Politics

NOVANEWS By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. (Mahatma Gandhi) The United States has discarded pretensions to international legality and decency, and embarked on a course of raw imperialism run amok. (William Rockler, Nuremberg Tribunal prosecutor) Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. (François-Marie Arouet – Voltaire, 1694-1778) Look inside "Towards a WWIII Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War", the NEW E-Book by Michel Chossudovsky: The US and its NATO allies are preparing to launch a nuclear war directed against both Iran and North Korea with devastating conse...

NOVANEWS Getting used to Life without Food Wall Street, BP, bio-ethanol and the death of millions By F. William Engdahl Global Research, My late grandfather, a man of sturdy Norwegian-American farm stock, who later became a newspaper editor and political activist during the First World War, used to say, 'A man can get used to pretty much anything with time, except dying...and even that with some practice.' Well, as fate has it, it seems we, the vast majority of the human race, are about to test that adage in regard to the availability of our daily bread itself. Food is one of those funny things it's hard to live without. We all tend to take it for granted that our local supermarket will continue to offer whatever we wish, in abunda...

NOVANEWS By Global Research Global Research, It seems as if the world is in the process of a rapid global transition, with the continued descent into the global economic crisis, the rapid acceleration of foreign wars, the erosion of liberties and standards of living at home, the usurpation of governance by bankers, the absolute subservience to corporate interests by our supposed democratic nations, the Arab uprisings, and potentially going down the road to World War III. As Charles Dickens once wrote, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” While it certainly appears to be among the “worst of times,” there are many facets to our global human story that indicate it is also among “the best of times.” We are, after all, in the midst of a ‘Global Political Awa...

NOVANEWS by Asif Haroon Raja   Our media has created super hype over incidents of US helicopters assault in Abbottabad, Mehran naval base attack, Kharotabad incident in Quetta, killing of Sarfaraz Shah in Karachi at the hands of soldier of Sindh Rangers, and murder of journalist Saleem Shehzad. The wrath of media is focused on armed forces, particularly Army and ISI and it looks as if it has old scores to settle and is giving vent to its pent up resentment. It is not leaving any stone unturned to tarnish the high reputation and image of Army and ISI and its rancorous posturing is in harmony with biased foreign media which has a specific agenda. In case of US SEALs raid on OBL’s compound, instead of putting USA to shame for stabbing a close ally in the back, our media pointed all it...

NOVANEWS I am amused by how smoothly the NYT correspondent in Libya refers to colonial strategies for ending the war: “NATO countries…face increasing pressure to end the bombing campaign and seem desperate to find a quick exit, either by arming the rebels or by killing Colonel Qaddafi with airstrikes.” In other words, assassination after belligerent attacks. Are we going to start seeing mea culpas from all the pro-Palestinian writers who defended the assault in defense of the Libyan “revolutionaries”? Do these people realize that they are the Thomas Friedman, Michael Ignatieff, David Rieff, and Samantha Power of theannus obamanis 2011? You found a war where imperial power could bomb Arabs and you could clap. Book reviewing for The New Republic will shortly follow. Clean the blood off yo...

NOVANEWS 07 July 2011 Britain will remain complacent in and collaborative with illegal policies and abuses of human and civil rights. While the British government does its best to prevent human rights' organizations in the UK from bringing to justice Israeli war criminals, it authorized its security forces to arrest one of the acknowledged leaders of the Palestinian minority in Israel. For years, due to his popularity and steadfastness, Sheikh Raed Salah has been persecuted by the Israeli authorities who could not find any discriminating evidence connecting him to terrorist activity or organizations, and no wonder: he is leading a social and political reform movement. And yet it seems that the British authorities had some such knowledge which the Israelis failed to produce. This absu...

NOVANEWS http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/gilad-atzmon-jewish-self-reflection-is-overdue.html In an audio interview , Harvard University Yiddish Professor Ruth Wisse has condemned ongoing attempts by international activists to set sail for Gaza, on what she calls a “kill-the-Jews flotilla.” “The purpose of the flotilla is to discredit the Israeli attempt to protect itself and to give Hamas a free hand amassing weapons to use against Israeli civilians.”  Wisse also forms a new type of ‘Jewish solipsism,’ saying “It should be called for what it is: a 'kill-the-Jews flotilla. If it is called by its proper name, then it will be recognized for what it is.” Here is the Yiddish logic: label first, then grasp accordingly. However, I would like to remind Wisse that as things stand in the Middle East...

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross www.thepassionateattachment.com   After a successful “prediction” that his protégée Sarah Palin would be John McCain’s vice-presidential candidate, it’s worth paying attention whenever the editor of the nominally “conservative” Weekly Standard gazes into his Kristol ball. Showing that his unwavering pro-Israeli warmongering counsel can be bipartisan, Bill Kristol has weighed in on the weighty discussion about whether New York governor Andrew Cuomo might replace Joe Biden as Barack Obama’s 2012 running mate: Is there a better pick than Cuomo? There aren’t a lot of obvious possibilities. But here’s one, who 1) could presumably help in all-important Florida, 2) is young and has a sympathetic personal story, 3) is a proven aggressive and (perhaps) effect...

NOVANEWS by Allen L Roland This 4th of July, 2011, put away the flags and reflect on the billions of dollars we are spending and wasting in Afghanistan in order to sustain a military-industrial complex that is running on lies, empty promises, arrogance and relentless greed President Obama cited the $1 trillion cost of the war in Afghanistan as a reason to bring some of the Afghanistan troop’s home, but that figure grossly underestimates the actual costs of this ongoing occupation masquerading as a war ~ which eventually will be as high as 4 trillion dollars. See article The continuing unanswered question in Afghanistan is, Why? Jim Hightower, Truthout writes “So why have two presidents and a decade of Congress dumped so many lives and so much money into a country that poses no threat to ...

NOVANEWS by Eileen Fleming   As the August 2nd deadline fast approaches to raise the government-borrowing limit, President Obama called on Congress two days before this Independence Day to make a deal and announced, “Nothing can be off-limits…We’ve got to cut the deficit.” [1] Republican Senator Dan Coats responded, “It’s time for bold action and a new plan to address our current crisis” and that it was time for the government to “stop spending money we don’t have and to enact policies that will grow our economy and get Americans back to work.” [Ibid] Two hundred and thirty five years ago to this 4th of July, America’s Founding Fathers established the following principals and truths to be self-evident: that all PEOPLE are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with c...