NOVANEWS The Western media has played a central role in obfuscating the nature of foreign interference in Syria including outside support to armed insurgents. In chorus they have described recent events in Syria as a […]
NOVANEWS US Ambassador Robert Ford arrived in Damascus in late January 2011 at the height of the protest movement in Egypt. America’s previous Ambassador to Syria was recalled by Washington following the 2005 assassination of […]
NOVANEWS by Yasmeen El-Khoudary I did not feel like writing about #GazaBlackOut because I felt like my lonely tweets did the job that night. However, under peer pressure, I’ve decided to write something up. It happened on Tuesday, […]
NOVANEWS by Mohammed Suliman I always believed to write is to “make less the depth of grief.” But it’s been long since I wrote down anything, and indeed I spent long and hard time attempting to […]
NOVANEWS Nabil al-Arabi, secretary general of the League of Arab States, speaks at the League’s headquarters in Cairo, on July 19, 2011. © 2011 Reuters The region is changing, and so should the Arab League. […]
NOVANEWS Youth Leader, Protesters Charged With ‘Insulting the Military’ © 2010 Human Rights Watch More Human Rights Watch reporting on Egypt The decision to try Asmaa Mahfouz is a major attack on free expression and […]
NOVANEWS by: Benjamin Ward Benjamin Ward, Deputy Director of Europe and Central Asia Strip away the high rhetoric from these attacks and they amount to a rejection of government being subject to the rule of law […]
NOVANEWS By Sara Flounders Global Research, International Action Center President Barack Obama on Aug. 18 demanded that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, saying that the Syrian leader’s days are numbered. The governments of Britain, […]
NOVANEWS Israel has carried out several bombing raids across Gaza killing at least 14 people over the past 48 hours. Israel is stating that the bombing is in response to the attacks on an Israeli […]
NOVANEWS Jason Ditz, antiwar.com In a press conference in the wake of the southern Israel attacks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the military and the nation’s spy agency Shin Bet for keeping the death toll from […]