Iraq

NOVANEWS UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection says the main reason why most countries of the world do not accept the Mujahedin-e Khalq members is that they perceive these people as having a (negative) impact on their national security. During a meeting with Iraqi deputy foreign minister in UNHCR’s headquarters in Geneva, Ms. Erika Filler said that the UNHCR will put all great amounts of effort at convincing countries to resettle Mujahedin-e Khalq in their countries, Habilian Foundation website reported on Sunday. She referred to the UNHCR’s efforts to register and interview MKO members, adding that so far some countries have expressed readiness to accept a number of them. Filler went on to say that another meeting will be held next month on this issue. Iraq's deputy fo...

NOVANEWS Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! Among the many excuses made by the imperialists for their war on Iraq were the removal of Saddam Hussein and the establishment of democracy. As Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki consolidates his power, many in the country believe one dictator has been replaced by another. Kurdish journalist Zakia Al Mazouri, persistently threatened by Al Maliki’s regime, said, ‘This government that came now is not better than the old one. There is no real democracy.’ Following the disputed elections of March 2010, Al Maliki took personal control of the interior and defence ministries. He also created a new post for himself as Commander-in-Chief, from which he was able to fill senior posts in the military with his own supporters. Maysoon Al Damliyi, an MP for the m...

NOVANEWS By Felicity Arbuthnot   Global Research   “A rock, Breathing with the lungs of a lunatic, That is it, This is the twentieth century.” (A Mirror for the Twentieth Century: Adonis – Ali Ahmad Said, 1930 - :)   Recently a contradictory, but in important areas, remarkably sunny opinion poll on “progress” in Iraq, conducted in April, was released. (i)   It was, it has to be said, a divide and rule sort of survey as it split respondents in to Shia, Sunni, Kurdish – the Shia, obviously were largely supportive of Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki, from the Iranian backed Dawa Party.   However, for those in the West wishing a phoenix to rise from Iraq’s ashes - the illegal invasion, occupation, destruction, resultant mass graves of maybe one and a hal...

NOVANEWS habilian.ir A defected member of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCR) disclosed that the terrorist group kills any member who intends to defect from the group by forcing him/her to take cyanide tablets. “In 2003, a number of members announced officially and publicly that they wanted to defect from the MKO but they were killed by cyanide tablets at the direct order of Rajavi (the terrorist group’s main ringleader),” Maryam Sanjabi, a former ringleader of the MKO, told FNA on Saturday. She said that after killing the defected members, the MKO announced that they had been killed during a bombardment of Camp Ashraf, the terrorist group’s main stronghold and training center in Iraq. Sanjabi, a highly trusted MKO veteran...

 The Unleashing of America’s New Global Militarism Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham (Editors) I-Book No. 5, May 2012 INTRODUCTION The adage that “it is the victors who write history” in matters relating particularly to war and conflict is something of a euphemism when applied to recent military campaigns conducted by America and its NATO allies. For what is disputable – no, let us say repugnant – about the official accounts of these events is not merely a difference in emphasis or nuance on the matter, which the adage may infer. It is rather that the victors’ version of history is a wholesale fabrication, an obscene travesty of actual events. It is not a case of victors writing history, more one of victors “violating history”. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and what is unfolding cov...

NOVANEWS Salem-News.com Human Rights Ambassador William Gomes Pro-government activists campaign to file very serious charges against William Gomes over Facebook allegations… Tim King Salem-News.com (SALEM) – Salem-News is contacting elected officials with the U.S. government, seeking their intervention to protect our Human Rights Ambassador and featured writer, William Gomes of Bangladesh. Salem-News is asking Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who is due to visit Bangladesh on the 5th of May 2012, to please take time to discuss the security of William Gomes. His role as human rights ambassador for a media organization is a brave and unique approach to resolving human rights issues worldwide that are otherwise so often simply ignored. It was Mrs. Clinton who suggested years ago tha...