NOVANEWS By Jeff Baker, The Oregonian March 15, 2010, 3:33PM Portland writer and cartoonist Joe Sacco won the $10,000 Ridenhour Book Prize, given in honor of Ron Ridenhour, a Vietnam veteran who helped expose the […]
NOVANEWS Lawrence Wright authored ‘The Looming Tower,’ which is widely regarded as the definitive account of al-Qaeda. The book is called the ‘bible’ by intelligence operatives. Now what does this text say of the fateful […]
NOVANEWS Has the vice president gone missing? Or is he hiding in a secure undisclosed location? Strong words delivered by Joe Biden during his visit to Israel were widely reported last week. “This is starting […]
NOVANEWS I received several different queries from friends about my recent post on academic boycott. Both Adam Horowitz and Sami Hermez, who has an excellent article about the difference between boycott and censorship at the […]
NOVANEWS People are talking about this inspired attack by Juan Cole on the “burly former Israeli military prison guard at the notorious Ketziot detention camp” — former IDF Corporal Jeffrey Goldberg. The accomplishment of this […]
NOVANEWS A former member of John McCain’s braintrust, neocon RobertKagan is in the Washington Post to say that Obama’s alienating every other country, not just Israel. This is when my dual loyalty light goes on. […]
NOVANEWS David Bromwich ends a piece at Huffpo with stirringly homely excerpts of letters from Rachel Corrie, as he seeks to place the political struggle for Palestinian rights in an American context. On Hardball on […]
NOVANEWS Mearsheimer: the lobby can’t hide the fact it is siding with Israel against the US president John Mearsheimer at LRB says one great thing about the contretemps is that it has forced the lobby […]
NOVANEWSRasmussen poll, reported by Jay Bookman, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 49 percent of Americans believe that “Israel (should) be required to stop building new settlements in occupied Palestinian territory,” while only 22 percent believe it should not. […]
NOVANEWS Yes I am bad for owning the whole loaf but you are just as bad for dreaming you can own it Did you listen to Ethan Bronner’s multimedia report on the article where you […]