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NOVANEWS December 23, 2010 by Michael Leon There’s been a few pieces of good news as this year draws down. But in most ways, this year has been a really hard one, even as the international Palestinian solidarity and anti-war movements have consolidated, predictably earning the enmity of the FBI. Wikileaks, aka CableGate, has been exposed as an ”orchard of exposés over-ripe for cherry-picking”—disinformation meant to incite and disinform Repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, New Start There’s been a few pieces of good news as this year draws down. The repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell sets an important marker in the struggle to end official homophobia and anti-gay discrimination in the U.S. That’s huge. (And an Obama campaign promise realized — that’s huge too.) And the passage of New Start means...

NOVANEWS Domestic violence at alarming level: report By: Saadia Qamar January 20, 2010 KARACHI - A seminar on violence against women and children expresses that it has become a norm in our society to devalue human life. Those who are gravely oppressed are surely the ones who suffer the most. Madadgaar Helpline, Pakistan’s first helpline for women and children, organised a seminar to share 10 years thought-provoking data on violence against women and children on Tuesday evening. Zia Ahmad Awan, founder LHRLA, said, “Domestic violence is a horrible crime, which is being committed at a larger scale in an unjust society of ours. We still have a feudal mindset that helps propagate ideas of dominance over others and in making others feel helpless towards us.” Sharing the data, he said; “Violenc...

NOVANEWS December 17, 2010 by Raja Mujtaba  By Air Commodore ® Khalid Iqbal The NATO nations and their coalition allies agreed to the December 2014 date for ending military mission in Afghanistan, during the alliance’s summit in Lisbon, held during the last month. Summit had laid down the broader frame work for ending the war. Hence, Presidential review was little more than a formality, just tweaking the strategy around the margins, filling flesh into the skeleton etc. The review comes at a time when civilian casualties are at their highest since 2001. This year has been the bloodiest for foreign troops, the US taking the brunt of casualties. To coincide with the release of the review, in an apparent expansion of drone operations in Pakistan, a US drone killed seven persons in Tirah val...

NOVANEWS December 18, 2010 by Michael Leon  The White House is using its December review to try to spin the disastrous Afghanistan War plan by citing “progress” in the military campaign, but the available facts paint a picture of a war that’s not making us safer and that’s not worth the cost. By Robert Greenwald at AlterNet Let’s take a look at just the very broad strokes of the information. After more than nine years and a full year of a massive escalation policy: the insurgency continues to gain in size and strength, more U.S. troops are dying than ever, more civilians are dying than ever, violence in the country continues to spike, Pakistan is playing a double game with the U.S. and the military strategy lacks credible prospects for a turnaround. And yet, we are t...

NOVANEWS    13% of Zio=Nazi army's civilian employees are Egyptian   Thu, 16/12/2010 Some 13 percent of the Zio=Nazi army's civilian employees are Egyptian nationals, according to recent reports in the Zionist media. Abu Bakr al-Guindy, head of Egypt's official statistics bureau CAPMAS, said that most Egyptians living in Zionist state of 'Israel' were illegal laborers. “For this reason, it's difficult for us to determine their exact number,” he said. According to estimates by the Zionist Egyptian Ministry of Manpower, there are between 20,000 and 25,000 Egyptians currently living in the racist Zionist state. “I don’t blame the Egyptians who went to live and work in Israel,” said Zionist Egyptian Trade Union Secretary-General Ibrahim al-Azhary. “There simply aren’t en...

NOVANEWS Does anyone know anything about survival rates in the Warsaw Ghetto?   I am trying to substantiate this argument from Derrick Jensen: But remember, the Jews who participated in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, even those who went on what they thought were suicide missions, had a higher rate of survival than those who did not fight back. Never forget that...Before we talk about that we have to return for a moment to the Jews who participated in theWarsaw Ghetto uprising. When I wrote earlier about those Jews who resisted having a higher rate of survival than those who went along, and then at least implied that if we resist the ongoing holocaust around us we also may ultimately have a higher rate of survival than those who do not resist, I was in one sense cheating. There was a major dif...

NOVANEWS December 15, 2010 by Allen L. Roland     Like a moth to the flame, the United states continues to defy the first law of holes in Afghanistan ~ stop digging. Obama’s war, or better said occupation, continues to take America down the road of moral and financial disintegration and eventually  to the graveyard of Imperial Empires: Allen L Roland Six U.S.Soldiers were killed and more than a dozen American and Afghan troops were wounded last Sunday morning by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. American fatalities have risen steadily for five years, with 479 American soldiers killed so far in 2010 ~ that’s more than three times the 155 casualties in 2008. We are now paying the daily price of a hated occupying force with over 1430 Americans killed in action so far in Afghanistan. Last Fr...

NOVANEWS Mohammed al-Abdulkarim, a Saudi law professor, was arrested Sunday after publishing an article about the royal succession and the possibility of a power struggle inside the Zionist ruling family. The article was firs published on al-Abdulkarim’s Facebook profile, and later republished on Royaah magazine website. Four men, variously wearing civilian clothes and uniforms, arrested him at his Riyadh home, the Human Rights First Society of Saudi Arabia (HRFS) said. Ibrahim al-Mugaiteeb, head of HRFS, told AFP that al-Abdulkarim’s arrest was illegal on two counts: he was taken without a court warrant for his arrest, and has been held for 24 hours without charge. As usual, local Pro-Zionist media in Saudi Arabia has ignored the story, but the social web was quick to pick it up. Not too...

NOVANEWS     Support and express solidarity with the Political Prisoners who are on an Indefinite Hunger Strike Rajeesh  December 11, 2010 ICAWPI Support and express solidarity with the Political Prisoners who are on an Indefinite Hunger Strike in Medinipur Central Jail from 10th December(Human Rights Day) 2010 Nearly 150 political prisoners-mostly under trail--incarcerated in the Medinipur Central Jail-which the government calls 'Correctional Home'-will start hunger strike from 10th December 2010 on the Human Rights Day for an indefinite period-true to the long tradition of hunger strikes organized by political prisoners in Medinipur as also other jails of West Bengal and outside in near and distant past. The prisoners include those arrested on the charge of having ...

NOVANEWS 09 Dec 2010 By Karl Sharro  Republished with permission from Karlremarks First things first: the attacks that brought down Al-Akhbar newspaper’s website today are a despicable action that is as pointless as it is stupid. Firstly, any hope of stemming the flow of information on the internet is a delusion and secondly those attacks will only reinforce the idea that the leaked information that Al-Akhbar published should be repressed. To me, freedom of speech in the Arab world is much more important than political disagreements and we should all support Al-Akhbar against those attacks. Many people got really excited when Al-Akhbar started publishing the material it obtained from Wikileaks, predicting ‘catastrophe or even worse’ as I read somewhere. Such predictions reveal the as...