Politics

NOVANEWS By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky There is something disturbing in the nature of post 9/11 public discourse. Incessantly, on a daily basis, Al Qaeda is referred to by the Western media, government officials, members of the US Congress, Wall Street analysts, etc. as an underlying cause of numerous World events. Occurences of a significant political, social or strategic nature --including the US presidential elections campaign-- are routinely categorized by referring to Al Qaeda, the alleged architect of the September 11 2001 attacks. What is striking is the extent of media coverage of  "Al Qaeda related events", not to mention the mountains of op eds and  authoritative "analysis" pertaining to "terror events" in different part of the World. Routine mention of Al Qaeda "fanatics...

NOVANEWS by Stephen Lendman   Former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller now writes Times op-eds on alternate Mondays, as well as articles for The New York Times Magazine. Too bad his columns get failing grades. Scoundrel journalism is featured. Truth and full disclosure are excluded. His March 18 article is typical. Headlined, “Falling In and Out of War,” it began well. He admitted he’s been wrong on war and wants “to avoid repeating the mistake.” To his credit, he also said “it’s immeasurably more true for those in a position to actually start a war.” He stopped short of explaining the vital role media scoundrels play, especially The Times as America’s most influential broadsheet. It’s major front page stories get global attention. As executive editor, and earlier as m...

NOVANEWS Disavowal: “…a mental act that consists in rejecting the reality of a perception.” by William A. Cook   “For me to be Jewish is, above all, to be preoccupied with overcoming injustice and thirsting for justice in the world, and that means being respectful toward other peoples regardless of their nationality or religion, and empathetic in the face of human suffering whoever and wherever victimization is encountered” (Gilad Atzmon, “On Jewish Identity,” 1/15/2011). Strange that the US Palestinian Community Network, in an article titled “Granting No Quarter: a Call for the Disavowal of the Racism and Anti-Semitism of Gilad Atzmon,” by Ali Abunimah, would seek to silence the voice of a man who, as the quote that opens this article attests, publically proclaims, to all the worl...

NOVANEWS These figures are a rough estimate of the death of non-Muslims by the political act of jihad. Africa Thomas Sowell [Thomas Sowell, Race and Culture, BasicBooks, 1994, p. 188] estimates that 11 million slaves were shipped across the Atlantic and 14 million were sent to the Islamic nations of North Africa and the Middle East. For every slave captured many others died. Estimates of this collateral damage vary. The renowned missionary David Livingstone estimated that for every slave who reached a plantation, five others were killed in the initial raid or died of illness and privation on the forced march.[Woman’s Presbyterian Board of Missions, David Livingstone, p. 62, 1888] Those who were left behind were the very young, the weak, the sick and the old. These soon died since the mai...

NOVANEWS by Dr. Ingrid R. Zundel   Even though this article was written almost four years ago, it is still timely today. I am posting it for two reasons: First, as explanation why we keep paying so much at the pump, and secondly – and much more importantly – because there is a rather cavalier attitude afoot even among our most savvy and well-informed dissident comrades, that one still has the luxury of tiptoeing around the “Holocaust” so as not to trigger a volley of verbal spitballs from well-known thought-policing quarters. Vicious character assassination is a Weapon of Mass Destruction in and of itself, targeting not only individuals but whole groups that are perceived to be inimical to political interests. There is ample justification to fear targeted character assassination –...

NOVANEWS by Eileen Fleming   When the recent cyber attack against Gilad Atzmon began, I could only sigh and a sigh is a silent prayer. Then I said aloud, “Jesus have mercy on us all” as I recalled what Ken O’Keefe said regarding WHY we activists have not been able to end the military occupation of Palestine; Because of the failure of activists to “Check the ego at the door” and then I thought of my friend Richard Forer who wrote the book: BREAKTHROUGH: Transforming Fear into Compassion- A New Perspective on the Israel-Palestine Conflict Ego is simply defined as the “I” or self of any person; and a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought. Philosophers define Ego as the enduring and conscious elem...