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1Apr

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Bahrain

Bahrain, Not An April Fool.

NOVANEWS modernityblog Tags: Bahrain, Human rights, Mahmood al-Yousif, Middle East, repression, Saudi Imperialism,state, Western collusion, Western compliance | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p4XPG-34T The overall silence in the West concerning Bahrain is worrying and the comparison with Egypt and Libya is not an April fool. Shrewd readers will have notice my attempt at humour and hopefully they were not taken in, but the Bahrain governments actions are not a joke, Reuters has more: "(Reuters) - Bahrain released a prominent blogger but detained several people, including a pro-opposition doctor, the latest in a series of arrests since the kingdom's crackdown on street protests, opposition sources said on Friday. The tiny island's Sunni r...

31Mar

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Syria

Neocons Target Assad Regime

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross by Jim Lobe Despite the clear opposition the Obama administration and apparent ambivalence on the part of the right-wing government in Israel, neoconservative hawks here have set their sights on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad who they hope will be the next domino to fall victim to what the so-called “Arab Spring.” In a much-noted op-ed published Saturday by the Washington Post, Elliot Abrams, who served as George W. Bush’s top Mideast adviser, called for the administration to take a series of diplomatic and economic measures similar to those taken against Libya before the U.S. and NATO’s military intervention, to weaken Assad’s hold on power and embolden the opposition. He was joined the same day by the Wall Street Journal‘s hard-line editori...

31Mar

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Japan

Benjamin Fulford: TSUNAMI ATTACK ON JAPAN PLANNED

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem Chair of West Midland PSC US troops and occupation forces flee Japan, their lackeys flee Tokyo By Benjamin Fulford The United States occupation forces in Japan are staging a major strategic defeat because they know the Japanese defense establishment knows it was elements of the US military that set off the March 11, (311) tsunami attack against Japan. This attack used nuclear weapons drilled into the seabed by submarines and not HAARP according to senior Pentagon Sources. In addition, four months ago they overruled Japanese authorities and placed deadly plutonium into the number 3 reactor at Fukushima, according to the governor of Fukushima prefecture. This was to provide a nuclear cover story for the seabed atomic attack, pentagon sources...

30Mar

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Iraq

Did the Anthrax Attacks Kick-Start the Iraq War?

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem Chair of West Midland PSC Source–wired.com Secretary of State Colin Powell went to the United Nations on Feb. 5, 2003, to make the case for war in Iraq. A central plank of his presentation: the anthrax attacks that killed five people and helped send the United States into a panic in the days after 9/11. “Less than a teaspoonful of dry anthrax in an envelope shut down the United States Senate in the fall of 2001. This forced several hundred people to undergo emergency medical treatment and killed two postal workers just from an amount just about this quantity that was inside of an envelope,” Powell said. “Saddam Hussein could have produced 25,000 liters [6,600 gallons]. If concentrated into this dry form, this amount would be en...

30Mar

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Syria

Assad: Syria protests aim to enforce an ‘Israeli agenda’

NOVANEWS Source–Haaretz In first address since the outburst of anti-government protests, Syrian President says foreign instigators infiltrated a popular movement with a genuine desire for political reform. Syria will withstand the foreign conspiracy and plots hatched against it, President Bashar Assad said in a Damascus speech on Wednesday, saying that ongoing anti-government protests that have gripped parts of Syris are meant to enforce an “Israeli agenda.” In his speech, the Syrian president condemned what he called foreign “plots hatched against our county,” saying that the people and leadership of Syria would withstand them through unity. “Syria is a target of a big plot from outside, both internally and externally. If there is something happening it is using the cov...

30Mar

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Syria

Syria: from Keystone to Cornerstone

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem Chair of West Midland PSC By Jade Salhab You might dislike President Bachar el Assad but he is ironically the best-positioned person to steer a non-sectarian transition to democracy in Syria and the Arab world. If there is anything we learned from the incredible cataclysm in the Middle East, it’s the following: the quest for freedom and dignity is a) universal and b) inevitable. Democracy - the natural offspring of this quest - can be postponed by oppression but it eventually strikes back… sometimes with a vengeance. And this is precisely the problem. As a young Lebanese political activist, I have seen first-hand how brutal the Syrian regime can get. It has managed to survive for twenty-five years by oppressing its people with an efficie...

30Mar

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Syria

Speech to the Syrian Parliament by President Bashar al-Assad: Wednesday, March 30, 2011.

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem Chair of West Midland PSC President Bashar al-Assad’s Speech to the Syrian Parliament, Wednesday, March 30, 2011, following the wave of demonstrations, protest, and counter demonstrations that swept the country for the previous two weeks. Mr. Speaker, Ladies and gentlemen, members of the People’s Assembly, It gives me a great pleasure to meet you once again in this distinguished place, to talk to you about the conditions engulfing Syria and the region and to address, through you, all the children of Syria; Syria which is at the heart of everyone of us, the invincible castle, with its glories, with its people in every governorate, city, town, and village. I speak to you at this exceptional moment when events and developments pose a great test to ...

30Mar

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Afghanistan, World

Afghanistan: Number of children born with deformities increasing

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem Chair of West Midland PSC by crescentandcross by Zarghona Salehi KABUL (PAN): The number of children born in Afghanistan with misshapen limbs and other deformities is increasing, doctors say, with several blaming intermarriage, drug use and chemicals contained in coalition weapons. There are no exact statistics of the number of children born with disabilities, but anecdotal evidence from hospitals in Kabul and the provinces suggests it is increasing. Dr. Trina Yadgari, an obstetrician at Istiqlal Hospital in Kabul, said that in 2008, 16 out of 3,700 children born at the hospital had some sort of birth defect, while in 2009 there were 4,000 births and 34 birth defects. She said most of the deformities happen in insecure provinces, blaming suicide ...

29Mar

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Syria

Al Assad deserves benefit of doubt

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross Anybody who predicted that Syria would remain immune to the wave of unrest sweeping the Arab world since last December was in for a big surprise last week as violent demonstrations ripped through the southern town of Daraa, near the border with Jordan. It immediately snowballed into other towns and cities throughout Syria, reaching the port city of Latakia, Homs in the Syrian midland, and Damascus. In most places, the demonstrators were chanting, “God, Freedom, Syria.” Demonstrating peacefully is a constitutionally guaranteed right, and nobody knows how effective it can be better than the Baathists themselves, who used street power back in the 1950s (before they came to power) to bring down one government after another, lite...

29Mar

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Syria

Syria: Scenarios and Civil War

NOVANEWS By Jihad Bitar “Protests in Daraa-Syria”; When I read this ticker in my favorite news channel, I can’t honestly say I did not feel goose bumps. As a Lebanese, anything that happens in Syria directly affects my country and probably the entire geopolitical (dis)equilibrium that has characterised the Middle East since the last Israeli-Arab wars of 1973. Four days after the Daraa spark, I counted twelve cities where unrest was happening. Busy with the very rare YouTube videos and the inevitable contradictory death toll, news channels forgot to analyze the essential question: what next for Syria, and what about the impact on the region. Syria is not Egypt and even less Tunisia. In these two North African countries, the revolts featured distinctive so...