NOVANEWS Takeyh’s analytic malfeasance extends to Iran’s domestic politics as well. His conversion from unimpressive establishment scholar to full-blown neocon fellow traveler is underscored by his remarkable insistence thatIran’s clerics are to blame for the […]
NOVANEWS Sunday Times, Dec 9: The United States is launching a covert operation to send weapons to Syrian rebels for the first time(overtly.that is) as it ramps up military efforts to oust President Bashar al-Assad. Mortars, rocket-propelled […]
NOVANEWS Tehran claims to reverse-engineer RQ-170 Sentinel, adding Iran is producing ‘more than 20 types of drones’ and intends to export. Saeed Kamali Dehghan guardian.co.uk, 7 February 2013 Iranian television shows footage that Iran says […]
NOVANEWS Bloomberg backs Brooklyn College over BDS event as another official withdraws funding threat CalPERS requests UN roundtable on ‘responsible investing in the Middle East’ as it begins to engage Veolia and Elbit over ties […]
NOVANEWS By Jamal Kanj Egypt is an experimental democracy in progress, but when the evolution of this process turns bloody it begs the question: is it worth it? An Egyptian tourist guide who has lost his […]
Mark Dankof’s America Feb 6, 2013 by crescentandcross Mark Dankof introduces his new “Is There Any Truth to the Rumor That. . . .? We’ll Ask our Secret Source” feature, followed by legitimate News Analysis which includes his Thank […]
NOVANEWS Dear Friends, 7 items this evening in addition to the message that I sent separately earlier from Professor Nurit Peled-Elhanan, and which I hope that you will (or have) read. Item 1 is on […]
Reflection on the report: Portrayal of the “Other” in Israeli and Palestinian School Books Nurit Peled-Elhanan* The report, short as it is, raises some poignant questions. Israeli educators, who hastened to pronounce it biased were quite right. Such […]
NOVANEWS Syria-Israel, business as usual by editor of we write what we like the “enemy” bombs… but you of course, don’t react, do you? WRITTEN BY LORENZO TROMBETTA, translated by Mary Rizzo No open warfare is about to […]
NOVANEWS Israeli forces detain Hamas MPs, officials across West Bank by Friends of Al-Aqsa Israel arrested 25 Palestinians in the West Bank overnight on Sunday, including two Hamas elected officials. The MPs are Hatim Qafisha from […]