Politics

NOVANEWS by Dr. Ingrid Zundel     These past two years, I have been quiet but far from idle – I’ve been busily casting about for a new venue to move our struggle into a more pro-active mode. Smeared widely as a “Holocaust Denier”, I decided to make lemonade from lemons and craft the slurs heaved at myself and my compatriots into a boomerang – in other words, make it prestigious to be a “Holocaust Denier.” And why not, pray? We are the modern “Christians of the Catacombs” of yore, thrown by the Chosenites for our belief in Truth in History to the proverbial lions with shrieks and howls of derision. And who can claim today that, in the end, when all was said and done, Christianity did not cut a decisive swath across the Western world? The sky is the limit, I say. This missive, tho...

NOVANEWS   Beneath The Spin by Eric L. Wattree I’m about to do something that I generally make it a point to avoid – discuss the collective nature of White folks. The reason I make it a point to avoid this subject is because I don’t want to add to the disinformation disseminated by many Black racists (oh yes, racists come in Black too) that there is something more intrinsically evil in White people than there is in any other racial group. The fact is, as humans, just as intellect is distributed equally across our species, so is malevolence. We all have a tendency to be self-serving and corrupt given half a chance. The only difference between White people and any other group is that they have the power, thus opportunity, to reflect that side of their nature – and to anyone who wants ...

NOVANEWS by Gilad Atzmon Over a week ago I emailed to the well- known  blogger  Philip Weiss,  an interesting post written by Nahida (AKA The Exiled Palestinian). In her article, Jewish Voice For Peace? Really?? , Nahida expresses some sharp criticism of Jewish anti-Zionist groups, forcefully arguing that “Anti-Zionist Jewish organisations are trying to silence Palestine’s supporters, to frame the debate” and to “steer the course of the liberation” of her homeland. Since Weiss runs the most popular Jewish progressive blog, offering an invaluable source of information regarding Israeli crimes, I thought he might be willing to address Nahida’s criticism, and to discuss it with his many progressive Jewish followers. Weiss did not post Nahida’s article on his blog, but his discussion wit...

NOVANEWS Phil Weiss writes here that at a recent roundtable, his co-editor Lizzy Ratner blamed that amorphous blob, the military-industrial complex, for suppressing the Goldstone Report. That annoyed him. I’m with him. One can acknowledge that it doesn’t take much for the US government to suppress a report condemning an ally for human rights violations while also noting that the agent responsible for that suppression is the Israel lobby. One can also note the quietude of the American left on the lobby while noting that groups were organizing against AIPAC on the left for over a decade and that the Marxist MERIP was talking about “domestic considerations” over 30 years ago. One can knock the errors of the American left without resorting to straw-men. Ratner makes our job harder in that ...

NOVANEWS   Fighting against the polluting and depletion of resources is the real war. Not bombing other countries. Yet they say generals always fight the last war, especially if they have won it, and the war against our own excessive consumerism has never before been fought. We cannot bomb pollution into shape. Prosperity has brought us cars, fast-food, stress and frightening pollution. An average coal-fired power station emits the same amount of CO2 as the felling of 61 million trees a year, every year. We know we have rampant air pollution which damages our health, we know we are choking our landfill with myriad consumer waste, and we know that our energy creation, with few exceptions, creates dangerous toxins which will foul the air and the ground indefinitely. If everything we cre...

NOVANEWS   Salon.com In a now infamous column, the writer Eliana Benador argued this week that Anthony Weiner (who is a Jew) may have converted to Islam but was hiding it from the world in accordance with the practice of “taqiyya.” “It is also important, when looking at this situation, to remember that observant Muslims practice taqiyya, an element of sharia that states there is a legal right and duty to distort the truth to promote the cause of Islam,” Benador wrote. In invoking the Arabic term “taqiyya,” Benador exemplified a practice we’ve noticed in the past few years. It’s become common for right-wing writers and even politicians to matter-of-factly toss around Arabic terminology when warning of the Muslim threat to America. These references, often made in ominous tones...

NOVANEWS   We stand with the Palestinians To those who always reject war, under all circumstances. To those who refuse to accept that in 2011 apartheid regimes continue to exist. To those who believe that every person and all peoples have the right to selfdetermination, without being subject to the will and authorizations (later cynically denied) of another government. To those who refuse all forms of racism and discrimination. To those who refuse to accept that today walls are still built to separate, ghettoize and humiliate other human beings. To those who believe that the land belongs to its inhabitants, and everyone has the right to make choices and decisions regarding their territory. To those who believe that the right of movement can be denied to no one, the right to travel, bu...

NOVANEWS 05 MAY 2011 LAUREN BOOTH   London, (Pal Telegraph)- Cloak and dagger antics outside a campus in central London, Tuesday night. As, the University of Westminster, caved into threats of disturbance, from UK based Zionists. Why? Because, Gilad Atzmon, world renowned saxophonist, author and anti Zionist racconteur had put together a panel to debate the following; ‘Jewishness and Israeli criminality.’ To a packed venue just round the corner from the campus the discussion, began with breathtakingly robust opening statements. Consider, as you read, the immense pressure not to take part placed on each panellist. The threats against the university of Westminster of disturbance or even violence if the talk took place. And, should you read a hackneyed report (in the Jewish Chron...

NOVANEWS How Bankers use the Debt Crisis to Roll Back the Progressive Era By Prof. Michael Hudson Global Research Financial strategists do not intend to let today’s debt crisis go to waste. Foreclosure time has arrived. That means revolution – or more accurately, a counter-revolution to roll back the 20th century’s gains made by social democracy: pensions and social security, public health care and other infrastructure providing essential services at subsidized prices or for free. The basic model follows the former Soviet Union’s post-1991 neoliberal reforms: privatization of public enterprises, a high flat tax on labor but only nominal taxes on real estate and finance, and deregulation of the economy’s prices, working conditions and credit terms. What is to be reverse...

NOVANEWS By Steven J. M. Jones fornequiem.com     “Propaganda Steers our Opinion Exactly where it is Intended to Go.”  By its own definition it is media’s job to tell us about ourselves and the world around us, to enable us to make informed decisions in a democratic society. That’s the theory. Now, let’s look at reality: Media has become a mirror of the disconnected state that humanity finds itself in. News, current affairs, even the dramas and reality TV shows that entertain us serve to exacerbate the religion of polarity being reflected back to us in all its forms – materialism, hatred, killing, idolization and separation. Almost all television, be it sagas and melodramas or daily news, is as addictive as any drug. This single dimensional ‘pulpit’ from whi...