NOVANEWS Navi Pillay: It is ‘very important that governments now want to discuss the matters of mass surveillance and right to privacy in a serious way.’ – Lauren McCauley The UN high commissioner for human […]
NOVANEWS Four killed as anger at drone deaths boils and fresh protests flare – Sarah Lazare Drone strikes in Pakistan–like this one that struck a madrassa last month in Hangu, killing six and wounding many […]
NOVANEWS Special Rapporteur Juan Méndez: ‘A deadly attack on illegitimate targets amounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment’ – Sarah Lazare, staff writer Children gather near car destroyed in 2012 by a U.S. drone air […]
NOVANEWS ‘It would seem that the public is more open to the Palestinian narrative than some of its political leaders’ – Common Dreams staff A mural promotes peace in Palestine. (Photo: mkream/ cc via Flickr)A […]
NOVANEWS by Juan Cole Supporters of ousted Egypt’s Islamist President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans during a rally, in Nasser City, Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, July 4, 2013. (Credit: AP/Hassan Ammar)In Egypt, the interim appointed government of […]
NOVANEWS by Amy Goodman There has been yet another violent attack with mass casualties. This was not the act of a lone gunman, or of an armed student rampaging through a school. It was a group […]
NOVANEWS Special Report on Palestinian Political Prisoners and detainees from the Gaza Strip Introduction: Since1967 the Israeli occupation arrested more than 700,000 Palestinians, 250,000 of whom were residents of the Gaza Strip making up 35% […]
NOVANEWS A Criminal Government at Work by ALFREDO LOPEZ As the people of this country, and much of the world, observe the year-end holidays, we can look back on 2013 as the year when any […]
NOVANEWS The War Continues by RAMZY BAROUD 2013 has expectedly been a terrible year for several Arab nations. It has been terrible because the promise of greater freedoms and political reforms has been reversed, most […]
NOVANEWS Harpal Brar, Chairman of the CPGB-ML, gives a presentation summarising Marx’s teachings on the state. Key quotations and ideas are drawn from Marx and Engel’s seminal work, “The Communist Manifesto”, Engels’ “Origin of the […]