Politics

NOVANEWS December 28, 2010 by Raja Mujtaba Julian Assange ushering in a “new global information order?” By Wayne Madsen for www.opinion-maker.org The selective release of around a quarter million US State Department cables, some of them redacted after screening by corporate media entities such asThe New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel,and Le Monde, among others, comes at a time when there are calls by governments, including officials of the Obama administration, to restrict information content on the Internet. In fact, the release of the State Department cables may have served as a digital “9/11,” an event that has spurred on the agenda of neo-conservatives who continue to exercise influence outside and within the Obama administration to bring about total government control of the...

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NOVANEWS   December 27, 2010 by Gordon Duff ADL TO ATTACK JOURNALISTS AND PUBLICATIONS TYING ISRAEL TO WIKILEAKS   “There is a list, the Bush administration’s “working group” that green-lighted 9/11.  Of the five names on it,  three are Jews.  “ Last week, responding to a deluge of news reports tying Israel to Wikileaks, Julian Assange announced he finally planned to release 3700 cables from the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, documents previously withheld from the public.  In a press release, Assange said he planned the “dump” in 6 months but didn’t indicate how many other documents involving Israel were being withheld. Veterans Today has been informed by sources within the ADL that, in coordination with Julian Assange’s announcement, they were “tasked” by the Tel Aviv government to begin oper...

NOVANEWS December 25, 2010 by Paul J. Balles WikiLeaks and the press 26 December 2010 Paul J. Balles views the self-serving criticism of WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, offered by a range of media but argues that, ultimately, the whistleblower website’s exposure of cover-ups and promotion of transparency justify its actions. The press is down on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange for all the wrong reasons. They ought to be after Assange for giving governments reasons for censorship – just the opposite effect of the transparency he presumably wanted to promote. “What is the press after him [Julian Assange] for? Whatever happens to suit the politics or niche of their publication or network.” What is the press after him for? Whatever happens to suit the politics or niche of their publ...

NOVANEWS   December 24, 2010 by Lila Rajiva Stuart Bramhall, author of “The Most Revolutionary Act: Memoir of an American Refugee” writes this about Wikileaks in response to my latest article, “An Intel Front -  The Case Against Wikileaks, Part III” I’m afraid this whole media storm around Assange reminds me of the whole O.J. Simpson circus in a way. I recall it very distinctly because I was a single payer activist. The week of his arrest (1993) was the same week health care reform (after being headline news for a year) died a quiet death in Congress. So what is the corporate media trying to conceal by beating Assange’s sex life to death? Most of the information in the recent cables release is already widely available on the Internet. At the same time I find it surprising to find absol...

NOVANEWS 26 December 2010 The sound and fury directed at Wikileaks in the last month has (largely) been against the group itself rather than the revelations in the cables. Salon’s Glenn Greenwald outlines what we now know and why many in the political and media elites are afraid of the public learning of crimes committed in their names: As revealing as the disclosures themselves are, the reactions to them have been equally revealing.  The vast bulk of the outrage has been devoted not to the crimes that have been exposed but rather to those who exposed them:  WikiLeaks and (allegedly) Bradley Manning.  A consensus quickly emerged in the political and media class that they are Evil Villains who must be severely punished, while those responsible for the acts they revealed are guilt...

NOVANEWS December 24, 2010   by Keith Johnson   The next time the CIA comes up with another Osama bin Laden videotape, you might want to compare their images of the alleged al-Qaeda leader to the photograph I’ve provided here.  If he looks any healthier than that, then you’re probably looking at an imposter. Yeah, Osama has definitely seen better days.  But give the guy a break, huh?  You wouldn’t look much better if you’d been dead for nine years.  Oh, by the way, in case you’ve just joined us?  Osama bin Laden is dead. He died in the Tora Bora Mountains of Afghanistan on December 13, 2001.   He was buried in an unmarked grave within 24 hours of his death.  Case closed. But don’t just take my word for it.  Top terror experts, intelligence analysts, academics, government officials, and...

NOVANEWS December 22, 2010 by Gordon Duff     A PARTNERSHIP? MAKING THE WORLD FEAR AND HATE JEWS A DREADFULLY WRONG POLICY By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor When the rabbi advising Prime Minister Netanyahu goes on television claiming “goyim,” all non-Jews, only are allowed to stay alive as beasts of burden, serving Jews who are ordained by g-d to “bask in luxury” from the work of others, it isn’t an accident.  He had a job.  That job was to make people hate Jews.  If people forget to hate Jews, Israel will have no purpose, it won’t need nuclear weapons or the continual wars it has convinced the United States to fight in its stead. When Antisemitism began to disappear and Jews were no longer reviled because of primitive prejudices, Zionists lost a valuable weapon.  The real probl...

NOVANEWS December 23, 2010 by Gilad Atzmon WILL ASSANGE REALLY DO IT, FINALLY?    ‘WikiLeaks to publish Israel files on Second Lebanon War, Dubai assassination’ Julian Assange said today that  thousands of documents related to Israel are due to be released over next six months. Assange admitted also that so far only 2% of the Wikileaks released documents related to Israel were picked by the Western  mainstream media, something to do with ‘sensitivities’ of the Jewish communities in France, Germany, Britain and the USA. I guess that more than ever we need Wikileaks. More than ever we need to establish our own channels of communication and information. The proof of the betrayal of Western media is conclusive. Assange said that he holds 3,700 more files related to Israel, and the main sou...

NOVANEWS December 23, 2010 by Lila Rajiva “Wikileaks was a conduit for a lot of material that they themselves could not identify or source. If an intelligence agency wanted to plant its own slanted “disclosures” in the welter of documents being dumped on the site, it would be only too easy to do.” In my previous articles I pointed out the most obvious problems I have with WikiLeaks- the fact that its leaks seem to leave larger Zionist imperial goals untouched; its antagonistic stance to 9-11 truth; it frantic validation and promotion by major media; the falsity of many of its claims of confidentiality for leakers; the implausibility of its achievements absent intelligence or government connections; the contradictions between its public advocacy of transparency and its own secrecy; and t...