NOVANEWS Choreographed war and other aspects of the world’s greatest game by Eduardo Galeano (Cartoon: Jean Jullien)[The following passages are excerpted at TomDispatch from Eduardo Galeano’s Soccer in Sun and Shadow (Nation Books, Open Road Media ebooks).] The Stadium Have […]
NOVANEWS Conor McCarthy The Electronic Intifada 140317-tcd.jpg Trinity College Dublin has taken part in an EU-funded research partnership with Israel’s arms industry. The term “boycott” has its origins in Ireland. It entered the English language during […]
NOVANEWS Vodafone disclosure report states that some countries need no warrant to wiretap because they’ve already got direct access. – Andrea Germanos A Vodafone store in London. (Photo: thebigbluebox/cc/flickr)Mobile phone giant Vodafone revealed Friday that […]
NOVANEWS Blackout slammed as an ‘outrageous assault’ on justice – Sarah Lazare (Photo: Lonpicman / Wikimedia Creative Commons)For the first time in the UK’s modern legal history, two men could face an entirely secret criminal […]
NOVANEWS The security firm failed to avoid censure over its role in Israel’s occupation despite a legal smokescreen By:AMENA SALEEM Thursday’s annual general meeting of G4S, the global security company which provides services to Israeli […]
NOVANEWS KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain was arrested on Tuesday in London on suspicion of money-laundering as thousands of people in his home city of Karachi staged a sit-in calling for his release. The […]
NOVANEWS ‘Neutered’ Iraq War inquiry to censor full content of conversations in lead-up to 2003 invasion – Sarah Lazare Tony Blair (left) and George W. Bush shake hands. (Photo: Wikimedia / Creative Commons)Critics are charging […]
NOVANEWS ‘Homeless spikes’ installed outside London flats Pictures of the spikes were uploaded to Twitter on Saturday, provoking anger from users Anti-homeless spikes photographed by Andrew Horton outside a block of luxury flats on Southwark […]
NOVANEWS Justice secretary’s comments come after it emerges that case involving two terror suspects is set to be heard in secret Rowena Mason and Sandra Laville theguardian.com, Thursday 5 June 2014 Chris Grayling said the default in the […]
NOVANEWS Legal charity Reprieve has threatened legal action against the British government over its failure to investigate the role of UK telecoms giant BT in facilitating covert US drone strikes in Yemen. BT has […]