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NOVANEWS By: John Clarke A large poster in a square in Geneva, Switzerland, promoting the idea of a universal basic income | Photo: Reuters There are a wide range of notions of what a BI system might look like. Devotees of free market capitalism have their own vision. In April of this year, the Ontario government is expected to release details of a pilot project that will study the effects of a very limited and rather dubious attempt at Basic Income or BI. As with similar experiments in Finland and the Netherlands, nothing approaching a universal payment will be put in place. Rather, a sampling of the poorest people will be provided with a very modest allowance, with fewer bureaucratic strings attached than under existing systems of income support. OPINION: Workles...

NOVANEWS By Ian Greenhalgh  The resolution passed on December 23, 2016, when 14 out of the 15 voting members of the Council voted in favor of the resolution. [Editor’s note: As this report shows, Trump’s team of Zionist stooges, lead by Israeli assets Bannon and Kushner, were trying to further the Zionist Israeli agenda before they even took office. Considering this week’s meeting between Trump and Netanyahu excluded almost everyone else in the US government other than Bannon and Kushner, it can be taken as a given that the agenda for that meeting was almost exclusively Zionist. Ian] __________ Jerusalem Post Report: Trump transition team attempted to block UN settlement resolution As the US prepared to abstain from UN security council resolution 2334 in December 2016, the transition...

NOVANEWS The fall of Michael Flynn involved not litigation, but threats of prosecution. But, if Trump is in fact brought down by the same scandal, it will not be leftwing litigation that does it, but the creation of a cross-party and inter-bureaucratic political coalition. And the result, if so, argues Howe Cheatem, will be president Pence and a new and rapid war drive Donald Trump and Neil Gorsuch: tilting the balance of Scotus Not so long ago, the media were giving intense attention to the decisions of the Queen’s Bench Divisional Court (November 3 2016) and the UK Supreme Court (January 24 2017) on Gina Miller’s litigation demanding that an act of parliament should precede the triggering of article 50 by Theresa May. The decisions were presented by the media as serious defeats for May...

NOVANEWS A customer tests a Glock at Guns-R-Us in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2012. | Photo: Reuters As part of the ban around 75,000 people with mental disabilities would be barred from purchasing firearms. The United States Congress voted on Wednesday to block a gun regulation that would prevent thousands of people with mental disabilities from purchasing weapons. Passed by the Republican-led house, the legislation will now be sent to President Donald Trump. RELATED: Mental Health Experts Say Trump Unfit to Be President The move was passed by 57 votes to 43 in the Republican-controlled Congress. The U.S. Senate has also backed the legislation and the White House expects Trump to sign the law into action, according to the Associated Press. Former President Barack Obama proposed the rest...

NOVANEWS By Frank Lara San Francisco protest. | Photo: Gloria La Riva In just one week, with several strokes of a pen, Trump unleashed upon the working class in the U.S. an attack not seen in decades. From his attack on the flawed Affordable Care Act to the banning of immigrants from Muslim countries to the explicit targeting of “sanctuary cities,” the actions demonstrated that the bigoted, racist and sexist rhetoric heard on the campaign trail was in fact the foundation of the Trump program. The reaction to these attacks has been a mixture of fear and rage. Statements made by politicians and community leaders are beginning to draw the line at local, state and national levels between Trump and his supporters and #TheResistance. In San Francisco, the notoriously anti-homeless, a...

NOVANEWS By Sajjad Shaukat During and after the presidential election campaign, taking note of the US new President Donald Trump’s religious bigotry, racialism and extremist statements such as calling a “ban on Muslims entering the United States”, “Islam hate us”, opposition to the Muslim refugees, especially from Syria etc., some writers, researches and bloggers, including American politicians have called him a “crazy person”, while some called him a “mad man.” In fact, American President Donald Trump is neither a “crazy person” nor a “mad man”, as he is acting upon the extremist agenda of Israel and India (Under Prime Minister Modi) without bothering for its dangerous consequences which could envelop the entire world, including the US herself. When he took oath as the America...

NOVANEWS The US is not as innocent as it may seem, according to President Donald Trump. When Fox News host Zionist Bill O’Reilly called Vladimir Putin “a killer,” Trump responded: “We’ve got a lot of killers.” In an interview to be aired ahead of the Super Bowl later on Sunday, Zionist O’Reilly asked if Trump respects Russian President Vladimir Putin, to which the he replied, “I do respect him. Well, I respect a lot of people, but that doesn’t mean I’ll get along with them.” Seemingly surprised, Zionist O’Reilly goes on to ask him why. “He is the leader of his country. I say it’s better to get along with Russia than not, and if Russia helps us in the fight against ISIS – which is a major fight – and the Islamic terrorism all over the world, that’s a good thing,” Trump answered. “Will...

NOVANEWS By Rob Urie  Once an assumption of benevolent leadership is made the tendency has been to interpret subsequent acts in benevolent terms. When George W. Bush was president this took the form of his supporters believing that Saddam Hussein brought down the Twin Towers, that Iraq had an ongoing WMD program and that the role of America was to ‘free’ the world of tyrants. All evidence to the contrary was taken as either fraudulent or partisan bickering. The theory amongst bourgeois liberals in the early-mid 2000s was that this trait was peculiar to the more evangelically inclined supporters of national Republicans who had been swayed by the culture wars. The arrogance of the conceit is likely due in part to class difference, in part to conflation of education with intelligence (class...

NOVANEWS By Stephen Lendman Global Research   What he should and will do may be world’s apart. His top priorities should be world peace, stability, mutual cooperation with all nations, making America a model state, unlike its current pariah status, along with equity and justice for everyone. No president in US history reached that standard. Jack Kennedy came closest. Franklin Roosevelt gave Americans vital New Deal policies during the nation’s Great Depression. In large measure, he also bore responsibility for WW II. Lyndon Johnson waged war on poverty while waging far greater war abroad, dividing the nation in the process, his unpopularity forcing him out of the 1968 race despite his Great Society achievements. Ignore what politicians say. Follow only what they do. Trump del...