Politics

NOVANEWS By Guillaume KressGlobal Research What characterizes the Anglo-American imperial system is the “abundance of money” coupled with an extensive military and intelligence apparatus. Both conditions complement one another such that ineffective economic sanctions, for instance, can be compensated by greater military intervention, and vice versa.  In other words, the threat of military intervention supports economic objectives. Conversely, market manipulation is often used to destabilize countries, i.e. through non-military means.   Moreover, this Anglo-American system requires that its leaders maintain a robust military-industrial complex to cover up/consolidate their economic and financial endeavours. In this context, we bring to the attention of our readers a selection...

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr Most people associate arms trafficking with films like “Merchant of Death” and big names like Viktor Bout, the subject of that film. They said “good riddance” when they heard that he had been captured and flown off in chains to the US to serve a 25 year sentence for a multitude of crimes. Many would now be even happier if they threw away the key and that was the end of the story. But we got to this point because a lot of people who know the real story want us to think that way. The official version of Bout’s crimes, capture, extradition and conviction looks almost seamless. It portrays a man with no moral limits who provided guns and logistics to various warlords and murderous African dictators purely for profit. The United Nations claims that he wa...

NOVANEWS How to Rebuild Leftist Policies By Devon Douglas-Bowers Global Research Below is a transcript of an email interview I did with writers Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker and Michael J. Thompson who co-authored the article “The Treason of Intellectual Radicalism and the Collapse of Leftist Politics” which appeared in the Winter 2015 edition of the academic journal Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture.  In the interview, we discuss the problems of current leftist theory, the collapse of the left, and if there is a way to rebuild leftist politics. 1. You write early in the article that “Today, leftist political theory in the academy has fallen under the spell of ideas so far removed from actual political issues[.]” Do you think that this is a failing that is solely in the aca...

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem, Sr By Brandon Martinez  Do you believe that governments occasionally conspire to undermine the public good? Do you believe that governments manipulate people through fear to achieve nefarious ends such as war and intervention abroad? Do you believe that ‘elected’ officials serve rich and powerful special interests rather than the majority population? If you answered yes to any of the above, and you are a British citizen, then you could be the target of a new ‘counter-extremism’ initiative spearheaded by that country’s perverse Prime Minister David Cameron. As part of his Orwellian ‘counter-extremism’ effort, Cameron has instituted a number of truly despotic measures intent on stifling free speech and extirpating ‘heretical’ viewpoints about false flag te...

NOVANEWS By Judith Curry | Climate Etc. Groupthink: A pattern of thought charaterized by self-deception, forced manufacture of consent, and conformity to group values and ethics. Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets, by Roland Benabou, published in the Review of Economic Studies.  Benabou also has a talk (ppt slides) on this subject. First, a definition of groupthink (from the ppt slides): Janis (1972)’s eight symptoms [of groupthink]: illusion of invulnerability collective rationalization belief in inherent morality stereotyped views of out-groups direct pressure on dissenters self-censorship illusion of unanimity self-appointed mind guards Sound like any groups that we know?  If you are on different ‘sides’ of the AGW debate, you may be evaluating the ...