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NOVANEWS November 27, 2010 by Debbie Menon  By ABDULHAMİT BİLİCİ Questions began pouring in immediately following our return from the NATO summit in Lisbon, which addressed the missile defense shield issue. What did Turkey gain in this summit? Were all of Ankara’s requests met as reflected in the media? When are the missiles arriving? Was Turkish diplomacy truly successful in Lisbon or are we merely facing some PR initiatives? There is no doubt that these and other similar questions are looming over us. But instead of answering them one by one, it is more appropriate to unravel the results of the two-day Lisbon visit in light of the information given to us by the heads of government, bearing in mind the phases the matter has gone through so far. For one, there is no need to become ecst...

NOVANEWS November 26, 2010 by Debbie Menon   Turkish PM Erodogan meets Saad Hariri in Lebanon BEIRUT, (PIC)– Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during a visit to the Lebanese city of Akkar that if war broke out in the region the loser will not only be the region’s people, but Israeli citizens will share losses as well. Erdogan, speaking before thousands in its neighboring state, called on Israel to quit acting provocatively, recant on its blunders, and apologize to the region’s people. “We in the region will unite and grow for what’s right and for the rule of law, and we will stand in the face of the wrongdoers and in the face of the wrongdoing.” The Turkish premier assured that his country will continue to back the causes of Jerusalem and Gaza until all rights are restor...

NOVANEWS November 26, 2010 by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat   “Islam is the solution” …  A catchy slogan that appeals to commoners who cannot discern the difference between politics and religion. By Dr. Ashraf Ezzat / Staff Writer Advertising banners are all over the streets of Egypt prior to 2010 parliamentary elections The streets are crammed with banners and posters everywhere advertising different candidates for the coming Egyptian parliamentary elections due on next Sunday 28th, November. The banners and posters carry photos and names of candidates and often a slogan that summarizes the candidate’s plan of action if he is to be elected. For anyone who didn’t know better this might seem as the sign of a fierce and free democratic competition between candidates of different political parties, but...

NOVANEWS November 23, 2010 by Michael Leon Mission Accomplished! This Thanksgiving, we offer appreciation for the $3-trillion Iraq War brought to us by the GOP, numerous spineless Democrats, the media, an apathetic American public, Fox, Israel, and the brave neocons who fearlessly waged war from think-tanks and the danger-fraught desks at the DoD and the White House Iraq Group. Thank you so much. Iraq Coalition Military Fatalities By Year - Year US UK Other Total 2003 486 53 41 580 2004 849 22 35 906 2005 846 23 28 897 2006 822 29 21 872 2007 904 47 10 961 2008 314 4 4 322 2009 149 1 0 150 2010 59 0 0 59 Total 4429 179 139 4747 - Readers of the new book, The Thre...

NOVANEWS November 23, 2010 by Raja Mujtaba   By Dr. Raja Muhammad Khan Upon development of consensus between former Soviet President Gorbachev and the Politburo leadership, that the former super power (Soviet Union) could no longer sustain the heavy expenditures of the Afghan war in terms of human cost as well as the financial effects, the Communist regime decided to withdraw its forces from Afghan territory in 1988. The last Soviet soldier, however, left Afghan soil on February 14, 1989. By then, the mighty Communist regime had realized that no optimistic end of the Afghan quandary as desired by USSR is insight and that that Soviet decision to invade Afghan soil was a big mistake. Soviet Union lost over 14,453 combat soldiers including 1979 officers during this almost ten years long ab...

NOVANEWS November 25, 2010     TWO IMAGINARY NUCLEAR PROGRAMS, ONE CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor,   (www.veteranstoday.com) Former President George W. Bush planned to invade Iran in 2007, even though America’s military was exhausted and overstretched by two unsuccessful wars.  His own popularity, at a real 8%, was the reason, that and the economic collapse that he was trying to push back until he left office.  He believed a war would have saved his presidency, buried the $3 trillion dollars stolen by his friends and given him a legacy to be proud of, even if every family in America suffered. Bush brazenly admits prettymuch exactly these things in his ghost written autobiography, an incoherent rant, that rambles between blithering and megalomaniac delusion ...

NOVANEWS November 22, 2010 by crescentandcross in Uncategorized (c) 2010 by S.H. Pearson 26 November 2008 is when it started — my awareness of Pakistan. I was on the last leg of my last semester. Seeing the home-stretch and a possible graduation day. My head was down, plowing the last jagged mile. Then the “news” hit about the Taj Mumbai and how Indians were gunned down in the streets. India and the Zionist news media were quick to point at Pakistan and yell, “terrorist.” It seemed formulaic to me by then, their point and yell routine. I saw the same one played out on 11 September 2001. Suddenly every Muslim I saw took on a new status. One minute I was having a pleasant chat with an Egyptian Arab and the next, she wore a stigma. We sat next to each other as the news of 9/11 was announced. ...

NOVANEWS November 19, 2010 by Khalil Nouri By Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER / EDITOR NATO’s meeting to build political consensus across the alliance for the post-2011 phase of “gradually” handing over security responsibilities to the Afghan forces will be on the table in Lisbon this week. According to NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, “The aim is for Afghan forces to be in the lead, countrywide, of security operations by the end of 2014.” Subsequently Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, who’s in charge of the NATO training effort in Afghanistan, was explicit about what the “end of 2014” does and doesn’t mean: “It doesn’t mean that there will still not be coalition forces here in support of them,” Caldwell said, “but the primary lead for security in this country must have been establishe...

NOVANEWS November 15, 2010 by Gordon Duff US SILENCE ON KASHMIR EMBOLDENS INDIAN NATIONALISTS, EMPOWERS TALIBAN By Michael Hughes As ghastly as it was for an Indian diplomat to lexically collate the words Tibet and Kashmir within the same sentence, even more surprising was the discovery of said parallelization’s source, which was none other than the typically more deliberate and diplomatically adroit Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna, who issued a motion today to Chinese foreign dignitaries that could easily be construed as meaning, “if you close your eyes to India’s alleged human rights abuses in Kashmir, we shall do the same with respect to China’s in Tibet.” Of course one would hope Krishna had perhaps been misquoted during a 70-minute bilateral conversation that took place betwee...

NOVANEWS November 14, 2010 by Raja Mujtaba By Air Commodore (Retd) Khalid Iqbal As the euphoric dust is settling down, it is easy to ascertain the extent to which the recent Obama-Singh summit has exposed Indian weakness. Budding major powers export aeroplanes and high end technologies, rather than importing; they Bangalore-away lowly errands rather than taking pride in running such routines. Above all, socio-economic well being of a common Indian has been bartered away for few aeroplanes, war machines, vague promises and piped dreams. Lame duck president has no surety of delivering on the promises which he has made. Anti-outsourcing legislation of America is all set to incrementally choke-out the Indian Silicon valley bonanza. India will be paying for 50,000 American jobs, while over ...