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NOVANEWS Travel Warning: Israel Offended   Reading Ha’aretz this morning, my eyes were diverted to an article about the indignation of the Israeli Tourism Ministry about – guess what? Anti-Israel bias, of course.   Apparently, in the wake of the rocket attacks earlier this week, the US government issued a travel warning to Israel (particularly Eilat and the rest of Southern Israel), the West Bank, and Gaza without mentioning the Jordanian city of Aqaba, the only place with an actual fatality in the rocket attacks.OK, fair point.  But, does anyone really think that rocket was aimed at Jordan? Israel loves to divert criticism by claiming that the world is unfairly biased against it.  It’s a painful truism that shockingly atrocious human rights violations take place all over the world every d...

NOVANEWS August 7, 2010  by Michael Leon CIA and President Obama By Wayne Madsen in OpinonMaker WMR [Wayne Madsen Report] previously reported on President Obama’s more than one year employment by a CIA front operation, Business International Corporation, Inc. (BIC) of New York after his graduation from Columbia University in 1983. However, the State Department’s recent revelation in response to a Freedom of Information Act request that the pre-1965 passport files of Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham Soetoro, were destroyed in the 1980s, has re-ignited suspicions that Obama’s mother worked for the CIA under non-official cover (NOC) cover in Indonesia while married to Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo, a retired colonel in General Suharto’s CIA-backed ranks. Soetoro and Dunham married in 1965 after meet...

NOVANEWS August 7, 2010  by Michael Leon “American Friendship Is More Dangerous than Its Enmity.” - Henry Kissinger “When the history of this period is written, the liberation of Afghanistan and the liberation of Iraq will be remembered as great turning points in the story of freedom.” President George W. Bush, Fort. Bragg, North Carolina, June 28, 2005; spoken as American public approval of the invasion of Iraq, a new ally in the ‘war on terror,’ spirals downward.  By Brig Asif Haroon Raja  Pakistan continues to remain target of international and internal conspiracies. While internal situation is dismal, external situation is equally grim. Foreign forces of 44 countries based in Afghanistan are getting restless because of unmanageable turbulence in Afghanistan. USA is holding Pakistan ...

NOVANEWS With Military Suicides on the Rise, Parents of Two Soldiers Who Took Their Own Lives Say Obama’s Words Ring Hollow A new US Army report finds the rate of suicide by soldiers in the Army has risen above the civilian rate for the first time since Vietnam. We talk to the parents of two soldiers who committed suicide: Gregg Keesling, the father of Chancellor Keesling, a US soldier who took his own life on June 19, 2009, while on his second tour of duty in Iraq, and Kevin and Joyce Lucey, whose son Jeffrey Lucey took his own life on June 22, 2004, after returning home from military duty in Iraq. They’re still waiting for letters of condolence from President Obama. [includes rush transcript.  Guests: Gregg Keesling, father of Chancellor Keesling, who committed suicide on June 19, 20...

NOVANEWS August 2, 2010  by Michael Leon Pres Obama Weekly Address in July on Fixing VA and Providing More Help for Veterans with PTSD - President Obama will outline plans to scale back U.S. troop presence in Iraq in a speech Monday to the national convention of the Disabled American Veterans in Atlanta - From the Atlanta-Journal Constitution: Excerpts from the president’s speech, released Monday morning: “Today, your legacy of service is carried on by a new generation of Americans. Some stepped forward in a time of peace, not foreseeing years of combat. Others stepped forward in this time of war, knowing they could be sent into harm’s way. For the past nine years, in Afghanistan and Iraq, they have borne the burdens of war. They – and their families – have faced the greatest test in the...

NOVANEWS FALSE FLAG NUKE ATTACK ON U.S. JUSTIFIED….”KING’S TORAH” August 2, 2010 by Gordon Duff       ISRAEL TO USE IRANIAN AND PAKISTANI DUPES IN DIRTY NUKE PLOY By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor  This week, the last piece fell into place.  The National Research Council, part of the National Academy of Science, heavy on politics and light on science, announced that America was no longer able to track nukes threatening our shores.  Their report titled Nuclear Forensics: A Capability at Risk, released last week, outlines the details of a secret study requested by the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense and Energy, specifically the National Nuclear Security Administration.   The gist of the story is easy, if a nuke goes off in America, dirty nuke in Times ...