NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem, Sr Senate Intelligence Committee’s report says CIA abuse violated ‘U.S. law, treaty obligations, and our values.’ Journalists, experts and human rights advocates say that torture program under the Bush administration […]
NOVANEWS Nation’s Wealthiest in Spending Bill Make ‘Great Train Robbery Look Like a Misdemeanor’ Wealthy donors and Wall Street score big with eleventh-hour federal omnibus budget being rushed through Congress by: Lauren McCauley, staff writer Campaign […]
NOVANEWS by: Hina Shamsi ‘The crime of torture,’ writes Shamsi, ‘has no statute of limitations when torture risks or results in serious injury or death, and the U.S. government has the obligation under international law to […]
NOVANEWS On drones, discrimination, and kicking bad habits by: Kathy Kelly “A group of Afghan friends,” writes Kelly, “had entrusted me with a simple message, their grievance, which they couldn’t personally deliver: please stop killing us.” […]
NOVANEWS Legal experts and human rights advocates says prosecutions must follow Senate’s report on CIA torture as president says grave violations of domestic and international law should be kept “where they belong—in the past” by: Jon […]
NOVANEWS While the protests over deaths of Eric Garner and Mike Brown refuse to stand down, leading environmentalists, labor protesters and others show their solidarity saying: “These issues are not separate.” by: Lauren McCauley, staff writer […]
NOVANEWS Our wars abroad are mirror images of the war at home. by: Sonali Kolhatkar Police with wooden sticks stand guard next to a protester with a sign that reads “Justice for Mike Brown, Eric Garner, […]
NOVANEWS From black sites to #BlackLivesMatter, it’s time to end impunity for criminals with badges. by: Shahid Buttar (Photo: Shane T. McCoy/Wikimedia) There’s no better way for Washington to commemorate Human Rights Day than by letting […]
NOVANEWS “Jews created most of modern American mass culture, from the movies, to television, to the fashion business, cosmetics, the music industry, mass-market paperbacks, all these ways of packaging and selling democratic pleasures to the […]
NOVANEWS A former jaildbird at Camp Bucca, a US-run prison in southern Iraq, says the rise of the ISIS would not be possible without the US prisons. In an exclusive interview to the Guardian, Abu Ahmed, […]