Politics

NOVANEWS December 03, 2010    An excerpt from a thoughtful post by Nihilo Zero:   Most people could probably not name very many anarchists -- historical, contemporary, or even fictional. A few might cite artists like George Orwell or Leo Tolstoy, and fewer still will be aware of prominent historical anarchists like Emma Goldman or Peter Kropotkin. The historical impact of anarchist practice has largely been glossed over in the curriculum of government run, and compulsory, public schools. People generally aren't aware of anarchists fighting for the first labor rights in America or giving the first public talks on birth control. People are unaware that it was the anarchists who brought about the Russian revolution which was subsequently derailed by the Bolsheviks. People are largely unaware...

NOVANEWS   From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway This week the Israeli Ministry of Defense announced the “beginning of the export - season” in the Gaza Strip. “The export season” entails the continuation of a short- term program, sponsored – from planting through to distribution – by the Dutch government. The program allows a few farmers in Gaza to sell  strawberries and flowers in European markets. So far this week, 7 trucks have left the Strip. As has been the case in every year since June 2007, the export of flowers and straw- berries is the exception that proves the rule. While in 2005 Palestinian residents of  Gaza exported approximately 70 truckloads per day to Israel, the West Bank and abroad, and while Israel promised, in the 2005 Agreement on Movement and Access, to permit the transfer ...

NOVANEWS   Odious NGO Monitor smears Electronic Intifada, tries to cut funding More Recent Articles Search MuzzleWatch Prior Mailing Archive Odious NGO Monitor smears Electronic Intifada, tries to cut funding NGO Monitor was captured perfectly in The Forward by liberal jewish thinker Leonard Fine who said it was “an organization that believes that the best way to defend Israel is to condemn anyone who criticizes it.” But now, no longer satisfied with its McCarthyite efforts to not just condemn, but actually  take down respected human rights organizations, it is seeking to stop critical funding of the Electronic Intifada, a key media source for information and analysis about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Electronic Intifada (EI) is a pioneering online news outlet that...

NOVANEWS Wikileaks Shut Down — But Not For Long (Includes New Domain) December 03, 2010 www.antiwar.com  Kelley Beaucar Vlahos U.S-based domain provider DNS.net shut down WikiLeaks Thursday night claiming relentless cyber attacks on the site, but WikiLeaks was up by the crack of dawn ET, on a new Swiss server, www.wikileaks.ch or  http://213.251.145.96/. WikilLeaks announced it via Twitter around 4:30: “Free Speech has a number…” Pathetically, CNN International refused to include the new address in its own reporting of the event. Meanwhile, Jumpin’ Joe Lieberman has moved on from Amazon, and has  pressured another provider to drop a site carrying WikiLeaks-related content. This time, as Glenn Greenwald points out, the targeted website is independent from WikiLeaks and was merely publishin...

NOVANEWS December 2, 2010 by Gordon Duff DIDN'T WE SEE THIS POSE IN 1932?   THE GLOBAL CONSPIRACY BEHIND THE BOYISH GRIN…   By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor   True colors, we are seeing them now.  Those still trying to peddle the Wikileaks myth, the boyish grin concealing the powerful conspiracy, espionage and treason at the highest levels of American society, these are the real enemies of the information age. There are two opinions of Wikileaks.  The worlds intelligence services all, every single one, believes Wikileaks is simply an intelligence agency playing games.  They say this to each other, Vladimir Putin and  Zbigniew Brzezinski have announced it to the world and others are following suit.  Nobody, at least nobody typically “answerable” will say the word “Israel” but it ...

NOVANEWS WIKILEAKS AND ESPIONAGE – ISRAELI STYLE December 2, 2010 by Jeff Gates To whom should this release be attributed? Who benefitted? 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 lang...

NOVANEWS An IDF press release reads: Israel Defense Forces soldiers early Thursday killed two armed Palestinian militants suspected to trying to infiltrate through the Gaza Strip border. The troops opened fire on the two militants as they were in the midst of laying explosives at the fence near Kibbutz Kfar Aza. None of the soldiers was wounded. There has been a rise in attempts by Palestinian militants to bomb targets along the border recently, as well as to launch rockets at Israel. Last month, the Israel Air Force carried out a number of strikes on the Gaza Strip after a barrage of mortar shells, a Grad rocket and a phosphorous bomb were fired at the western Negev. This kibbutz is reportedly over 2km from Gaza's border. Were the militants "laying explosives" near the fence, or "trying t...

NOVANEWS December 1, 2010 by Alan Hart Is Wikileaks being manipulated by an intelligence service?   Alan Hart The Wikileaks revelation that some Persian Gulf Arab leaders wanted (and still want?) America to attack Iran is confirmation of what some of us thought we knew – that Arab leaders are not merely impotent but as dangerously deluded as their Israeli counterparts. Netanyahu was absolutely correct when he told a group of editors in Tel Aviv that “Israel has not been damaged at all by the Wikileaks publications.” A senior Israeli government official went further in his response to questions from AFP. He said: “We have come out looking good.” The leaked documents, he added, “confirm that the whole Middle East is terrified by the prospect of a nuclear Iran… The Arab countries are pushi...

NOVANEWS December 1, 2010 by Gordon Duff     ASSANGE Wikileaks and Imperial Mobilization Zahir Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst.org In order to comprehend the ostensibly bizarre Wikileaks phenomena that is continually in the news these days, it is essential to first comprehend the concept of the ‘Mighty Wurlitzer’. It used to be the honorific of Frank Wisner, the first chief of political warfare for the Central Intelligence Agency, used to describe the C.I.A.’s plethora of front organizations and newsmedia stooges that he was capable of playing (like a great organ with many keyboards) for synthesizing any propaganda tune that was needed for the day. More details may be gleaned in the disclosures of Operation Mockingbird. The fact that such an omnipresent Message-Machine is not anci...

NOVANEWS December 1, 2010 by Jeff Gates  When waging intelligence wars, timing is often the critical factor for game-theory war planners. The outcome of the WikiLeaks release suggests a psy-ops directed at the U.S. By Jeff Gates Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini “The United States is the real victim of WikiLeaks. It’s an action aimed at discrediting them.” Franco Frattini, Foreign Minister of Italy The impact of the WikiLeaks release of diplomatic cables fits the behavior profile of those well versed in game theory warfare. When Israeli mathematician Robert J. Aumann received the 2005 Nobel Prize in economic science for his work on game theory, he conceded, “the entire school of thought that we have developed here in Israel” has turned “Israel into the leading authority in this...