NOVANEWS https://theintercept.com/2015/12/30/spying-on-congress-and-israel-nsa-cheerleaders… The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that the NSA under President Obama targeted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his top aides for surveillance. In the process, the agency ended up eavesdropping on … U.S. lawmakers […]
NOVANEWS http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/26/world/middleeast/us-foreign-arms-deals-increased… Foreign arms sales by the United States jumped by almost $10 billion in 2014, about 35 percent, even as the global weapons market remained flat and competition among suppliers increased, a new congressional […]
NOVANEWS http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a40810/ramadi-liberated-will-cnn-notice/ Ramadi was liberated today, but will anyone notice? The sad fact is that nothing that actually happens on the ground against Daesh (ISIS) is likely going to have a material effect on the culture of […]
NOVANEWS http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746 The US is dominated by a rich and powerful elite. So concludes a recent study by Princeton University Prof Martin Gilens and Northwestern University Prof Benjamin I Page. This is not news, you say. Perhaps, […]
NOVANEWS Posted by News Post In this excellent article, first published in antiwar.com, Dan Sanchez takes a step back to look into the genesis of the ongoing crisis in the Middle East. It should be intuitively […]
NOVANEWS By: Wayne Madsen Members of the US Congress have reacted in horror to published reports that the US National Security Agency ensnared a number of House of Representatives and Senate members in communicating directly with […]
NOVANEWS By GPD An investigation has revealed the tactics used by Pentagon officials to prevent the transferal or freeing of prisoners from Guantanamo, despite the wishes of the White House. US Defense Department officials have used several […]
NOVANEWS Will the US fall for Saudi Arabia’s deliberate provocation? ” Zio-Wahhabi King Shalom Bin Yahood” shoah.org.uk By Trita Parsi* There should be little doubt that Saudi Arabia wanted to escalate regional tensions into a crisis […]
NOVANEWS By Lawrence Wittner When Americans think about nuclear weapons, they comfort themselves with the thought that these weapons’ vast destruction of human life has not taken place since 1945—at least not yet. But, in […]
NOVANEWS By: Robert Reich Economic forecasters exist to make astrologers look good, but I’ll hazard a guess. I expect the U.S. economy to sputter in 2016. That’s because the economy faces a deep structural […]