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NOVANEWS August 18, 2010  by Michael Leon   You know nothing, Mosque is bad By Ernest A. Canning at the BradBlog  [1]On Sunday, Brad Friedman posted a “Toon of the moment” [2] in which a hypnotist sits dangling a watch in front of two stupified voters as Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY) [3] and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) [4] look on. The hypnotist tells the voters:  You know nothing. You remember nothing. You don’t remember George W. Bush or how badly he screwed things up. You love Republicans. They are here to help you. You will welcome them back … . Replace the hypnotist and watch with “illegal immigrants” or a “Ground Zero Mosque” (what the Los Angeles Times‘ Tim Rutten refers to as a “rising tide of Nativism [5]“) and the cartoon would be equally spot on, though this form of hypnosis is u...

NOVANEWS August 18, 2010  by Michael Leon    -  “[We understood the Iraq War] was going to be different, and that it was going to be house-to-house and urban combat. And that type of warfare requires a surge, if you will, and the ability to have mental- health-care treatment available, closer to the front, and also available when they come back home. The harder and uglier the war is, the more the psychological toll is on the human mind. In that meeting [in the spring of 2002], they [DoD staff and Dr. William Winkenwerder, then-Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs] looked at us as if we were people from outer space, wondering why we were there. They patted us on the back and told us they had everything under control, and they would be able to take care of any contingencies ...

NOVANEWS Monday, August 16, 2010 boycott "In another blow to Israeli shares, the Harvard Management Company notified the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday that it had sold all its holdings in Israeli companies during the second quarter of 2010. No reason for the sale was mentioned. The Harvard Management Company manages Harvard University's endowment." Sunday, August 15, 2010   Ghazi Qusaybi: died Was an interesting writer and poet who squandered his talents and his skills in the service of House of Saud. No floor was too low for his chin when it came to prostrating himself before the House of Saud. Even when King Fahd banished him in the 1980s, he managed to write a fawning poem to the King begging for forgiveness. This Saudi ambassador and Minister died: the ban on a...

10 More Years In Iraq, We Must Stay So We Can Leave August 12, 2010 by Bob Higgins   Now This is a General! Before I had a chance to finish my first cup of coffee this morning I was swatted with the news (from Al Jazeera) that Iraq says we ‘must stay until 2020.’ This shocking news came from Lieutenant General Babaker Zerbari and therein lies the crux of the problem. Zerbari is a Lieutenant General and Iraq’s most senior military officer. We send Lieutenant Generals out for coffee and donuts in the morning. We have Bird Colonels sharpening pencils and Major Generals escorting defense lobbyists to strip clubs. The Iraqis obviously know nothing about running a military operation and haven’t been paying attention these last seven years. Why they would expect to get significant results, the r...

NOVANEWS August 12, 2010  by Michael Leon Guarding the Poppy Fields  - The evidence suggests however that far from an honest leak, it is a calculated disinformation to the gain of the US and perhaps Israeli and Indian intelligence and a coverup of the US and Western role in drug trafficking out of Afghanistan.  - By F. William Engdahl    Since the dramatic release of a US military film of a US airborne shooting of unarmed journalists in Iraq, Wiki-Leaks has gained global notoreity and credibility as a daring website that releases sensitive material to the public from whistleblowers within various governments. Their latest “coup” involved alleged leak of thousands of pages of supposedly sensitive documents regarding US informers within the Taliban in Afghanistan and their ties to senior ...

NOVANEWS   Lalgarh (West Bengal): Until a few months ago, Naru Singh and Debnath Singh of Chandabila village were part of the local folklore in Maoist-overrun Lalgarh, in the interiors of West Bengal’s West Midnapore district. Active supporters of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPM, the Singh brothers were known in this economically backward area, where many people survive on starch and leaves, for their wealth. They controlled at least 50 acres of land and a three-acre mango orchard; what they called home was a mansion. Click here To view a slideshow of some of the initiatives by the PCPA to boost agricultural productivity and create infrastructure But now they have lost everything. They have been driven from home, their properties seized and their mansion vandalized...

NOVANEWS     MIDNAPORE: It was land distribution under Operation Barga that brought CPM to power in 1977. Thirty-three years later, the Maoists in Jangalmahal are treading a similar route to consolidate their support base in 200 villages from Goaltore to Midnapore town. The 60-kilometre stretch forms the " Maoist core zone", where men most wanted by the police like Manoj Mahato, Asit Mahato and Gopal Pratihar have a free run. But this new avatar of Operation Barga is different from the one implemented by the CPM. Maoists have set their own parameters for land reform here. Family income and connections with the ruling party get maximum weightage in this reform process. The jotedars close to mainstream political parties CPM and Jharkhand Party are the targets, and the beneficiaries...

  NOVANEWS   Rajeesh | August 13, 2010 | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1T7 MIDNAPORE/PURULIA: Armed CPM cadres allegedly continued their operation against the Maoists and members of People's Committee Against Police Atrocities in some parts of West Midnapore. On Thursday, around 200 armed CPM cadres reportedly entered several villages near Belia, Chandra, Malbandhi and Pukurmuri in Midnapore Sadar block and drove out the PCPA supporters. Interestingly, there was little resistance from the Maoists on Thursday. On Wednesday night, however, the red guerrillas resisted the CPM cadres near Dherua and stopped their advance towards Lalgarh. The CPM force, which had started their march from Enayetpur party office, is now camping at a primary school in Malban...

NOVANEWS ANTHONY LAWSON WITH GILAD ATZMON: “DOUBLE VENDETTA” August 11, 2010 by Gordon Duff “ONLY FOOLS BELIEVE WHAT THEY ARE TOLD …. ” – Anthony Lawson We here, right now, can stop the madness! Video narrated by Anthony Lawson with Gilad Atzmon Foreword by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor Veterans Today We hear daily, even hourly, of the need to attack Iran to protect the United States.  Some Americans believe the threat is real.  If they believe this, they are wrong. There is no threat, only a vendetta against Iran, a country, as the video tells us, that has never attacked another nation.  The point of this foreword isn’t to make a case, the video does that with simplicity.  It sticks to the facts.  When faced with being pushed into a war, one well beyond our “illegal war” with Iraq, not m...

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