Politics

NOVANEWS Haaretz   Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, son of Shas spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef, was questioned Sunday morning on suspicion of incitement to racism and violence following his endorsement of a religious tract which justifies the killing of non-Jews. Rabbi Yosef was arrested in his car after concluding his morning prayer at Simon’s Tomb in Jerusalem, and was questioned for less than an hour about his endorsement of the controversial book “Torat Hamelech,” and then released. Kiryat Arab Chief Rabbi Dov Lior was also detained earlier this week following his endorsement of the book on suspicion of incitement to violence and racism, after he refused to be questioned on the matter. Following Yosef’s arrest, police stationed security forces throughout Jerusalem fearing disorderly conduct...

NOVANEWS Keith Johnson, revoltoftheplebs.com   See that man standing in the bleachers? That’s me—I’m an American, dammit!  Every time I hear that “Star Spangled Banner” played over the loud speakers, I set my $7 cup of beer down here on the seat and proudly place my right hand over my heart.  See that tear in my eye?  That’s what you call patriotism. I can’t tell you what the sixth amendment is, but I do know who won game six in the NBA finals. When I hear people complain about the government, I tell them “listen, buddy…if you don’t love America, why don’t you just geeeet out!” I’ve got Alan Jackson in my CD player and a yellow “Support The Troops” sticker on my bumper.  I do my part.  I pay my taxes and I raised my son on Tom Clancy video games.  He’s in Afghanistan right now p...

NOVANEWS     mondoweiss.net Here’s Gary Ackerman, congressman from Long Island, in the Jerusalem Post, professing his Zionism. A lot of excerpts because this is so crazy. The Jews are a “separate” people, Jewish legislators from around the world must represent Israel, Palestinian statehood initiative is devastating… While many differences exist among Jewish parliamentarians, the concept of ahavat Yisrael– literally, “love of Israel” – is common to us all. It is for this  reason that 55 Jewish parliamentarians from 22 countries have assembled  in Jerusalem under the auspices of the World Jewish Congress….I  don’t believe that increasing attacks on Israel’s right to exist and  efforts to label its acts of self-defense “war-crimes” or even “crimes  against humanity” are actually...

NOVANEWS     John Pilger on acknowledging an historical reality: The City of Sydney has voted to replace the words “European arrival” in the official record with “invasion”. The deputy lord mayor, Marcelle Hoff, says it is intellectually dishonest to use any other word in describing how Aboriginal Australia was dispossessed by the British. “We were invaded,” said Paul Morris, an Aboriginal adviser to the council. “It is the truth and it shouldn’t be watered down. We wouldn’t expect Jewish people to accept a watered-down version of the Holocaust, so why should we?” In 2008, the then prime minister Kevin Rudd formally apologised to Aborigines wrenched from their families as children under a policy inspired by the crypto-fascist theories of eugenics. White Australia w...

NOVANEWS By Michael Parenti Global Research Why has the United States government supported counterinsurgency in Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, and many other places around the world, at such a loss of human life to the populations of those nations? Why did it invade tiny Grenada and then Panama? Why did it support mercenary wars against progressive governments in Nicaragua, Mozambique, Angola, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Indonesia, East Timor, Western Sahara, South Yemen, and elsewhere? Is it because our leaders want to save democracy? Are they concerned about the well-being of these defenseless peoples? Is our national security threatened? I shall try to show that the arguments given to justify U.S. policies are false ones.   But this does not mean the policies themselv...

NOVANEWS So yesterday, I tuned in to Aljazeera main evening (Arab world time) newscast.  It started with a sensational headline: "In Syria, tanks are shelling in cities and towns" or words to that effect but it did include "tanks shelling" (قصف بالدبابات).   So I listened to the newscast and there was nothing about shelling but it reported that Syrian troops with tanks entered certain cities and towns.  So I read other newspapers and found other references to the shelling by tanks.  In Aljazeera's account, the source was "legal activists" (ناشطون حقوقيّون) which is a common source in news and reports on Syria and Western (and its subservient arm in the Saudi and Qatari media).   What is a legal activist? Someone who runs in the streets with law books?  Anyway, in other media, the source is...

NOVANEWS   GILAD ATZMON   I would like to draw your attention to an interesting thread on Mondoweiss, discussing my interview with Philip Weiss. To read the Mondoweiss thread, click here. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that Philip Weiss didn’t feel very comfortable with the publication of my interview with him -- In fact no one, including myself, felt comfortable with it , and some editors told me they were more than a little surprised that Weiss had agreed to my publishing it. But the truth of the matter is that Weiss gave me a green light after reading it all, and I salute him for his courage. In the interview Weiss admitted that Jews -- like himself – are, in his words, “concerned with a Jewish self-interest.” He was even honest enough to confess that, for him, a theo...

NOVANEWS crescentandcross We're back! Mark Dankof joins the program to discuss the latest presidential candidates' genuflecting before Israel as well as the recent case involving Israeli American spy arrested in Egypt and what it all portends for the future. As always, thank you for supporting the financial needs associated with putting this program together. TUT28JUN2011DankofFIN.mp3 Download Here    

NOVANEWS The inhumane way of Kosher slaughter by Bob Johnson There are billions of people on planet Earth who do not believe in the Torah/Old Testament superstition known as “kosher.” Yet, these people almost always end up paying extra for food and other products which bear the kosher symbols. This is wrong on principle, not to mention that especially in these dark and dire economic days when almost everyone needs to save every penny they can to survive, this scam is also hurtful. The kosher scam is the practice of food and other companies paying rabbinical organizations in order to have rabbis inspect their plants and factories to make certain ancient Hebrew/Jewish laws are being followed in the production of their products. And the products are not always limited to food. For example ...

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Western powers seek to attack nations through spreading drug abuse and addiction in other countries. “Today, they (Western powers) have begun harming nations, especially the Iranian nation by drugs,” President Ahmadinejad said in Tehran’s Azadi Stadium on Sunday. He made the remarks in a gathering of 20,000 of recovered addicts on the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. “Arrogant states masquerade themselves behind the so-called humanitarian masks and they want to stir a sense of inability in other nations,” Ahmadinejad said. “They put on masks of freedom-seeking, human rights, and protecting people but in fact they are the biggest criminals in the world,” he added. In April, Iran was ...