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NOVANEWS A propaganda war short from the perspective of the US-backed Afghanistan Special Forces, Strike Force Lion, “who describe their own personal reasons why they continue to fight the war against terrorist threats within their country”. These films are undeniably interesting but they’re utterly without context. How much support do such forces have in the country? The Kabul-based government is essentially a corrupt body held up with Western backing. Then again, propaganda (from any side) is not supposed to be about objective reporting but pushing a particular agenda. Why We Fight from Tyler Ginter on Vimeo.

NOVANEWS Occupation continues while Obama will convince the world that progress is being made. A minor step in the right direction, though of course, if history is any guide, the settlements will expand while intense “negotiations” commence: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is leaving for Washington tonight, has promised the Obama administration Israel will make several goodwill gestures toward the Palestinian Authority in response to Washington’s demands. For the first time since Operation Cast Lead, Israel has agreed to ease the blockade on the Gaza Strip. Moreover, Netanyahu has agreed to discuss all core issues during the proximity talks, with the condition of reaching final conclusions only in direct talks with the PA. Netanyahu also agreed to discuss the core issues in the disp...

NOVANEWS Americans will be forced to pay insurance companies for overpriced coverage in the middle of a Depression. by James Buchanan Despite the loss of more than seven million jobs and the failure of over 150 banks since Obama became president, the Democrats seem determined to destroy what’s left of the US economy. A recent news article reports “the Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation Sunday night extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans…. For the first time, most Americans would be required to purchase insurance, and face penalties if they refused. Much of the money in the bill would be devoted to subsidies to help families at incomes of up to $88,000 a year pay their premiums.” So basically the government is “giving” us health care by fo...

NOVANEWS by James Buchanan The Republicans have been staying within their carefully constructed political playpen –the one which keeps them from going after issues, which unnamed censors tell us are “off limits” for polite politics. Well, we just got our medical industry socialized while the Republicans were being nice and polite. Vicious unethical criminals in the Democrat Party just passed what-should-have-been a Constitutional Amendment that requires a two-thirds vote, with a bare majority. There’s a way to derail Obama and his legislation before the 2010 election, but it involves showing some guts and not letting the liberal media dictate to you what’s “off limits”. The nuclear counter-strike that can kill off Obamacare is a no-holds-barred attack on Obama’s citizenship. Contrary to po...

NOVANEWS I'm surprised to see the UN General Secretary criticising Israel and Egypt over the Gaza blockade but it's there in black and white on the Voice of America site: U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has made a visit to the Gaza Strip and repeated his condemnation of the blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt. Meanwhile, international efforts to get Israelis and Palestinians back to negotiations are stepping up. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon came the region to press Israelis and Palestinians to return to negotiations. On Sunday, while visiting the Gaza Strip, he condemned Israel for the blockade it and Egypt have on the enclave. "I have repeatedly made it quite clear to Israel's leaders that the Israeli policy of closure is not sustainable and that it is wrong," Mr. Bn said. "It p...

NOVANEWS “I HAVE NOTHING TO OFFER YOU BUT BROKEN GLASS,” Zio-Nazi Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed US Vice President Biden during an after-dinner ceremony in Jerusalem on March 9, 2010. Netanyahu had prepared a symbolic gift for visiting Vice President Joe Biden: a framed document announcing that several trees were planted in Jerusalem in memory of Biden’s mother, a loyal supporter of Zionism. But with Biden’s mission to persuade Zio-Nazi regimethe to begin shrinking Greater Zionist back to its pre-1967 borders, Netanyahu leaned on the present (NOT “accidentally” as reported by the Zionist-owned press) and shattered the glass frame. Then came Netanyahu’s cyptic warning and by way of indirection, a threat to Obama: “I have one thing to offer you right now, and it’s broken glass.” It got w...

NOVANEWS Kissinger and population control "On Dec. 10, 1974, the U.S. National Security Council under Henry Kissinger completed a classified 200-page study, “National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests.” The study falsely claimed that population growth in the so-called Lesser Developed Countries (LDCs) was a grave threat to U.S. national security. Adopted as official policy in November 1975 by President Gerald Ford, NSSM 200 outlined a covert plan to reduce population growth in those countries through birth control, and also, implicitly, war and famine. Brent Scowcroft, who had by then replaced Kissinger as national security adviser (the same post Scowcroft was to hold in the Bush administration), was put in c...

NOVANEWS "US Vice President Joe Biden was the first visiting foreign dignitary to lay a wreath at the tomb of Zionist Theodor Herzl on Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem within the framework of activities to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Herzl. Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, visited Mt. Herzl on Tuesday March 9, 2010. They were accompanied by World Zionist Organization Executive member Adv. Hagai Meirom and Director of the Mount Herzl site Jacob Gispan. The World Zionist Organization is responsible for the maintenance and development of Mt. Herzl and operates the adjacent Herzl Museum and educational center. Merom gave Biden a copy of Herzl's book, Altneuland, a novel devoted to Zionism. In response Biden said: "You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist. I also see myself as a Zioni...

NOVANEWS Just had a great talk at today's Left Forum, and logged on to find that antifascists have forced the EDL to abandon its protest in Bolton's Victoria Square today. There's a report at Socialist Worker here. It seems that the police were particularly vicious, attacking and beating antifascist protesters, arresting a number of them (only to later 'un-arrest' them, which proves that it was really about expediting their removal from the protest rather than about any offense committed). Local reports suggest that the police arrested 30 antifascists compared to three arrests of the notoriously violent EDL. I have also seen on UAF's twitter page that police attempted to prevent a Muslim delegation from joining the protesters, but that a crowd of hundreds of local Asians tipped the balance...