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17Aug

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Pakistan & Kashmir

POLICE OFFICIAL HURLS SHOE AT KASHMIR CM

NOVANEWS Rajeesh | August 16, 2010 at 11:17 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1TT By Fayaz Wani Srinagar, Aug 15: In a major embarrassment to pro-Indian government in Indian administered Kashmir, a police officer hurled a shoe towards chief minister of the region Omar Abdullah during a function of India's Independence Day on Sunday. The August 15 (India's Independence Day) function was being held at Bakshi Stadium in Srinagar, the summer capital of the Indian administered Kashmir, under tight security cover. As 41-year-old chief minister of the region, Omar Abdullah unfurled the Indian flag, a police officer sitting in the VIP enclosure stood up and raised pro-freedom slogans. The police officer hurled a brown colour shoe towards the chief minister. The...

17Aug

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India

INDIA: 3 FARMERS KILLED IN POLICE FIRING

NOVANEWS Rajeesh | August 16, 2010 at 11:15 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1TS Aligarh, Mathura: As India was celebrating 63 years of Independence, the village of Tappal around 80 kilometers from Aligarh resembled a battleground - the epicentre of violence between farmers and the police since Saturday. There were protests in Mathura as well. Hundreds of farmers were demanding higher compensation for their land that has been acquired for the Yamuna expressway, a 165-km road corridor between Noida and Agra. The agitation turned violent after police allegedly arrested a leader of the farmers. Three farmers died in police firing while some others were injured. A policeman was also killed in the clashes. The Uttar Pradesh government has now ordered a judici...

17Aug

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India

INDIA: THIS IS YOUR ARMY

NOVANEWS This is your Army Mr Chidambaram! Rajeesh | August 16, 2010 at 10:42 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1TL (And the people belong to this country) by Reyaz-ul-Haq [Translated by Priyanka Srivastava, Sanhati] A picture could very well be a tide turner. The one image that makes a nation sit up, shake itself off its torpor and ask itself, how much more of this repetitive official nonsense can we accept and justify in our quest to become a developed nation and overlook the rampant denial of due process and decency. A picture can be a conscience raiser, the final straw, the one blow that cuts up the fine line between what a civil society will accept and outright barbarism. Not too many people remember the name of Nguyen Ngoc Loan. But a lot...

17Aug

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India

INDIAN COMMISSION FIRST REPORT ON DEMONSTRATION

NOVANEWS First Report on Demonstration at Indian High Commission - London 15th August 2010 Rajeesh | August 16, 2010 at 10:40 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1TC Democracy and Class struggle The protest at the Indian High Commission in London on the 15th August 2010 attracted hundreds of people. There were Kashmiri's, Sikhs, Sri Lankans and Nepalese and other Indian nationalities present at the protest. There were also representatives of progressive organisations in Britain all protesting Indian Expansionism and Operation Green Hunt and the murder of Comrade Azad spokesperson of the CPI Maoist and Hem Pandey a progressive journalist by the murderous comprador Indian state. The protest organised on India's National Day exposed the crimes of th...

15Aug

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Pakistan & Kashmir

PROTEST AGAINST INDIAN OCCUPATION

NOVANEWS The Gathering Storm of Mass Protest against Indian Occupation in Kshmir Rajeesh | August 15, 2010 | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1Tu August 14, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/world/asia/13kashmir.html Indian Forces Face Broader Revolt in Kashmir By LYDIA POLGREEN SRINAGAR, Kashmir — Late Sunday night, after six days on life support with a bullet in his brain, Fida Nabi, a 19-year-old high school student, was unhooked from his ventilator at a hospital here. Mr. Nabi was the 50th person to die in Kashmir’s bloody summer of rage. He had been shot in the head, his family and witnesses said, during a protest against India’s military presence in this disputed province. For decades, India maintained hundreds of thousands of security f...

