The Government Draws a Line in the Sand
NOVANEWS The Syrian government has drawn a line in the sand. Now that it has made concessions — canceled the special National Security Court, lifted the emergency law, fired governors of Banyas and Deraa […]
Year: 2011
Insider’s view of Libya’s unlikely revolutionaries
NOVANEWS UK Guardian journalist Chris McGreal – whom I know and respect from his fine reporting in Palestine and South Africa – writes about the latest revolution; Libya: Few revolutions have been more inspiring. After years of reporting […]
Mondoweiss Online Newsletter
NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem Chair of West Midland PSC 10-year-old Palestinian girl’s coma and death ascribed to psychological trauma of being prevented from touching her father on prison visit On Easter, spare […]
Dorothy Online Newsletter
NOVANEWS Dear Friends, Just 5 items tonight, not because there was nothing else to send, but because the initial 3 are relatively long and are important reading. Item 1 is, to my knowledge, […]
A.Loewenstein Online Newsletter
NOVANEWS Posted By: Sammi IbrahemChair of West Midland PSC Serco’s rhetoric and reality in Australia vastly different Marrickville BDS debate showed how little Palestine is understood in Australia Australian officials witness to Colombo-led torture Sri […]
Syria: Great Friday: Over 80 Killed
NOVANEWS Maydan in 1840 Over 80 dead are reported in the government crackdown on Friday April 22. The government is struggling to contain the demonstrations. Some think that they would not grow indefinitely were the […]
Ghassan Bin Jiddu: resigns from Aljazeera
NOVANEWS This is big: the Beirut bureau chief for Aljazeera, Ghassan Bin Jiddu, who hosts the program Hiwar Maftuh (widely watched), has submitted his resignation. It is due to the recent radical shift of Aljazeera’s coverage […]
The Resurrection Myth / Jesus Was Divinely Human And A Rebel For Love
NOVANEWS This arresting picture of Jesus as a revolutionary, imitating the style of the famous poster of 1960s fighter Che Guevara, was produced as an advertising poster encouraging people to go to church […]
Battle of nerves
NOVANEWS Asif Haroon Raja Pak-US relations that apparently ran smoothly from September 2001 till 2005 developed hiccups in 2006 and ever since the relations have been uneasy. Award of civil nuclear deal together […]
To: Helen Thomas CC: MSM, US-IsraHell Government Subject: AIPAC, Vanunu, Arrigoni
NOVANEWS by Eileen Fleming Dear Helen Thomas, I am the founder of one of 100 organizations who have endorsed Move Over AIPAC, but I didn’t commit to attend until I learned you were going to […]