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NOVANEWS October 28, 2010 by crescentandcross PESHAWAR: At least 1,863 people have been killed so far in 184 attacks by the United States drones in Pakistani territory since June 18, 2004, official sources disclosed on Tuesday. There has been an unprecedented surge in the drone attacks during the current year. A total of 749 people have been killed in 89 attacks during 2010, according to the provincial home ministry sources in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial capital Peshawar. The month of September witnessed the maximum number of attacks — 16 followed by 11 drone attacks in January. Nine attacks have been reported during the current month until Oct.20 in which a number of innocent civilians, besides some militants, were killed. The killings of tribesmen in the federally administ...

NOVANEWS  You should be ashamed of supporting Israel, Hamas tells West October 28, 2010 by crescentandcross  Most Popular Content All   Speaking In Tongues–The Deadly Dialect of the Zionist Language Stuxnet Computer Worm–Israel’s Attempt To Silence Iran on 9/11 or Veiled Threat to the Entire World? Pastor Terry Jones--All Bark and No Bite When It Comes To Speaking The Truth About Islam and Judaism The West is floundering in immorality and has no right to criticize the Islamist movement Hamas over the way it governs the Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip, a veteran leader of the militant group said. Hamas strategist Mahmoud Al-Zahar also said that the West should be “ashamed of supporting Israel, You cannot support the foundation of Israel. Don’t you care about the...

NOVANEWS     Rajeesh | October 28, 2010 Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1Wp by Mike E on October 27, 2010 This appeared in The Hindu. Arundhati Roy is the author of many works, including Walking With the Comrades. by Arundhati Roy October 26, 2010 — I write this from Srinagar, Kashmir. This morning’s papers say that I may be arrested on charges of sedition for what I have said at recent public meetings on Kashmir. I said what millions of people here say every day. I said what I, as well as other commentators have written and said for years. Anybody who cares to read the transcripts of my speeches will see that they were fundamentally a call for justice. I spoke about justice for the people of Kashmir who live under one of the most brutal military oc...

NOVANEWS Report: Israel planned explosion at Iranian missile site  October 27, 2010 by crescentandcross By JPOST.COM STAFF  10/25/2010 An explosion that killed 18 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on October 12 was ordered by the Mossad, French newspaper Le Figaro suggested on Monday.  Another cause for the blast mentioned by the paper was a targeted Israeli air raid. Official Iranian reports stated that the explosion occurred after a fire broke out in a weapons depot. Le Figaro also alleged that the explosion occurred at a secret missile site for the long-range Shahab-3, capable of being modified to carry a nuclear payload and striking Israel. The Imam Ali missile base is located in western Iran near the city of Khoramabad.

NOVANEWS In Uncategorized October 27, 2010 by crescentandcross  Most Popular Content All   Speaking In Tongues–The Deadly Dialect of the Zionist LanguageRated 5/5 (14 Votes) Stuxnet Computer Worm–Israel’s Attempt To Silence Iran on 9/11 or Veiled Threat to the Entire World? Pastor Terry Jones--All Bark and No Bite When It Comes To Speaking The Truth About Islam and Judaism At least five people have been killed in a bomb blast after dawn prayers at a famous Sufi Muslim shrine in eastern Pakistan, police say. Monday’s attack occured at the Baba Farid shrine in the city of Pakpattan, 190km from Lahore, the capital of the heartland province of Punjab. Two men riding a motorbike left a milk container near the gate of the shrine, which then exploded in a huge fireball, a witness said...

NOVANEWS October 27, 2010 by crescentandcross       Mr Gorbachev also said democracy in Russia was experiencing problems The former leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, has warned Nato that victory in Afghanistan is “impossible”. Mr Gorbachev said that the US had no alternative but to withdraw its forces if it wanted to avoid another Vietnam. As Soviet leader, he pulled his troops out of Afghanistan more than 20 years ago after a 10-year war. UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said troops would not be withdrawn from the country until their “very difficult” work was complete. In an interview with the BBC’s Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg, Mr Gorbachev praised President Barack Obama for his decision to begin withdrawing troops next year, but said the US would stru...

NOVANEWS NYTimes Columnist Deplores Afghan War’s Effect on Soldiers October 25, 2010by Michael Leon PTSD - Deserting our veterans - From the VA: New York Times (10/23, A21) columnist Bob Herbert, in a column entitled “The Way We Treat Our Troops,” writes of an Army sergeant recently killed during his 12th tour of duty, having served four in Iraq and into his eighth in Afghanistan.  The columnist adds, “I would bring back the draft in a heartbeat. Then you wouldn’t have these wars that last a lifetime.” Severely critical of the Afghan war as a “world-class fiasco,”, Herbert writes that, “Stressed-out, depressed and despondent soldiers are seeking help for their mental difficulties

NOVANEWS Rajeesh | October 24, 2010 | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1Wd DSUJNU   Arundhati Roy & SAS Geelai on the dias in the historic public meeting on 'AZADI: The only way' 22nd October 2010 in LTG auditorium (Delhi) Yesterday in a historic convention in LTG Auditorium, Mandi House, many voices representing various peoples’ movements of South Asia reverberated to collectively assert that Azaadi is the only way ahead for Kashmir. Along with the prominent speakers from Kashmir, the struggling nationalities of Manipur, Nagalim, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, as well as activists, writers, intellectuals from India hailed the heroic struggle of the people of Kashmir for their denied self-determination, the aspiration for justice and dignity. The commun...

NOVANEWS A rights group has called for harsh penalties against hoteliers who allow their premises to be used for child prostitution. The Kenya Alliance for Advancement of Rights of Children said that cases of child abuse at the Coast had been on the increase and there was need to put in place harsh penalties against the perpetrators. The group’s coast regional coordinator, Ms Peggy Saka, said the move was not just aimed at stopping commercial sexual exploitation of children in the travel and tourism sector, but also to curb the menace of human trafficking. “Those who are found promoting child abuse should be charged as per the Sexual Offences Act,” Ms Saka told the Nation in a telephone interview. A campaign launched in 2007 in which hotels were required to sign a code of conduct to protec...

NOVANEWS By Nancy A. Boxill, Deborah J. Richardson and D. Scott Weimer
 On June 11, 2000, an op-ed by then-Chief Judge of Fulton County Juvenile Court Nina R. Hickson, “An Epidemic of Tragic Proportions,” was published on these pages. That op-ed was a first step in shedding light on a tragedy happening in our own backyards — the commercial sexual exploitation of children across our county and state.  Since then, thanks to the work of advocates throughout Georgia, progress has been made toward ending the sexual exploitation of children in the form of policy change, increased funding for systems of care, increased law enforcement engagement and heightened public awareness. Despite these gains, a decade later the “epidemic of tragic proportions” persists. Research by the Shapiro Group, fund...