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NOVANEWS By Bill Hare 09/02/2010 One of the grave tragedies of our times is how Iraqi deaths receive no accountability.  This occurs at the point where President Obama and others hold the U.S. out as a major source to achieve global stability.   The question is this:  How can the U.S. hold itself out as a guardian of peace and security when the subject of Iraqi deaths extending from that first "shock and awe" aerial assault to the present is ignored?   It should be recalled that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld sought to assure Americans that newly developed U.S. "smart bombs" would penetrate the forces of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein but would bypass Iraq's citizenry. As for the U.S. dodging accountability, a comment made by General Colin Powell in the aftermath of the earlier Gulf W...

NOVANEWS September 1, 2010 by John Allen Abbas and Netanyahu  By Alan Hart — My Catbird Seat I never thought a day could come when I would agree with anything stated by Moshe Arens (three times an Israeli minister of defense, a one-time foreign minister, a former ambassador to the U.S. and, in my opinion, Zionism’s in-Israel equivalent of Richard “Prince of Darkness” Perle in America). But the day came. On 31 August, in article for Ha’aretz with the headline Blame game on the horizon. Arens wrote the following about the nakedness of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as he was making his final preparations for the start of direct negotiations in Washington DC. “He does not have the backing of all Palestinians, not even of most of them. As far as Hamas is concerned, he has no right to...

The State and Local Bases of Zionist Power in America September 1, 2010 by John Allen  By James Petras Introduction Any serious effort to understand the extraordinary influence of the Zionist power configuration over US foreign policy must examine the presence of key operatives in strategic positions in the government andlocal Zionist organizations affiliated with mainstream Jewish organizations and religious orders.   There are at least 52 major American Jewish-Zionist organizations actively engaged in promoting Israel’s foreign policy, economic and technological agenda in the US (see the appendix).  The grassroots membership ranges from several hundred thousand militants in the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) to one hundred thousand wealthy contributors, activists and po...

NOVANEWS PRESIDENT OBAMA’S REBRANDED OCCUPATION OF IRAQ September 1, 2010  by Robert L. Hanafin Yesterday prior to President Obama’s speech on the so-called End of U.S. Combat in Iraq (that remains to be seen when dead American troops stop returning home in flag draped caskets), I posted the views of several Military Family and Veteran Peace groups, plus one moderate young Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans group VoteVets. Now that the media pundits have had their shot at blessing Obama’s speech and take on re-branding the occupation of Iraq just in time for the November 2010 elections, the Obama administration and Democrats in general will find themselves in a damned if we don’t and damned if we do scenario come the mid-term Congressional elections. It is already a fact that Obama’s popula...

Rabbi Bruce Warshal: Shame on America, Jews and the ADL September 1, 2010 by Michael Leon     - The last word was recently written by Daniel Luban, a doctoral student at the University of Chicago, in Tablet Magazine: “While activists like Pam Geller have led the anti-mosque campaign and the broader demonization of Muslims that has accompanied it, leaders like Abe Foxman have acquiesced in it.  In doing so they risk providing an ugly and ironic illustration of the extent of Jewish assimilation in 21st-century America.  We know that Jews can grow up to be senators and Supreme Court justices.  Let’s not also discover that they can grow up to incite a pogrom.” - Shame on America, Jews and the ADL by Rabbi Bruce Warshal The Florida Jewish Journal To begin, the mosque controversy does not i...

NOVANEWS KEN O’KEEFE VIDEO: MARINE VET TALKS ABOUT 9/11 AND AMERICA’S ROLE IN THE WORLD September 1, 2010  by Gordon Duff   KEN O'KEEFE the world according to ken o’keefe…..an amazing video By Gordon Duff Senior Editor  My good friend and fellow Veterans Today staff writer, Ken O’Keefe, gives his views on America’s role in the world and how media manipulation is destroying, not only the American democracy, but endangering the world.  YouTube - Veterans Today -  

  NOVANEWS   How to be a Muzzler. More Recent Articles Search MuzzleWatch How to be a Muzzler. The sad case of Iman Rauf is bringing the practice of muzzling to a much wider audience. The potential target is literally concrete: a thirteen story building rather than someone’s job or right to speak. And the victim, is unusually well connected, an envoy of the US Government. But the process is much the same. So for all the people who’ve joined us late, it would be a good time to write the definitive guide to “muzzling” debate on the Israeli Palestinian conflict. First, pick someone whose crime is not their outlandish views, but their very reasonableness. A few out-of -context quotes, and that very reasonableness can appear sinister, evidence of a hidden agenda! Second, in ad...

NOVANEWS By crescentandcross Categories: Uncategorized A young cowboy from Texas goes off to college. Half way through the semester, he has foolishly squandered all his money. He calls home.  ”Dad,” he says, “You won’t believe what modern education is developing! They actually have a program here in Austin that will teach our dog, Ol’ Blue how to talk!”  ”That’s amazing,” his Dad says. “How do I get Ol’ Blue in that program?”  ”Just send him down here with $1,000″ the young cowboy says. “I’ll get him in the course.”  So, his father sends the dog and $1,000.  About two-thirds of the way through the semester, the money again runs out.. The boy calls home.  ”So how’s Ol’ Blue doing son?” his father asks.  ”Awesome, Dad, he’s talking up a storm,” he says, “but you just won’t believe this – the...

NOVANEWS August 31, 2010 by Michael Leon   By Markos Moulitsas Conservatives say a lot of ridiculous things. But few were more ridiculous than the repeated claims that liberals were in league with Islamic terrorists. Why would we make common cause with terrorists? The values and tactics that make Jihadists so despicable are the same values and tactics embraced by our own homegrown fundamentalists — the American Taliban. That’s why I wrote the book American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right. In the book, I show how similar both the American Taliban and Islamic Jihadists are — from their fetishization of violence and guns, to their love of theocracy, to their hatred of women and gays, to their fear of scientific progress and education, to their w...

NOVANEWS Fox News, evil and stupid? Jon Stewart looks at Ground Zero mosque Fox funding—Funny and True August 29, 2010 by Michael Leon - With blazing brilliance, this half-comedian, half-social critic continues his run at being America’s anecdote to the utter vacuity permeating our political culture - By Brendan Patrick Keane at The Keane Edge Jon Stewart is the only pundit to take-on the question of the Ground Zero mosque‘s funding with anything like detail. The mosque is being funded in-part, by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal who is also a major shareholder in Fox News Corporation. Other benefactors of the poorly placed mosque project are unknown and will remain so, according to organizers. This means the media outlet most critical of building the mosque on top of a site destroyed b...