Mondoweiss Online Newsletter
NOVANEWS Last minute complaint regarding the ‘sea worthiness’ of the Audacity of Hope puts the US Boat to Gaza in jeopardy Gaza Summer Games kick off with Olympic-style torch festival Another sign of int’l isolation […]
Year: 2011
The racist Facebook rants of Netanayhu’s son
Noam Sheizaf Haaretz’s Uri Blau uncovered today racist comments and extreme right-wing rhetoric on Yair Netanyahu’s Facebook page. Yair, the eldest son of PM Netanyahu, is currently in mandatory IDF service, in the army’s spokesperson unit. […]
My interview with Tom MacMaster
NOVANEWS I mentioned that I was not going to post the interview with MacMaster but then a reader convinced me otherwise. He said that I am rather obligated because I asked him to respond to […]
Privatisation is just the way to make us all happier
NOVANEWS David Mitchell writes in the London Observer in a paean to the private sector, a bunch of caring individuals who just want the rest of us to enjoy better and more efficient services: The private […]
Trade Not Aid
NOVANEWS I think this skims over the issue of the blockade and it mentions it and seems to give the impression that the “Trade not aid” project will reverse the issue of doctors picking up […]
Violating Palestinian Rights
NOVANEWS by Stephen Lendman Besides its Knesset, security forces and intelligence services, Israel’s High Court and Civil Administration ravage Palestinian civil society repressively. Two examples illustrate the problem. On June 22, a B’Tselem press release headlined, […]
Breaching Gaza’s Siege
NOVANEWS by Stephen Lendman Suffocating besieged Gazans, Israel is committing slow-motion genocide. Global activists are determined to stop it and hold Israeli officials accountable for decades of crimes of war and against humanity – unspeakable […]
Tools of and for Zionism?
NOVANEWS by Eileen Fleming Last week Chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen swooned, “I love John Bolton” after Bolton informed the Committee: “I’ve argued for [military strikes against Iran] for about three […]
2011 Mid-Year Economic Update
NOVANEWS Regardless how well the U.S. stock market has risen over the past two years, we cannot forget that the U.S. economy remains in a recession, which is just one month shy of the longest […]
Changing cultures
NOVANEWS Live in fragments no longer. Only connect! –E.M. Forster We’re living in fragments. by Paul J Balles It’s a smaller world with people further apart than ever. We travel to different cultures; we fight other […]