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NOVANEWS Tuesday, April 20, 2010 ...off to Washington, DC I am speaking twice this week at George Mason University: on Thursday and Friday. Check your local listings. Group challenges Egypt's barrier to Gaza in court "Palestinian supporters in Egypt are taking the government to court to prevent them building an impregnable barrier along the border with Gaza." British soldiers accused of sickening sex assault on Iraqi boy, 14 ""They made us sit on each other's laps," he said. "They were enjoying humiliating and abusing us, I wished I was dead at this moment." (thanks Suha) For you, Jamal Mubarak "Constitutional jurist Ibrahim Darweesh says that amendments to the constitution have already settled the outcome of the upcoming presidential election in favor of the ruling National Democratic...

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NOVANEWS by Gordon Duff SURPRISING THE ARMING OF THE TALIBAN AND THE BUILDING OF A NARCO-REGIME “SHILLING” FOR AN ISRAELI ATTACK ON IRAN By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor As usual, America is in a war for all the wrong reasons, pushed by Israel, bought off by drug money and backed into a corner.  At a time when a “new broom” and strong leadership is needed, we respond with “damage control.”  Even with the press descending into simple “drum beating” for an Israeli attack in Iran to get at the gas supplies needed for her secret pipeline deals, her “shill” in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal is simply no longer credible. It all fell apart with the phony Marjah operation, a “joint operation” against a town of 80,000 Taliban fighters that turned out to be a couple of small vi...

NOVANEWS by Michael Leon Kathe Kollwitz, Losbruch (Charge) The Ten Martyrs “These I remember, and my soul melts with sorrow, for strangers have devoured us like unturned cakes, for in the days of the tyrant there was no reprieve for the martyrs murdered by the government.” - From the Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement, Martyrology Service referring to ten rabbis executed by the Romans, 1st Century By Michael Leon States committed to war don’t always crow about their tyranny and the blood of their victims. Israel is quiet when it devours Gaza, issuing vague statements about self-defence. [A reader here says, "Long past time Israel clean out the Mohammedan (sic) squatting vermin from the W. Bank and Gaza." The sentiment is common in Israel, the language is rare. No need for crude rhetoric, Isra...

NOVANEWS by Bob Higgins An Open Letter of Reconciliation & Responsibility to the Iraqi People A newly released Wikileaks “Collateral Murder” video has made international headlines showing a July 2007 shooting incident outside of Baghdad in which U.S. forces wounded two children and killed over a dozen people, including the father of those children and two Reuters employees. Two soldiers from Bravo Company 2-16, the company depicted in the video, have written an open letter of apology to the Iraqis who were injured or lost loved ones during the attack that, these former soldiers say, is a regular occurrence in this war. You can view the Wikileaks video here: http://wikileaks.org/ and you can view the Press Release here An Open Letter of Reconciliation & Responsibility to the Iraqi P...

NOVANEWS  by Robert L. Hanafin Since neither established political party has been able (or willing) to get us out of Iraq or Afghanistan except for lip service, promises, and more deceit, I’ve dreamed of the demise of two party political control over the American political system, because I see that having a multi-party system would be preferable to the one party dominance that the two party system represents. For example here in Ohio, at least until NOW, the only way a third party or independent minded candidate (one not blessed by the Ohio state Democratic or Republican party apparatus) could get on the ballot was by running as lets say a Libertarian/Republican or Green or Socialist running as a Democrat. Now finally a slew of independent candidates from Tea Baggers to Socialist have go...

NOVANEWS Jordan Valley Observers: Alix W., Susan L. (reporting) Summary An organization, like a country, needs goals. MachsomWatch' s goal is clear, and we work towards that with our monitoring and reporting every day: "an end to the Occupation" with the corollary dictum of accountability on the part of the authorities.  But the country to which we belong and which is about to celebrate its 62nd Independence Day? What seems clear only is that it is clinging to settlements; that it is dominated by the army, and is subservient to the settlers, as the Occupation carries on with aggression against people who are not Jews in lands that they, Jews, have occupied and a stagnation that is cruel and heartless and entirely contrary to what this country should have been about.  13:00 Beit Dajan Where...

NOVANEWS A Nonviolent Che Guevara in Gaza  By Ashely Bates, reprinted from her Dispatches from Gaza blog with permission (Ed’s note. The spreading of the unarmed protests for real democracy to Gaza shows that the tactic is working. And if it works people will want to try it, in ways that defy stereotypes of “violent” Hamas-controlled Gaza. The only difference is that Israel can get away with a harsher response in Gaza so paying attention to stories like this is all the more important.) In August of last year, I observed the weekly protest in Bi’lin, a West Bank village where the security fence under construction by Israel separates farmers from their land. As they had every Friday for more than three years, Palestinians, left-wing Israelis and international activists marched towards the...

NOVANEWS  Sheizaf: The persecution of Haaretz Noam Sheizaf | April 20, 2010 Categories: Suppression of Dissent | URL: http://wp.me/pHlQV-ua Cross-posted from Promised Land. Editor's note: A recent Coteret post bemoaned, in this context, the absence of satire. Eretz Nehederet has now come through with a skit. It can be viewed here (Hebrew only; H/T Richard Silverstein.) The persecution of Haaretz Haaretz, Israel’s oldest daily paper, has a status that exceeds its limited circulation. Israel’s supporters who whishes to portray it as a thriving democracy give Haaretz as an example; Critics of Israel use Haaretz when claiming that the US media is too easy on Israel (”The NYT would have never printed Gidon Levy’s op-ed“). Even after suffering loses during the financial crisis and going through...

NOVANEWS Another celebration of Israeli Independence Day. In New York, the Salute to Israel Parade is enlisting gullible kids from my elementary school to celebrate ethnic cleansing and politicide, giving them, once again, no hint that Israel Independence meant Nakba to the Palestinians, an intolerable act that should be compensated in kind: return of the refugees. In Gaza, Israeli soldiers celebrated Yom Ha'atzmaoot by tapping out some warning shots to terrify Palestinian protesters trying to assert their right to free movement within the Gaza penitentiary, keeping them well away from the devastated buffer zone that could be growing crops but instead is raw dirt littered with bits of metal, bundles of useless wire, and broken irrigation tubing, the exposed earth constantly eroding and bl...