NOVANEWS Photo by Shoah Raif Badawi has been given 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes to be carried out over 20 weeks Associated Press in Dubai The Guardian, Saturday 10 January 2015 Raif Badawi with […]
NOVANEWS BY AMANDA SHEA In Xinjiang, China, where approximately half of the population is Muslim, communist leaders have decided to put four bans into effect for followers of the religion to protect citizens in the region in […]
NOVANEWS Exclusive: Saudi Arabia is wielding its oil weapon by keeping production high and prices low – all the better to punish some rivals and consolidate market share – but the gambit may come back […]
NOVANEWS Exclusive: Ex-CIA official Jeffrey Sterling is going on trial for espionage because he allegedly told a reporter about a botched covert op that sent flawed nuclear designs to Iran, but powerful people want to spare […]
NOVANEW Exclusive: Jumping on the Muslim-bashing bandwagon, Fox News’ commentator Steven Emerson claimed Muslims have seized control of parts of London and all of Birmingham, terrorizing non-Muslims to flee, claims so absurd that even he was […]
NOVANEWS Since the Reagan administration broke the back of professionalism at the CIA’s analytical division, U.S. intelligence has regularly been twisted for geopolitical purposes, including the case made over Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program, as Gareth Porter […]
NOVANEWS The upcoming Israeli elections mark a possible turning point in the Mideast – with more moderate Israelis challenging Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-line land grab of Palestinian territory. But Netanyahu’s approach is not the deviation from […]
NOVANEWS There may not be a big demand for 1990s nostalgia, but the 2016 presidential race could offer one more contest involving a Clinton and a Bush. Yet, some Democrats fear Hillary Clinton could ultimately […]
NOVANEWS Neocons and other U.S. hardliners, who want to bomb-bomb-bomb Iran, never stop scheming up ways to torpedo a deal that would constrain but not eliminate Iran’s nuclear program, with the latest idea a threat to impose […]
NOVANEWS Exclusive: As three suspects in the Charlie Hebdo massacre die in a shootout with French police, the cycle of violence that has engulfed the Mideast again reaches into the West, but the challenge is to learn from U.S. mistakes after […]