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13Dec By SHOAH1 Comment
Campaigns, Politics

Alternative Media and the MH17 JIT Reversal

NOVANEWS By Ulson Gunnar After weeks of protests and growing suspicion, Dutch authorities overseeing the investigation of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 have finally included Malaysia as a member of its Joint Investigation Team (JIT). Malaysia had made it clear it was immensely displeased with its inexplicable exclusion from JIT formed after the downing of MH17 over eastern Ukraine. Including NATO members  (Belgium and the Netherlands), a defacto NATO collaborator (Australia) and a potential culprit in the air disaster (Ukraine), Malaysia’s exclusion looked to be a part of an ongoing cover-up amid a larger attempt to use the disaster to frame Russia and advance NATO’s agenda in Eastern Europe. The conflict amid which MH17 was shot down is perceived to be a proxy conflict between NATO and...
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5Dec By SHOAHNo Comments
Health, Politics

Seeds of Destruction: Hijacking of the World’s Food System

NOVANEWS By Global Research Global Research As F. William Engdahl wrote in “Death of the Birds and the Bees Across America“: Birds and bees are something most of us take for granted as part of nature. The expression “teaching about the birds and the bees” to explain the process of human reproduction to young people is not an accidental expression. Bees and birds contribute to the essence of life on our planet. A study by the US Department of Agriculture estimated that “…perhaps one-third of our total diet is dependent, directly or indirectly, upon insect-pollinated plants.”[1] The honey bee, Apis mellifera, is the most important pollinator of agricultural crops. Honey bees pollinate over 70 out of 100 crops that in turn provide 90% of the world’s food. They pollinate most fruits and v...
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4Dec By SHOAHNo Comments
Politics

The Illusion of Debate

NOVANEWS By Jason Hirthler | CounterPunch A recent article in FAIR reviewed the findings of its latest study on the quality of political “debate” being aired on the mainstream networks. It studied the run-up to the military interventions in both Iraq and Syria. Perhaps the arbiters of the study intended to illustrate what we’ve learned since the fraudulent Iraq War of 2003. Well, it appears we’ve learned nothing. FAIR spent hours painfully absorbing the misinformation peddled by such soporific Sunday shows as CNN’s State of the Union, CBS’s Face the Nation, NBC’s Meet the Press, and ABC’s This Week, plus some of the more popular weekly political programming including ADHD-inducing CNN’s Situation Room, Fox News Channel’s Special Report, the venerable sedative PBS NewsHour, and MSNBC’s Ha...
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29Nov By SHOAHNo Comments
Campaigns, Politics

The Wikileaks Documentary ”VIDEO”

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem, Sr The war against truth   What did WikiLeaks do? It exposed hard, documentary evidence of US war crimes. Until WikiLeaks came along, these crimes and other crimes were being actively covered up. The US government - that is the crooks currently in power - consider him a criminal and would like to get their hands on him. For the time being, he's living in the Embassy of Ecuador in London. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvmfOaZ34Pk  
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29Nov By SHOAHNo Comments
Campaigns, Politics

Coalition Launches to Lead Global Fight For Open Internet and Digital Democracy

NOVANEWS 'Net neutrality is not an American issue, or a European issue, or an African issue. It is increasingly a global human rights issue.' by: Nadia Prupis This Is Net Neutrality. (Photo: AccessNow.org) As a movement crystallizes around the future of the Internet, more than 35 human rights and technology organizations from 19 countries have come together as a new coalition to define and protect the idea of 'net neutrality' as they lead what they say is a global battle to protect the Open Internet and online freedom. The numerous and diverse groups—coming together as the 'This Is Net Neutrality' coalition—released a joint statement (made available in eleven languages) expressing their shared purpose: The open Internet has fostered unprecedented creativity, in...
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29Nov By SHOAHNo Comments
Politics

Memoir Sketch: Championing Lost Causes

NOVANEWS   By chance I was reading César Vallejo’s poem, “Black Stone on a White Stone,” in a translation by Geoffrey Brock, and was struck by the opening stanza:                   I’ll die in Paris in the pouring rain                   a day I have a memory of already.                   I’ll die in Paris—I won’t try to run—                   a Thursday perhaps, in Autumn, like today. Without being literal, I was reminded that I could appraise my death while alive, and not leave a final reckoning to some solemn memorial event in which speakers are challenged to find humorous anecdotes to lighten the occasion, otherwise uttering honorific platitudes quite unrelated to the experiential core of my being. I had been thinking quite a bit recently about ‘lost causes.’ Recently I gave a ...
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21Nov By SHOAHNo Comments
Politics, World

Why Does Gold Have to be so Barbaric? Where has All the Gold Gone?

NOVANEWS By Bill Holter and Miles Franklin Global Research Gold, that “barbaric relic” from yesteryear just won’t go away even though the central banks around the world would like just that.  I believe it was Keynes who first coined the phrase ”barbarous relic” which has stuck for more than half a century.  But why does it have to be so barbaric? Gold as you know has had a very long history, some 5,000 years or more.  Wars have been fought over it, kings and queens have won or lost over it, coup de ‘tat’s have occurred because if it, entire governments have been swept because of gold …or the lack of.  Gold has been hidden, buried, swept away and stolen over the years.  Maybe JM Keynes called it the “barbarous relic” because the of ugly lengths man has gone to throughout history t...
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16Nov By SHOAHNo Comments
Politics, World

Looking Back on World War I One Hundred Years Later: Four Mixed Messages

NOVANEWS [Prefatory Note: A few days ago I gave a lecture in that was the second annual occasion honoring the memory of a beloved New Zealand peace activist, Dorothy Brown. My host for the occasion was the National Centre of Peace and International Studies, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ, where two days later I gave another lecture, “Obstacles to Peace in the Middle East.”] Looking Back on World War I One Hundred Years Later: Four Mixed Messages (Dorothy Brown Memorial Lecture, Auckland, New Zealand, November 8, 2014) Identity Politics a Century Later I admit to surprise that a place as distant from Europe as New Zealand would have had such a strong interest in World War I until I looked a bit deeper into its relationship to that war and to the country’s place sense of imperial du...
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15Nov By SHOAHNo Comments
Politics, World

Ideological Foundations of Mainstream Neoclassical Economics: Class Interests as “Economic Theory”

NOVANEWS By Prof. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh Global Research There is now a widespread consensus that mainstream/neoclassical economists failed miserably to either predict the coming of the 2008 financial implosion, or provide a reasonable explanation when it actually arrived. Not surprisingly, many critics have argued that neoclassical economics has created more confusion than clarification, more obfuscation than elucidation. Economic “science” has, indeed, become “an ideological construct which serves to camouflage and justify the New World Order” [1]. Also not surprisingly, an increasing number of students who take classes and/or major in economics are complaining about the abstract and irrelevant nature of the discipline. For example, a group of French graduate students in econom...
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