Politics

NOVANEWS   http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/a-nobel-peace-prize-laureate-in-prison-1.316807 NOVANEWS Gideon Levy: A Nobel Peace Prize laureate in prison If the court indeed deports Mairead Corrigan-Maguire we'll know that our court system is also tainted to the teeth October 3, 2010 The photograph was recently distributed by the IDF's propagandists: Mairead Corrigan-Maguire is seen being taken off the abducted ship Rachel Corrie at Ashdod port, as a soldier from the world's most moral army holds out his hand to help the honorable woman disembark. It was not long after the IDF's violent takeover of the Mavi Marmara, and Israeli propagandists were now hastening to peddle their cheap merchandise, showing how Israel treats "real" peace activists, as opposed to the Turkish "t...

NOVANEWS   Zio=Nazi  shoots tied and blindfolded prisoner CLICK:  Uncategorized October 3, 2010  by crescentandcross     Leave a Comment       

NOVANEWS October 2, 2010 by Gordon Duff “THE SUICIDE BLUES ARE BREAKIN’ UP THAT OLE GAME O’ MINE” By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor They always march off to war, fanfare, flags, speeches, parades.  There’s always an enemy, an evildoer, torpedo boats in the Tonkin Gulf or mystery airplanes and dissolving buildings in Manhattan.  The “armchair pundits” and “Monday morning quarterbacks” all assure is the same thing, it will be over in weeks, “the boys will be back for Christmas.”  This time, Christmas 2001 is looking like “Christmas 2012″ or later, maybe never.  Just as there weren’t any North Vietnamese attacking the American fleet in the South China Sea, no weapons of mass destruction showed in in Iraq, no “Osama in Laden” in Afghanistan with his “hijacker training academies” the ...

PROF. FRANCIS BOYLE: THE IMPENDING COLLAPSE OF ISRAEL IN PALESTINE October 1, 2010 by Debbie Menon The Palestinians must sign nothing and let Israel collapse! By Professor Francis A. Boyle via My Catbird Seat    University of Illinois Law Professor Francis A. Boyle On November 15, 1988 the Palestine National Council (P.N.C.) meeting in Algiers proclaimed the Palestinian Declaration of Independence that created the independent state of Palestine.   Today the State of Palestine is bilaterally recognized de jure by about 130 states.  Palestine has de facto diplomatic recognition from most of Europe.  It was only massive political pressure applied by the U.S. government that prevented European states from according to Palestine de jure diplomatic recognition. Palestine is a member state of t...

NOVANEWS Lessons from the UC Berkeley Divestment Effort, Hillel on Campus More Recent Articles Search MuzzleWatch Lessons from the UC Berkeley Divestment Effort, Hillel on Campus [Editor’s note: The Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s video report (above) on Israel-defense training for students made me think that now would be a good time to re-publish Lessons from the UC Berkeley Divestment Effort. My colleague Sydney Levy and I wrote it this summer in response to the UC Berkeley divestment struggle and Israeli Consul General Akiva Tor’s rather strange response to the effort. In watching the JTA video in which the national head of Hillel is trying to make a subtle point but revealingly ends up comparing Muslims to vampires, I’d add that it has never been so clear to me how older ...

NOVANEWS Dear, Seized in the night. Tortured. Held without trial, then tried in a military court where you have no rights; convicted on the coerced confessions of minors, you are facing a sentence of years in prison. All for organizing peaceful protests against the theft of your land and asserting your democratic rights. Most of us who believe in human rights and democracy can never imagine being treated in such a way. Yet that is exactly what befell Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a democracy advocate from Bil'in in the Occupied West Bank. His town is known around the world for the determination of its residents - joined by Israelis and internationals in solidarity - to protest weekly against the theft of their land by Israeli authorities. In Abdallah's case, the charges were as bogus as the consequ...

NOVANEWS Jonathan Cook presents a compact introduction to the intricate web of special interests that sustain Israel's occupation policies. The crux of his presentation is that large and influential sectors of Israeli society, not just that obvious political target known as 'the settlers', benefit from the occupation. In fact, the Israeli elite, which comprises many secular, Ashkenazi citizens, and is considered the most dovish sector of Israeli society, may be the champion of all profiteers: Israel's hi-tec industries, many of them focused on sophisticated "security" products, are an essential component of the country's successful endless-war/no-peace economy. No wonder that most voters belonging to this sector of society have easily found their way to the no-different-from-Likkud Kadima ...

NOVANEWS THE MACRO-ECONOMICS OF PHONY TERROR AND CONTRIVED CONFLICT September 30, 2010 by Gordon Duff   HOW MERCHANTS OF DEATH RULE THE WORLD By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Both elements of “Al Qaeda” along with its clear history as a CIA established organization make every mention of it suspicious.  Whenever there is a need for a “wag the dog”news story, “Al Qaeda” is dragged out as the whipping boy.  Never has any organization, one as mysterious and insubstantial as this one, whose supposed leader, Osama bin Laden,  has not only been dead for years but when he was alive, not only worked directly for the CIA but comes from a family directly tied to, not only the Bush family, but, in fact, close friends and business partners for decades at every level. Since the end of the Seco...

NOVANEWS In This Issue... Avigdor Lieberman takes settlement policy to its logical conclusion More Recent Articles Search The Only Democracy?   Avigdor Lieberman takes settlement policy to its logical conclusion by Jesse Bacon   Lost in the debate over the settlement phase is its real purpose, to claim Palestinian land for Israel. Even its hardcore defenders like Avigdor Lieberman, know there will come a time when that has reached its end, when all available Palestinian land has been taken, and all Palestinians capable of being forced to leave will have done so.  What to do then? Well, then  Israel will suddenly become interested in drawing borders after 60+ years resisting doing so. And apparently we are nearing that time. Fortunately, we are a...

NOVANEWS I have sent Kathleen Christison's excellent analysis with the attachment, but have also pasted below for lists and individuals that do not accept attachments-- This is far less satisfactory than reading the whole in Counterpunch.  I was not successful in finding a link, nor the entire article on the internet, but I would suspect that eventually it will get there.  Meanwhile, even if you have no more than what I've managed to get below (which is almost all of it), it is worth reading.  My only comment is that I am more skeptical of Obama's intentions than is Kathleen Christison.  I wonder what the Middle East would look like either without Israel or with a 'peace' agreement.  Would that situation not turn the eyes of Arab populations on their leaders and the fact that among them ar...