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NOVANEWS The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is now a an online-only newspaper, surviving and seemingly thriving in a new age. But its ability to report deeply on various issues has been reduced due to a lack of […]

NOVANEWS Next time you read in the corporate press about the desperate situation for Afghan women (caused by the Taliban, of course, never the foreign occupation), remember this: ‘Out-of-the-box’ CIA think tank proposes concerns over […]

NOVANEWS Two Zionist soldiers have been killed during clashes with Hamas fighters on the Gaza Strip’s southern border. Two other soldiers were wounded during the fighting which broke out east of the town of Khan […]

NOVANEWS In the West Bank, there is a two-tiered system of justice, including for minors. For settler children, justice is administered according to Israeli domestic law, with all the due process protections that affords. They […]

NOVANEWS “الأمن” يتحسس مسدّسه عند اشتمامه رائحة “الحريّة” الأمن اللبناني يمارس الحريّة وأخيراً، وجد الأمن اللبناني ما يقوم به. خلع عنه بريستيجه والبذلة الأنيقة التي يستخدمها كفلكلور ديمقراطي، يزهو به أمام المدهوشين من الديمقراطية التوافقيّة. […]

NOVANEWS The Lebanese Army (just like Lebanon) has been since its inception a joke. An Army that only showed its heroism against the Palestinian civilians through the ages. A Lebanese blogger, Khodor Salamah, was recently […]

NOVANEWS by Philip Weiss I keep flailing the American press for not showing people what East Jerusalem looks like; how far settlements like Gilo and Ramat Shlomo are from the Old City. Well the Times […]

NOVANEWS I hadn’t planned on writing another post on Passover until I came across the halachic (Jewish religious law) doctrine of milchemet reshut. A 2002 essay on the web site of a Reform synagogue in […]

NOVANEWS Moshe Machover was one of the founders of Matzpen, the Israeli socialist anti-Zionist group. A talk that expands on the themes briefly surveyed in this talk is available here. Looking at Zionist irredentism and […]

NOVANEWS Following the recent arrest in the West Bank of an Australian activist, Israeli blogger Noam Sheizaf comments on the ominous, largely ignored, ramifications: Two international activists, Ariadna Jove Marti (Spain) and Bridgette Chappell (Australia), […]