Politics

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NOVANEWS http://endoftheamericandream.com How many times have you heard the mainstream media dismiss certain points of view as “conspiracy theories”?  It seems as though one of the easiest ways to brush something off is to label it as something that only “conspiracy theorists” would believe.  Well, you know what?  A whole lot of thetime the “conspiracy theorists” are right and the mainstream media is wrong.  In fact, we owe a great debt to “conspiracy theorists” because they will go places and investigate things that the mainstream media would never even touch.  The reality is that the mainstream media only tells us what the government and the big corporations want us to hear, and much of the time it is those in thealternative media that are left with the task of trying to figure out ...

NOVANEWS by Thierry Meyssan Global Research War propaganda has entered a new phase, involving the coordinated action of satellite TV stations. CNN, France24, the BBC and Al Jazeera have become instruments of disinformation used to demonize governments and justify armed aggressions. These practices are illegal under international law and the impunity of the perpetrators must be stopped. Voltaire Network  Tripoli (Libya)  16 August 2011 Child’s drawing about Al Jazeera (school in Tripoli). The current processing of the information on Libya and Syria has marked a turning point in the history of war propaganda in that it uses new ways that have taken the international public by surprise. Four powers - the United States, France, the UK and Qatar - have combined their tec...

NOVANEWS The Israeli radio station and news website, Arutz Sheva, has been forced to publish a denial of an article by David Bedein, in which he made “staggeringly ignorant claims” and “baseless allegations” against UNRWA. The retraction says that “no evidence” had been produced by Bedein, who claimed that UNRWA was seeking to impose a “Fourth Reich upon the Jews” and that UNRWA’s “raison d’etre” involved “a genocide against the Jews”. The denial posted on the Arutz Sheva site described Bedein’s work as shoddy and “politically motivated”. “I am delighted Arutz Sheva has seen the error of its ways and has published a denial to this typically groundless and wildly misleading article by David Bedein,” said UNRWA spokesman, Chris Gunness. “Bedein has long made completely baseless and political...

NOVANEWS by Tom Valentin e   I have been as confused as Mrs Banana when it comes to following up on the great news extracted from a long, but outstanding, video presentation put out by a citizen’s commission on Debt-O-cracy ; featured by this column on June 23. The video, that I heralded loudly (view it here) documented great news in Ecuador, when popular leader Rafael Correa, was elected president on a first ballot in, I think, 2008. The video showed president, Correa presiding over a sweeping cleanout of bankers and lobbyists from the IMF. In the July 30 2001 issue of the world bankster journal “ The Economist ” a brief report alleged all kinds of nasty stuff about this populist hero becoming a tyrant and trying to stifle media dissent. It’s not impossible, but I always suspect “ Th...

NOVANEWS Colombia: Pillage, Promise and Peace by James Petras Invited paper to be presented to the “Encuentro Nacional de comunidades Campesinas, Afrodescendientes e Indigenas por la Tierra y la Paz de Colombia” “El dialogo es la Ruta” 12 al 15 de agosto 2011, Barrancabermeja – Colombia Introduction: We live in a time of great destruction and grand economic opportunities and Latin America is no exception. In the global context, the US Empire is engaged in destructive wars (Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Haiti). In contrast China, India, Brazil, Argentina and other “emerging economies” are expanding trade, investments and reducing poverty. The European Union (EU) and the United States (USA) are in deep economic crises. The EU “periphery” (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, ...

NOVANEWS The Racist, Gilad Atzmon And Zero Books. modernityblog *   Apparently, the racist? Gilad Atzmon is about to have some of his disgusting ramblings published. The publishers, Zero Books, are a small, relatively new enterprise started in 2009, not to be confused with Zero Press. Atzmon's work is very popular on the Far Right, so I had assumed that only active Jew haters ? would take the time and trouble to publish his filth, but that's not the case. Zero Books publish a strange mixture of Paganism, New Ageism and Christianity, with political material as a topping. This is what they say about themselves, replete with elementary spelling mistakes. It is not terribly clear who's behind it, but if you're interested in healing properties of stones and other such nonsense ...

NOVANEWS   My 5-year involvement with this site has been somewhat intermittent. Although I love to blog, there is still this other pesky thing called “life” that often tends to take precedence. At other times, despair about my main blogging subject (Israel -Palestine, hereafter I-P), and the apparent futility of the I-P scene here, had kept me away for weeks or even months. So it was nearly 2 weeks late that I received the meta “headline news”: an Antisem- itism epidemic was diagnosed at Daily Kos. The list of symptoms was detailed in a public letter, with dozens of examples from diaries and comments. The good citizens of this progressive-liberal community were called upon to take action, to eradicate the disease from among us – because at other times when good citizens looked th...