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NOVANEWS PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE, THE AMERICAN PRESS August 15, 2010 by Gordon Duff   STEALING AMERICA’S FREEDOMS LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT… By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor It’s 2010 and a few members of congress have noted that we have a corruption problem in Afghanistan.  Over a period of 9 years. $2.4 trillion dollars has been stolen with a dozen enquiries, dozens of reports, audits, all saying the same thing.  The “war on terror” was more “pickpocketing” and not so much “Osama bin Waldo.”  It’s 2010 and reports are trickling in that, just maybe, terrorist mastermind Osama has been dead for years and years.  More reports tell us, finally, that he never ran a terror organization at all.   For years, all those threats from a dead man.  What a pack of fools we are.  Remember P...

NOVANEWS Waterboarding and Rendition? Old Hat for CIA Global Police State By Bill Hare 08/13/2010 Shock resounded through America when it was learned that waterboarding and rendition were among the international crimes being conducted on the pretext of fighting the war on terror. The 9/11 tragedies had been used in addition to generating the Iraq War to justify virtually any action, no matter how contrary to the U.S. Constitution and international law.   The government run by executive office signing statements engaged in  preventive detention, electronic surveillance and dropping into residences when the occupants are out, all without court orders. There was even the removal of materials to be later used as evidence without legal remedy based on these home invasions, the same province ...

NOVANEWS August 6, 2010  by Michael Leon Police Fascism - AP Photo/Cheryl Senter - Gratuitous brutality by police invariably ends with an arrest, often based on bogus charges. Even when they are videoed committing their crimes, few police officers are fired, or even disciplined, as we lead the world by far in jailing our citizens - By Name withheld “I’LL BEAT THE SH-T  OUTTA  ANY TWO SWABBIES IN THIS JOINT,” screamed my Gator teammate and ex-paratrooper, Tony, to about 300 sailors in the all-night restaurant called Salty’s. Tony was a well-muscled offensive guard, who was always offensive and always guarded his ego with his life. “You stupid sh-t,” I muttered to Tony. “The Shore Patrol and cops will be here in less than 60 seconds. I’ve had it with your cheap ass.” And as I busted out of...

NOVANEWS August 12, 2010  by John Allen   Terrorist Deceptions Will Try to Overpower Your Mind Heavy War Chatter Coming to America By Tommy Tucci Philadelphia, PA, August 2010……  For the fearful and the Naive Global Citizenry Heavy War Chatter Coming to America. “Controversial billboard comparing the “change” of U.S. President Barack Obama with Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin raised a few eyebrows before it was papered over one day after it appeared in Mason City, Iowa.” (Posted by Cristopher Bollyn) Terrorist Deceptions Will Overpower You American underachievers self admitted FAILURES.  Mentally over-medicated on shill pills and physically repulsive on $10 figure bonus checks greed.  Their dereliction of duty has accelerated America into the greatest ‘Too Big To Fail’ criminal empire i...

NOVANEWS Officials for War Crimes Iraq Veterans Against the War Calls for Prosecution of Bush Administration Officials for War Crimes August 10, 2010  by Michael Leon New York, NY – At its seventh annual national convention in Austin, Texas, IVAW called for the prosecution of senior Bush administration officials for allegedly conspiring to manipulate intelligence in order to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq. IVAW alleges that Bush administration officials conspired to create the perception that Saddam Hussein presented an imminent threat to the United States in order to bypass an uncooperative U.N. Security Council and secure a congressional Authorization for Use of Military Force against Iraq.  The growing body of evidence, including testimony from British officials in the ongoing C...

NOVANEWS WHY AMERICANS ARE EXPORTING THEMSELVES August 10, 2010  by Gordon Duff IT MAY BE THE LAND OF THE “24 HOUR WALMART” BUT IS IT STILL AMERICA? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Americans are terrible at languages.  I have one friend whose English is questionable, you know who you are, but who speaks Japanese.  Another, Mark Siljander, speaks 11 languages.  I can be misunderstood in several, even, perhaps especially English.  So, when Americans chose to live overseas, it is often a huge inconvenience.  It isn’t just language.  Americans give up cheap gas, OK, not that cheap anymore, cheap food and conveniences found almost no place else, give them up but are still leaving in droves.  Places like Panama and Costa Rica are becoming unaffordable, so many Americans are either m...

NOVANEWS Obama vs. Obama on Endless Wars: Who Wins? (VIDEO) August 10, 2010  by Michael Leon - Back in early 2007, when the Bush administration was insisting that its military intervention in a faraway land was not open-ended, Senator Barack Obama wasn’t buying it. - From the Huffington Post: I’m thinking Senator Obama beats President Obama on facts, logic and coherance of argument. Back in early 2007, when the Bush administration was insisting that its military intervention in a faraway land was not open-ended, Senator Barack Obama wasn’t buying it. So the freshman from Illinois used then-secretary of state Condoleeza Rice’s appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as an opportunity to raise some probing questions about the exit strategy from Iraq. Senator Obama was parti...

NOVANEWS How the Military Destroys the Lives of Soldiers Who Try to Tell the Truth August 11, 2010  by Michael Leon     - Bradley Manning is not the first military whistleblower to have his life ruined. The military is infamous for trying to silence soldiers who speak out against the war. - By Justine Sharrock in AlterNet Last week, Representative Mike Rogers called for the execution of military whistleblower, Private Bradley Manning. His crime? Sharing the “Collateral Murder” video and the classified Afghanistan “war logs” with Wikileaks, which exposed the truth behind the failing war in Afghanistan, Pakistan’s cooperation with the Taliban, and potential war crimes. The 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst said he felt it was “important that it gets out…I feel, for some bizarre reason…i...

NOVANEWS I realized that I had never taken the trouble to read through Walt-Mearsheimer. So I wandered through their LRB essay. Their evidence is interesting, and proves beyond a doubt that there is an Israel Lobby in the United States. But their conceptual framework is ridiculous, and their notion of how American foreign policy operates dead wrong. Take the conceptual framework, which stipulates a “national interest,” from which the Israel Lobby causes American foreign policy to deviate. Is there a national interest (no quotation marks)? Undoubtedly—Americans have a national interest in avoiding global warming, and in a national healthcare system. Palestinians have a national interest in national liberation. There is a common-sense national interest, the shared interests an impartial obse...