NOVANEWS It has been heartening to witness the backlash against former British Prime Minister Tony Blair over his attempt to deny any responsibility for the chaos and carnage that has engulfed northern and eastern Iraq […]
NOVANEWS For the Empire of Chaos, ISIS is the agent provocateur that fell from (Allah’s?) Heaven; the perfect ski mask-clad tool to keep the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in Enduring Freedom Forever mode. By Pepe […]
NOVANEWS “A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” John F. Kennedy by Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich ISIL […]
NOVANEWS Iraqi Abrams losses revealed Jeremy Binnie, London – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly This image is part of a series posted on a pro-ISIL Twitter account on 6 June. Source: Al-Anbar News (20 June 2014) – […]
NOVANEWS Imperial Looting by ROB URIE The most recent war on Iraq is widely considered to be George W. Bush’s war but a majority of leading Democrats including Hillary Clinton and John Kerry voted to grant Mr. […]
NOV The Perils of Cluelessness and Ineptitude by ANDREW LEVINE If you are powerful enough, you don’t have to be smart. This truism explains a lot about American military history. It explains how the […]
NOVANEWS Why US Airstrikes Won’t Stop ISIS by PATRICK COCKBURN Baghdad. Sunni rebels and Iraqi army forces fought for control of Iraq’s largest refinery at Baiji, as Baghdad waited for a US response to its […]
NOVANEWS Report on a Wave Outside the Sea by VIJAY PRASHAD To give back to your mother on the occasion of death a handful of bones she had given to you on the occasion of […]
NOVANEWS A Premeditated Policy? by PHIL GREAVES While recent developments in Iraq are being portrayed as spontaneous “spillover” from the imperialist war on Syria – still commonly referred to as an uprising, or “revolution” – […]
NOVANEWS US Rules Out Military Action Until Iraq’s Prime Minister Steps Down by PATRICK COCKBURN The US has told senior Iraqi officials that the Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, must leave office if it is to […]