Literature

NOVANEWS Jewish Supremacism–The Worst of the Nasty Odors Stinking Up Our World Today Uncategorized October 24, 2010 by crescentandcross    It’s never a small slice of heaven when someone (obviously handicapped viz-a-viz grasping the finer points of social etiquette) decides it’s in his or her best interest to fumigate the area with an unannounced (and unwanted) digestive eruption. Worse still are those who somehow get their kicks from doing it, and who can’t imagine a funnier, wittier way of telling a joke than to shit his or her pants and stink the place up and watch the subsequent reactions from the innocent victims around him. They exist, for sure, and just WHY on earth they engage in such behavior will forever remain a mystery, even to the best and brightest amongst us. Best explan...

NOVANEWS October 23, 2010 by Debbie Menon   Children of Catastrophe: Journey from a Palestinian Refugee Camp to America Author Jamal Kanj talks about life in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. In his recent book “Children of Catastrophe: Journey from a Palestinian refugee camp to America,” provides an account of life from Palestine to refugee camps in Lebanon and the events leading for the creation of the state of Israel.   YouTube - Veterans Today - INTIFADA PALESTINE – EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW – With Jamal K. Kanj: Author Children of Catastrophe A great deal has been written over the years addressing the Palestine–Israel conflict, and the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem. However, few works on the subject really present the personal aspect: What is it like to be a refugee?...

NOVANEWS September 27, 2010 by crescentandcross You promised me democracy, But look what you have done to me. You robbed my past, and future stole, and a present left to me, crushed beyond a mending hope. Ten years before invading me, you broke my dams and bridges bombed, and power plants, and sewage lines, and water mains, You fed the plants with pesticide, The baby food and medicine you destroyed; and the silos of my grain you set aflame. So I may not make good my loss nor repair my water mains, you shackled me in sanctions, and a million kids you starved to death. I lived Saddam’s nightmare through. I knew what I must watch out for. But now I don’t know where to hide for death has lost its pattern now. He used to kill and bury us, friendless in our unmarked graves; but our names he...

NOVANEWS It’s soooo much in the news these days, isn’t it, that 3-letter word, and especially in keeping the present anti-Islamic inferno fanned to near-apocalyptic temperatures… 72 virgins…Child brides in Gaza…Female circumcision…Mohammed the pedophile… Sound familiar?…If not, it certainly should, given the fact that as a people we are gang-banged with it on a daily basis by Zionist interests who own and control the media. Left or right, it makes no difference–Some Middle Easterner gets caught with his or her pants down, no pun intended, and in a New York minute Zionistas immediately get to work with one goal in mind–stimulating the intellectual loins of all those good, God-fearin’, comfortably numb ‘mericans living in GlennBeckistan so as to make easier the business of sending beloved Jo...

NOVANEWS September 16th, 2010 • Related • Filed Under Filed Under: Americas • Ecosocialism • Most read articles • Video Hugo Blanco, a longstanding leader of Peruvian peasant struggles and fighter for indigenous rights is currently touring Britain as a guest of Socialist Resistance and Green Left. On 11th September he spoke at the successful Green Left / Socialist Resistance fringe meeting at Green Party conference. Blanco started with criticising biblical Marxism, adhering to Marxist works as if they were holy scripture. Hugo talks about his long personal struggle for social justice and against oppression. In a comment he stressed also at a meeting at the Venezuelan consulate in London, he explained that we need to put an end to capitalism before it puts an end to us. The video is online ...

NOVANEWS by Keith W. Nolan September 11, 2010 by Karen St. John     See larger image Search and Destroy: The Story of an Armored Cavalry Squadron in Vietnam: 1-1 Cav, 1967-1968 (Hardcover)By (author) Keith W. Nolan   Mid-America may not have known the real truth of how the war was going in Vietnam until after the Tet Offensive of 1968.  With the horrific assault on our troops (Khe Sahn and Que Son Valley come quickly to mind), it was hard to deny or hide the body count of our dead.  It was also the time of a series of brutal attacks upon Vietnamese citizens, some becoming collectively known as the My Lai Massacre.  In 1968, there was no longer any way to deny it:  war is hell for all living things, especially the mind. The hell of the Vietnam War from 1967 – 1968 as lived through the ...

NOVANEWS U.S.A  Jewish groups have stepped up efforts to combat anti-Muslim bigotry, with several national initiatives announced this week and supporting statements coming in from a range of Jewish voices. In Washington, officials from several Jewish organizations took part Tuesday in an emergency summit of Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders that denounced anti-Muslim bigotry and called for a united effort by believers of all faiths to reach out to Muslim Americans. Meanwhile, six rabbis and scholars representing the Reconstructionist, Reform, Conservative and Orthodox streams have launched an online campaign urging rabbis to devote part of their sermons this Shabbat to educating their congregations about Islam. The efforts come in response to what organizers describe as a wave of anti-...

NOVANEWS   September 4, 2010   Gilad Atzmon Tony Blair, a man who launched a criminal war with no end, declared once again today that “Radical Islam is the world's greatest threat” He made the remark in a BBC interview marking the publication of his memoirs. Mr Blair said radical Islamists believed that whatever was done in the name of their cause was justified - including the use of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. I can’t make up my mind whether Blair’s remark is amusing or tragic for not a single  Islamic leader has ever used “chemical, biological or nuclear weapons”. If anything it is Britain and the USA who deployed weaponry that contained depleted uranium. A recent  study reveals that the Cancer rate in Fallujah, Iraq is worse than Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Blair doesn...

NOVANEWS Auto Draft I was looking for more information on the book-looting that took place during the Nakba, and quickly came across the essay below, originally published in Yitzhak Laor's Hebrew-language anti-Zionist literary quarterly, Mitaam: a Review for Radical Thought. Gish Amit wrote it, and Rebecca Gillis translated it from the Hebrew. Ideology may or may not matter to solving the conflict, and Palestinians may or may not be willing to reprise the historic compromise of 1987. But without placing the Nakba at the core of the analysis, as the starting point for judgment, it is the Israelis who look like they are giving up land for peace when in fact in 1987 it was the Palestinians who agreed to give up land for peace. Goodbye, my books! Farewell to the house of wisdom, the temple of ...

NOVANEWS There were reports the other day that Tony Blair is donating all of the proceeds of his book, The Journey, to the British Legion, which is a charity for retired British soldiers. There has been all sorts of speculation as to what his motive in making the donation was, most of which zoom in on his ego. Here are a little crop of letters from yesterday's Independent: Despite suggestions to the contrary, it is rather doubtful that Tony Blair has decided to donate the earnings from his book to appease his "guilty conscience". As we saw recently at the Chilcot inquiry, he has expressed no regret for joining Bush and Cheney in invading Iraq, and equally he has given no indication that he feels any remorse for the uncounted death-toll and wanton destruction of Iraq as a direct result of h...