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NOVANEWS   Dear All, WE'VE WON! The government has just confirmed they're totally scrapping the forest sell-off. The phoney consultation has been cancelled. The sinister legal changes to pave the way for privatisation have been dropped. We did this together. Next time someone tries to tell any of us that signing petitions or emailing our MPs doesn’t work, we’ll know exactly what to say:“People power does work. Just look at the Save Our Forests campaign”. Over half a million of us can feel very proud of what we've achieved together today.  On the 38 Degrees Facebook page, members are celebrating. Fiona, for example, says "Fantastic news! And great for letting people see that actually there IS something they can do when they don't like what the government does, and their protest can make a d...

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NOVANEWS   By Prof Lawrence Davidson One of the really progressive acts that followed the end of World War II was the establishment of the principle of universal jurisdiction (UJ). UJ is a legal process that allows states that are signatories to various international treaties and conventions (such as the Geneva conventions) to prosecute alleged violators of these treaties, even when these violations are committed outside the country’s usual jurisdiction. This is particularly so if it can be demonstrated that the home government of the accused has no intention of bringing them to trial for the alleged offense. The assumption behind this principle is that the crime committed is so egregious as to be seen as a crime against humanity at large. In the wake of the Nazi Holocaust and other s...

NOVANEWS http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/the-law-to-scare-the-citizen-1.343274   On Tuesday, a Knesset committee is due to approve on second and third readings the bill combating boycotts against Israel - another hysterical proposal by the right wing and Kadima MK Dalia Itzik designed to protect our weak and tiny country, which is being attacked from within and without. "This law," explain the architects of the proposal, "is designed to protect the State of Israel in general and its citizens in particular from academic, economic and other boycotts that are imposed on the country, its citizens and corporations, due to their connection to the State of Israel." The law is designed to protect "the area under Israeli control, including Judea and Samaria." According to the bill, ...

NOVANEWS WikiLeaks' Most Terrifying Revelation: Just How Much Our Government Lies to Us "Try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. Perhaps as an old man I will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them."   by Fred Branfman   "Try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. Perhaps as an old man I will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them."   -- Julian Assange, 2007 blog entry   Do you believe that it is in Americans' interest to allow a small group of U.S. leaders to unilaterally murder, maim, imprison and/or torture anyone they choose anywhere in the world, without the knowledge ...

NOVANEWS   'Stand up and fight back!' November 5, 2010   Prysner speaking at the March 20, 2010 anti-war demonstration in Los Angeles The following is a speech delivered by March Forward! co-founder Mike Prysner at the 2008 National Conference on Socialism, hosted by the PSL.Sisters and brothers, I’m delighted to see so many of you here who are ready to fight, or already fighting against this criminal system—its criminal policies and its criminal wars. I think it’s important to point out that we are incredibly lucky that we have the luxury to talk about imperialism, and fighting imperialism, in a setting such as this. I think before we begin we should take a second to remember those who do not have this luxury—who know about imperialism not from books but from the bombs that rai...

NOVANEWS Gilad Atzmon The following is an updated edition of a paper I published eighteen months ago. The current edition includes new references to the unfolding events in Egypt.  In front of our eyes, a gigantic regional Arab uprising is taking place. It is evident that until the last few days Western Left had very little to say about it all.  It seems as if the Left has reached a rock bottom state of detachment. It has lost contact with the people, social reality, and humanity in general. Thinking Outside the Secular Box "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." — Karl Marx 1843 Before I launch into a disclosure of liberal and leftist delusional treatment of religions in...

Monday, 10 January 2011 15:00 By Gilad Atzmon For years  Israelis and Zionists have been pumping  'Shoah' into our veins by using every possible propaganda outlet: media, education, Hollywood, music, literature, billboards and so on. Seemingly they have been very successful : We are all properly ' Holocausted '. We accept the suffering of the Jewish people -- and we have even managed to draw a universal message from it all. We do accept that a real Shoah is taking place in front of our eyes in Palestine, where the Jewish state locks millions of Palestinians behind bars: it starves them,  it stops medical supplies, food, cement, and educational materials from getting in. But it does not stop there -- when the Jewish state feels like it, it also kills Palestinians indiscriminately.  It ei...

NOVANEWS   Terrorist-supporting assemblyman Dov Hikind helps give adjunct professor the boot More Recent Articles Search MuzzleWatch Prior Mailing Archive Terrorist-supporting assemblyman Dov Hikind helps give adjunct professor the boot Dov Hikind is a bigot and a supporter of terrorism. He stood by 5 Jewish teenagers who severely beat a young Pakistani man with brass knuckles in a hate crime so heinous, it was condemned even by the Anti-Defamation League.  He is aformer follower of the terrorist group the Jewish Defense League and recently waxed nostalgic at the memorial of hate-monger Rabbi Meir Kahane whose Kach party-including the Kahane Chai spinoff-was banned, even in Israel, for racism and terrorism. He and his wife are working towards the Judaization of East Jerusalem...

NOVANEWS   "Knowledge is teleportation; it transports a people living in a land of ignorant slumber to the forefront of a revolution." ~ Jonathan Azaziah Freedom Flotilla survivor and activist Kenneth O'Keefe. by Jonathan Azaziah “The problem facing our people... is bigger than all other personal or organizational differences. Therefore as leaders, we must stop worrying about the threat we seem to think we pose to each other’s personal prestige (1)...” ~ Malcolm X The words of martyred revolutionary giant El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz reflect the nature of the particular instance about to be discussed undoubtedly. It is an undeniable fact that the Zionist entity remains extraordinarily steadfast in its daily routine of illegality and criminality. It commits crimes against h...