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16Dec

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Canada, Politics, ZIO-NAZI

Prof. Anthony Hall Vindicated

NOVANEWS By Kevin Barrettt The witch-hunt against University of Lethbridge professor Anthony Hall may have just ended not with a bang but with a whimper. And it is the Israel lobby group B’nai Brith Canada, and its flunkies at the University of Lethbridge, who are whimpering. The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) just issued a stinging reprimand for University of Lethbridge president Mike Mahon, a glorified gym teacher who unilaterally suspended Professor Hall without pay because he disagrees with Hall’s political views. See: Lethbridge University President Says He Can Fire Tenured Faculty at Will for No Reason Here is CAUT’s statement: CAUT is using extremely strong language. The statement accuses Mike Mahon of violating “all principles of due process and natural rig...

12Dec

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Politics, USA

Mila Kunis: Hollywood producers want actresses to be pimps

NOVANEWS By Jonas E. Alexis Mila Kunis: "I'm done compromising; even more so, I'm done with being compromised." Will she remain true to her moral principle? …by Jonas E. Alexis Actress Mila Kunis has spilled the beans last month and joined a chorus of other actresses by saying that Hollywood producers wanted her to be a slut in order to get to the top.[1] Like Sinéad O’Connor and DMX, Kunis has realized that the entertainment industry doesn’t give a flip about her as a human being. In fact, they could care less about her existence. Producers, Kunis said, are just interested in making money, and they will do whatever it takes to get that money. What if making money means that Kunis has to become a prostitute? Well, that is a very small price to pay. What if Kunis has to compromise ...

10Dec

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Politics, USA

Honoring Henry Kissinger at Oslo

NOVANEWS By Dr: Richard Falk Global Justice in the 21st Century On December 10-11, the Nobel Peace Prize Forum Oslo will be launched, featuring Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski addressing the theme, “The U.S. and World Peace after the Presidential Election.” The Forum is intended to become an annual event closely linked to the celebrations surrounding the Nobel Peace Prize. As many will remember, Kissinger, along with Le Duc Tho, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, perhaps the most controversial award in the long history of this most coveted prize. The prize in 1973 was given to the two men who negotiated the peace agreement that finally brought the war in Vietnam to a close. While the negotiations were in their most pivotal phase, the U.S. Government introduced th...

6Dec

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Politics

Chosen Leaders, Proven Failures and Political Debacles

NOVANEWS By Prof. James Petras With a few notable exceptions, political leaders are chosen by political leaders, and not by electorates or community-based organizations or popular assemblies. Popular media figures and the so-called ‘pundits’, including academics and self-declared experts and ‘think-tank’ analysts reinforce and propagate these choices. A collection of terms and pseudo concepts are essential in validating what is really an oligarchical process. These concepts are tagged onto whoever is chosen by the elite for electoral candidates or for the seizure of political power. With this framework in mind, we have to critically analyze the symbols and signs used by popular opinion-makers as they promote political elites. We will conclude by posing an alternative to the ‘p...

30Nov

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Politics

The Imperative to Democratize Artificial Intelligence

NOVANEWS By LocalOrg LocalOrg MIT Technology Review recently published an article titled, “An AI Ophthalmologist Shows How Machine Learning May Transform Medicine.” In it, it describes how Google researchers at their DeepMind subsidiary used artificial intelligence (AI) to scan images of human eyes to detect a common form of blindness as well as, or better than trained experts can. They achieved this by using the same machine learning techniques Google and other tech giants including Facebook use to analyze images that show up on their web platforms. Instead of creating complex programs to handle every conceivable detail in an image, researchers instead teach machines how to learn on their own when exposed to large volumes of pre-tagged examples. In the MIT Technology Revi...

26Oct

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Politics, World

The Simple Act of “Pushing a Button”. Miscalculation, Mistake or Malice?

NOVANEWS The Unspoken Aftermath of a Nuclear War By David Krieger Transnational.org “Since the appearance of visible life on Earth, 380 million years had to elapse in order for a butterfly to learn how to fly, 180 million years to create a rose with no other commitment than to be beautiful, and four geological eras in order for us human beings to be able to sing better than birds, and to be able to die from love. It is not honorable for the human talent, in the golden age of science, to have conceived the way for such an ancient and colossal process to return to the nothingness from which it came through the simple act of pushing a button.” I recently came across this quotation by the great Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and...

16Oct

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Campaigns, Politics

Neocon mouthpiece Ayaan Hirsi Ali exposed as mythomaniac

NOVANEWS By Brandon Martinez | Non-Aligned Media The vulgar Neocon-Zionist agent Ayaan Hirsi Ali, darling of Zionist media venues for her anti-Muslim invective and genocidal calls for a “war on Islam,” is exposed thoroughly in this Dutch documentary as a mythomaniac who fabricated entire parts of her past to gain fame and fortune in the West. The documentary shows that she opportunistically married a Somali-Canadian man in Kenya and then used him to pay her way to Europe where she promptly ditched him and demanded a divorce. Ali invented a story about being a civil war refugee from Somalia when she in fact lived out her childhood peacefully in Kenya. She did this so that she’d meet the requirements to gain residency in the Netherlands. She further invented a fable about flee...

21Sep

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Politics

Demonize and Distract: Sanitizing Syria for the Masses

NOVANEWS By Jason Hirthler | CounterPunch Summoning the Humanitarian Pretext The arch pragmatist Machiavelli once wrote that, “If you watch the ways of men, you will see that those who obtain great wealth and power do so either by force or fraud, and having got them they conceal under some honest name the foulness of their deeds.” You couldn’t pen a better description of the relationship between the imperial corporate state and its supplicant media. Once the coffers of vulnerable nations are ransacked by American wars of aggression, it is the media that sweeps the crimes of state beneath a carpet of piety. The truth may come out in due time, although it is always ex post facto. Thanks to the the coordination between the corporate sector, the state, and the media, the American doctrinal...

19Sep

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Politics

WORLD NEWS

NOVANEWS Some of our special stories in August focused on the dangerous new Cold War with Russia, the serious problems with both major party candidates for U.S. president, and the troubling collapse of professional journalism. “New Cold War at the Olympics” by Rick Sterling, Aug. 1, 2016 “Is Hillary Double-Talking on Trade Deals?” by JP Sottile, Aug. 1, 2016 “The Mystery of Turkey’s Failed Coup” by Joe Lauria, Aug. 2, 2016 “Terrorism as a Word and Epithet” by Michael Brenner, Aug. 4, 2016 “The Danger of Excessive Trump Bashing” by Robert Parry, Aug. 4, 2016 “Needing an Exit from Afghan Quagmire” by Alon Ben-Meir, Aug. 5, 2016 “Letting Saudi Arabia Off the 9/11 Hook” by Lawrence Davidson, Aug. 5, 2016 “Al Qaeda’s Name Game in Syria” by Gareth Porter, Aug. 6, 2016 “Stalling Obama’...

25Aug

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Politics

“Unruly Equality”: A Brief History of Anarchism

NOVANEWS By Andrew Cornell (Photo: Mario Felipe Espinoza González) This article is excerpted from Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the 20th Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016). In recent years anarchists have played prominent and controversial roles in radical social movements, domestically and internationally. Yet discussing the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary anarchism, in relation to other sectors of the Left, has proven challenging. The very terms anarchy, anarchism, and anarchist are so overcoded with meanings and burdened by associations that people frequently talk past one another, or resort to awkward attempts at humor, even when attempting to discuss them in good faith. Since the eighteenth century, at least, the word anarchy has signified a ...