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30Oct

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Anti-war movement resolves: “No cooperation with war crimes”

NOVANEWS The Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) submitted the resolution below to the Annual General Meeting of the Stop the War Coalition (StWC) on 25 April, and it was passed near unanimously. In addition it had the full support of the StWC officers. Lalkar is pleased to reproduce this resolution, which has now become a part of the mobilisation programme of the anti-war movement in this country and marks a landmark in the political development of the anti-war and anti-imperialist movement. Editor ---------------------- No cooperation with war crimes This conference condemns Britain’s continued involvement in the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and calls for the immediate recall of all British troops from both these countries. While the City of London’s financ...

28Oct

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Politics

Seeking happiness beyond neoliberal consumerism

NOVANEWS By Graham Peebles Irrespective of nationality, religion, race or gender; whether stinking rich, desperately poor or somewhere in between, happiness is the one thing everyone is seeking – consciously or not. The architects of the socio-economic system in which we live have devised a system that promises to satisfy this yearning. But instead of building a society at ease with itself, full of peaceful, happy people, collective discontent is fed, resulting in a range of mental health issues and in some cases suicide. Happiness, according to the duplicitous devotees of neoliberalism, is to be found in the homogenous shopping centers of the world, the sterile holiday resorts and brash casinos. It is to be found, they claim, In things, in products and services that stimulate and exci...

25Oct

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Politics, Russia, USA

BLACK BOLSHEVIKS AND WHITE LIES

NOVANEWS PETA LINDSAY A lot of nonsense has been written about the role of Putin’s Russia in subverting “our democracy.” As though our democracy had been functioning perfectly (even reasonably) well, until these shadowy Russian forces purchased a few Facebook ads that sent us all into the streets. It’s a laughable concept. I’m sorry, did Putin acquit George Zimmerman or Jason Stockley? Did Putin shoot 12-year-old Tamir Rice? Russia did not carry out the drug war against African Americans or implement policies of mass incarceration, or pass voter ID laws in the U.S. – all of which have contributed to disenfranchising millions of African Americans over the years. The U.S. has a lot to answer for with regard to systematically denying the democratic rights of African Americans and th...

23Oct

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Politics

Great Powers and Global Politics

NOVANEWS By Vladislav B. Sotirović Global Research Terminology A meaning of the term Great Power(s) (GP) in global politics from the beginning of the 16th century onward refers to the most power and therefore top influential states within the system of the international relations (IR). In other words, the GP are those and only those states who are modelling global politics like Portugal, Spain, Sweden, France, the United Kingdom, united Germany, the USA, the USSR, Russia or China. During the time of the Cold War (1949−1989) there were superpowers[1] as the American and the Soviet administrations referred to their own countries and even a hyperpower state – the USA, after the Cold War as it is called in the academic literature.[2] A focal characteristic of any GP is to promulga...

14Oct

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Politics

The Reproduction of Real Life, The Privatization of Politics ‘Video’

NOVANEWS By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and James Corbett Global Research From political and social chaos to economic instability and global warfare, the crises created by the privatisation of politics are increasingly spinning out of control. Today on the GRTV Feature Interview, Michel Chossudovsky examines how all of these crises are converging on one point: the systematic destruction of the “Reproduction of Real Life”. Politics is privatized. When the State is privatized, the societal project is undermined and eventually destroyed. Civilization is collapsing and the Reproduction of Real life is impaired. Video Order Directly from Global Research (click front cover) The Globalization of War, America’s “Long War” against Humanity By Michel Chossudovsky America’s hegemoni...

11Oct

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Politics

Power Corrupts: A Culture of Compliance Breeds Despots and Predators

NOVANEWS By John W. Whitehead | Rutherford Institute “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”― Frank Herbert Power corrupts. Worse, as 19th-century historian Lord Acton concluded, absolute power corrupts absolutely. It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about a politician, an entertainment mogul, a corporate CEO or a police officer: give any one person (or government agency) too much power and allow him or her or it to believe that they are entitled, untouchable and will not be held accountable for their actions, and those powers will eventually be abused. We’re seeing this dynamic play out every day in communities across America. A cop shoots an unarmed citize...

11Oct

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Politics, ZIO-NAZI

The Centre for I$raHell and Jewish Affairs: Stoking Islamophobia and Defending Racism

NOVANEWS By Yves Engler | Dissident Voice Would a farmer ask a fox to help design a security system for her free-range chickens? A group that stokes Islamophobia and defends an explicitly supremacist organization shouldn’t be part of a Public Consultation on Systemic Discrimination and Racism in Québec. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) should be removed from the “list of selected organizations” for this important initiative. While groups participating in the just launched consultation are supposed to “develop concrete proposals to combat systemic discrimination and racism”, last summer CIJA campaigned aggressively against a Green Party of Canada resolution calling on the Canada Revenue Agency to revoke the charitable status of an explicitly racist organization. The Green...

10Oct

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Politics

Antifa in Theory and in Practice

NOVANEWS By Diana Johnstone | CounterPunch “Fascists are divided into two categories: the fascists and the anti-fascists.” – Ennio Flaiano, Italian writer and co-author of Federico Fellini’s greatest film scripts. In recent weeks, a totally disoriented left has been widely exhorted to unify around a masked vanguard calling itself Antifa, for anti-fascist. Hooded and dressed in black, Antifa is essentially a variation of the Black Bloc, familiar for introducing violence into peaceful demonstrations in many countries. Imported from Europe, the label Antifa sounds more political. It also serves the purpose of stigmatizing those it attacks as “fascists”. Despite its imported European name, Antifa is basically just another example of America’s steady descent into violence. Historical Pr...

6Oct

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Politics

From Global Poverty to Exclusion and Despair: Reversing the Tide of War and Globalization

NOVANEWS By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research “The Sociology of Justice”, which is the timely theme of The Philippine Sociological Society’s 2017 National conference at UP Cebu must be understood in relation to an unfolding New World Order which destroys sovereign countries through acts of war and “regime change”. In turn, large sectors of the World population are impoverished through the concurrent imposition of deadly macro-economic reforms. This New World Order feeds on human poverty and the destruction of the environment, generates social apartheid, encourages racism and ethnic strife and undermines the rights of women. . October 7, 2017 marks the 16th anniversary of the October 7, 2001 illegal US-NATO invasion of Afghanistan. Michel Chossudovsky, Universit...

23Sep

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Politics, USA, World

A World Doomed in a Never Ending War

NOVANEWS By SARTRE Are you disappointed with Donald Trump’s bellicose continuing with the deployment in Afghanistan? Well, if you are not; you should be. Predicting a non-ideological President, who prides himself on making pragmatic decisions, raises prognostication to a new level of mystical proportions. Instilling hope during an election campaign seldom translates into dynamic action on every pledge made. Defending Trump no matter how many times he walks back on a promise is not the standard to judge his administration. Call him a turnaround artist if you wish, but the reality of the power elite inside the military, intelligence agencies and the state department is showing just how far they are willing to go to maintain their force of destructive rule. The most astute Jack Hunter w...