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NOVANEWS Carl K. Eicher Summary:  The most intractable food problem facing the world in the 1980s is the food and hunger crisis in sub-Saharan Africa--the poorest part of the world. Although the crisis follows by less than a decade the prolonged drought of the early 1970s in the Sahelian states of West Africa, the current dilemma is not caused by weather. Nor is the chief problem imminent famine, mass starvation, or the feeding and resettling of refugees. Improved international disaster assistance programs can avert mass starvation and famine and assist with refugee resettlement. Carl K. Eicher is Professor of Agricultural Economics and Director of the African Rural Economy Program at Michigan State University. He has worked and traveled widely in Africa for 20 years. He is co...

NOVANEWS Obama's Hesitant Embrace of Human Rights Kenneth Roth   Summary:  U.S. President Barack Obama has vocally promoted a human rights agenda. Now, his administration must translate his rhetoric into practice. KENNETH ROTH is Executive Director of Human Rights Watch. Comment After Guantánamo Kenneth Roth The Obama administration has decided to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other alleged 9/11 plotters in federal court in New York. In a 2008 essay, Kenneth Roth outlined why and how the U.S. government should use the criminal justice system to prosecute terrorists. Read Capsule Review A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights G. John Ikenberry Read Essay Are Human Rights Universal? Thomas M. Franck More and more, the universality of human rights is bei...

NOVANEWS UK, April 2, 2010 (Pal Telegraph, by Peter Eyre) - This heading may appear alarming to some people but is there a hidden master plan? Is it possible that some aspects of this has already started and if so how and who is involved. We hear so many times of the so called “New World Order and the “Illuminati” but does it actually exist? What ever you want to call this elite organisation one can say with some certainty that it does certainly exist. I also find it incredible that this relatively small group can change the course of history and we the millions may have no power to stop it. So where does this start and who is involved? In my opinion mass depopulation is already well underway with the use of weapons containing uranium components. It all started back in the Balkans and has ...

NOVANEWS Just as the colonial powers treated them as a lump of people ""Designating Angry Arab as a leading Islamist site full of incitement to would-be jihadists would have been laughable had the subject not been one of life and death for so many of Britain's targets in this one-sided war," Allaf said."

NOVANEWS Yesterday, I watched the interview with Hasan Nasrallah on Al-Manar TV. The host, `Amru Nasif, is not an effective interviewer. He does not challenge his guests, and I know that because I was a guest of his show (before Al-Manar was categorized as a terrorist organization in the US). But Nasrallah was effective: he is more effective when he does interviews as opposed to rallys and public events. But then again, the mass supporters of the party probably like the fiery speeches at public events. He spoke a lot about the Hariri tribunal: and I am so bored with that topic. I wish the tribunal is closed down and people are sent home. I mean, we know that the man is dead and that someone killed him, what else do we need to know? The Lebanese taxpayers are shelling out some $30 million a...

NOVANEWS The impeccably establishment publication Foreign Policy continues the mainstream discussion of a one-state solution for the Middle East conflict. Zionism is being challenged in profoundly serious way: The one-state solution has long had advocates among the Palestinian diaspora, from Edward Said to Ghada Karmi and Ali Abunimah. However, there has recently been an exponential rise in mainstream Israeli media of articles that seriously consider the one-state arrangement. Trawling through the online archives of mainstream media, I found just three such articles from 2004 to 2007, but 16 pieces from 2008 to 2010. A 5,000-word essay by former Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Meron Benvenisti, arguing that the binational state is all but inevitable at this stage, was published in January and stil...

NOVANEWS Zionist paper, Maariv, reported Friday that for the first time since the siege was imposed by Zio=Nazi's on the Gaza Strip more than three years ago, the Zio=Nazi regime in 'Israel'  decided to allow the entry of construction materials starting next week. The decision would allow the entry of the much needed Iron, construction materials and tools into the besieged and impoverished coastal region. The paper said that the Zio=Nazi regime considers this step as “an act of good will” towards the Palestinians while thousands remain homeless, and others had to build their homes from clay especially after military aggression on the Gaza Strip more than a year ago. They also allowed the entry of clothes and shoes into the Gaza Strip, an issue that could lead to a decrease in prices as the...

 NOVANEWS MADRID (AP) — A group of Muslims tried to pray inside a Roman Catholic cathedral that was originally a mosque and then scuffled with security guards and police who tried to stop them, a Spanish official said Friday. Two of the tourists were arrested after the incident Wednesday night in the southern city of Cordoba and a police officer and a cathedral security guard were slightly injured, National Police spokeswoman Rosa Ortiz told The Associated Press. The Great Mosque of Cordoba was built after the Moorish invasion of Spain in the 8th century. Cordoba is known as the City of Three Cultures because Muslims, Jews and Christians lived there in harmony during medieval times. The mosque was transformed into a cathedral in 1236 when King Ferdinand III captured the city from the Moors...

NOVANEWS California has been leading the nation as it bobsleds toward bankruptcy thanks to the crushing burden caused by millions of military aid to the Zio=Nazi regime in 'Israel', ( $ 30 Billions in the next 10 years) not to mention the Obama Depression. Now it looks like Illinois and Florida are tied for second place in the race toward economic oblivion. The Orlando Sun-Sentinel reports: “Florida’s unemployment hit 12.2 percent in February, the highest rate on record, soaring past even the rates recorded in the 1973-1975 recession. February’s rate rose a 0.2 percentage point from the January revised rate of 12 percent. More than 1.26 million people are out of work in the state.” Does that include the hundreds of thousands of workers from Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America as well as ...

NOVANEWS VERY BAD NEWS HE IS BACK Look at the funny piece of news: "Dozens of Palestinians gathered at the border between southern Gaza Strip and Egypt on Wednesday to celebrate  Zionist Puppet Hosni Mu-Barak's recovery and return home." PS Electronic Ali sent this (I cite with his permission): I can't find the link now, but yesterday in al-Quds al-Arabi they reported that Palestinians in Gaza held a protest at the Egyptian border to demand that Egypt release Palestinian prisoners. Could this be the SAME demonstration which was reported as Palestinians demonstrating to welcome Mu-Barak back?"