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NOVANEWS By Brig Asif Haroon Raja American Prison The US has earned the dubious reputation of pursuing double standards and making unsubstantiated allegations against a country which it wants to browbeat. These unholy tactics are applicable to friends and foes alike except for Israel, India and western world. Ironic part of the story is that it doesn’t feel an iota of embarrassment in leveling accusations on aspects which are applicable to the US the most. Recently the US had the audacity of levelling a charge of extra judicial killings in Swat on Pakistan. Several US officials have expressed their deep concern. They have based their observations on New York based Human Rights Watch, which claims it has mounting evidence of over 200 summary executions in Swat Valley. Its spokesman Malinow...

NOVANEWS Haaretz Thursday, April 08, 2010  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1161614.html By Gideon Levy, Haaretz Correspondent   So where did you spend Passover? Tens of thousands of Israelis were in Sinai. They ignored the Counter-Terrorism Bureau's warning, yet returned home safe and sound. Other Israelis - wait until you hear this - visited Cairo. I repeat: Cairo! They too returned tired but happy. They too did not heed the warnings. Haaretz's foreign news editor, for example, went to Egypt with his wife and four small children for the holiday. He identified himself as an Israeli everywhere he went, and believe it or not, was made to feel welcome. Other Israelis traveled to other forbidden places all over the globe, including Turkey, and not a hair on their heads was harmed. They'd a...

NOVANEWS www.antonyloewenstein.com   How Beijing doesn’t trust its citizens to think for themselves online What Australia owes each and every asylum seeker As long as Israel barely allows shoes into Gaza, expect outrage to grow The kind of state that Israel will never be How the British want to “protect” citizens from online truths How’s American Zionist Right views Arabs Murdoch publishes pro-Colombo propaganda Washington’s aim has always been to terrorise Iraqis The supposed paper of record recognises Arabs can also be peaceful Stealing Palestinian money the old fashioned way The New York Times explains just one example of how China’s internet censorship regime works in reality: Jiaozuo, a city southwest of Beijing, deployed 35 Internet commentators and...

NOVANEWS PSCABI and TUA - An open letter in support of the UK citizens given extended prison sentences for opposing Israeli War Crimes Besieged Gaza, Palestine 9 April 2010 We write to you as academics and student representatives of all academic institutions in the besieged Gaza Strip. We support and salute your willingness to suffer the consequences that come with demonstrating in a ‘free’ Western country against the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against us, the Palestinians of Gaza, crimes that the entire world witnessed. Crimes perpetrated when the Israeli forces, the fourth most powerful military machine in the world, bolstered yearly by £27.5 million of UK arms supplies, killed an estimated 1,440 people—more than 430 children—and injured 5,500 others. According to c...

NOVANEWS by Gordon Duff SCARS OF WAR David Winnett, Jr. Captain, United States Marine Corps (Retired)  So long after the battles are won, the scars will always remain, the marks of a past that was often filled with sacrifice and pain.   The scars that he has may be visible, or just beneath the skin, but nothing can hide the lingering pain he feels from deep within.   The pain endured and years spent, standing lonely in shadows of night.   Or in the glare of a melting sun, on guard and ready to fight.  He’s drawn the line, planted our flag, stood tall in far off lands.   All in the name of freedom, protecting his children and fellow man.  So why you ask, did he give so much, and would he do it again?   Oh yes he replies, in a moment he says, there is no hesitation within.  But though he w...

NOVANEWS  by John Allen Former United States Attorney General and U.S. Marine Ramsey Clark IndictBushNow.org reports that on April 3, at a meeting of over 150 lawyers, legal scholars and human rights campaigners, Ramsey Clark, founder of Indict Bush Now, was chosen to be the chairperson of an international campaign to investigate war crimes committed by officials from the Bush administration. Representatives at the meeting held in Beirut, Lebanon, came from all over the world. The campaign will investigate the lies, deceit and manipulation leading up to the Iraq war; the conduct of the war itself against an essentially defenseless country; and the horrors of the continued occupation. Lawyers and judges in several countries are exploring prosecution. Ramsey Clark emphasized that it is the...

NOVANEWS  by Michael Leon From Barak Ravid and Reuters in Haaretz: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled his planned trip to Washington, where he was scheduled to participate in a nuclear security summit hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama, government officials said. … Obama has invited more than 40 countries to the summit, which will deal with preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to terrorist groups. Netanyahu was due to arrive in Washington on Monday evening and was set to take part in three or four conference sessions the follwoing day, before returning to Israel on Wednesday. Officials said the PM canceled the trip over fears that a group of Muslim states, led by Egypt and Turkey, would demand that Israel sign up to the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or ...

غينيس" للأرقام الفلسطينية! NOVANEWS بعد أكبر سدر كنافة فلسطينية حضر تجهيزه سلام فياض، العمل يجري لتجهيز أكبر كوفية فلسطينية، وقبلها صار العمل على حياكة أكبر ثوب فلسطيني، وهنالك أشياء أخرى، تتفرد فيها فلسطين، ويمكن تسجيلها في موسوعة غينيس للأرقام القياسية: 1- إن أطول ثورة في تاريخ العالم، لمّا تحقق أهدافها بعد، هي الثورة الفلسطينية. 2- نحن أول قيادة سياسية تعترف لعدوها ب 78% من أرضها، وتعود للوطن تحت ظلال بندقية عدوها، وبإذنه، لتفاوضه على نسبة 22% ، وهي ترفع راية النصر. 3- الفلسطينيون أول شعب يعيش خلف الجدران، ففي الضفة الغربية يحاصر الفلسطيني بجدار العزل العنصري الذي يبلغ طوله 680 كيلو متراً. 4- تعتبر غزة أكبر سجن في تاريخ البشرية، يتوجب فيه على السجناء توفير طعامهم، وشرابهم، وعلاجهم، وإغلاق بوابة السجن على أنفسهم. 5- بعد ثمانية عشر عاماً، اكتشفت القيادة الفلسطينية أنها تخوض مفاوضات عبثية،...

NOVANEWS This story has a number of components: 1- An Israeli woman, Anat Kamm, has been under a SECRET house arrest, accompanied by a gag order to the Israeli media, since December 2009.   Here is the NYTimes coverage:   http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/04/01/us/AP-US-Israel-Military-Whistleblower.html?_r=2&sq=anat%20kam&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print 2-  The story that she's allegedly leaked to Ha'aretz correspondent Uri Blau in 2008, implicating top military staff, including Lt. General Gabi Ashkenazi, in defying Supreme court (2006) ruling restricting targeted assassinations.  The Ha'aretz story, in Hebrew, can be found at http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1041551 3-  The story of Israel's obedient media, and the Internet role in bringing it to...

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