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NOVANEWS Labour MP for Birmingham Hall Green Roger Godsiff was accused by Respect right wing candidate Salma Yaqoob of ‘showing contempt’ for failing to attend a hustings last week in the constituency. Labour MP for Birmingham Hall Green Roger Godsiff was accused by Respect candidate Big muth Salma Yaqoob of ‘showing contempt’ for failing to attend a hustings last week in the constituency. The Husting organised by Zio-Freemason Pro-War racist Dick Atkinson of  the Balsall Heath campany 'Forum' Mr Godsiff has held the seat of Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath since 1992.  One prominent Respect activist, who asked not to be named, expressed disappointment at Ms Yaqoob attitude to local people.  A spokesman for Mr Godsiff’s office explained his absence at the meeting: “Mr Godsiff no longe...

NOVANEWS Afghan President Karzai Threatens to Join Taliban  You Just Can’t Get Good Puppets Any More. by Ian Mosley It looks like one of America’s most notorious foreign puppets is trying to cut his strings or at least loosen them a little. A recent news article reports: “Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened over the weekend to quit the political process and join the Taliban if he continued to come under outside pressure to reform, several members of parliament said Monday. Karzai made the unusual statement at a closed-door meeting Saturday with selected lawmakers—just days after kicking up a diplomatic controversy with remarks alleging foreigners were behind fraud in last year’s disputed elections. Lawmakers dismissed the latest comment as hyperbole, but it will add to the impressio...

NOVANEWS    David Grossman at Sheikh Jarrah: "We cultivated a kind of carnivorous plant that is slowly devouring us" Didi Remez | April 11, 2010 at 11:31 | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pHlQV-sK On Friday (April 9 2010) Israeli author David Grossman made an impromptu speech [video here] at the protest against the continued evictions of Palestinians families in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and their replacement with fundamentalist settlers. I think that we are all beginning to grasp -- even those who maybe don't really want to -- how 43 years ago, by turning a blind eye, by actively or passively cooperating, we actually cultivated a kind of carnivorous plant that is slowly devouring us, consuming every good part within us, making the countr...

NOVANEWS Iran To Complain To UN Over US Nuclear Policy Iran has said it will complain to the UN over its exclusion from Washington's revised nuclear policy, while the US has claimed Iran does not yet have nuclear capacity. More » Iran's Khamenei slams Obama 'nuclear threat' AFP - 4 hours 17 mins agoTEHRAN (AFP) - Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei slammed US President Barack Obama on Sunday for threatening a "nuclear attack" even as Defence Secretary Robert Gates said he did not believe Iran had an atomic bomb. More » Iran's Khamenei slams Obama over 'nuclear threat' AFP - 5 hours 23 mins agoTEHRAN (AFP) - Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei slammed US President Barack Obama on Sunday for threatening a "nuclear attack" even as Defence Secretary Robert Gates said he did not believ...

NOVANEWS Minister's Jokey Note Caught On Camera   © Sky News 2010          Ministers have been caught out passing flippant notes dismissing journalists as "second division" during a news conference about children's services. Skip related content   Work and Pensions Secretary Yvette Cooper was snapped writing the remarks to Treasury Minister Liam Byrne while her husband, Schools Secretary Ed Balls, spoke to the assembled media. "It's clearly second division today, presumably that's why we're allowed to do this," she wrote. Mr Byrne replied: "Sort of like being allowed to play in the sand pit." The three Ministers held the event to promote their commitment to protecting children's services but also attacked the Conservatives' plans for a marriage tax break worth £3 a week. Just four d...

NOVANEWS Secret Arrest and Imprisonment of Israeli Journalist, Anat Kamm Jailed For Revealing Israeli Army Death Squads and Assassination Policy Courtesy of the Only Democracy in the Middle East As in South Africa, so too in Israel. The price of maintaining police state repression of the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and an attitude to Israel’s own Arab citizens that they are a fifth column, is that even the democratic rights of the Jews in the Jewish State become undermined. Not the rights of the expansionists and Zionist race purists and demographic prophets, but that of left-wing Israelis. This has been thrown into sharp relief by the case of Anat Kamm and Uri Blau, two journalists on the liberal daily Ha’aretz. Now there are many propagandists (hasbara merchants) who repe...

NOVANEWS This is a small segment from a new book, edited by Stephen R. Shalom. Racheli. http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2010-04-09/noam-chomsky-gilbert-achcar-on-the-legitimacy-of-the-state/   IOA Editor: An illuminating exchange between Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar on the  important question of the legitimacy of the state, and how it applies to Israel and other nation states.  Presented in the context of the current wave of accusations that critics of the Israeli occupation, and of Israel’s systematic and ongoing violations of international law, are  “delegitimizers” — a recently coined term created by Israeli propaganda experts as part of an effort to, in their words, “delegitimize the delegitimizers.” An excerpt from Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar, Perilous   Power: The Middle ...

NOVANEWS  Zionist were upset that President Kaczynski had “anti-Semites” in his ruling coalition. by James Buchanan The arch-criminal Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” So what do you say when a good portion of a European government is wiped out in a single plane crash? Commercial jets land in bad weather all the time. Thousands of jets land all over the world safely in poor visibility, yet this one plane with the Polish President and many high ranking Polish officials smashes into the ground. Be very suspicious of media attempts to blame the weather or to blame the pilot. Remember Bill Clinton’s Commerce Secretary, Ron Brown? He was being investigated for campaign finance fraud. He died in a...

NOVANEWS Neocons take over Buckley’s inheritance The neocon takeover of NRO is complete: "Petraeus's Israel Problem." WF Buckley Jr., who opposed the war in Iraq, must be turning in his grave. And Pamela Geller the fevered Israel devotee writes that Petraeus is pushing "jihadist rhetoric of Islamic anti-semitism." Wow who would have believed that Petraeus was a stealth Islamist.

NOVANEWS J’aime Paul Berman beaucoups  From Ron Rosenbaum at Slate: Paul Berman's new book exhibits the same dedication to moral clarity on these questions demonstrated in his earlier Terror and Liberalism. Mais oui, the clarity that he demonstrated when he defended the assault on Gaza's civilian population under the rubric of fighting anti-Semitism. Though in his defense he had been silent on the siege of Gaza. Berman's book will likely provoke bouts of rage, praise, and condemnation in print and online. In doing so, his book will remind us that those old Partisan Review smack-downs raised questions that have evolved and mutated but remain unresolved: Is there a paradox at the heart of Enlightenment values? Should a belief in "tolerance" extend to the intolerant? Must Enlightenment value...