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24Sep

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As the Capitalist World Turns: From Empire to Imperialism to Globalization?

NOVANEWS by DAVID ROSEN Photo Source Nick | CC BY 2.0 One can only wonder what Marx, let alone Lenin, would think of the current nature of global capitalism. It has realized their worst nightmares, becoming a system of tyranny and plunder but without a redemptive, revolutionary dialectic. The radical left has for the last century-and-a-half been guided by Marx’s analysis – and utopian vision – of capitalism, its inherent contradictions and its inevitable supersession by “communism”. That the proletariat could – and would! – overturn the bourgeoisie and the economic system of commodity exchange would be superseded by a world based on social equality, shared wealth and ecological harmony — from each according to his/her ability to each according to her/his need. Does anyone still be...

18Aug

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Child Abuse, the Catholic Church and the Justice of Real Consequences

NOVANEWS Parishioners worship during a mass to celebrate the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary at St Paul Cathedral, the mother church of the Pittsburgh Diocese on August 15, 2018, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh Diocese was rocked by revelations of abuse by priests the day before on August 14, 2018.JEFF SWENSEN / GETTY IMAGES BY: William Rivers Pitt Truthout I was born Boston Irish Catholic, did First Communion and Confession (but balked at Confirmation, I am pleased to note), went to a Catholic junior high and a Jesuit college, and taught at a Catholic high school. The first and only CCD (think “Sunday School”) teacher I ever had was the now-notorious rapist of children, Father Paul Shanley. Suffice it to say, I know the Church, and can still recite the “...

14Aug

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A Duty to Uphold the Law, Even in War

NOVANEWS By Benjamin B. Ferencz published:April 2010 source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/07/AR2010040704425.html Stephen G. Rademaker's April 2 op-ed ["Can judges bring an end to war?"] warned against allowing the International Criminal Court to try leaders for the crime of waging aggressive war. Mr. Rademaker, a former assistant secretary of state in the Bush administration, echoes the opposition of the late senator Jesse Helms, former U.N. ambassador John R. Bolton and other conservatives who would rather rely on force than law. But his arguments are refuted by both the U.N. charter and the statute of the ICC. An upcoming review conference in Kampala, Uganda, with participants from more than 100 nations, including some of our staunchest allies, will dec...

14Aug

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What of Military Aggression?

NOVANEWS By Benjamin B. Ferencz published: October 2010 source: Global Brief We have come a long way from Nuremberg, and have miles to go before we sleep Hope is the engine that drives human endeavour. After some 20 million people were killed in WW1, League of Nations diplomats recognized the need to eliminate war as an instrument of national policy. They advised that future wars of aggression should be punished as an international crime. The common response from powerful states was: “The time is not yet ripe.” An additional 50 million victims perished in WW2. In response, an International Military Tribunal was set up in Nuremberg to try German leaders responsible for crimes against peace (aggression), crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The implementation of slowly emerging princ...

14Aug

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A New Approach to Deterring Illegal Wars

NOVANEWS By Benjamin B. Ferencz published: August 2011 What Really Happened at Kampala It should be recalled that after millions of innocent people had been killed in World War Two, everyone prayed for a more peaceful future. In the name of "WE THE PEOPLES", the primary goal of the United Nations Charter signed on 25 June1945 was "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war." Pursuant to an Agreement in London on August 8, the four occupying Powers established an International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg to try leading perpetrators of Nazi crimes. The court was composed of prominent jurists from the US, USSR, UK and France. In his moving opening statement on 21 November, Chief Prosecutor Robert M. Jackson, on leave from the US Supreme Court, warned that if law was to ...

10Aug

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Profits over People: Infant Formula Industry vs Breast Milk

NOVANEWS — Padma How many babies need to die before they are allowed their mothers’ milk? Bob Dylan the well known singer and song writer wrote ‘Blowing in the Wind’ in 1962 a hard hitting song about war and peace and human rights during the civil rights movement in the United States. One line in that song goes like this: Yes, ‘n’ how many years can some people exist, Before they’re allowed to be free? Another line in the same song: Yes, ‘n’ how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died? The recent scandal surrounding the U.S. administration’s attempts to derail a resolution to promote breast feeding of infants evidently in favour of infant formula manufacturers brings to mind Bob Dylan’s powerful song. The United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly he...

7Aug

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How Identity Politics Makes the Left Lose Its Collective Identity

NOVANEWS By Tomasz Pierscionek Global Research Note to readers: please click the share buttons above The identity politics phenomenon sweeping across the Western world is a divide and conquer strategy that prevents the emergence of a genuine resistance to the elites. A core principle of socialism is the idea of an overarching supra-national solidarity that unites the international working class and overrides any factor that might divide it, such as nation, race, or gender. Workers of all nations are partners, having equal worth and responsibility in a struggle against those who profit from their brain and muscle. Capitalism, especially in its most evolved, exploitative and heartless form – imperialism – has wronged certain groups of people more than others. Colonial empires...

29Jun

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The “New World Order”, A Recipe for War or Peace! 'Video'

NOVANEWS By Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, and Yoichi Shimatsu Perdana Global Peace Foundation The conference on The New World Order, A Recipe for War or Peace was held on March 9, 2015 at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC), Malaysia. This event was organized by the Perdana Global Peace Foundation which is headed by the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad. Presentions by Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, Thomas Barnett, Michel Chossudovsky, Chandra Muzaffar, Yoichi Sumachi. Video: The “New World Order”, A Recipe for War or Peace? The Criminalization of War

26Jun

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SLAVERY PAST AND PRESENT 'Video'

NOVANEWS A PROMISE BETRAYED THE NEW SLAVERY Did slavery really end – or did it just get a new name and better press relations? Is there are alternative? Of course there is just like here was an alternative to slavery. During slavery times many believed that “society would fall apart” if slavery was abolished. Well, it did. A bad society fell apart.

25Jun

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Humanity’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’: Starving, Enslaving, Torturing and Killing Our Children

NOVANEWS Posted byySammi Ibrahem, Sr By Robert J. Burrowes Global Research In a recent article titled ‘Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts’, I pointed out four conflict configurations that are paid little attention by conflict theorists. In this article, I would like to discuss a fifth conflict configuration that is effectively ignored by conflict theorists (and virtually everyone else). This conflict is undoubtedly the most fundamental conflict in human society, because it generates all of the violence humans perpetrate and experience, and yet it is utterly invisible to almost everyone. I have previously described this conflict as ‘the adult war on children’. It is indeed humanity’s ‘dirty little secret’. Let me illustrate and explain the nature and extent of this secre...