15Aug

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India

INDIA: ANTI-DISPLACEMENT LEADER DIED IN JUDICIAL CUSTODY

NOVANEWS Anti-Displacement Leader Madan Kalundia Dies in Judicial Custody Rajeesh | August 15, 2010 at 8:13 am | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1Tp Source: Face Book Madan Kalundia, a leader of anti-displacement movement of Kalinganagar (Odisha), died on August 3, 2010 in judicial custody. Death of Com. Madan in judicial custody has come as a part of the Govt. Admn.-police attempt to crush the anti-displacement struggle of tribals against TATAs. His death is a telling story of the criminal disregard of basic rights of the people by not only the police and admn. but even judiciary in the service of corporates. Hundreds of tribals have been thrown out of jobs in the industries of the area for refusing to leave their land for TATAs. Leaders and activists of ...

15Aug

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Afghanistan, Iraq

SERIAL DENIAL ON IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN

NOVANEWS August 13, 2010 by Michael Leon - The Permanent War System Rolls On - By Gareth Porter Two months ago, I wrote that the Obama administration and the U.S. command in Afghanistan faced an “Iraq 2006 moment” in the second half of 2010 – a collapse of domestic political support for a failed war paralleling the political crisis in Bush’s Iraq War in 2006. Now comes Republican Congressman Frank Wolf to make that parallel with 2006 eerily precise. Wolf published a letter to President Obama last week calling for the immediate establishment of an “Afghanistan-Pakistan Study Group”. It would be the son of the Iraq Study Group. Wolf is the Congressman who authored the legislation in 2005 creating the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group to come up with fresh ideas for that failing war. ...

15Aug

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Iran

IRAN & THE ZIO=NAZI AGRESSION

NOVANEWS Mainstreaming Vicious Agression by Israel on Iran August 12, 2010 by Michael Leon - Propaganda is a military operation needed is some Western countries where political expression is still formally protected - Glenn Greenwald offers a case study in Salon examning Jeffrey Goldberg’s piece in The Atlantic. No one not already supporting militaristic Zionism could actually read Goldberg’s piece without smiling. You would think Jeffrey Goldberg’s credibility would be shot for the same reason that Dick Cheney and Condi Rice are about as believable as the infamous fabulists, Stephen Glass and Jason Blair. But Goldberg fits the bill perfectly for this phase of the next imbecilic war: Israel killing 1,000s in Iran to destroy non-existent atomic weapons of mass destruction that Israel mai...

15Aug

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Iraq

COUNTER-INSURGENCY

NOVANEWS Counter-Insurgency (COIN) Using Power or Prudence? August 12, 2010 by Michael Leon Psychological impact of terrorism on target population.- Counter-insurgency (COIN) against the terrorists, whether Iraqis or Afghanis, who were essentially George Bush’s military targets, and one has reasons to believe that Obama is now contemplating targeting Iran to add special feather to his cap to earn the second term in the Presidential elections - By Dr. S.M. Rahman Terrorism abhors power. It tends to even multiply, contrary to the US predilection to eradicate every single Al-Qaeda-brand ‘terrorist’ besides the hard-core Taliban, who are considered potential threat to US security and dread, perhaps a replay of 9/11 type tragedy. The limits of military power has been heroically demonstra...

15Aug

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India

INDIA: SUPERBUG ?

NOVANEWS India rejects ‘superbug’ claims August 13, 2010 by Michael Leon NDM-1, Superbug - A study in The Lancet, a British medical journal, said that a newfound NDM-1 bacteria, or New Delhi metallo-lactamase-1, is a new type of antibiotic-resistant bug that had been carried from India to the UK. By Al Jazerra India has forcefully stated that its hospitals are safe after researchers said that medical tourists to the country had caught a new “superbug”. Some Indian politicians on Thursday said that there is a conspiracy against the country’s rising medical tourism industry. A study in The Lancet, a British medical journal, said that a newfound NDM-1 bacteria, or New Delhi metallo-lactamase-1, is a new type of antibiotic-resistant bug that had been carried from India to the UK. The jou...