Books, the book service of the neo-fascist League of St George (LSG): http://www.stevenbooks.co.uk/product/1533-350/Stalin-The-Enduring-Legacy Discussion of 'Stalinism: Red Fascism' on the Iron March neo-fascist forum: http://ironmarch.org/index.php?/topic/1290-stalinism-red-fascism/   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Bolton        

NOVANEWS By F. William Engdahl Global Research One of the great mysteries surrounding the spread of GMO plants around the world since the first commercial crops were released in the early 1990’s in the USA and Argentina has been the absence of independent scientific studies of possible long-term effects of a diet of GMO plants on humans or even rats. Now it has come to light the real reason. The GMO agribusiness companies like Monsanto, BASF, Pioneer, Syngenta and others prohibit independent research. An editorial in the respected American scientific monthly magazine, Scientific American, August 2009 reveals the shocking and alarming reality behind the proliferation of GMO products throughout the food chain of the planet since 1994. There are no independent scientific studies published ...

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