Bakersfield police kill elderly man with dementia
NOVANEWS RT A retired cotton gin operator out for a walk was shot and killed by a Bakersfield, California police officer. Police were responding to a call about a man with a gun, but found […]
Category: Human Rights
Nazi forces shoot Palestinian activist
NOVANEWS Nazi forces shoot Palestinian activist with rubber-coated steel bullet for taking photos Nazi forces on Monday evening shot a Palestinian activist in the leg with a rubber-coated steel bullet during a raid in the occupied […]
Nazi Gestapo Shin Bet torture hundreds Palestinian children
NOVANEWS Hundreds of torture complaints against Nazi Gestapo Shin Bet, no investigations Hundreds of complaints of torture against Nazi Gestapo Shin Bet agents have produced not a single criminal investigation, according to a report in Haaretz. Of […]
How Human Rights Sell War
NOVANEWS By: teleSUR Amnesty International campaign poster issued during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. | Photo: Links. teleSUR spoke to author Jean Bricmont on how the industry and ideology of human rights has been used […]
U.S. First Shields Its Torturers and War Criminals From Prosecution, Now Officially Honors Them
NOVANEWS By Glenn Greenwald The Intercept As vice president, Dick Cheney was a prime architect of the worldwide torture regime implemented by the U.S. government (which extended far beyond waterboarding), as well as the invasion and […]
Holiday Hardship: Austerity Cuts Hit Poor UK Children Whose Families Rely on Benefits
NOVANEWS By Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead More than 300,000 children living in low-income households in Britain are set to plunge further into poverty thanks to a controversial austerity measure introduced earlier this month by the Conservative government. […]
Cornel West on Keith Lamont Scott Case: Yet Again an Officer Gets Away With Killing a Black Man
NOVANEWS By Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh In Charlotte, North Carolina, people took to the streets Wednesday night to protest the announcement that police officer Brentley Vinson will not face charges for fatally […]
The real link between Nazi forest fires and muezzin bill
NOVANEWS The real link between Israel’s forest fires and muezzin bill By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth Israeli legislation ostensibly intended to tackle noise pollution from Muslim houses of worship has, paradoxically, served chiefly to provoke […]
Journalist Omar Nazzal, Shadi Jarrar among Palestinians ordered to additional imprisonment without charge
NOVANEWS Omar Nazzal, prominent Palestinian journalist and member of the General Secretariat of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, was ordered on Monday, 21 November to three additional months in administrative detention by the Israeli occupation military. […]
Egypt jails 3 anti-coup presenters for ‘false news’
NOVANEWS MEMO An Egyptian court on Saturday slapped three anti-coup TV presenters with a 3-year jail term each in absentia for spreading false news. Egyptian authorities accuse Mohamed Naser, a presenter at the Mekameleen satellite […]