NOVANEWS Toby Jones: Saudi Arabia is interested in ousting Assad but not a popular government taking his place Toby Jones is a historian of the modern Middle East. His scholarship focuses primarily on the political […]
NOVANEWS by John R. MacArthur However Congress eventually votes on Obama’s plans for Syria — and whatever gratuitous violence might ensue — the proponents of war should be remembered for setting new lows in debating and […]
NOVANEWS Twelve years after the 9/11 attacks, many prisoners of the “War on Terror” remain in legal limbo. by Andy Worthington Several dozen Guantanamo prisoners have been cleared for release, yet remain behind barsYesterday, on September […]
NOVANEWS by Amy Goodman As President Barack Obama’s attack on Syria appears to have been delayed for the moment, it is remarkable that Secretary of State John Kerry was meeting, on Sept. 11, with one of […]
NOVANEWS Government keeps tons of chemical weapons in Kentucky and Colorado, breaking global commitments to destroy them – Sarah Lazare As the Obama administration continues to threaten military intervention in Syria unless the government of Bashar al-Assad […]
NOVANEWS ‘U.S. is a rogue state’ In a national address from the White House Tuesday night, President Obama announced he is delaying a plan to strike Syria while pursuing a diplomatic effort from Russia for […]
NOVANEWS Chris Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries […]
NOVANEWS – Andrea Germanos Venezuela left the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Tuesday, a body President Nicolas Maduro decried as “a tool for U.S. geopolitical interests and for persecuting progressive goverments.” Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro. (Photo: Sec. de […]
NOVANEWS What follows is the text of President Barack Obama’s speech on Syria delivered on Tuesday, September 10 as provided by the Federal News Service: My fellow Americans, tonight I want to talk to you […]
NOVANEWS Leaked document ‘contrasts with assurances from the Obama administration’ – Jacob Chamberlain U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on March 20.(Reuters/Nir Elias)The […]