NOVANEWS http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/abdullah-alsenussi-execution-this… The secret agreements between our intelligence and Gaddafi’s will now remain safe for good. Gaddafi’s spymaster Abdullah al-Senussi will be shot in Libya before he has a chance to tell us about the […]
NOVANEWS http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/15/filming-police-violence-walter-scott… 18-year-old Michael Brown … was fatally shot by officer Darren Wilson. The final few minutes of Brown’s life had been captured by a small surveillance camera rolling inside a nearby grocery shop. As […]
NOVANEWS http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/us/facial-recognition-software-moves-from-overseas… Facial recognition software, which American military and intelligence agencies used for years in Iraq and Afghanistan to identify potential terrorists, is being eagerly adopted by dozens of police departments around the country. It […]
NOVANEWS http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/10/opinion/the-pentagons-dangerous-views… The Defense Department earlier this summer released a comprehensive manual outlining its interpretation of the law of war. The 1,176-page document, the first of its kind, includes guidelines on the treatment of journalists covering […]
NOVANEWS By Captain Robert L. Salas On March 25, 1967, I woke up groggy from my 24-hour “tour in the hole,” as we referred to duty in the underground capsule. As I recall that morning, […]
NOVANEWS By Eugene Puryear Eugene Puryear is a community and anti-war activist based in Washington D.C, and is the 2016 Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, running with Gloria La Riva for President. […]
NOVANEWS https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/30/jimmy-carter-u-s-oligarchy… Former president Jimmy Carter said Tuesday on the nationally syndicated radio show the Thom Hartmann Program that the United States is now an “oligarchy” in which “unlimited political bribery” has created “a complete subversion of […]
NOVANEWS http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/usled-airstrikes-in-syria-only… The first year of the … air war against Isis has already seen more than 17,000 bombs and missiles dropped on Iraq and Syria. The coalition has conceded just two civilian deaths. Asked […]
NOVANEWS http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/jul/13/psychologist-torture-doctors… Jean Maria Arrigo’s inbox is filling up with apologies. For a decade, colleagues of the 71-year-old psychologist ignored, derided and in some cases attacked Arrigo for sounding alarms that the American Psychological Association […]
NOVANEWS http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/30/how-mass-incarceration… [There is a] perverse form that public investment takes in many poor, minority neighborhoods: “million dollar blocks.” Our penchant for incarcerating people has grown so strong that, in many cities, taxpayers frequently spend more […]