Politics

NOVANEWS   Jan 07,2011   Published in Palestine , global justice by John Hilary   Thanks to our friends in the Jewish Socialists' Group for reprinting Karma Nabulsi's thoughtful piece from the London Review of Books in the most recent issue of Jewish Socialist. The original should be read in its entirety, but I particularly liked the following passage where she reflects on the Palestinian experience in the context of broader revolutionary history: "Even a cursory study of the history of revolutions over the last 300 years reveals three elements essential to their origins. First, a plethora of revolutionary pamphlets, declarations and discussions issuing from different factions together begin to shape a shared understanding of the injustices that have to be overturned. A call to arms r...

NOVANEWS January 2, 2011 by Gordon Duff  PHONY UFO SCARE WIKILEAK’S ‘COUP DE GRACE’ By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor “…it is worth noting that in yet-to-be-published parts of the cablegate archive there are indeed references to UFOs.” When CFR Director, Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of the most feared power brokers in Washington or anywhere else, openly attackedWikileaks as an intelligence operation, siding with Jeff Gates, Dr. Alan Sabrosky, William Engdahl, Lila Rajiva, Gordon Duff and so many others of the independent alternative media, Wikileak’s days were numbered.  The failed UFO scare, whatever it was supposed to do, has backfired, putting a bullet in the heart of Wikileaks. After a “bang up” start, the Iraq helicopter video, Wikileaks spent its credibility supporting Israel ...

NOVANEWS January 3, 2011 by Veterans Today Wikileaks and the UFO: Response to Gordon Duff Zahir Ebrahim www.humanbeingsfirst.org   January 03, 2011 Hello UFO fans, and anti-fans, I would not so easily dismiss UFO absurdities as comrade Gordon Duff has done in his New Year’s 2011 article: WHY WIKILEAKS DIED: ‘The failed UFO scare, whatever it was supposed to do, has backfired, putting a bullet in the heart of Wikileaks.’ If you use political science to understand this absurdity, it does not appear to be an absurdity at all, but a very important unveiling of the new ‘big lie’ that has been a long time in the making beginning with Orson Wells’ dramatization in New York in 1947 of H. G. Wells ‘War of the Worlds’! That social engineering project prototype to study mass behavior was funded by...

NOVANEWS January 3, 2011 by Veterans Today WMR has learned from a long-time Republican Party consultant that the CIA used Sweden to launder the transfer to Wikileaks of carefully screened and redacted State Department cables and the subsequent release of the cables to pre-selected corporate news media entities. Sweden was chosen because of its so-called “press freedom and freedom of expression” traditions in an effort to make the release of the cables by Wikileaks appear to be unconnected to a covert CIA and Pentagon psychological operations program designed to place further controls on the Internet. The Wikileaks operation was conducted with the help of two leading Swedish political leaders, both of whom have maintained a long association with the CIA and associated U.S. government ent...

NOVANEWS "Rejectionist front": Maariv details Netanyahu's refusal to directly negotiate with PA   Didi Remez | January 3, 2011    Netanyahu   As Israel's diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority's campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for "direct negotiations" has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here's the latest example, from a January 2 Associated Pressreport: He [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] said he was ready to sit with Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, for "continuous direct one-on-one negotiations until white smoke is wafting," an allusion to the Vatican's custom for announcing a new pope. "If Abu Mazen agrees to my proposal of directly discussing ...

NOVANEWS   December 2, 2010 by Jeff Gates The U.S. is under attack by an enemy within. Skilled at game theory warfare, this foe targets the most sensitive realm of U.S. national security: its relations with other nations. The online publication of a quarter-million documents chronicling diplomatic exchanges is notable both for what’s omitted and what’s included. To determine whether this latest release was a form of espionage, analysts need only examine how this treasure trove of trivia was peppered with documents certain to damage U.S. relations. To identify its origins, analysts must answer a key question: Cui Bono? To whose benefit? One clue: the release of degrading and insulting language about Turkish leaders soon after they insisted in late October that the U.S. no longer share...

NOVANEWS 1 January 2011   The Fight for Justice in Palestine and Socialism Internationally Continues Undoubtedly the biggest story of the year was Israel’s attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and its murder of 9 human rights activists on the Mavi Marmara. Israel has spent its time since then justifying the attack as an act of self defence! We covered this story repeatedly - here, here, here, here , here here, here, here, here here here, here, here, here . Although the BBC was only too happy to accept the Israeli version of events, with its disgraceful Panorama programme ‘Death on the Med’, the UNHCR investigation was quite clear and the report it produced was a model of cold, calm and forensic analysis. It trawled through the Israeli excuses, its preposterous forgery ‘Ausc...

NOVANEWS The release of thousands of US diplomatic cables by the secrets outlet WikiLeaks has unintentionally led to the proliferation of anti-Israel conspiracy theories, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The ADL said that conspiracy theories linking Israel to WikiLeaks have circulated through online publications, where it has been suggested that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange struck a secret deal with Israeli officials over the leak of diplomatic cables; or that Assange actually works for Israel. "The WikiLeaks affair has given new life to the old conspiracy theories of underhanded Jewish and Israeli involvement in an event with significant repercussions for the US and many nations around the world," ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman said, according to a published sta...

NOVANEWS Jason Ditz,   December 30, 2010 It may not be as noteworthy as Time’s Person of the Year, but CNN appears to have actually stuck to the results of its voting in selecting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange their “Most Intriguing Person of the Year.” Though the article spends much of its time carping about whether Assange is a hero or a villain, and went on about his Saturday Night Live character, it at least acknowledges what is truly the big story of the year, the leaks. Assange beat out President Obama and several others in the poll. The only person seemingly deserving comparable levels of attention, Pfc Bradley Manning, was once again snubbed by not even being on the list.

NOVANEWS December 30, 2010   From The Peninsula, a Qatari newspaper: Top officials in several Arab countries have close links with the CIA, and many officials keep visiting US embassies in their respective countries voluntarily to establish links with this key US intelligence agency, says Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website, WikiLeaks. These officials are spies for the US in their countries, Assange told Al Jazeera Arabic channel in an interview yesterday. The interviewer, Ahmed Mansour, said at the start of the interview which was a continuation of last week’s interface, that Assange had even shown him the files that contained the names of some top Arab officials with alleged links with the CIA. Assange or Mansour, however, didn’t disclose the names of these officials....