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NOVANEWS Iraq and Afghan War Vets Defend ‘Ground Zero’ Muslim Community Center August 27, 2010  by Michael Leon By Ernest A. Canning  at the Brad Blog “The terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 do not represent Islam. Far better representatives of Islam are the over 100 Muslims who died at work in the towers that day. No one need apologize for Islam.”—Hal Donahue, VoteVets.org Seeing it as part of their duty to support and defend the Constitution and dismayed by the “toxic effect” of the never-ending “war on terror” upon our society by the process of “dehumanization” which has created “a propensity to violence, a devaluing of others, even our own citizens, and a decided lack of empathy,” VoteVet.org, a nation-wide group of veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is circulating an “...

NOVANEWS Mossad in America 27 August 2010  by Philip Giraldi Israeli intelligence steps up its activity in the U.S. — and gets away with it. 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 inside America’s domestic infrastructure: airline and telecommunications security. Israel is believed to have the ability to monitor near...

NOVANEWS “Anti-Zionists” scare volunteer soldier More Recent Articles Search MuzzleWatch “Anti-Zionists” scare volunteer soldier I subscribe to the American Jewish Committee’s newsletter, and it’s an itneresting window into their psychology. As readers of this blog know, involving oneself in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict invariably provokes strong reaction. My perception is that you are at much greater risk of your job if you are seen as “taking the side” of Palestinians, say if you are a respected journalist. The American Jewish Committee though is not interested in such victims of the conflict, and certainly has not spoken out against the economic blockade of Gaza or people like Abdallah Abu Rahme who are imprisoned for the “crime” of organi- zing peaceful protests. So wh...

NOVANEWS Army colonel in Afghanistan fired for criticizing PowerPoint August 27, 2010  by Michael Leon And now NATO has fired a colonel serving as a staff officer in Afghanistan for daring to criticize the most important tool we have in the fight against insurgents: PowerPoint. - By John Cook In Afghanistan, loose lips sink careers, it seems: First, commanding general Stanley McChrystal got the boot for speaking too freely about his Commander in Chief. And now NATO has fired a colonel serving as a staff officer in Afghanistan for daring to criticize the most important tool we have in the fight against insurgents: PowerPoint. Wired’s Spencer Ackerman reports that Col. Lawrence Sellin, a 61-year-old Army reservist, has been dismissed from his post in headquarters with NATO’s  Internation...

NOVANEWS I've read in a couple of places now that Obama has written to Ab-A$$ telling him that he has to attend talks with Zionist so as to make it look like there's a peace process processing. Apparently this will legitimise the conquest of the bits of Palestine that haven't already been conquered by Zionists. Let's see what the Daily Telegraph says about this: After months of placing the onus on Israel to lay the groundwork for new negotiations, Mr Obama's decision to change tack represents a desperate bid to salvage the long-stalled peace process from total collapse. In a letter delivered to Mahmoud Ab-A$$, the Palestinian leader, two weeks ago, the US president said he expected objections to direct talks to be dropped by early August, according to a version leaked to the pan-Arab n...

NOVANEWS President Obama to Travel to Fort Bliss, Texas and Address the Nation on the Iraq War August 25, 2010  by Michael Leon   On Tuesday, August 31, 2010, President Obama will travel to Fort Bliss, Texas, where he will meet with troops. The President will also address the nation on Iraq from the Oval Office at 8 p.m. EST. Some 60 days out from the mid-term elections, the address offers the administration a chance to reconnect with its base, an anti-interventionist segment of the American population that has lately come to the conclusion that Obama has jettisoned them in exchange for an unclear agenda in service to unknown constituencies. Look for the nationally televised speech to serve as an aggressive kick-off to the November elections as the Obama team delivers on its promise to...

NOVANEWS August 25, 2010  by Gordon Duff   TERROR MOSQUE FUNDER AND FOX NEWS OWNER WITH RUPERT MURDOCH, HIS BUSINESS PARTNER JON STEWART CATCHES FOX NEWS IN THE LIE OF THE CENTURY  By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor “Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!” Sir Walter Scott  Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17. Scottish author & novelist (1771 – 1832)  Jon Stewart demands that Americans to stop watching Fox News as the only way to cut off the revenue stream to “these bad dudes.”  The Kingdom Foundation, funder of the Ground Zero Mosque is run by Alwaleed bin Talal, largest shareholder in Fox News.     Fox News owner Alwaleed bin Talal, who, according to Fox News, has ties to terrorist organizations and the Iranian government, also owns, of course, Fox News a...

NOVANEWS With a few small exceptions I think that this article hits the nail on the head. Racheli. Steven Salaita, The Electronic Intifada, 26 August 2010 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11490.shtml Israel has been subject to some bad publicity recently. In 2008-09, it launched a brutal military campaign in the Gaza Strip that killed more than 400 Palestinian children. In May 2010, bumbling Israeli commandos murdered nine nonviolence activists on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla's Mavi Marmara. It only got worse for Israel when it was revealed that soldiers stole and sold personal items such as laptops from the ship. Last week, former Israeli soldier Eden Abergil posted photos onto Facebook showing her preening in front of blindfolded and despondent Palestinian prisoners, in some instance...

NOVANEWS Dear ,   "Hey, Congress, trim the fat!" Barney Frank wants to save billions. Will you help?   We could cut over $960 billion from the Department of Defense and be just as safe as we are now. Perhaps even safer. With the national debt continuing to soar, unemployment teetering around 10 percent and the threat of a double-dip recession hovering, the last thing we need is for a government bureaucracy rife with inefficiencies to continue costing us billions of dollars with no overhaul in sight. But there is another way. Led by Congressmen Barney Frank and Ron Paul, a bipartisan group in Congress is demanding an honest look at military spending without sacrificing our safety. The good news? Over $960 billion could be cut without endangering our current safegu...

NOVANEWS  WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Declassified files from a Senate investigation into Israeli-funded covert public relations and lobbying activity in the United States were released by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) on July 23rd, 2010.  The subpoenaed documents reveal Israel's clandestine programs for "cultivation of editors," the "stimulation and placement of suitable articles in the major consumer magazines" as well as U.S. reporting about sensitive subjects such as the Dimona nuclear weapons facility. Documents are now available for download from http://IRmep.org/ila/azc include: Dimona (excerpt): "The nuclear reactor story inspired comment from many sources; editorial writers, columnists, science writers and cartoonists.  Most of the pr...