NOVANEWS Secretary of State confirms proposed AUMF would allow for boots-on-the-ground in fight against the Islamic State by: Sarah Lazare Secretary of State John Kerry holds a news conference at NATO headquarters in Belgium December 3, […]
NOVANEWS ‘It is my obligation,’ says Israeli prime minister, ‘to do everything that I can to prevent this agreement.’ by: Sarah Lazare Benjamin Naziyahu being interviewed by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in 2011 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]
NOVANEWS Canada’s spy agency collects and stores millions of citizens’ emails each year by: Lauren McCauley The Tilley Building, headquarters of Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE), in Ottawa, Ontario. (Photo:P199/Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons) Canada’s electronic […]
NOVANEWS by: Jim Lobe British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Francois Hollande, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in this file photo. Why should Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be offered a preferential speech before the […]
NOVANEWS by: Paul Pillar Delegations of Secretary of State John Kerry, Britain’s Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, […]
NOVANEWS by: Patrick Cockburn ISIS is the child of the war against terrorism waged by the west. (Photo: Reuters) Today al-Qaeda-type movements rule a vast area in northern and western Iraq and eastern and northern Syria, several hundred times […]
NOVANEWS On why Obama’s recent admission on the ‘root causes of violence’ is not enough by: Ramzy Baroud US Marines from the 15th MEU during the initial stage of the Iraq invasion on March 23, 2003. (Photo: Wikimedia […]
NOVANEWS By Uri Avnery Winston Churchill famously said that democracy is the worst political system, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Anyone involved with political life knows […]
NOVANEWS by: Tom Engelhardt The U.S. State Department has just announced that armed Predator and Reaper drones will be available for sale to carefully vetted and selected allies around the world. (Image: Wikimedia/with overlay) My drone […]
NOVANEWS I’ve just returned from South Sudan (very briefly) to speak at Adelaide Writer’s Week. What a culture shock coming from Africa. Everything here is so shiny. Anyway, I’ll be speaking about Israel/Palestine, my investigative work over the […]