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NOVANEWS IRAN: Building a Nuclear Weapon? You’re Kidding, Right? August 21, 2010  by Bob Nichols     (San Francisco) Many people are asking if Iran can build a nuclear weapon. The answer is No, they cannot. Iran does not have the tools or material to do so. Some 40 countries would probably like to build a reactor, though,  according to the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency. A reactor is the first step to a nuclear weapon.    An image always associated with a nuke weapon. But, the President of the US, politicians in Israel and other important people say Iran “might” be able to build a weapon in a few years. So what? I might like to jump over the moon too; but, it ain’t gonna happen.  Same thing with Iran building a nuclear weapon. Iran does not have the tools to do so. Iran c...

NOVANEWS http://www.thenation.com/article/154020/afghan-women-have-already-been-abandoned Afghan Women Have Already Been Abandoned Ann Jones August 12, 2010     This article appeared in the August 30/September 6, The Nation. I know Bibi Aisha, the young Afghan woman pictured on the August 9 cover of Time, and I rejoice that her mutilated nose and ears are going to be surgically repaired. But the logic of those who use Aisha's story to convince us that the US military must stay in Afghanistan escapes me. Even Aisha has already left for America. Counterinsurgency Down for the Count in Afghanistan (War and Peace, US Wars and Military Action) But the war machine grinds on and on and on. I realize that last remark has no logical basis, but then neither does the Time cover line "What Happens if ...

  NOVANEWS   Rajeesh | August 23, 2010| Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1UM ‘We were angry. We wanted to do damage. Someone in the crowd said, leave it to us...’ BY PARTHA DASGUPTA, Tehelka THE COLLISION of the Jnaneshwari Express with a goods train just after midnight on 28 May near Jhargram killed 148 passengers and dealt a severe blow to the public image of the Maoists. The West Bengal CID named Monoj alias Bapi Mahato and Umakanto Mahato, members of People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA), as the prime accused. Sections of the media claimed that Bapi had confessed to masterminding the incident. TEHELKA has now obtained exclusive possession of handwritten notes which Mahato has written from Midnapore Central Jail, in which he denies ...

NOVANEWS As we approach that “great day of reckoning” viz-a-viz (what appears to be) the impending and unavoidable attack on Iran by the Jewish state, it is important to keep in mind the motto of Israel’s Mossad that “By way of deception thou shalt make wars”. And given that indeed it is the Jewish state and her interests (and them alone) managing all aspects of the propaganda machinery for this conflict, we can be rest assured that–employing the aforementioned motto of Israel’s intelligence service–not an ounce of truth exists in any of it. From top to bottom, left to right and alpha to omega it is nothing more than a hologram and high-production hoax of sorts meant to prepare the collective mind for the before, during and after effects of what this attack is intended to produce. By defin...

NOVANEWS Karnataka Maoist Leader - Hosagadde Prabha Dead Rajeesh | August 21, 2010  | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1U4 There was a buzz of activity at the house of Hosagadde Prabha, a Naxal leader who carries a reward of Rs 5 lakh, in Hosagadde near Agumbe in Shimoga on Thursday following rumours of her death in a Bengaluru hospital. According to family sources, some unidentified people had sent Prabha’s mother a message that her daughter’s body will reach there soon. Police officials from Theerthahalli and Agumbe arrived at her house to meet her parents. But neither the police nor the family has any concrete information on the death of the 30-year-old Naxal. According to the police, Narayanappa, Prabha’s father, pleaded ignorance on the issue. “It has of...

NOVANEWS   Are we living in a State that mouths peace but shoots its messengers? Rajeesh | August 21, 2010 | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1U8   FAKERY HAS always been a key instrument of power. But last week, as the President and Pr ime Minister of India made their Independence Day speeches, cocooned symbolically in towers of glass, the scale of that fakery shot skyward. Both leaders augustly urged the Maoists, yet again, to “abjure violence” and come for talks. Few among the millions of Indians who heard them would have caught the cynicism. Swami Agnivesh certainly would have. It’s just over a month since the State shot down a man called Azad. There’s been some fitful noise over it. Civil society has protested valiantly; Mamta Banerjee has ...

NOVANEWS We could say the same for the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The oppression that is Iran should thank Israel and neocons in the United States. Israel’s far-right government only helps Iran.By thumbing its nose at the U.S. and the world, Israel makes it harder to build a coalition against Iranian nukes By Juan Cole The far right-wing government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have a choice between expanding settlements in the West Bank or achieving a global consensus on the need to sanction and coerce Iran into giving up its nuclear enrichment program. Netanyahu is so dedicated to the settler project that he cannot see the ways in which it forestalls other, broader Israeli objectives. The serious policy differences between Netanyahu and the Obama administration are helpin...

NOVANEWS نصائح جوعانية إلى ميشال سليمان By جوعان نصائح يوجهها جوعان، باسم نقابة لاعبي الداما، وباسم اتحاد مأرجلي معسل التفاح، إلى نصف رئيس شبه الجمهورية اللبنانية، ميشال سليمان، بحكم المعزة القائمة بين جوعان ورأس هرم السياسة اللبنانية المسؤولة عن التجويع، وبحكم الصداقة القديمة منذ أن كان سليمان مسؤولاً عن الأوامر بالمجازر التي ارتكبها الجيش تحت قيادته الميمونة الليمونة، سابقاً. نتوجه إلى سليمان بالشكر لقيامه بمداكشة الطيارات الميغ على طيارات هيلكوبتر، لأننا، لم نتعود أن يدمر الجيش اللبناني مخيماتنا، أو ضواحينا، بالطائرات الحربية، يعني خطوة خطوة، بعد الهراوات بالمظاهرات، والرصاص في الضاحية، والمدفعية بنهر البارد، فلنجرب الهيلكوبترات الحديثة في المعركة القادمة للجيش الباسل ضد الفقراء، ومن يعلم، في المستقبل يمكن للعماد سليمان الاستعانة بالقنابل النووية ضد عدوه، شعبه. ثانياً، اذا في مجال يعني،...

NOVANEWS The prime minister of contract murder, Binyamin Netanyahu, was not long permitted to rejoice over the agreement to sanction Iran which he had wrested from the Russian leadership. A few days later, China made it clear that it would in no case help to carry out such sanctions. Consequently, Netanyahu believed it necessary to pay a visit to the Chinese leadership, in order to bring them on course through an Israeli word of command. But the Chinese leadership did not even once want to see Netanyahu. So “Bibi” had to stay home. On Feb. 25, 2010, Israel sent a high-ranking government delegation to Beijing, including Vice Premier Moshe Yaalon, as well as the currency bank chief, Stanley Fischer, in order to move the Chinese leadership to hard sanctions against Iran.” But the Israelis wer...

NOVANEWS "The fiancé of Neda Agha-Soltan, who was killed during protests in Teheran following the Iranian elections last year, visited Israel as guest of Channel 2, the station reported Friday evening." www.jpost.com