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NOVANEWS Dear , Thanks to your phone calls, emails and strong support, Congress finally did what they were supposed to! Yesterday, Congress passed a $26 billion dollar state-aid bill that will save over 300,000 teachers' jobs while keeping thousands of first-responders on call to keep you safe in an emergency.Not only is this bill important to keep emergency services up and running in key states but it also puts teachers back in the classroom as public schools gear up for opening another school year. This is the kind of action we expect from Congress. It's a prime example of what happens when we all speak as one. And we want to keep the pressure on. If you'd like to see more of these type of victories, we need your help to keep our own emergency services up and running. https://secure.tru...

NOVANEWS The Hidden Tragedy of the CIA’s Experiments on Children August 12, 2010  by Michael Leon    (Image: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: L'Ubuesque Boîte à Savon, Humayunn N A Peerzaada)   - From early 1940 to 1953, Dr. Lauretta Bender, a highly respected child neuropsychiatrist practicing at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, experimented extensively with electroshock therapy on children who had been diagnosed with “autistic schizophrenia.” In all, it has been reported that Bender administered electroconvulsive therapy to at least 100 children ranging in age from three years old to 12 years, with some reports indicating the total may be twice that number. - by: H.P. Albarelli Jr. and Dr. Jeffrey S. Kaye, t r u t h o u t  Investigative Report Bobby is seven years old, but this...

NOVANEWS New 9/11 3D Analysis Suggests Top Secret Device Hit World Trade Center August 12, 2010  by Johnny Punish Analysis by Non-Commissioned Investigator Shows Plane Footage Doctored Up to Hide Clandestine Remote Controlled Anti-Gravity Ball Hitting World Trade Center Building 2 Disclaimer: Veterans Today does NOT endorse the conclusions in the video posted below. The post merely presents the questions and asks for readers to participate. Yesterday Richard D. Hall posted his new 3-D video analysis of 9/11 showing that a top secret anti-gravity vehicle that hit World Trade Center Building 2. Almost 10 years on, with no clear explanation why Building 7 collapsed after not being hit by anything but underground media scrutiny, we all seem to feel that something does NOT fit.   9/11 just d...

NOVANEWS Fareed Zakaria’s dramatic rebuke of the Anti-Defamation League’s bigotry August 9, 2010  by Michael Leon  ADL and Israel  - Why Israel will ultimately fail in its tyrannical crusade in Gaza and the West Bank: Good people refuse to be bystanders. It’s up to us as peace is fought by Israel with all its might. As Jamie Stern-Weiner writes in his review of Norman Finkelstein’s latest book on the destruction of Gaza: ”Apart from restoring its deterrence capacity, ‘Israel’s main goal … was to fend off the latest threat posed by Palestinian pragmatism’. As serious observers of the conflict – from the Congressionally-funded US Institute for Peace and the Army War College to former President Jimmy Carter and former Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy– have long recognised, Hamas has moved to a ...

NOVANEWS August 10, 2010  by Michael Leon Fascist Palin and Tea Party - Crusading to restore a holy social order, Tea Partiers have promoted disorder. Claiming to protect democracy, they smashed windows of elected representatives. - Via Nation Books.   By Max Blumenthal in Alternet Editor’s Note: The following is the new epilogue from Max Blumenthal’s book, Republican Gomorrah, now out in paperback (Basic/Nation Books, 2009). “He will tell you that he wants a strong authority to take from him the crushing responsibility of thinking for himself. Since the Republic is weak, he is led to break the law out of love for obedience. But is it really strong authority that he wish? In reality he demands rigorous order for others, and for himself disorder without responsibility.” — Jean-Paul Sartre...

NOVANEWS Ground Zero Mosque Not at Ground Zero and Not a Mosque August 9, 2010  by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat   Post-9/11 islamophobia After 9/11 attacks, islamophobia began to take shape in the collective consciousness of the American and western general public. But for the American Muslims it was a lot more than viewing this antipathy on TV, they were living it, day in and day out  Exchange among civilizations is a tremendous source for the creation of value and most of all, the value of diversity and tolerance By Dr. Ashraf Ezzat Human history is replete with disasters brought about by attitudes of arrogance and superiority complex based on race, color, language and religious affiliation. And the latter has been the example of the latest uproar over what is called Ground Zero mosque in lower Ma...

NOVANEWS   JOHN McCAIN: A CLOSER LOOK AT EVIL PART 5 July 30, 2010  by Jeff Gates Sen. John McCain: Corrupt to the bone Over the span of six decades of focused funding and single-issue advocacy, the Israel lobby amassed enough political clout that it can now dominate U.S. policy-making. Allied with organized crime, the lobby’s pro-Zionist influence took us to war in the Middle East. Meanwhile, the broader syndicate took the U.S economy into a debt-induced tailspin while vastly increasing its members’ personal wealth. Emboldened and enabled by John McCain’s campaign finance “reform,” transnational organized crime now wields outsized influence in both our legislative and executive branch. With Elena Kagan’s appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, the rule of law will be entrusted to a nin...

NOVANEWS July 29, 2010  by Jeff Gates JOHN AND CINDY MCCAIN By Jeff Gates STAFF WRITER/Editor The career of John McCain offers a textbook case confirming how war is waged on the U.S. by way of deception—with the help of senior lawmakers. Despite the constancy of his treasonous conduct, McCain seeks a fifth term in the U.S. Senate. Reflect for a moment on our national experience since he was profiled, politically packaged and placed in the House in 1982. The “package” was then relocated to the Senate in 1986 on the retirement of Arizonan Barry Goldwater. With McCain’s enthusiastic backing, our military was deployed to wage war abroad based on assurances from political leaders who were deceived to lead us to war. If not treason, what dare we call the conduct of those who enabled that fraud...