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NOVANEWS October 22, 2010 by Paul Fitzgerald & Elizabeth Gould Afghanistan:  The Strategy’s Not Working Nearly a year into the Obama administration’s new AfPak strategy the only thing that is clear is that it’s not working. Little has changed except the severity of the insurgency. General Petraeus has shifted back to a confused mix of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency (that failed the first time); backing “reconciliation” talks with Taliban leaders while pounding them with overwhelming firepower in the hopes of getting a better deal at the bargaining table. The war in Afghanistan Matthew Green of the Financial Times doesn’t believe the conditions exist for reconciliation given that, “The Taliban and allied Haqqani network, hunkered down in Pakistani havens, believe they can outl...

NOVANEWS Massive Convention against Operation Green Hunt held successfully in Jalandhar by DEMOCRATIC FRONT AGAINST OPERATION GREEN HUNT, PUNJAB Rajeesh | October 20, 2010  Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1Wc Call of the Convention BUILD A BROAD SPECTRUM OF RESISTANCE MOVEMENTS!OPPOSE NEO-LIBERAL POLICIES AND SUPPRESSION OF PEOPLES’ MOVEMENTS THROUGH ARMED FORCES! On 17th October, when people were celebrating Dussehra to mark the victory of Good over the Evil, the Democratic Front Against Operation Green Hunt, Punjab, held a massive Convention in Desh Bhagat Yadgar Hall, Jalandhar on “War against the people & Role of Democratic Forces.” It was addressed by noted pro-people thinker & Booker Award winner writer Arundhati Roy and Gandhian social activi...

NOVANEWS October 19, 2010 by Hanan Habibzai   Iran Looking to Influence Strategies in Afghanistan By Hanan Habibzai, STAFF WRITER The presence of Iranian diplomat in a key international meeting raised concerns over Iran’s controversial role in Afghanistan. It is first time, an Iranian representative attending a meeting on Afghanistan’s development issues organised by an international group. ‘’Iran will attempt to influence international strategies, if it regularly allowed attending such meetings ‘’ A Kabul University student Qadimullah Masoomi expressed his concerns. According to The New York Times, the move welcomed Monday by both the American and international officials. A high ranking Iranian diplomat Ali Qanezadeh was also present at a briefing by Gen.David H Petraeus on NATO’s strateg...

NOVANEWS October 19, 2010 by Debbie Menon By James Petras — Introduction Over the better part of the present decade, Latin American stock markets have boomed.  Overseas investors have reaped and repatriated billions in dividends, profits and interest payments.  Multi-national corporations have piled into mining, agro-business and related sectors, unimpeded and with virtually no demands by local regions for ‘technological transfers’ and environmental constraints.  Latin American regimes, have accumulated unprecedented foreign currency reserves to ensure that foreign investors have unlimited access to hard currencies to remit profits.  The decade has witnessed unprecedented political and social demobilization of radical social movements.  Regimes have provided political and social protec...

NOVANEWS By: Prof. Randhir Singh        Originally published in Mainstream, August 15, 2010 With India’s ruling classes openly opting for a capitalist path of development for the country, the situation in the country today confronts our people with, possibly, the hardest and most fateful choices of their long history. The most important feature of the current political situation in India is the Operation Green Hunt, the Indian state’s war on people being conducted by the Congress-led government, fully backed by the parties in Opposition ranging from the BJP to the CPI-Marxist. What is happening is however part of a larger story: the neo-liberal or capitalist path of development for the country which the Indian ruling classes have now openly opted for. This option has today become the great...

NOVANEWS A Billionaire, Mine Owners And Unpaid Wages. modernityblog   18/10/2010 The billionaire President of Chile, Sebastian Pinera, has been milking the pain and suffering of the 33 miners that were trapped underground for all that it is worth. But the carefully crafted photo-shoots with Sr. Pinera, all smiles, hides a deeper reality, other mineworkers at the San Jose mine have not been paid for two months. Imagine, you are already short of money and then you don't get paid for two months, that's what the mineowners inflicted on the San Jose mineworkers. These consequences of the accident largely go unreported, except for two small pieces on the BBC: "But their colleagues have taken to the streets in protest because they haven't been paid since the accident, which happene...

האומות המאוחדות OCHA – המשרד לתאום עניינים הומניטריים השטח הפלסטיני הכבוש www.ochaopt.org      EHHochaopt@un.org בורין מדמיע (נפת שכם), ירו כוחות ישראליים מיכלי גז מדמיע על המפגינים. דווח על מקרים אחדים של שאיפת גז. הפגנות אחרות, המתנהלות על בסיס שבועי, לרבות אלו נגד בניית הגדר באל -ולג'ה ואל -מעסרה נפגעים נפת בית לחם) ונגד הסגירה הקבועה של רחוב מסחרי בעיר העתיקה של חברון, התנהלו בשקט ובלא.כ 200- פלסטינים ופעילים בינלאומיים וישראלים ארגנו אירוע חברתי בכפר א-נבי סאלח (נפת רמאללה) לרגל יום השלום הבינלאומי אל הכפר פרצו עימותים אחרי שהכוחות הישראליים ניסו למנוע מ נעצרו חמישה פעילים ישראליים ובינלאומיים , ב 25- בספטמבר. כוחות ישראליים הקימו מחסומי פתע שסגרו את כל הכניסות, ובכך מנעו גישה בכלי רכב מאנשים שרצו להשתתף באירוע. בין המשתתפים לכוחות הישראליים30- סטודנטים גישה למקום. במהלך העימותים...

NOVANEWS The Ugly Truth Podcast Oct 14, 2010 crescentandcross | October 14, 2010 Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p2dGk-zU The Ugly Truth Podcast Oct 14, 2010 Alex Jones the most dangerous man in the ‘truth movement”? THINK AGAIN. For all Jones’ danger as an agent of disinformation, at least he is not ready, willing and able to send armed thugs to the home of someone he disagrees with over politically. Come listen to today’s program as we discuss Jeff Rense’s recent threats to have agents of the FBI and Department of Homeland Security visit the home of Mark Glenn, where he resides with his wife and 9 children over a personal dispute.

NOVANEWS October 14, 2010 by Debbie Menon I have been advised that the new Iran NIE, which is still being negotiated, will likely reflect a compromise giving everyone what they want. BY PHILIP GIRALDI Twenty-first century going-to-war requires that the proper procedures be observed, even if the United States Congress has become shy about declaring war as required by the constitution.  There was never any doubt that George W. Bush and his neocon team would go to war with Iraq, but they first obtained what they believed to be adequate justification from the United Nations and a green light in the form of a congressional resolution before they actually initiated conflict.  Currently, there is no piece of paper relating to a possible new war that is more important than the impending Nationa...

NOVANEWS VETERANS TODAY EDITOR HAMID GUL CALLED “TONY SOPRANO” OF PAKISTAN October 14, 2010 by Gordon Duff Pakistan’s Most Dangerous Man? By Michelle Shephard National Security Reporter Toronto Star RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN—The former spy chief once dubbed the “most dangerous man” and more recently, “Pakistan’s Tony Soprano,” ends the interview with a fatherly pat on the cheek. “When the war in Afghanistan is over, you’ll have to come back and meet the most dangerous man again,” says Hamid Gul with a chuckle, then offers a more formal handshake. Gul, a former head of Pakistan’s Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, has loomed large in the debate about ISI’s double dealings since this summer’s WikiLeaks of U.S. intelligence reports. Most titillating in the release of m...