NOVANEWS Systemic Integration of (Military) Power by NORMAN POLLACK The militarization of intelligence is not a new development. That had always been its primary if not also integral function from the start. E.g., the CIA did not […]
NOVANEWS by PATRICK COCKBURN The final bankruptcy of American and British policy in Syria came 10 days ago as Islamic Front, a Saudi-backed Sunni jihadi group, overran the headquarters of the Supreme Military Council of […]
NOVANEWS by NANCY KURSHAN “Oscar Lopez-River has been accused of seditious conspiracy, conspiracy to free his people from the shackles of injustice. Now is the time for his immediate and unconditional release.” Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop […]
NOVANEWS Another day and another boycott of the apartheid state of Israel. As has been widely reported, on 15 December the American Studies Association (ASA), which has more than 5,000 members, joined a growing movement […]
NOVANEWS A federal court ruled today that the NSA’s mass call-tracking program violates the Constitution. The lawsuit was filed in Washington by activist Larry Klayman. The American Civil Liberties Union is currently litigating a similar […]
NOVANEWS One-sided report excludes agency critics WASHINGTON – December 16 – The National Security Agency has been the source of major controversy, thanks to the journalists writing critical stories based on files shared by whistleblower […]
NOVANEWS by Greg Mitchell NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander. (Screen grab)The sad decline and fall of 60 Minutes has been a long time coming, but now it is nearly complete. Just in recent months: the horrid hit on […]
NOVANEWS by Chris Hedges I began teaching a class of 28 prisoners at a maximum-security prison in New Jersey during the first week of September. My last class meeting was Friday. The course revolved around plays […]
NOVANEWS ‘We need intimate, small places like this that care about the books they pick’ – Jacob Chamberlain (Photo: Curtis Cron / Flickr / Creative Commons)Even in the era of Amazon.com and the e-book, which […]
NOVANEWS A twenty-year marketing campaign has made highly powerful stimulants into household names… and they’re just getting started – Jon Queally Having chemically-saturated the youth market, the drug marketeers for powerful stimulants like Adderall are […]