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NOVANEWS By James P. Tucker Jr. ST. MORITZ, Switzerland—The AFP coverage team has arrived here in the Engadine Valley, just miles from the highest summit in the Eastern Alps, where this year’s secretive Bilderberg meeting is taking place. The 2011 venue for the yearly billionaire globalist confab is the posh Suvretta House, one of three possible resort hotels reported on in previous issues of AFP. Swiss police and private security personnel are already out in force in this usually sleepy Swiss resort. Motorcades of vans with tinted windows have been seen in the area as well, headed for the conference site. As I write this, the elusive and exclusive Bilderbergers—the richest movers and shakers on the planet—are poised to meet June 9-11 to decide how they will advance their secret intern...

NOVANEWS   The most recent mental image I had of Marseille was during the French strikes in autumn, as dozens of finger-thin silver frigates long ago put out at sea hovered in the Mediterranean while the Marseillais dock-workers refused to offload them. Last time I was there, I did not notice so much the mounting North African presence, in the news constantly as politicians inveigh against Arab immigrants from the Maghreb and the question of what to “do” about the children of poor immigrants immiserated in Paris’s banliues, and Muslim women insisting that they have the right to dress as they wish, be it with niqab or hijab, against the oppressively universalist secularism of French society. This time I saw the North African presence everywhere: the skin tone of the people on the st...

NOVANEWS By Prof. Mujahid Kamran Global Research New Dawn Special Issue 16 The control of the US, and of global politics, by the wealthiest families of the planet is exercised in a powerful, profound and clandestine manner. This control began in Europe and has a continuity that can be traced back to the time when the bankers discovered it was more profitable to give loans to governments than to needy individuals. These banking families and their subservient beneficiaries have come to own most major businesses over the two centuries during which they have secretly and increasingly organised themselves as controllers of governments worldwide and as arbiters of war and peace. Unless we understand this we will be unable to understand the real reasons for the two wor...

NOVANEWS   Debt Entrapment Transfers Public Wealth to Western Banksters and Corporate Predators by Stephen Lendman In July 1944, the IMF and Bank for Reconstruction and Development (now the World Bank) were established to integrate developing nations into the Global North-dominated world economy in ways other than initially mandated. Under a new post-war monetary system, the IMF was created to stabilize exchange rates linked to the dollar and bridge temporary payment imbalances. The World Bank was to provide credit to war-torn developing countries. Both bodies, in fact, proved hugely exploitive, using debt entrapment to transfer public wealth to Western bankers and other corporate predators. On a grander scale today, the scheme destructively obligates indebted nations to take new l...

NOVANEWS By Michel Chossudovsky Global Research The following is a preview from the preface of a newly released E-book by Global Research Publishers "Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War" by Michel Chossudovsky E-Book Series No. 1.0 Global Research Publishers Montreal, 2011 ISBN 978-0-9737147-3-9 Order your pdf of this important new book from Global Research here Introductory offer: $5.00 (plus $1.50 processing fee. Sent directly to your email!)   The World is at a critical crossroads. The Fukushima disaster in Japan has brought to the forefront the dangers of Worldwide nuclear radiation. Coinciding with the onset of the nuclear crisis in Japan, a new regional war theater has opened up in North Africa, under the disguise of a UN sponsor...

NOVANEWS     Lady Gaga’s album Born This Way has caused controversy since it’s release last month. But the 25-year-old singer’s record has now been banned in Lebanon after the government deemed it to be in ‘bad taste’. They were so incensed by what they deemed to be an insult to Christianity that they are not allowing the record to be sold in their stores. ‘ Bad taste’: Lady Gaga’s album Born This Way has been banned by the government in Lebanon The Lebanese government had already banned Gaga’s single Judas from the airwaves. Thousands of copies of the album were impounded by the country’s authorities before it reached shelves. Judas had caused complaints from religious groups in the U.S. too with members of the Catholic League protesting against the song’s lyrics and vide...

NOVANEWS     On deaf ears: Obama`s message to Israel Robert Grenier - Aljazeera - Late May`s extraordinary sequence of speeches and meetings involving Obama and Netanyahu did not make for an edifying interlude. We saw brash, unapologetic chauvinism from Netanyahu, an outright refusal of moral leadership from Obama, and acts of political cowardice and opportunism from the US Congress. That is not to say that the week`s display was not useful. Now, more clearly than ever, we can see the future. Star Trek icon Leonard Nimoy speaks out about the need to give peace a push Leonard Nimoy - peacenow.org - I reach out to you as someone who is troubled to see the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians continue apparently without an end in sight. In fact, there is an end i...

NOVANEWS   A Saudi official explains the decision (that will reinforce the image of Saudi Arabia as the asylum and refuge of Arab dictators) to host `Ali `Abdullah Salih. He said that hosting "Yemenis who were hit in the clashes in Yemen" was due to "humanitarian motives." The official added that funding Al-Qa`idah and chopping of heads in public squares were decisions that are also due to humanitarian motives.

NOVANEWS   Of course, this is a man whose career is devoted to ingratiating himself with American Zionists.  He reaped rewards for that role but it has made him a boring yet another Likudnik in Washington, DC.  Look at this:  "(Wadi Abu Jamil, the Jewish quarter of the Beirut of my boyhood, is now a Hezbollah stronghold, and no narrative exalts or recalls that old presence.)"    Of course, he is lying here. Wadi Abu Jamil is not a Hizbullah stronghold and there are no Hizbullah stations around the area. This is something he writes to win pats on the native head from Zionist whites around him.  In fact, the Jews of Wadi Abu Jamil (like many other Lebanese from other sects) fled due to the war, and as it happens Western countries are far more hospitable to Jewish and Christian immigran...

NOVANEWS   by Eileen Fleming     [World]–Yesterday morning, a link was disseminated to the 3,022 members of The Face Book Cause: Free Mordechai Vanunu, [Learn More] alerting them to an article published in the UK, regarding Meir Dagan, a “former head of Israel‘s spy service” who is making public appearances and briefing journalists because he sees the country’s current government as “irresponsible and reckless. I decided to speak because when I was in office, Diskin, Ashkenazi and I could block any dangerous adventure. Now I am afraid that there is no one to stop Bibi [Netanyahu] and Barak.” [1] Ashkenazi, was the head of the army, Dagan head of Mossad and Diskin, head of Shin Bet. All three have been replaced by men chosen by the current government. Dagan had been in charg...