NOVANEWS By James M. Dorsey Plans to open a Salafi missionary centre in the Yemeni province of Al Mahrah on the border with Oman and Saudi Arabia raise questions about Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s concept of […]
NOVANEWS Whither Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s “moderate” Islam? By James M. Dorsey Recent Algerian media reports detailing Saudi propagation of a quietist, apolitical yet supremacist and anti-pluralistic form of Sunni Muslim ultra-conservatism raises questions about the […]
NOVANEWS Saudi-Moroccan spat: Competing for the mantle of “moderate Islam” By James M. Dorsey Lurking in the background of a Saudi-Moroccan spat over World Cup hosting rights and the Gulf crisis is a more fundamental competition for the […]
NOVANEWS By: VT Senior Editors Robert Fisk (via The Nation/Pk) Vladimir Putin will have paid very close attention to the location of the Syrian artillery battery where four Russian soldiers lost their lives at the weekend. The […]
NOVANEWS If Saudi Arabia and Egypt have already sold their souls to the New World Order and to the Zionist Regime in Israel and the United States, if they have already prostrated before the Powers […]
NOVANEWS Knesset foils efforts to end Israeli apartheid By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth For most of the seven decades after its establishment, Israel went to extraordinary lengths to craft an image of itself as a “light unto […]
NOVANEWS The role of the Israeli media in the mass brainwashing of citizens By Uri Avnery It’s frightening. Unprincipled psychologists, in the service of a malignant regime, use sophisticated techniques in order to control the mind […]
NOVANEWS Impersonators, a secret toilet & $20m expenses: Trump and Kim Jong Un’s weird summit sideshow. A bartender presents a pair of Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un cocktails called The Bromance. / Reuters Billed […]
NOVANEWS FILE PHOTO: Young South Korean women take a formal deep bow during a traditional Coming-of-Age Day ceremony to mark adulthood at Namsan hanok village in Seoul on May 21, 2018 © Jung Yeon-je / […]
NOVANEWS A Maori man from New Zealand © Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters The ban on foreign ownership of homes in New Zealand, which aims to ease the housing affordability crisis, won’t improve the situation, according to […]