Iraq

NOVANEWS Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. –Mark Twain   by Paul J Balles   A January 12th headline in the Wall Street Journal: “Humanitarian gestures and covert actions won’t stop Iran’s bomb.” They lie and they know it! Show them the wisdom of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: “The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.” On March 6, Mitt Romney wrote: “The same Islamic fanatics who took our diplomats hostage are racing to build a nuclear bomb.” He lied and he should know it! Romney is an expert at ignoring what Aristotle warned against: “The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand fold.” Benjamin Netanyahu told a crowd of thousands at a March 5 AIPAC meeting: “My friends, Israel has waited and ...

NOVANEWS http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com ed note–now remember, it is this same MeK–listed officially by the USGOV as a terrorist group–that high-profile NeoCons and supporters of Israel such as Rendel, Giuliani Woolsey and MANY OTHERS that is paying off members of congress in order to have them delisted as a terrorist organization.   AKnews Three mass graves have been found in the evacuated Camp Ashraf that was used by Iranian dissidents before being moved to a new camp near Baghdad. Remains of 50 people were found in the mass graves and the victims are allegedly Camp Ashraf dissidents who wanted to voluntarily return to Iran but were discreetly killed by the camp officials and buried. Some Iraqis are also believed to be among the victims. Uday Khudran, mayor of Khalis district,...

NOVANEWS Number of deaths could be even higher Cleric calls the stonings 'an act of terrorism' Ministry of Interior 'complicit' in the killings By MAIL ON SUNDAY REPORTER   Youngsters in Iraq are being stoned to death for having haircuts and wearing clothes that emulate the ‘emo’ style popular among western teenagers. At least 14 youths have been killed in the capital Baghdad in the past three weeks in what appears to be a campaign by Shia militants. Militants in Shia neighbourhoods, where the stonings have taken place, circulated lists yesterday naming more youths targeted to be killed if they do not change the way they dress. Iraqi activists said this unnamed teenager was brutally killed by religious police for having an 'emo' hairstyle The killings have taken place si...

NOVANEWS   A camel lies dead at the side of a road near the Saudi capital of Riyadh by Jim Fetzer, Leuren Moret and Christopher Busby   Over the past century, the American military has been transformed into the supreme global “military cop”, in large measure for the  financial benefit of the international banking cartel and transnational corporations.  This transformation is manipulated daily by the international financiers, also known as the Zionist Anglo-American “permanent war crimes racketeering syndicate”, which secures mineral resources in weaker countries and pumps vast quantities of drugs into the global market. Headquartered in Hong Kong, the UK and China are partners in a hidden global drug economy with 5 times more money circulating than in the economy we know. The cost of ...

NOVANEWS By Felicity Arbuthnot Global Research “We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected round the world.” (President Barack Obama, State of the Union address, 24th January 2012.) On the 24th January, the day President Obama delivered his last State of the Union speech to Congress before the election, citing the: “selflessness and teamwork of America’s Armed Forces (their) focus on the mission at hand”, the “selfless” Staff Sgt., Frank Wuterich, leader of the massacre at Haditha, in Iraq, became the seventh soldier to walk free - from the mass murder of twenty four unarmed men, women and children, in three homes and a taxi. It was another chilling, ruthless, cold blooded, up to five hour rampage, revenge for the death a ...

NOVANEWS  By Rick Rogers – Front&Center: Military Talk Radio, Host   So there we were in Iraq: a reporter and a photographer embedded with Camp Pendleton Marines in 2004. We stayed at Camp Baharia, a former Baathist resort nicknamed “Dreamland” and oddly kitted out with a child-size carnival ride and, less oddly, by a lakeside dance floor. Two months earlier the murder of defense contractors had sparked what would come to be known as the First Battle of Fallujah in April. The epic, final fight for the city would erupt the following November. We were there during the lull, though it didn’t always feel like it. On our first day in country just as a lieutenant briefed us on a humanitarian mission scheduled that morning, heavy fighting flared. The plans changed and we sped to reinforce Mar...

NOVANEWS by Stephen Lendman   March 19 marks Operation Iraqi Freedom’s 9th anniversary. Brutal occupation continues. Thousands of US forces remain. Obama’s alleged pullout repositioned troops nearby and left many there. Moreover, an army of paramilitary killers infest the country. Overall conditions are grim, including millions of refugees, mass poverty and deprivation, rampant human rights and civil liberty abuses, and lack of basic services, including clean water, sanitation, electricity, health care and education. Daily violence, chaos, terror, environmental toxins, and unmet human needs also punish Iraqis. So do lawless detentions, torture, lack of press and other freedoms, and daily misery. America destroyed the cradle of civilization. It no longer exists. The loss is incalculab...

NOVANEWS Doctors and residents blame US weapons for catastrophic levels of birth defects in Fallujah’s newborns. Dahr Jamail Fallujah, Iraq – While the US military has formally withdrawn from Iraq, doctors and residents of Fallujah are blaming weapons like depleted uranium and white phosphorous used during two devastating US attacks on Fallujah in 2004 for what are being described as “catastrophic” levels of birth defects and abnormalities. Dr Samira Alani, a paediatric specialist at Fallujah General Hospital, has taken a personal interest in investigating an explosion of congenital abnormalities that have mushroomed in the wake of the US sieges since 2005. “We have all kinds of defects now, ranging from congenital heart disease to severe physical abnormalities, both in numbers you canno...

NOVANEWS By Susan Lindauer   Most Americans are astonished to discover that right up to 9/11, the CIA was developing a “Real Politik” vision of Iraq that recognized the fast approaching collapse of U.N. Sanctions. The CIA was preparing for Peace—with a ruthless determination that the United States would capture the lion’s share of spoils from Iraqi Reconstruction contracts in any post-sanctions period. German pilots transporting medical supplies and doctors into Baghdad International Airport at the end of the Clinton Administration had blasted the myth of invincibility surrounding sanctions. To this day, those pilots are anonymous—but they changed the equation in total. Their courage honoring the Berlin Airlifts in the Cold War was quickly copied. Across Europe and the Arab world, ac...