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NOVANEWS by Michael Leon Noam Chomsky Chomsky reminds us that genuine intellectual inquiry is always subversive. It challenges cultural and political assumptions. It critiques structures. It is relentlessly self-critical. It implodes the self-indulgent myths and stereotypes we use to elevate ourselves and ignore our complicity in acts of violence and oppression. And it makes the powerful, as well as their liberal apologists, deeply uncomfortable. Noam Chomsky Has ‘Never Seen Anything Like This’ By Chris Hedges Noam Chomsky is America’s greatest intellectual. His massive body of work, which includes nearly 100 books, has for decades deflated and exposed the lies of the power elite and the myths they perpetrate. Chomsky has done this despite being blacklisted by the commercial media, turne...

NOVANEWS by Michael Leon By Robert Dreyfuss There’s a lot of hullabaloo about the New York Times article on Sunday, breathlessly reporting a “wake up call” from Secretary of Defense Robert Gates about the urgent need to rush contingency plans for attacking Iran. Don’t worry about it. Ain’t gonna happen. Not a chance. Zero. Zilch. Nada. I’ll get to the Gates memo and the Times in a second. But geez: for years now, even under the Bush administration, it’s been clear that the U.S. military is not going to attack Iran. Not then, not now, not ever. Speaking at Columbia University this weekend, Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, pretty much said so. (By the way, he’s been saying so for years.) Here’s what Mullen said: “I think Iran having a nuclear weapon would be inc...

NOVANEWS “As long as in this territory west of the Jordan River there is only one political entity called Israel, it is going to be either non-Jewish or non-democratic. If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, it will be an apartheid state.” Those are the words of Zionist Ehud Barak, defense minister and former prime minister, at last month’s Herzliya Conference, the country’s highest-profile gathering of VIPs. Barak’s statement begs the question: Seeing that Palestinians in the West Bank haven’t been able to vote in Israeli elections since the occupation started in 1967, isn’t he saying Israel has been an apartheid state since then? So, putting Barak’s statement in the context of this week’s news, should people really be so outraged that a few dozen colleges overseas are sta...

NOVANEWS MICHAEL A HOFFMAN II, HISTORIAN AND AUTHOR , is the founder of Independent History & Research. He was educated at the University of New York and is a former reporter for the New York Bureau of the Associated Press.  Hoffman is the author of several books, including his masterwork, Judaism Discovered. His free newsletter, The Hoffman Wire, is sent out weekly to thousands of supporters. _______________________ Michael Hoffman: As usual, the Israelis in Gaza are taking a crap on an entire people. The IDF is dismantling, not so much Hamas, but the infrastructure of Gaza’s government. We are seeing housing, the educational system, and Gaza’s fire-fighting & medical facilities, systematically being dismantled by Israel. This is not a limited attack on Hamas as the Israelis spin...

NOVANEWS « When you’re feeling down and need a hand, turn to Beijing Israel and Sri Lanka make love in the only way they know how – violently » This is how the US deals with its wild child, Israel Published on 11 March 2010 in Israel. 0 Comments Tags: Judaism, Palestine, settlements, United States, West Bank, Zionism. Take news from the Middle East in the last 24 hours. Despairing, infuriating and tragic. This: The Palestinians pulled out of a new round of indirect peace talks last night, even before they had begun, as a protest at Israel’s decision to announce approval for hundreds of new homes in a Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem. The decision to pull out, announced in Cairo by Amr Moussa, head of the Arab League, represents a major setback to months of diplomacy by the US admini...

NOVANEWS Not before time: The US Department of Justice has been formally asked to begin regulating the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as the foreign agent of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Bin Laden will never receive his full rights Washington is still the greatest rogue in the village: Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive, Attorney General Eric Holder told lawmakers on Tuesday. During a heated exchange with Republican congressmen, Holder predicted that “we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden” rather than to the US public enemy number one in captivity. “Let’s deal with reality,” the attorney general added. Bin Laden “will never appear in an American courtr...

NOVANEWS The US vice president said Meir told him that Zionist's secret weapon in its against the Palestinan's was that "we have nowhere else to go."" That is not the first time that she was fatally wrong. And the Palestinan's secret weapon is that they will always be there, and they keep procreating.

NOVANEWS Hannah Arendt and Israel's dependence Day In 1944, four years before the Zionist paramilitaries ethnically cleansed Palestine and Ben Gurion establish a state of Jewish dependency upon global white power, Hanna Arendt wrote a re-appraisal of Zionism after 50 years of existence. It is a good moment as ever to re-appraise that reappraisal, but given time constraints, a long quote would have to suffice. Nationalism is bad enough when it trusts in nothing but the rude force of the nation. A nationalism that necessarily and admittedly depends upon the force of a foreign nation is certainly worse. This is the threatened state of Jewish nationalism and of the proposed Jewish state, surrounded inevitably by Arab states and Arab people. Even a Jewish majority in Palestine--nay even a tran...

NOVANEWS 1 File (181KB) Sample Flier-1.doc Dear All, I apologize profusely.  I was sure that I'd sent the itinerary into cyber space as soon as I'd received it.  But since I find no copy of it in my sent-items folder, I presume that I'd intended to but didn't.  There are still a few venues remaining.  If you live in the vicinity of any of them, I am sure that you will not regret attending.   All the best, Dorothy   2010 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA NEW PROFILE SPEAKING TOUR http://web.me.com/kenncruz/2010_California_New_Profile_Tour/Welcome.html Costs of War on Israeli Society:  Two Unheard Perspectives  OFRA YESHUA LYTH & ISMAIL KHAROUB on the impact of continuing war on Israeli Society. Ofra Lyth, an Israeli Jew, and Ismail Kharoub, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, speak abou...

NOVANEWS I just received this from a friend with a high degree of technical know-how. This link works for me (but so did the other one).  Please distribute widely, and especially to your church congregations and pastors. Thanks, Dorothy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Uncle Zzzen" Subject: Kairos statement - the Microsoft-free edition  Took me some time, but now I can read this: > http://kairos-re-military-order.jottit.com/ > > Cheers, > Nimrod > On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:44:33 +0300 > Dorothy <dor_naor@netvision.net.il> wrote: > >> Kairos statement on the new Israeli military orderPlease distribute >> widely.  Thanks, Dorothy >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Sharry Lapp >> To: myrtoe@yahoogroups.com >> Sent: Sunday, A...