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1Sep

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Pakistan & Kashmir, World

PAKISTAN: DEBT VS.LIVES

NOVANEWS 1 September, 2010 Make sure Avaaz alerts reach your inbox: click "Add to Contacts" to add avaaz@avaaz.org to your address book, and click the "Not Spam" button if you found this email in your spam folder. If you prefer to leave the Avaaz list, just click here to unsubscribe. Dear Friends, Whilst tens of millions struggle to survive the flood devastation, 30% of Pakistan's budget revenue will be sent abroad to foreign creditors for massive loans made to dictators years ago. Sign the petition to stop Pakistan's crippling debt: As Pakistan struggles to rescue families from flood waters and fend off disease and starvation before winter sets in, it is scrambling to pay out a shocking 30% of its annual budget revenues to foreign creditors on debt incurred by previous d...

29Aug

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Lebanon, World

LEBANON MOSSAD AGENTS

NOVANEWS Lebanon Strikes Back, continues round-up of alleged Mossad agents August 29, 2010 by Michael Leon Lebanon Minister of State Jean Ogassapian By Wayne Madsen in OpinionMaker Lebanese counter-intelligence continues to round up a number of alleged Mossad agents embedded inside the Lebanese political structure and telecommunications sector, according to reports reaching WMR from Beirut. Although Hezbollah provided Daniel Bellmare and his UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) office in Beirut with six DVDs showing Israeli surveillance drone footage of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s locations prior to his remote bombing assassination in February 2005, Bellemare wants Hezbollah to turn over more data on how Hezbollah was able to intercept Israel command and control communications...

25Aug

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Pakistan & Kashmir

KASHMIR: WE NEED INDEPENDENCE

NOVANEWS Death sparks protests in Kashmir Aug 25, 2010 Kashmiri teenagers throw stones and traffic cones at a police vehicle as protests escalate in Srinagar August 25, 2010.nagar on August 25, 2010. Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Indian-administered Kashmir after a teenager died of injuries he had suffered during an earlier clash with Indian forces. The demonstration held in protested at the killing of the teenager turned violent in Srinagar on Wednesday. Police fired warning shots to disperse the protesters who were attending the funeral of 13-year-old Umar Qayoom, who died of severe injuries earlier in the day. Witnesses say he was beaten by government forces during a protest rally days earlier. The demonstrators also hurled stones at Indian security forces ...

23Aug

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Iraq

THE IRAQ LEGACY: TELL IT LIKE IT IS

NOVANEWS August 23, 2010 by Michael Leon Bush Lied: 100,000s dead, traumatized, wounded and tortured By Medea Benjamin (opednews.com) With the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq, the administration, the military and the media are trying to put a positive spin on this grim chapter of U.S. history. It would certainly give some comfort to the grieving families of the over 4,400 soldiers killed in Iraq if their sacrifices had left Iraq a better place or made America safer. But the bitter truth is that the U.S. intervention has been an utter disaster for both Iraq and the United States. First let’s acknowledge that we should have never attacked Iraq to begin with. Iraq had no connection with our 9/11 attackers, had no weapons of mass destruction and represented no threat to the Unite...

19Aug

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Afghanistan

AFGHANISTAN: OBAMA RETRACT THE WITHDRAWAL PLEDGE

NOVANEWS Petraeus’s New Offensive: Prepares the Way for Obama to Retract the Withdrawal Pledge August 18, 2010 by Michael Leon General David Petraeus - Watch for those words “conditions on the ground” to come around again next July - By Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive General David Petraeus is in the midst of his Afghanistan offensive. But it’s not against the Taliban; it’s against those in Congress, and those of us in the public, who oppose the ongoing-and escalating-Afghan war. Petraeus is preparing the battlefield for next summer, when President Obama is on record as saying the withdrawal from Afghanistan will commence. Petraeus announced very publicly over the weekend that he didn’t take the job as top general in Afghanistan to preside over “a graceful exit,” and he affirmed ...

19Aug

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Iraq, ZIO-NAZI

IRAQ WAR IS ZIONIST FALSE INTELLIGENCE

NOVANEWS Playing the Never Again Card, Again August 18, 2010 by Jeff Gates The phony intelligence used to induce our March 2003 invasion of Iraq has been dusted off. This time it’s being deployed to take us into Iran. Same scam. Same storyline. Same fraud—even featuring some of the same players. Except that this time around their deception lacks the broader context required to gain traction for their phony content. That key difference makes today’s perpetrators far more transparent—for those willing to look. Those foisting on us this latest fraud also face another challenge: Americans now realize it was Israel and its advocates who fixed that false intelligence around a Zionist agenda. That realization adds combustibility to the facts now fueling Israel’s fast-fading legitimacy. Each...

17Aug

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Afghanistan

PUPPET KARZAI DISBAND PRIVATE SECURITY COMPANIES

NOVANEWS Afghan presidential decree bans security firms August 17, 2010 by Michael Leon US soldiers patrol jointly with Canadian soldiers and the Afghan National Army in Kandahar By Heidi Vogt KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghanistan’s president issued a decree Tuesday formalizing his four-month deadline for private security companies to disband — a move likely to dismay NATO and the U.S. military that rely on such firms to protect convoys and bases. Security operators — both Afghan and foreign — have become a point of contention between the government and coalition forces and the international community as complaints have mounted that the firms are poorly regulated, reckless and effectively operate outside local law. According to the decree, the tens of thousands of security contractors cur...

17Aug

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Afghanistan, USA

OBAMA'S AFGHAN STRATEGY IS NOT WORKING

NOVANEWS August 17, 2010 by Michael Leon By RIZWAN ASGHAR With every passing day there is growing perception in international media that President Obama’s Afghan strategy is not working. American public opinion in favour of Afghan war is rapidly eroding and majority of Americans think that situation is worsening in Afghanistan. A number of basic goals were set in Counter Insurgency Strategy (COIN) by President Obama almost a year ago. But none of them is near to be achieved. The first goal was to stabilize Afghanistan while pursuing a more effective civilian strategy. In it the main focus was on protecting major Afghan population centers along with agricultural areas and transportation routes. It was said that operations will be conducted in this way so that they would result in minimum ...

17Aug

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Afghanistan

DISMEMBERING AFGHANISTAN

NOVANEWS August 15, 2010 by Michael Leon Wounded U.S. Soilder - The most radical of these schemes to salvage the Afghan disaster is being floated by the former U.S. ambassador to India, Robert Blackwell, a neoconservative mainstay and currently a lobbyist for India. Blackwell proposes partitioning Afghanistan into two countries: an independent, Pashtun-dominated south, and a northern and western section where Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Hazaras make up the majority. According to the scheme , “Pashtunistan” would be kept in line by armed drones and 30,000 to 40,000 U.S. Special Forces. - By Conn Hallinan in Foreign Policy in Focus Wars are rarely lost in a single encounter; Defeat is almost always more complex than that. The United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alli...

17Aug

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India

INDIA: OPERATION GREEN HUNT REPORT

NOVANEWS Rajeesh | August 17, 2010 at 11:07 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1TW Sanhati, a forum for solidarity with peoples’ struggles in India, successfully organized a protest demonstration in front of the Indian Consulate in NYC on August 13 against Operation Green Hunt to coincide with India’s independence day on 15th August . The protest demonstration was endorsed by the Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia and was attended by individuals from Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas representing diverse South Asian and international organizations like SASI (South Asia Solidarity Initiative), ILPS (International League of Peoples Struggles), ISO (International Socialist Organisation), RCP (Revolutionary Communist Party) ...