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8Mar

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Politics, Saudi Arabia

Playing Politics: How The N Y T Misrepresents Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia

NOVANEWS Playing Politics: How The New York Times Misrepresents Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia By Timothy Alexander Guzman Global Research The New York Times and other main-stream media outlets in the U.S. are cautious on how they portray one of the most important political figures in the Arab World, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Monarchy is close to Washington and Tel Aviv and has an abundant supply of oil and gas reserves, an important element to the U.S. war machine. The New York Times published a story on the death of King Abdullah and his policies titled ‘King Abdullah, a Shrewd Force Who Reshaped Saudi Arabia, Dies at 90.’ The report declares Abdullah, a moderate reformer concerning Saudi Arabia’s economy and on the “War on Terror.” Ironically it was the The New York...

1Mar

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Politics

The Academy’s complicity in the Global War of false flag terrorism

NOVANEWS By Prof. Tony Hall | American Herald Tribune I met Dr. Kevin Barrett as planned at a small bookstore near the Notre Dame Cathedral landmark in Paris France. On that day, December 11, 2015, the Paris bookstore was the site of a significant academic conference entitled “Islamophobia and the Erosion of Civil Society.” Hours earlier I had exited the last class of the fall term in my third-year Globalization Studies course at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta Canada. I had driven to Calgary, hopped a flight to Dallas, and then transferred onto a big American Airlines 777 for the trans-Atlantic flight to the City of Lights now under martial law. For the second time in 2015 Paris had been rocked by violent episodes attributed to the independent actions of Islamic terrorists. A...

12Feb

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Politics

The Privatization of Terrorism Blacklists Will Damage Innocent Lives

NOVANEWS By Hugh Handeyside A private service that banks, employers, and government agencies use to screen customers and clients is blacklisting thousands of people as terrorists, sometimes based on nothing more than inaccurate and bigoted materials online, according to a VICE News article. Thomson-Reuters’ “World-Check” database slaps a “terrorism” designation — and a picture of a red balaclava — on the profiles of individuals, charities, and religious institutions. Many of them are Muslims who have never been charged or even accused of terrorism-related offenses. The results are far-reaching and can include closure of the blacklisted individuals’ bank accounts, inability to get a job, or denial of government benefits. (And World-Check isn’t the only company chasing billions of dollars ...

22Jan

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Campaigns, Politics

The Hidden Slitherers of Mind Manipulation

NOVANEWS Edited and slightly abridged by Lasha Darkmoon, with minor additions not found in the original text. How a false reality is being constructed for us BY THE HIDDEN SLITHERERS OF MIND MANIPULATION “Beware of the red-eyed Infiltrator, known to many in the eastern lands as the ‘Whisperer’. His evil agents are everywhere. These hidden slitherers of mind manipulation wind their way into the secret chambers of the heart at every opportunity. Lies are what they carry, as mangy dogs carry fleas and ticks. They poison the mind with all manner of dangerous toxins and life defilement is their aim.” — Lasha Darkmoon, Unpublished Diary Our reality is carefully constructed by powerful corporate, political and special interest sources in order to covertly sway public opinion. Blatant lies are...

21Jan

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Politics, World

Global Unemployment and the World Economic Crisis

NOVANEWS A Bleak ILO Unemployment Report and even Bleaker Projections By Peter Koenig Global Research This is a transcript of an interview of Dr. Peter Koenig with PressTV, focussing on the recently released ILO Unemployment Report. The interview is preceded by a brief news summary of the ILO report. According to AFP, January 19, 2016: “Global unemployment rose in 2015 and is expected to worsen further over the next two years, the International Labour Organization said Tuesday, citing downturns in key emerging economies. In a new report, the ILO estimated that 197.1 million working-age people were unemployed in 2015, an uptick of 0.7 percent compared to 2014 figures. In 2016, the figure is expected to rise by a further 2.3 million, with another 1.1 million people added to the job...

9Jan

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Literature, Politics

Past and Present Islamist, Democratic and Nazi International Brigades

NOVANEWS By Prof. James Petras Global Research The Islamic State (IS) has become a magnet for international brigades, drawing over 30,000 fighters from 5 continents and 86 countries to their war in Iraq and Syria. While the international brigades are part of a global movement, most of the volunteers come from two-dozen countries, mainly in the Middle East, Maghreb, Western Europe, Russia and Central Asia. Most Islamist internationalists are paid a salary to fight and engage in police functions within IS-occupied regions. This essay will identify the principle sources of recruitment of Islamist internationalists and the reasons underlying their commitment. We will also contrast and compare IS internationalists to the earlier international brigades fighting for the Spanish Republic ...

1Jan

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Africa, Politics, World

2015 as a repeat of 1965 in Burundi: The stubbornness of political history

NOVANEWS David-Ngendo Tshimba If 1965 consists of the first time in recorded history of contemporary Burundi that people lost their lives simply because of who they were ‘ethnically’ considered to be, 2015 is yet another moment in the post-colonial history of Burundi that people are losing their lives simply because of who they are ‘politically’ considered to be. In the run-up to independence in 1962, Burundi held national elections in September 1961 contested between two rival groups of traditional princes (Ganwa): the Bezi, represented by the Union pour le Progrès National (UPRONA) party, and the Batare, represented by the Parti Démocrate Chrétien (PDC) party. The then popular and pro-independence king’s son, Prince Louis Rwagasore, whose UPRONA [Union for National Progress] had just wo...

17Dec

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Middle East, Politics, World

The Global State of HUMAN RIGHTS in 2015: And Why the Narrative Needs to Change

NOVANEWS A few days ago, the annual Human Rights Day marked the United Nations‘ adoption and proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948; the first global enunciation of human rights and one of the first major acts of the then newly formed UN. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights called upon the entire world to recognise and respect every human being’s inalienable rights “without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status”. It is without question one of the most important documents ever created. So, all these decades later, what is the true state of human rights across the globe? And how close are we to anything resembling the attainment of a uni...

30Nov

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Politics, USA

Film review: American communist screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo

NOVANEWS By Fabian Van Onzin Houston, TX - Jay Roach’s new movie,Trumbo, is an excellent film about the American communist screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo. The film is a biography of Trumbo’s life, his political commitments and the severe repression he faced during the U.S. government’s blacklisting campaign of Hollywood leftists in the 1950s. Unlike most Hollywood films, Trumbo paints communists in a very favorable light, showing that they were committed to the fight for social justice and the struggle to improve the lives of working people. The film focuses particularly on the work of American communists in Los Angeles during the Cold War. It has a brief scene at the beginning that shows some of the work that communists did with artist unions in Hollywood and their attempts to orga...

23Nov

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Politics, World

Time to “Defund” the International Criminal Court

NOVANEWS By Dr. David Hoile Global Research Should the ICC be Disbanded? The Assembly of States Parties is meeting this month in The Hague to review the work of the International Criminal Court and to discuss the ICC’s budget. The ASP is the International Criminal Court’s management oversight and legislative body. The Assembly also elects the judges and prosecutors and decides the Court’s budget. The court’s proposed budget for 2016 amounts to €153.32 million, representing an increase of €22.66 million, or 17.3 per cent, over the 2015 approved budget. At face value, far from increasing the budget for the ICC, the Assembly of State Parties should be demanding a refund. Established in 2002, the ICC is an impotent billion euro white elephant. 2015 has been a particularly bad year for t...