NOVANEWS For the second consecutive year, Turkey was the world’s leading jailer of journalists, followed closely by Iran and China. Together, the three countries accounted for more than half of all journalists imprisoned around […]
NOVANEWS Poll also finds majority thinks US troops should now withdraw more quickly – Sarah Lazare Members of Afghans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and allies lead a thousands-strong march against a NATO […]
NOVANEWS by Anthony D. Romero Edward Snowden deserves immunity from prosecution, says ACLU chief. (Credit: Laura Poitras)Edward Snowden is a patriot. As a whistleblower of illegal government activity that was sanctioned and kept secret by the […]
NOVANEWS by Bob Dreyfuss (Photo: ninjawil/ cc via flickr)Here’s the bottom line on the American drone strike that slaughtered as many as seventeen people in a wedding party in Yemen last week: the CIA, which carried […]
NOVANEWS To discuss the role of foreign powers fueling the ongoing conflict in Syria, Democracy Now! is joined by Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent. “It is clearly a proxy war. This might have started […]
NOVANEWS In August of this year, activists scored a victory when Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that the New York police department’s stop-and-frisk practices were unconstitutional and racially biased. In an effort to contest the ruling, […]
NOVANEWS by Giuliano Battiston Local Afghan elder standing near US traffic checkpoint in Afghanistan. (via The Atlantic)JALALABAD, Afghanistan – Afghanistan’s 30 million people are deeply divided over whether President Hamid Karzai should sign the Bilateral Security […]
NOVANEWS Ruling by Canadian court opens path for Chevron’s Ecuadorian victims to pursue payments for decades of contamination and pollution – Sarah Lazare A hand covered in crude from one of the hundreds of open […]
NOVANEWS Moazzam Begg, a former Gunatanamo Bay inmate, had documents taken Home Office said it was ‘not in the public interest’ for him to keep a passport The department suspects he was involved in terrorist […]
NOVANEWS The Daily Star Hezbollah supporters wave flags as they attend a ceremony in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Friday, Dec. 20, 2013. (The Daily Star/Hasan Shaaban) BEIRUT: Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah warned Friday against forming a fait accompli […]