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4Aug

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Far East

Thailand: West Prepares Ground For Regime Change,

NOVANEWS By Tony Cartalucci Land Destroyer Report Featured image: The “two horsemen of US regime change,” US Senator’s John McCain and Joseph Lieberman, appear and surround the US proxies of choice ahead of any US-backed attempt to destabilize and overthrow a sovereign nation. Here they lend support to Yingluck Shinawatra ahead of her anticipated ousting from power in 2014. Efforts are now underway to have her and the party she represents placed back into power. (Source: Land Destroyer Report) Ahead of a pivotal court case in Thailand, US interests – both political and across the media – are preparing the grounds for the next round of foreign-backed destabilization. Efforts to reinstall US proxies into power in Thailand is part of a larger effort to transform Southeast Asia i...

4Jul

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Far East

Empire Files: The Roots of the Philippines Trafficking Epidemic

NOVANEWS By Abby Martin In this sequel to "The Empire Files'" report on trafficked Filipina domestic workers, Damayan's Linda Oalican provides a deeper context to the epidemic of human trafficking by guiding us through the history of colonialism, resistance and US domination of the islands. From the centuries of Spanish rule and decades of US brutality, through the evisceration of the Philippine economy, this episode is a must-watch primer on why human beings are now the nation's top export. Watch Part I here.

26Jun

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Far East, USA

Vietnam: Hearts and Minds ‘VIDEO’

NOVANEWS Hearts and Minds (Peter davis, 1974) Hearts and Minds is a 1974 American documentary film about the Vietnam War directed by Peter Davis. The film’s title is based on a quote from President Lyndon B. Johnson: “the ultimate victory will depend on the hearts and minds of the people who actually live out there”. The movie was chosen as Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 47th Academy Awards presented in 1975.

5Jun

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Parliament Secretariat: Deuba Sole Nepali PM Candidate

NOVANEWS Deuba previously served as prime minister from 1995 to 1997, 2001 to 2002 and 2004 to 2005. | Photo: Reuters When the deadline expired on Saturday, Deuba was the only candidate to have filed his nomination for candidacy. On Sunday the president of the Nepali Congress party Sher Bahadur Deuba was the sole candidate contesting the position of prime minister. RELATED: Nepal Holds First Local Election in 20 Years According to Xinhua, all nominees were required to register candidacy at the parliament secretariat by Saturday. But, after the deadline expired, Deuba was found to be the only candidate to have filed his nomination. An official statement from the secretariat confirmed that Deuba will be the only candidate in the prime minister race on Sunday. Deuba ...

3Jun

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Why is ISIS Operating in the Philippines?

NOVANEWS By Stephen Lendman Global Research In response to violence allegedly instigated by ISIS in the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law in Mindanao, imposed military rule, and threatened to extend it nationwide to defeat the threat. What’s going on? Why did ISIS begin operating in the Philippines? Weeks after taking office in mid-2016, Duterte blasted Western imperial Middle East policies, saying the Obama administration and Britain “destroyed the (region)…forc(ing) their way into Iraq and kill(ing) Saddam.” “Look at Iraq now. Look what happened to Libya. Look what happened to Syria.” He blasted former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for failing to act responsibly against what’s gone on for years – on the phony pretext of humanitarian interventi...

17May

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Far East, USA

US-Backed Regime Change in Thailand: When Warning Bells Should Go Off

NOVANEWS By Tony Cartalucci Land Destroyer Report It is unfortunate that despite the practice of Western-backed color revolutions becoming a widely familiar tactic exposed across the alternative media including larger national networks like RT – ideology, emotions, and ignorance are still being used to perpetuate this tactic in the service of Western special interests. More unfortunate still is that occasionally the alternative media charged with exposing these tactics ends up an unwitting accomplice because of sloppy research, emotions, and ideology taking over where realism, fact, and solid research should guide headlines and analysis. Not only is Western-backed regime change still being carried out on well-known battlefields like Syria, it is a tactic the West has aimed ...

10Feb

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Far East, USA

A Deadly Legacy: The CIA’s Covert Laos War

NOVANEWS By Don North Consortium News In the first of many mistakes of the Vietnam War, President Dwight Eisenhower said in 1954, “You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over quickly.” CIA pilots and crews prepare to re-arm a T-28 bomber for bombing missions on Laos 1964. By January 1961, Eisenhower had warned his successor John F. Kennedy that Laos was the most pressing foreign policy issue in the world and he had initiated Operation Momentum in Laos, for the CIA to train and arm a small force of Hmong tribesmen to fight the communist Pathet Lao and their North Vietnamese supporters. But history would prove the “domino theory” in Southeast Asia was a misconception of tragic p...

23Dec

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Asia, Far East

Burma: Govt Investigation Commission Concludes First Trip to Arakan State

NOVANEWS Arakan State Investigation Commission members By THE IRRAWADDY RANGOON — A government commission examining a series of militant attacks and human rights violations by security forces in northern Arakan State wrapped up their first investigation trip to the area on Tuesday. The Arakan State Investigation Commission, led by Burma’s military-appointed vice president U Myint Swe, toured villages in Maungdaw Township on Sunday. They visited the police outposts that were attacked by militants on Oct. 9 and Muslim villages where rights groups have reported that abuses including rape, extrajudicial killings and arson were committed by government troops. The 13-member commission was formed in earlier this month by Burma’s President U Htin Kyaw to look into the causes of attacks ...

23Dec

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Arakan Attacks Linked to Group in Saudi Arabia

NOVANEWS By THE IRRAWADDY RANGOON — The International Crisis Group (ICG) said that militant attacks in northern Arakan State were linked to a Muslim insurgent group based in Mecca, Saudi Arabia and were aiming to secure the rights of the Rohingya as citizens within Burma. In an article published in Time magazine on Tuesday, the ICG said that a group called Harakah al-Yaqin, or “Faith Movement” in Arabic, was involved in the attacks against Burma government forces in Arakan State in October and November, based on interviews the ICG conducted with members of the armed group. “This new armed group is overseen by a committee of Rohingya émigrés based in Mecca. The public face of its operations in northern Arakan, also called Rakhine, is Ata Ullah (known by several aliases), who is th...

30Nov

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The West’s War on Thailand’s Next King

NOVANEWS By Tony Cartalucci Global Research The first fatal mistake Western observers make when attempting to describe Thailand’s monarchy is comparing it to European, or worse yet, Arabian institutions. It is neither. With the passing of the universally revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej and the upcoming coronation of his successor, Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, Western observers are indulging deeply in this mistake once again – many doing so intentionally for politically-motivated reasons. Thailand, a nation of nearly 70 million people, and a significant political, military, and economic power in Southeast Asia, remains the only nation in the region to avoid colonization by European powers. It managed this through the leadership of its monarchs and the unity they have historicall...