NOVANEWS Handout / Reuters Nov 8, 2013, Buzzfeed ANTAKYA, Turkey — The activist threw himself into Syria’s revolution from its early days. He organized protests, documented the deadly crackdowns and disseminated the news, risking his life. […]
NOVANEWS Information Clearinghouse The release of the White House “Government Assessment” on August 30, providing the purported evidence to support a bombing attack on Syria, defused a conflict with the intelligence community that had threatened […]
NOVANEWS British-Pakistani historian, activist and editor of the New Left Review, Tariq Ali, says that without publicly available evidence, Barack Obama’s claim that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against civilians and rebels is […]
NOVANEWS bY: The Guardian Suppose a respectable opinion poll found that most Syrians are in favour of Bashar al-Assad remaining as president, would that not be major news? Especially as the finding would go against the […]
NOVANEWS Nov 12, 2013, Ken Stone: As expected, Prime Minister Harper wholly endorsed President Obama’s call to punish the Syrian government for its alleged use of chemical weapons on August 21, 2013.1 Harper did, however, decline […]
NOVANEWS President Barack Obama speaking to the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 24, 2013. (UN photo) Consortium News After the Aug. 21 chemical weapons incident in Syria, a number of senior U.S. intelligence analysts […]
NOVANEWS By: Jonathan Cook One of the problems for the left is the desperate need of too many of its best and brightest to maintain legitimacy “in the mainstream”. In practice, those who could be advancing […]
NOVANEWS By Marjorie Cohn and Jeanne Mirer The drums of war are beating again. The Obama administration will reportedly launch a military strike to punish Syria’s Assad government for its alleged use of chemical weapons. […]
NOVANEWS A poster displaying Hezbollah’s sign is carried during a demonstration in at Tehran University. The assassination of a Sunni cleric who supported Hezbollah has intensified sectarian passions in Lebanon. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah) | License Photo […]
NOVANEWS Russian President Vladimir Putin (RIA Novosti/Alexei Druzhinin) For the first time since 2011, the Russian and Syrian presidents spoke on the phone to discuss developments in the Syria crisis. Vladimir Putin called Bashar Assad […]