NOVANEWS Al-Jazeera ran a report this weekend called “The Hidden Genocide,” about the massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Burma. The piece includes interviews with several Rohingya refugees who watched family members and friends die in […]
NOVANEWS Human Rights watch released new satellite images of the destruction of homes and property of Rohingya Muslims in the Pauktaw, Mrauk-U and Myebon townships of Rakhine state. The images show the region in February and then […]
NOVANEWS By Spike Johnson Burma’s transition from a military-controlled state to a fledgling democracy has been touted by the Obama administration as one of its most impressive first-term foreign policy achievements. So much so that […]
NOVANEWS By Heather Marsh Children at an unregistered Rohingya refugee camp in southeast Bangladesh. Photo by no_direction_home Last Sunday, the internet was temporarily shaken up by a campaign designed to highlight the plight of the Rohingya people […]
NOVANEWS By Ray Downs The logo of the 969 group. When most Westerners think of Buddhism, they think of smiling men with potbellies and inspirational quotes from Phil Jackson. “Buddhist neo-Nazi” sounds like a contradiction […]
NOVANEWS By Assed Baig A military camp a few miles from Sittwe, Burma. Burma’s Muslims are still having a pretty awful time of it. Last year, the country’s Buddhist majority launched a series of attacks […]
Please make three phone calls today! 1. Call the Burmese embassy at 202-332-3344 and demand that the Government of Burma: • provides full protection to Rohingya in Kilaidong village and elsewhere. • launches a full and transparent […]
NOVANEWS Liberation Media announces the release of a new book by Dan Glazebrook Divide and Ruin: The West’s Imperial Strategy in an Age of Crisis is a collection of articles by British author Dan Glazebrook. Originally […]
NOVANEWS Darrin Manning requires emergency surgery on genitals Darrin Manning and mother Ikea Coney Darrin Manning, a 16-year-old high school basketball player, was brutally assaulted by police Jan. 7 in Philadelphia, receiving emergency surgery on his […]
NOVANEWS How we can honor his legacy today Originally posted to Liberation News Jan. 16, 2011. Today, Martin Luther King Jr.’s name has become synonymous with the entire Civil Rights Movement, and that movement has been […]