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5Sep

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Politics, USA

Watch: Cashing in on the “War on Terror”

NOVANEWS There’s big money behind war. Since 2001, the “War on Terror” has done little to end global violence and has cost a staggering USD 4.4 trillion. So, who actually benefits from its perpetuation, and how are lobbyists and the military-industrial complex involved? The video below singles out four of the biggest profiteers of the war from among defence contractors, weapons manufacturers and private intelligence contractors.

30Aug

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Politics

International Law Is a Tool in the Hands of Great Powers

NOVANEWS Kourosh Ziabari – Fars News Agency: Prominent international lawyer Gilles Devers says that Israel is an occupying power and according to the principles of international law, it has a responsibility to protect the civilian population under its rule. Gilles Devers believes that Israel’s blockade against the Gaza Strip constitutes a form of collective punishment and should be lifted as part of its obligations to ensure the protection and safety of the besieged people of the tiny coastal enclave. In an exclusive interview with Fars News Agency, the French lawyer stated that Israel is not only failing to do enough to help the people of Gaza, but is also exacerbating the conditions of their daily lives. Expressing his surprise that Israel is not taking any action to improve the li...

28Aug

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Education, 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 ve...

26Aug

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Politics, World

Dangerous Crossroads: US-NATO To Deploy Ground Troops, Conduct Large Scale Naval Exercises against “Unnamed Enemy”

NOVANEWS By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research The World is at a dangerous Crossroads. The Western military alliance is in an advanced state of readiness. And so is Russia. Russia is heralded as the “Aggressor”. US-NATO military confrontation with Russia is contemplated. Enabling legislation in the US Senate under “The Russian Aggression Prevention Act” (RAPA) has “set the US on a path towards direct military conflict with Russia in Ukraine.” Any US-Russian war is likely to quickly escalate into a nuclear war, since neither the US nor Russia would be willing to admit defeat, both have many thousands of nuclear weapons ready for instant use, and both rely upon Counterforce military doctrine that tasks their military, in the event of war, to preemptively destroy the nuclea...

19Aug

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Politics

Ebola and the Absent Western “Humanitarians”

NOVANEWS By Ulson Gunnar Global Research The US spent over two billion dollars during NATO’s armed assault on Libya both in ordnance used during months of aerial bombardment and in covert support for terrorists used as proxy ground forces in the overthrow of the Libyan government. The United Kingdom is estimated to have spent even more. Hundreds of millions were spent by other NATO members throughout the duration of the assault. The “protection of civilians” was repeatedly cited as the altruistic justification for such an expenditure in manpower and financial resources. In the wake of the conflict, it was revealed that NATO’s “humanitarian intervention” left entire cities filled with unarmed civilians encircled by Al Qaeda-linked militants and relentlessly bombarded by NATO sorties ...

19Aug

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Politics

What is Democracy?

NOVANEWS By Marilyn M. Barnewall - Global Financial Affairs Editor “Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.” –James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994) Our founding fathers gave us a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy. The following story explains just what brilliant men they were to recognize the difference between a Democracy and a Republic. If you revisit the article I wrote called “What Is Capitalism?” you will find the definition of a Constitutional Republic which functions under a Constitution from which the rule of law flows telling society and government what the rules are – especially the restrictions placed on government. The people elect members from the public to represent them in Congress to uphold the law of the lan...

18Aug

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Politics

From rage to rebellion — to revolution

NOVANEWS By Liberation Staff This statement is being distributed in the streets of Ferguson and St. Louis. A protester in Ferguson throws back a tear gas canister towards the police. All the politicians are calling for calm and peace. Fighting back in the streets, they say, accomplishes nothing. They say the people have to work within the system to bring about change. But what has the system ever accomplished? This is the same “new Jim Crow” system that let George Zimmerman walk free. This is the same system — with the same prosecutors and judges — that is locking up young Black men left and right. This is the same system that has always been based on poverty, unemployment, gentrification and racism. This Special Issue of Liberation is being distributed in Ferguson, St. Louis and aro...

4Aug

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Politics, World

The case for a new global paradigm

NOVANEWS A new world system with sharing, sustainability and cooperation at its core By Graham Peebles Well-informed, well-read and by nature compassionately optimistic, a dear friend recently expressed our collective concern: “I am more worried about the state of the world now than at any time in my lifetime.” Given the fires raging throughout the world it is difficult to remain hopeful for the future of humanity or the planet. With the Middle East tearing itself to pieces, extremism and intolerance reasserting themselves and far right groups in a variety of countries gaining support and in many cases political influence, not to mention the worldwide environmental mayhem, man-made climate change (the most serious single issue facing us) and the suffering of billions of people living ...

29Jul

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Politics, ZIO-NAZI

The Higher Sociopathy

NOVANEWS In the annals of moral casuistry, you’d be hard pressed to find a better example of the perils of moral reasoning than this defense, brought to you by The New Republic, of the slaughter of Palestinian civilians in Gaza: We can say that there is a principle worth fighting and dying for: Civilians cannot be used to make just wars impossible and morality will not be used as a tool to disarm. And once we have that principle, the proportionality calculation changes. The deaths of innocents are not simply outweighed by Israelis’ right to live without daily rockets and terrorists tunneling into a kibbutz playground; but by the defense of a world in which terrorists cannot use morality to achieve victory over those who try to fight morally. It is the protection of that world, one in w...

28Jul

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Politics

War in Our Collective Imagination

NOVANEWS By David Swanson Global Research Remarks at Veterans For Peace Convention, Asheville, NC, July 27, 2014. I started seeing graphics pop up on social media sites this past week that said about Gaza: “It’s not war. It’s murder.” So I started asking people what exactly they think war is if it’s distinct from murder. Well, war, some of them told me, takes place between armies. So I asked for anyone to name a war during the past century (that is, after World War I) where all or even most or even a majority of the dying was done by members of armies. There may have been such a war. There are enough scholars here today that somebody probably knows of one. But if so, it isn’t the norm, and these people I was chatting with through social media couldn’t think of any such war ...