NOVANEWS ISIS Seeks Its Throne by VIJAY PRASHAD Iraq’s night is long Dawn breaks only to the murdered, Praying half a prayer and never finishing a greeting to anyone.” Mahmoud Darwish, Athar al-Farasha (tr. Sinan Antoon). Beirut. […]
NOVANEWS US Lines Up Iran Talks to Halt ISIS by PATRICK COCKBURN Iraq is close to all-out sectarian war as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) massacres dozens of Iraqi soldiers in […]
NOVANEWS by Robin Claremont (Credit: U.S. Army/cc/flickr)Over the past decade, American taxpayers have sunk hundreds of billions of dollars into funding the war in Iraq — $816 billion since 2003, and counting. Meanwhile, domestic human, social, and infrastructure […]
NOVANEWS by Marianne Williamson The urgent task before us is saving our world from the clutches of war and delivering it to fields of unending peace. (Credit”: flickr / cc / Hartwig HKD)Sometimes, it’s when all […]
NOVANEWS ‘An attack on Iraq would violate the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution,” warns Paul Findley, author of War Powers Resolution – Sarah Lazare President Barack Obama convenes an Oval Office meeting with his […]
NOVANEWS As Obama continues to “weigh” airstrikes, anti-war critics demand honest accounting of previous fiasco – Jon Queally Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has indicated he won’t step down as a pre-condition for U.S. airstrikes. (Credit: […]
NOVANEWS Lost dreams, lost armies, jihadi states, and the arc of Instability by Tom Engelhardt (Credit: U.S. Army/cc/flickr)As Iraq was unraveling last week and the possible outlines of the first jihadist state in modern history were […]
NOVANEWS POSTED BY ANDY BOROWITZ President George W. Bush unveiled his latest offering as an artist today—a painting of what he imagines Iraq looks like now. Talking to reporters at the George W. Bush Presidential Library […]
NOVANEWS AMERICAN CRIMES IN IRAQ By Patrick J. Buchanan The panic that engulfed this capital after the fall of Mosul, when it appeared that the Islamist fanatics of ISIS would overrun Baghdad, has passed. And […]
NOVANEWS By Julie Lévesque Global Research Iraq is once again front page news. And once again the picture that is presented to us in the Western mainstream media is a mixture of half truths, falsehoods, disinformation […]