NOVANEWS by Norman Solomon Now that public pressure has foiled U.S. plans to bomb Syria, the next urgent step is to build public pressure for stopping the deluge of weapons into that country. The flood of […]
NOVANEWS Rania Masri is an Arab American human rights activist, environmental scientist, university professor, and writer. Since 2005, she has been an Chair of the Environmental Sciences Department at the University of Balamand in Lebanon. […]
NOVANEWS In Belgrade in 1999, as the air-raids became regular and widespread, we lived on instinct, and in constant fear by Jasmina Tesanovic Firefighters tackle the burning Serbian interior ministry building in downtown Belgrade after a […]
NOVANEWS by Mitchell Plitnick U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry directs a comment to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after a meeting that touched on Middle East peace talks and Syrian chemical weapons, in Jerusalem […]
NOVANEWS Official report confirms expectations, but culpability remains unclear – Sarah Lazare Professor Ake Sellstrom, head of the UN chemical weapons investigation in Syria, handing over the report on the Al-Ghouta massacre to Secretary-General Ban […]
NOVANEWS Senator Richard Blumenthal (AFP Photo / Brendan Smialovsky) In Cold War style, US Senators have urged the Obama administration to freeze assets of three major Russian banks, ban their activities in the US, and […]
NOVANEWS Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP – The Syrian crisis over the past few weeks has thrust President Obama into a role in which at times he has seemed uneasy: that of commander in chief. By Ernesto Londoño and Craig […]
NOVANEWS Haaretz Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Syria’s chemical weapons cache was built up in response to Israel’s alleged nuclear weapons stockpile, and that these nuclear capabilities make Israel into a target. “Syrian chemical […]
NOVANEWS By F. William Engdahl * 10 October 2012 – On October 3, 2012 the Turkish military launched repeated mortar shellings inside Syrian territory. The military action, which was used by the Turkish military, conveniently, to […]
NOVANEWS By: Igor Alexeev Real alternative to EU exports is born during recent talks in Moscow. Representatives of Chinese National Petroleum Company and Russia’s oil & gas giants Gazprom and Novatek have inked the agreement […]