NOVANEWS Senegal/Mali-based journalist Peter Tinti writes that debates in Washington over the US approach to counterterrorism in Africa have more to do with “keeping policy frameworks apace with practice” than actually shaping that practice:“Under the Obama administration, […]
NOVANEWS Aleppo, December 2012: An al-Jazeera correspondent had images relating to Syria that didn’t suit the station’s headquarters and which were not broadcast. This is no isolated incident. “What do you regard as a terrorist […]
NOVANEWS Primarily affected by the lack of rainfall was the country’s northeast, which accounts for 75 percent of total wheat production in Syria. The 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction notes that since the start […]
NOVANEWS Most Twitter users try to ignore messages from robot accounts. But maybe we should be putting bots to work for a more noble cause—democracy, writes the University of Washington’s Philip N. Howard “One estimate holds […]
NOVANEWS Arab newspaper quotes Jordan elements as saying Syrian defectors are in contact with Israel to return Eli Cohen’s remains. The London-based newspaper Al-Quds al-Arabi reported on Monday that a union of several Jordanian tribes […]
NOVANEWS http://forward.com/articles/168511/laying-groundwork-for-life-after-syrias-assad/ Still, some Syrian activists struggling for recognition of their fight to topple Assad recognize that their stance toward Israel may be a factor in their efforts to enlist international support.“There are many […]
NOVANEWS I’ve written before here about a crop of wannabe analysts that specialize in Israeli patronage–Amir Ebrahimi, Amir Fakhravar –and general political opportunism like the MEK’sHassan Daioeslam.There is also an effort, often by pro-Israel interests, to parachute […]
NOVANEWS …Two hand grenades thrown in Ayen Helweh http://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/show-news/3337/Two-hand-grenades-thrown-in-Ayen-Helweh At midnight anonymous attackers threw two hand grenades at the vegetable market inside Ayen Helweh Camp targeting a group of Palestinian youth celebrating the New Year, […]
Posted by Red Youth A 14 year old cadre of Red Youth has written and posted the following letter to his school who have instituted an Amnesty International club for the students. Our comrade, in a short […]
Posted by Red Youth Red Youth, standing shoulder to shoulder with our comrades in the Syrian Communist Youth Union reproduce the statement of the revolutionary Syrian youth who stand with the legitimate government of the Syrian […]