Politics

NOVANEWS   “VT Does Nigeria…” A Little Talk Radio By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor Photos by G. Duff For those of you who are regular readers, my absence has been noted, by some with consternation, others with relief.   Most of this time has been spent in Nigeria, attending the inauguration of President Goodluck Jonathan and conferring with members of his government. It is my hope that Nigeria, a prime US ally in the region, will become a larger player in Africa and the Middle East.  Their new president, who I met with very publicly, thanks to the popularity of Veterans Today, is likely the person to do just that and, for those of us who follow African affairs, much more. While I was there, Jacob Zuma of South Africa traveled to Libya in an unsuccessful attempt to bring an end to the f...

NOVANEWS   Ahmadinejad accuses the Zionist regime of being the main factor in regional and global insecurity on day marking 22nd anniversary to the Islamic revolution in Iran. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday predicted the disappearance of IsraHell and the United States in the near future, saying he was certain the nations would soon collapse. “I am certain that the region will soon witness the collapse of IsraHell and the U.S.,” Ahmadinejad said in a speech at the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the late supreme leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution. June 4 marks the 22nd anniversary of the takeover by the ayatollah, who was subsequently replaced in June 1989 by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as Iran’s supreme leader. Ahmadinejad accused IsraHell of being the mai...

NOVANEWS   AFP   Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday repeated his assertion that there will be no tranquillity in the Middle East as long as Tehran’s archfoe, IsraHell, continues to exist. ”As long as the Zionist regime exists, if only on a small piece of land in Palestine, the region will not see tranquillity” he said to a crowd gathered at the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on the eve of the 22nd anniversary of the revolutionary leader’s death. ”So all the people of the region shall move towards the disappearance of American domination in the region and the disappearance of the Zionist regime,” Ahmadinejad said in the speech, which was broadcast live on state radio. The hardliner has drawn international condemnation for his vitriolic attacks on the...

NOVANEWS       Rawstory.com   In an interview with Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh warned that the United States’ “aggressive” sanction policy against Iran was aimed at halting a nuclear weapons program that does not exist. “Clearly the sanction policy is aimed at trying to force Iran to change its foreign policy — not regime change, that’s not going to happen,” he said. “Bush might have been interested in regime change, Obama is not.” Classified U.S. intelligence assessments and numerous other sources suggest that Iran’s nuclear program has been greatly exaggerated, according to Hersh. He noted that the two most recent National Intelligence Estimates on Iran’s nuclear program have not found any conclusive evidence that the coun...

NOVANEWS Gilad Atzmon Interview By Silvia Cattori   Jazz saxophonist Gilad Atzmon has a blog where he denounces the policy of his country of origin, Israel. He is not afraid to bluntly express what he regards to be the truth. He is impervious to the concept of self-censorship. He speaks here about how little respect he has for the Western press. (*)  Silvia Cattori: Your political analysis, translated into dozens of languages [1], reaches a wide readership on the web. For whom exactly do you write? Gilad Atzmon: I write mainly for myself. I try to understand the world around me. A few years ago, I began to understand that a lot of people out there were also interested in the thoughts I indulge myself with, so I started to let other people have access into my boiling destructive...

NOVANEWS   "So I was listening to AIPAC's roll call of attendees at their conference. I was surprised to hear a Jordanian representative in attendance. His name is Sufyan Qudah. So I emailed the Jordanian embassy and asked the Ambassador for a response. I did not get a response so I called the embassy a few moments ago and they told me Qudah no longer works there. He's a former employee and left 5-6 years ago and the lady on the phone doesn't know where he works for now. This sounds fishy.  The night of the roll call event was the night Harry Reid, Zio-Nazi Netanyahu and others Zionist spoke where they claimed on a Jewish State, united Jerusalem and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. I wouldn't be surprised if Qudah (as Jordan's representative) gave a standing ovation."   Em...

NOVANEWS   Hussein Ibish, the Senior Fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine, the Washington public relations outfit of the Israeli-sponsored, Western-funded , American-supervised collaborationist Palestinian (illusory) Authority in occupied Ramallah is calling on Palestinians to convert to Zionism in order to achieve “peace.”  Salam Fayad‘s Washington concierge who spends most of his time and energy trying to to undermine Palestinian rights with a particular focus on the right of return is now endorsing Benjamin Netanyahu‘s call for Palestinians to adopt the racist, Zionist project: Netanyahu’s demand is an additional and quite recent complication to an already tangled knot, but it has sunk so deeply into the Israeli and pro-Israel consciousness that some sort of langua...

NOVANEWS   by Sherwood Ross       The former Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) said in a new published report that he had not seen “a shred of evidence” that Iran was “building nuclear-weapons facilities and using enriched materials.” Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Peace Prize recipient who spent 12 years at the IAEA, told investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, “I don’t believe Iran is a clear and present danger. All I see is the hype about the threat posed by Iran.” El Baradei, who is now a candidate for the presidency of Egypt, added, “The core issue is mutual lack of trust. I believe there will be no solution until the day that the United States and Iran sit down together to discuss the issues and put pressure on each other to find a so...

NOVANEWS   by Philip Giraldi   The recent visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu  was a personal triumph for him and a disaster for the United States. Since the 1960s, if not before, Israel has sought to bind the United States to her by maintaining that the two countries have identical interests worldwide.  In reality, this has never been true, even during the cold war when the Soviets were actively engaged in a number of Arab states, but it is a lie that has been assiduously promoted by Israel’s friends in Washington.  The false narrative has been used to justify extraordinary levels of taxpayer-provided aid to Israel as well as unlimited political cover in international organizations like the United Nations, where the US Security Council veto has been regularl...

NOVANEWS The congress of the Universities and Colleges Union has just voted to support motion 70, copied here from the Engage website together with David Hirsh's report of the actual proceedings:  70 EUMC working definition of anti-semitism - National Executive Committee Congress notes with concern that the so-called ‘EUMC working definition of antisemitism’, while not adopted by the EU or the UK government and having no official status, is being used by bodies such as the NUS and local student unions in relation to activities on campus. Congress believes that the EUMC definition confuses criticism of Israeli government policy and actions with genuine antisemitism, and is being used to silence debate about Israel and Palestine on campus. Congress resolves: that UCU wi...