CHICKENSHIT NAZIYAHU
NOVANEWS By Uri Avnery When a high-ranking official of one country calls the leader of another country “chickenshit”, it may be assumed that the relations between the two countries are not at their best. In fact, […]
Category: USA
US Government Sanitizes Vietnam War History
NOVANEWS By Marjorie Cohn Global Research For many years after the Vietnam War, we enjoyed the “Vietnam syndrome,” in which US presidents hesitated to launch substantial military attacks on other countries. They feared intense opposition […]
Ebola, Human Rights and Poverty – Making the Links
NOVANEWS by: Alicia Ely Yamin Health workers in an Ebola screening unit in Kenema government hospital, Sierra Leone. Health systems are not just a means for the technical delivery of goods and services; they are part […]
GOP Betrays Social Security-Cutting Dems: Who Could’ve Seen It Coming?
NOVANEWS by: Richard Eskow For the bulk of Obama’s presidency, conventional Beltway wisdom has insisted that Democrats who endorse cuts to their party’s signature programs will be handsomely rewarded, with both the gratitude of voters and […]
Concerned About ISIS, But Also About Endless War? Back Limits on the Use of Force
NOVANEWS by: Robert Naiman The US House of Representatives in this 2013 file photo. In response to the U.S. bombing of Islamic State [“ISIS”] fighters in Iraq and Syria, which Congress has never explicitly approved, Members […]
Are FBI and NCTC Trying to Pressure Prosecutors to Charge the Second Intercept Source?
NOVANEWS by: Marcy Wheeler As it raises questions about whether the Obama Administration has the “appetite” to prosecute another inside source for journalists, the lastest reporting on the so-called “second leaker” seems designed to generate pressure […]
Investigation Reveals Uptick in ‘Snail Mail’ Surveillance
NOVANEWS New York Times investigation finds government tracking of Americans’ mail ‘more extensive than previously disclosed’ by: Lauren McCauley In 2013, state and federal agencies submitted 50,000 requests to scrutinize and track American’s mail. Though over a […]
Shell Wants Five More Years to Carry Out Arctic Plunder
NOVANEWS Oil giant asked Interior Department ‘to skirt rules,’ get more time after it spent fruitless $6 billion by: Andrea Germanos “We are, unfortunately, no longer capable of being surprised by either Shell’s efforts to skirt […]
HOW 9 U.S. PRESIDENTS REALLY FELT ABOUT JEWS
NOVANEWS Taken from private comments, personal diaries, confidential letters, offhanded quips and open mics FDR rode the Jewish wave into power At the Casablanca Conference in 1943, Roosevelt told Free French leaders that […]
Another New York Times’ reporter’s son is in the Nazi army
NOVANEWS Nazi army unit posted to Facebook page by Isabel Kershner’s son. Yet another reporter for the New York Times has a son in the Israeli Defense Forces. Isabel Kershner, a correspondent in the newspaper’s Jerusalem bureau, […]