Politics

NOVANEWS GENEVA (13 February 2013) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Richard Falk today called for the immediate release of three Palestinian detainees held without charges by Israel. Mr. Falk expressed deep concern for the fate of Tarek Qa’adan and Jafar Azzidine, who are on their 78th day of hunger strike, and Samer Al-Issawi, who has been on partial hunger strike for over 200 days. “Continuing to hold Mr. Qa’adan, Mr Azzidine and Mr. Al-Issawi under these conditions is inhumane. Israel is responsible for any permanent harm,” warned the independent expert designated by the Human Rights Council to monitor and report on Israeli rights violations in Palestine. “If Israeli officials cannot present evidence to support charges against these men, then they must be released immediately.” “Mr. ...

NOVANEWS by Paul Eisen In response to this posting a reader and friend sent me the following: From years ago I recall David Duke in connection with the KKK. I cannot tolerate racism, and because of that I have long had a visceral dislike of him. I still don't trust him. But, like Paul, I couldn't see anything in this video that hasn't been corroborated elsewhere. To disagree with the video's claims I would have to disagree with just about everything else I know about this whole mess. Maybe Duke's views on race have changed, or maybe I didn't really understand them in the first place. Obviously I've heard this before and usually I just ignore it in the same way as I ignore it when people call Holocaust revisionists 'Nazis'. But my friend's message was gentle and thoughtful, raising impo...

NOVANEWS Just to get off Jews for a moment, here are two clips of Bill Moyers discussing faith and reason with two people. One is a complete arsehole and the other is the complete opposite of a complete arsehole whatever that may be. You shouldn't have any trouble telling which is which. Posted by Paul Eisen

It's about Ernst Zundel and Ingrid Rimland and their struggle, and also a little about the German people and their struggle. It was just one section of my essay "The Holocaust Wars" which, except for amongst a small band of stalwarts, was just howled down. The essay was a long time coming, but the trigger was a statement made by Joel Finkel of Jews-for-something-or-other. Joel didn't like it that a previous essay of mine had found it's way onto Ingrid Rimland's 'neo-Nazi' Zundelsite.Well, "Jewish power" certainly did appear on the Zundelsite, but that was because Ingrid had asked me if she might post it. People didn't usually bother with such niceties and nor had anyone spoken to me quite as honestly, openly and courteously the way Ingrid spoke to me (Perhaps I'll publish that conversation...

NOVANEWS by Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile, 1932 Like all sound political conceptions, Fascism is action and it is thought; action in which doctrine is immanent, and doctrine arising from a given system of historical forces in which it is inserted, and working on them from within (1). It has therefore a form correlated to contingencies of time and space; but it has also an ideal content which makes it an expression of truth in the higher region of the history of thought (2). There is no way of exercising a spiritual influence in the world as a human will dominating the will of others, unless one has a conception both of the transient and the specific reality on which that action is to be exercised, and of the permanent and universal reality in which the transient dwells and has its ...

NOVANEWS Haaretz His declared reason is that he is no longer physically capable of handling the demands of the position. Having met with him three times in the course of the last year, I can attest to his growing frailty. However, while the conclave that elects the pope is a jealously closed gathering, Benedict XVI as a living former incumbent could have a significant influence on the choice of a successor something historically unique in itself. As someone who sees himself as a bulwark of theological truth facing a tidal wave of secular relativism, he would want the next pope to continue this conservative line. While many liberals within and outside the Church will be hoping for a successor with a very different outlook, those who care about the future of Catholic-Jewish relations and w...

NOVANEWS By Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin Global Research   Austerity is a sham. Debt is economics for the ‘little people’. If the people produce the wealth then why are they always poor and/or paying back debts? Because the national and international wealthy lend us back the money (with interest) they have taken out of society in the form of profits to fill in the gap they created in the first place. Thus we are triply exploited: We are taxed on wages, alienated from wealth created (profits) and we pay interest on the money borrowed from the wealthy to pay for the capital and current expenditure needed for the maintenance of society. When there is an economic crisis caused by this constant draining of the wealth from the economy, the ‘experts’ then debate the best way to impose cutbacks ...

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BY: Robert Faurisson To Noam Chomsky he's a 'terrible fraud', to Norman Finkelstein he's a 'clown', to Christopher Hitchens he was a 'windbag' and 'poseur' and to Israel Shamir he's the (my favourite) "cry-as-you-pay Holocaust weepie". So many great people with so many bad things to say about Elie Wiesel. This blog has also posted one or two items on Wiesel from time to time. For example, Deir Yassin Remembered's Dan McGowan has been after him for years. It began when, back in the late nineties , Dan asked Wiesel to join the DYR Board of Advisers. Wiesel's answer to the invitation? No answer, and this from the man who told us that "The opposite of love is not hate but indifference". Never one to go quietly, Dan just kept on chasing and recently, devoted a sizable chunk of his foreword to G...