Quitting Over Syria

NOVANEWS Information Clearinghouse The release of the White House “Government Assessment” on August 30, providing the purported evidence to support a bombing attack on Syria, defused a conflict with the intelligence community that had threatened […]

Fixing Intel Around the Syria Policy

NOVANEWS President Barack Obama speaking to the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 24, 2013. (UN photo) Consortium News After the Aug. 21 chemical weapons incident in Syria, a number of senior U.S. intelligence analysts […]

The Turkish Spring: Lawyers Rounded Up

NOVANEWS For nearly three weeks, thousands of protestors have gathered peacefully at Occupy Gezi in Taksim Square in Istanbul. Turkish police have unleashed a brutal crackdown, resulting in three confirmed deaths and nearly 5,000 injured. […]