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NOVANEWS The global media’s sad obsession with the US The Israeli left revives itself, barely Somebody in Spain understands why Wikileaks is so damn important If You Love This Planet (with Dr Helen Caldicott) on Wikileaks What do we want in 2011?   The global media’s sad obsession with the US Posted: 02 Jan 2011 05:58 AM PST What were the biggest news stories of 2010 across 160 countries and one billion items?       The Israeli left revives itself, barely Posted: 02 Jan 2011 05:08 AM PST Example one. Example two. But it may be far too late to save the Zionist state from an addiction to occupation and humiliation of Arabs.   Somebody in Spain understands why Wikileaks is so damn important Posted: 02 Jan 2011 05:04 AM PST Here’s an inspiring reason why the mainstream...

NOVANEWS   Dear Friends,   I’m angry, upset, and feel like shouting to Israelis: “You idiots!  Don’t you see that this is the way it happens—the media states interpretations as though they were facts, community leaders are forerunners of racist acts, while shouting that they are not racists, and the hatred grows!  No different from Ku Klux Klan antics. No different from the III Reich ones!  The question is where will these lead to here?  gas chambers and ovens?  Hangings? continued demolitions of homes and villages, with the approval of the public?  Horrid!   The initial item of the 3 below is a report that does not merely state facts.  No.  An unarmed young Palestinian man is killed at the check point this morning.  And what does the report say?  “Terror attack thwarted.”  It also says th...

NOVANEWS   http://www.jeremiahhaber.com/2011/01/incroyable-israeli-protesters-who.html   January 2, 2011   The Magnes Zionist: Incroyable! Israeli Protesters Who “Returned” Empty US Tear Gas Canisters Used At Bil’in to the US Ambassador – Are Being Held on Illegal Possession of Weapons! Three months before April Fool's day, we have the first Israeli "joke" of 2011. From Joseph Dana's post at +972 here: Israeli activists protesting the killing of Bil'in's Jawaher Abu Rahmah 'returned' spent tear gas canisters to the residence of the American ambassador to Israel late Saturday evening. Jawaher Abu Rahmah, 36, was evacuated to the Ramallah hospital on Friday after inhaling massive amounts of tear-gas during the weekly protest in Bil'in, and died of poisoning Saturday morning. The tear gas ...

NOVANEWS   01/02/2011 Demonstrators ‘return’ tear gas canisters to US ambassador’s home Scenes from Jawaher Abu Rahmah’s funeral Tear-gas killing in Bil’in is ‘war crime’– says Palestinian negotiator, Erekat On New Year’s Day, we’ve wrapped up Mondo Awards with, wow, 34 entries Report from Bil’in and meeting Jawaher Abu Rahmah At scene of gasing, journalist Goldman discredited IDF, Ynet and NYT (which wasn’t there) The teargas grenades that killed Jawaher Abu Rahmah were most likely ‘made in the USA’   Demonstrators ‘return’ tear gas canisters to US ambassador’s home   Jan 01, 2011   Joseph Dana Israeli activists protesting the killing of Bil’in’s Jawaher Abu Rahmah ‘returned’ spent tear gas canisters to the residence of the American ambassador to Israel late Satur...

NOVANEWS A Wikileaks Christmas Who is best to keep unnecessary secrets now? Israel, the US and corporate press selling Iranian “threat” for decades Yes, Wikileaks matters deeply   A Wikileaks Christmas Posted: 01 Jan 2011 04:19 AM PST Anything to keep the case in the public eye? Thank you, Newsweek, for this delightful photo gallery: The holidays are a time of rest and relaxation for everyone, even enigmatic, internationally wanted former fugitives under house arrest. In an exclusive photo gallery, NEWSWEEK peeks into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange‘s Christmas revelry as he awaits a British court’s decision on whether he will be extradited to Sweden to face sexual-assault charges. Here, he tours the grounds of his detention (a British country mansion) with his hat slung r...

NOVANEWS   01/01/2011 Bil’in protester Jawaher Abu Rahmah, 36, dies of asphyxiation caused by tear gas inhalation Entry 30: Haiku for Hanin Entry 29: What do you do/if you are a Jew Entry 28: I nominate Aya Kaniuk and Tamar Goldschmidt Entry 27: Motherhood in Palestine Protesters in Bil’in remove parts of Israel’s wall Sister of Palestinian killed last year in Bil’in now struggles for her life following gassing at today’s demo The Phantom Menace: Fantasies, falsehoods, and fear-mongering about Iran’s nuclear program Entry 26: Gaza Riviera Entry 25: Haiku for Rebecca Bil’in protester Jawaher Abu Rahmah, 36, dies of asphyxiation caused by tear gas inhalation Jan 01, 2011 Jonathan Pollak     Video from Friday's protest in Bil'in. From a Popular Struggle Coordi...

NOVANEWS   Dear Friends,   The initial 3 items do not bode well for the new year.  They all deal with the same topic: death.  The news begins with the announcement of a Palestinian woman being severely injured yesterday in Bil’in at the protest against the route of the wall and theft of village land, and continue today in item 2 with her death, and in item 3 her burial.  A protest of the killing is being held this moment in Tel Aviv.    I’m not superstitious, but the protester’s injury the last day of the former year and death today seem to suggest that what was will be, that this year will only be worse not better than last year.  I hope that I am wrong.  We’ll learn whether I am or not when 2011 becomes 2012.   Following the three items on 36 year old Jawaher Abu Rahmah, item 4 from the ...

NOVANEWS Settler and Military Violence Escalates in South Hebron Hills December 29, 2010   General, South Hebron Hills, Settler Harassment, Background and Assessment, Military Harrassment Tags: Palestine, Israel, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, South Hebron Hills, Massafar Yatta, Settlements, Violence, Injustice   A few days ago we reported of the December 14 demolition of old and precious water cisterns by the Israeli military in the desert southeast of Hebron. These actions take place with a clear context; local Palestinian residents do not face only the military ruling their lives, but rather a military-settler conglomerate that is becoming increasingly violent, aggressive and arrogant. For example, the cistern demolitions were carried out under the pretense that the cisterns (most ...

NOVANEWS A friend of mine here said that what we need are not “new year’s resolutions but new year’s revolutions.” So what do I hope for in this New Year? I hope for revolutions. I hope the labor movements in Egypt overthrow their thug government, that the Palestinians in the Bantustan archipelago rid themselves of their mukhabarat, that the Arab monarchies collapse, that the Mizrahi Jews of Israel under the pressure of a burgeoning BDS campaign find themselves a leadership able to express their discontent in a way other than racism at those a little lower on the ladder than they are, that the Tunisian revolt explodes the Ben Ali regime, that the British student movement lights a radical fire under the feet of its neoliberal governments, that Russ Feingold runs for president and begins to ...

NOVANEWS One hour of Assange in long interview with Pilger on freedom and Wikileaks “Governments now need to factor in that things can be WikiLeaked” Happy new year, Rupert Yet more Wikileaks cables to devour Ahmadinejad bitch slapped by even harder hard-liner Tel Aviv more than happy to help Beijing target its own people Fallujah children suffering because of us? Iraq’s film industry is slowly advancing Pilger explains why media could stop wars (if they want to)   One hour of Assange in long interview with Pilger on freedom and Wikileaks Posted: 30 Dec 2010 10:58 PM PST Here’s an extended interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from the John Pilger film The War You Don’t See:   John Pilger in conversation with Julian Assange from John Pilger on Vimeo.     “...