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NOVANEWS August 28, 2010 by Michael Leon   By Robert Greenwald August 28th is an important day in American history. On that day, forty-seven years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream Speech” at the Lincoln Memorial. His message gave voice to the voiceless and his vision promoted a just, equal, diverse and compassionate country. This year, a very different message is going to be spread from the very ground on which King once stood. Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin will hold a rally at the Lincoln Memorial. The racist, raging and hate-filled tenor of Beck, Palin and the Tea Party movement is in direct contrast to the noble vision of Dr. King. We cannot sit idly by and let King’s vision and legacy be hijacked for political purposes. Dr. King once declared that “Our ...

NOVANEWS Viet Vets of America Slams CIA stonewalling in lawsuit on experiments on troops August 28, 2010  by Michael Leon - “Even more unbelievably, it appears that defendants have yet to search even the most obvious location for documents — Edgewood Arsenal itself,” the motion states, referring to the location northeast of Baltimore where the experiments are said to have been carried out. - By Daniel Tencer in Raw Story An advocacy group working on behalf of Vietnam veterans has asked a federal judge in California to sanction the CIA, saying the spy agency has been blocking efforts to uncover its role in alleged experiments on US soldiers from the 1950s to 1970s. The Vietnam Veterans of America filed a lawsuit on behalf of six Vietnam War veterans in January, 2009, claiming that the CI...

NOVANEWS   Nashid Abdul Khaaliq of www.ascertainthetruth.comn returns to the program with our promised discussion of Zio=Nazi involvement in 9/11.

NOVANEWS The American Selective Sensitivity to the Mosque and Israel August 28, 2010  by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat   Or Could the American Sensitivity be the Selective Type? By Dr. Ashraf Ezzat    Arabic and Islamic"Sacred Noble Sanctuary"in Palestine under Israeli occupation. Since the beginning of the period of decolonization, settlers have no longer been able to simply say: ‘We came, we won and now we are here’ the way the Americans, the whites in South Africa and the Australians said. This way of taking over somebody else’s land by brute force was becoming extinct. It was becoming historically unaccepted and outdated. But the Zionists did not think so, all they had in mind was this crazy dream of establishing a home land for the Zionists and in fulfilling that end any means was unquestionably...

NOVANEWS Twenty-eight-year-old Army veteran killed, officer wounded in Salt Lake City shootout August 28, 2010 by Michael Leon -  Salt Lake City prosecutor Sim Gill, who recently started a program to help veterans who have minor brushes with the law get the mental health treatment they need, said the Friday incident is evidence of the pain soldiers often carry home from war. - By Matthew D. LaPlante, Sheena McFarland and Lindsay Whitehurst on the The Salt Lake Tribune He was dressed for war. And he died in a hail of gunfire. But the battlefield upon which Brandon S. Barrett waged his final fight was not in a distant, dangerous place, but rather, it would appear, in his own mind. In a situation that has become disturbingly frequent across the United States, an armed soldier squared off a...

NOVANEWS McCain Was Dishonest Flip-Flopper on Martin Luther King Day August 28, 2010 by Michael Leon   Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) - A crook and liar As we mark the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” address, it’s not surprising to find that John McCain opposed making Martin Luther King day a federal holiday. It’s even less of a surprise that McCain lied and weaseled about his stance in a pathetic display of dishonesty that even McCain must have blushed. Well, let’s not go too far. But John McCain’s fetid political career does manage to offend on multiple levels, spanning decades. See Jeff Gates’ 15-part series illustrating who and what John McCain is at: A closer look at evil.   From the April 03, 2008 Crooks and Liars, two words that aptly describe John McCain. By John...

NOVANEWS Sign VoteVets Letter on the Muslim Community Center August 27, 2010 by Robert L. Hanafin Iraq War Veteran and Chairman of VoteVets.org Jon Soltz contacted Veterans Today and asked us to forward this letter from Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans who are in favor of the controversial Muslim Community Center being planned near ground zero in New York. Although Jon and I do not see eye to eye on every socio-economic, religious or political issue, several points raised by Jon warrant a closer look, because WE are on the same page: 1. We at Veterans Today have no problem with anyone following the money trail to determine IF planners of the Muslim Community Center, especially fund raisers have ties with Muslim extremists groups. However, 2. The longer this controversy drags on the m...

NOVANEWS Poll: Muslims Give Obama Highest Approval, Mormons Give the Lowest August 27, 2010 by Michael Leon Obama approval by religion - Mormons give 24-percent approval rating, Muslims 78, Jews 61 - Via the Political Wire - Gallup: “Among major religious groups in the United States, Muslims give President Obama the highest average approval ratings and Mormons, the lowest. Jews and those with no religious identity rate Obama higher than the national average, while Protestants’ ratings are below average, and Catholics’ near the average.” From Gallup: In addition to Muslims, Obama receives above-average ratings among Jews, those who identify with other non-Christian religious groups, and those with no formal religious identity. Obama gets lower-than-average ratings among Protestants. Cat...

NOVANEWS DoD Suicide Task Force Contradicts Army Findings August 27, 2010 by Michael Leon   Veteran Suicide Prevention Hotline - One suicide every 36 hours - Contradicting  the U.S. Army’s suicide prevention report, an independent DoD report released this week failed to place the blame for servicemembers’ and veterans’ suicide rate on ”high risk behavior” at home, implicating the suicide victims themselves.  Instead, the DoD Task Force on the Prevention of Suicide by Members of the Armed Forces’ report [see exec summary] listed 13 foundational recommendations utilizing a “comprehensive public health approach” as a guiding principle vis a vis last month’s Army’s report which as veterans’ advocate, Steve Robinson said points to “a lack of moral character, and a lack of intestinal fortitude...

NOVANEWS PHILIP GIRALDI: Israeli Mossad Spying in America August 27, 2010  by Michael Leon    We have spies among us   - Israeli intelligence steps up its activity in the U.S. — and gets away with it. By Philip Giraldi - From the American Conservative via My Catbirdseat Israeli government claims that it does not spy on the United States are intended for the media and popular consumption. The reality is that Israel’s intelligence agencies target the United States intensively, particularly in pursuit of military and dual-use civilian technology. Among nations considered to be friendly to Washington, Israel leads all others in its active espionage directed against American companies and the Defense Department. It also dominates two commercial sectors that enable it to extend its reach insid...