Politics

NOVANEWS By Shamus Cooke Global Research, Listening to Congress debate deficit deduction is like listening to a den of lions discuss the welfare of zebras. In both cases the debate is very one-sided. Democrats and Republicans sound disagreeable on TV, but their arguments differ by the tiniest of degrees (like lions fighting over how best to eat a zebra.) The zebras in this case are U.S. working people, who are not seeing their interests represented by their so-called representatives. Instead of fixing the national deficit in the way that the vast majority of Americans would like, only the opinions of a tiny minority of very rich people are being considered. Both political parties are uniting to reduce the deficits on the backs of working people. For example, Obama's chie...

NOVANEWS By Prof. John Kozy Global Research, The word 'recover' always has the connotation of "getting back." But who is going to get back what when the economy "recovers"? Few at most. So what does an economic recovery look like? No one knows. The word 'recovery' can not be applied to objects willy-nilly. A sick person goes into the hospital to recover; a broken automobile is taken to a shop to be repaired. Automobiles do not recover. Neither do economies; they can only get better or worse, and specific information is needed to determine which. Few people realize just how close to the edge of disintegration America is. The Congress meets for one purpose and one purpose alone—to get reelected. The political posturing begins the day after each election, while the nation's ...

NOVANEWS by Mark Dankof When I was a young person, the late William Colby once told me that a honest problem solver had to do three (3) things. The first involves defining the real problem at hand, isolating root causes and jettisoning red herrings. The second involves identifying the right sources and resources, utilizing their insights and wisdom while simultaneously eliminating the wrong sources and their deep freezing reservoir of penetratingly false analysis and deceptive solutions, ending only in a beeline to Sheol and outer darkness if followed because of fatally incurable myopia. The third involves literal intercessory prayer for the honest problem solver who believes that God and that option actually exist. It is an especially focused prayer.  One prays fervently that...

NOVANEWS http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2011/07/RIR-110709.php Gilad Atzmon - Zionism & Multiculturalism July 9, 2011 Gilad Atzmon was born in Israel, now living in the UK. He is a successful jazz musician as well as a prolific writer. Atzmon writes on political matters, social issues, Jewish identity and culture. He specializes in writing about Jewish identity politics and how it fits into Jewish ideology. His papers are published in many press outlets around the world. His novels 'Guide to the perplexed' and 'My One And Only Love' have been translated into 24 languages. Gilad joins us as the third guest in our series to discuss Zionism and multiculturalism. He'll begin discussing the three different types of Jewish ideology: the Jewish people, the Jewish religion an...

NOVANEWS by mizansblog A Cry from the Grave tells the story of the Srebrenica massacre of 1995, in which the Bosnian Serb army killed an estimated 7,000 Bosnian Muslims. It follows hour by hour the story of the killings. Through the testimony of survivors and relatives of those who died it explores the pain felt when no one is brought to justice.There are interviews with investigators from the UN-sponsored court at The Hague and from the UN special prosecutor. But the underlying message of the film is bleak indeed – no matter what is done, it will never be enough. A Cry from the Grave has won numerous prizes. It has been shown at the UN, and it was used during a war crimes trial at The Hague.  

NOVANEWS Now it's the turn of the Jewish Chronicle's Geoffrey Alderman to defend the EUMC working definition of antisemitism. His point is as ludicrous as any and his involvement is further evidence of the motive of the working definition's promoters: to protect the State of Israel from criticism.  Let's have a look at what he says: No one would describe the EUMC working definition as a state-of-the-art exposition of the characteristics of anti-Jewish prejudice in all its forms. Well Dr David Hirsh of the Israel advocacy site, Engage, does not actually stoop to calling the working definition "a state-of-the-art exposition of the characteristics of anti-Jewish prejudice", he just says it's thedefinition of antisemitism as in, Instead of addressing the antisemitic culture, the leadership ...

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross Two years after participating in a Taglit-Birthright tour, Harald Fuller-Bennett was denied entry into Israel. The Shin Bet claimed he had links to terrorists and suspected him of no longer being Jewish. With regard to a young American Jew named Harald Fuller-Bennett, the Taglit-Birthright project to some extent achieved its goal. The project brings young Jews from around the world for a trip in Israel “in order to diminish the growing division between Israel and Jewish communities around the world; to strengthen the sense of solidarity among world Jewry; and to strengthen participants’ personal Jewish identity and connection to the Jewish people,” to quote its own words. And indeed, about two years after coming on a Taglit-Birthright tour, Fuller-Bennett ...

NOVANEWS By Tim Franks BBC Middle East correspondent   Falk believes that Israel has been avoiding criti The next UN investigator into Israeli conduct in the occupied territories has stood by comments comparing Israeli actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis. Speaking to the BBC, Professor Richard Falk said he believed that up to now Israel had been successful in avoiding the criticism that it was due. Professor Falk is scheduled to take up his post for the UN Human Rights Council later in the year. But Israel wants his mandate changed to probe Palestinian actions as well. Professor Falk said he drew the comparison between the treatment of Palestinians with the Nazi record of collective atrocity, because of what he described as the massive Israeli punishment ...

NOVANEWS Professor Richard Falk is a distinguished academic expert on international law with some 40 books under his belt and a lifetime of learning and teaching that has taken him on a journey through some of the best universities in the United States. Naturally, he was not on the radar of what Jewish feminist Letty Pogrebin calls the “Pro-Israel Mafia” until he was appointed to several high level UN Palestine-related posts including the U.N. Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories. In these positions as a human rights watchdog he has proven himself perfectly willing to strongly criticize Israeli human rights policies. In 2007, he famously compared the Israeli treatment of Palestinians in Gaza with Nazi treatment of Jews- warning of a possi...

NOVANEWS by Stephen Lendman   After Greece’s government surrendered to banker occupation, trends analyst Gerald Celente told Russia Today that: America’s “economy continues to decline. There’s no recovery in sight.” Across Europe in Greece, Britain and elsewhere, people are reacting against forced austerity to assure bankers get paid. In fact, Trends Journal months ago called it “off with their heads 2.0….The global ponzi scheme is under collapse….whether it’s in Egypt, Tunisia, whether it’s in the UK, Greece. Watch out for Spain. Here comes Italy. Ireland’s coming up the backstretch. It’s only going to get much worse.” “The people know the score….What killed capitalism (is explained) in four simple words: too big to fail…The banks are failing, and they want the people to bail them o...