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NOVANEWS December 1, 2010 by Hanan Habibzai   By Hanan Habibzai,STAFF WRITER In January 2002, Tom Ford, aka Mr Fashion, at his menswear show for Gucci in Milan, comes up with a surprising idea to recognize the newly appointed Afghan leader, Hamid Karzai, “the most chic man in the world”. He was in the news not for his political knowledge and foreign policies but for his dressing style. After eight years, Mr Karzai no longer remains a ‘’chic man ‘’. His government appeared deeply involved in corruption and injustice. Most Afghans no longer hope for a better life while corrupt officials hold power. ‘’It is a shame that  foreign donors are wasting their money by giving it in the hands of corrupt officials and we therefore do not see any positive result’’ a Kabul shopkeeper Sayed Karim regrett...

NOVANEWS December 2, 2010 by Gordon Duff Latin America’s Twenty First Century Capitalism and the US Empire James Petras Political Power and the World Market   The twin nemesis of Latin America’s quest for more equitable and dynamic development, US imperial and local oligarchic power have been subject to profound changes over the past decade. New capitalist classes both at home and abroad have redefined Latin America’s relation to world markets, seized opportunities to stimulate growth and forged cross class coalitions linking overseas investors, agro-mineral exporters, national industrialists with a broad array of trade unions, and in some countries peasant and Indian social movements. Parallel to these changes in Latin America, a new militarist and financial political configuration enga...

NOVANEWS  Watch new doc- Canada-Israel: The other special relationship More Recent Articles Search MuzzleWatch Prior Mailing Archive Watch new doc- Canada-Israel: The other special relationship A must-see Avi Lewis/ Al Jazeera Fault Lines documentary about the Canadian government’s growing conservative-backed war against Palestinian human rights activists and specifically, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. More Recent Articles The Zionist Organization of America’s Effort to Criminalize Campus Activism through Federal Civil Rights Legislation Ali Abunimah: Full equality message too much for New Mexico Jewish Federation, UNM Hillel Anti-Defamation League smears peace groups, Jewish Voice for Peace on top 10 Lessons from the UC Berkeley Divestme...

NOVANEWS 01 Dec 2010 By Joseph El-Khoury     This statement could apply to many citizens across the Arab world. It could apply to the Egyptian voter who is contemplating a 97% domination of parliament by the political party affiliated to the Mubarak presidential monarchy. It could apply to the average Iraqi who had to wait 8 months for the formation of a government that looks suspiciously similar to the previous one. And so on and so on...     But closer to my heart and to my immediate concern, the Lebanese ‘citizen’ is facing a catch 22 situation like never before. For those who are not familiar with the expression it refers to a famous book by American writer Joseph Heller first published in 1961, which uses the context of military bureaucracy to denounce the absurd and irreconci...

NOVANEWS Wael Nawara November 30, 2010   Justice Waleed El Shafey is puzzled. Why would the regime bring judges to supervise elections where they have no authority or power to do their job? According to an interview with Al Masry Al Youm, Egypt's largest independent daily newspaper, Judge Shafey described the humiliating episode he had to endure on Election Day, November 28th, when he tried to do the very job the constitution and the government entrusted him to do. As a member of the Election Committee, he was sent to investigate reports of alleged restrictions on voters' access to stations in Badrashin, Giza, a part of greater Cairo. Upon arrival he was intercepted by a thug then was humiliated by a security officer. When Judge Shafey introduced himself, demanded access to invest...

NOVANEWS ZIONIST MU-BARAK REGIME SUPPRESSED THE OPPOSTION SO CRUDELEY: for the Nov. 28 elections that it demands a strong US reaction.   By the Monitor's Editorial Board  December 1, 2010 Elections in Egypt have become a leading bellwether for how much a US president really cares about democracy in the world. Egypt, after all, is the second largest recipient of American aid, the most populous Arab nation, and the birthplace of modern radical Islam. In theory, it could become a beacon of liberty for a Middle East largely stuck in medieval ways. In 2005, when President George W. Bush was strongly pushing democracy in the region as an antidote to terrorism, the political opposition in Egypt won more than one-fifth of the seats in the lower house of parliament. By contrast, last Sunday’s elec...

NOVANEWS November 30, 2010 by Robert L. Hanafin   When the former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in the early 1980s, one of the last acts of the Carter Administration was to implement a limited military draft that today still funds the U.S. Selective Service System and THE DRAFT collecting personal data on young Americans 18 and over, although the political possibility of conscription appears to be highly unlikely unless the Pentagon begins to run out of too many of our gallant volunteers. Today our own invasion (well liberation if you prefer), and occupation of Afghanistan officially surpassed the Soviet’s failed attempt. In recognition of this historic milestone I have decide to write about the downside of our occupation (liberation) of Afghanistan and the latest official U.S. Repor...

NOVANEWS November 30, 2010 by Raja Mujtaba   The courageous Pakistan army stand on the eastern front —Sarmila Bose By Sarmila Bose There is much for Pakistan to come to terms with what happened in 1971. But the answers don’t lie in unthinking vilification of the fighting men who performed so well in the war against such heavy odds in defence of the national policy. Rather, in failing to honour them, the nation dishonours itself. Bengalis draging the bodies of non-Bengalis during 1971 war My introduction to international politics was 1971, as a schoolgirl in Calcutta. Many images from that year are still etched in my mind, but the culminating one was the photo on Ramna racecourse of two men sitting at a table — the smart, turbaned Sikh, ‘our’ war-hero, Jagjit Singh Aurora, and the large ma...

NOVANEWS November 29, 2010 by Gordon Duff SITE OF REPUTED MOSSAD ATTACK IN TEHRAN “WIKI-MURDERS”…”WIKI-TERROR”….”WIKI-WAR” By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor An attack on American forces in the Persian Gulf is being planned.  Wikileaks is an integral part of the operation.  Step one was the current “diplomatic” Wikileak.  Step two, the brazen “Mossad style”murders in Iran. Wikileaks couldn’t be more involved if they built the bombs or fired the missiles themselves. When America is attacked, either in the Persian Gulf or at home, Wikileaks will be a part of it.  The operation is staged for the Persian Gulf where American warships are “sitting ducks” for a sneak attack like the USS Liberty “incident.” As with the Liberty attack, Israel can use friends in high places in the United S...

NOVANEWS Tue Nov 30, 2010   Police officers clash with Muslim Brotherhood supporters outside a polling station, south of Cairo, November 28, 2010. London-based rights body, the Amnesty International, has called for an investigation into the reported deaths, violence and intimidation during Egypt's recent parliamentary polls. "The Egyptian authorities must now open independent investigations into the deaths and allegations of violence that have, once again, cast a bloody shadow over election day," the group's Middle East director, Malcolm Smart, said on Tuesday, AFP reported. Reports, covering the November 28 general elections, pointed to the death of eight people and violence involving either the security forces or the rival camps. "Egyptian voters should have been able to rely on the ...