NOVANEWS Leading international development, environmental, trade and food sovereignty organizations join House Democrats in defending family farmers in El Salvador, highlight abiding concerns with U.S. trade policy Fifty organizations sent a letter to Secretary of State John […]
NOVANEWS Interviews Available RAED JARRAR, jarrar.raed@gmail.com, @raedjarrar Available for a very limited number of interviews, Jarrar is an Iraqi-born Arab-American architect, blogger and political advocate (bio below). He said today: “Last week, the Obama administration requested hundreds […]
NOVANEWS Troops have been on the ground since 2007 – Nadia Prupis (Photo: Expert Infantry/Flickr/Creative Commons) U.S. “unnamed officials” confirmed to Reuters on Thursday that over a hundred military troops have been operating covertly in Somalia since 2007. The […]
NOVANEWS Todd Miller discusses how defense contractors look to cash in on President Obama’s expected $2 billion proposal in additional funding for border security Todd Miller is author of Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the […]
NOVANEWS ‘Merely visiting privacy-related websites is enough for a user’s IP address to be logged into an NSA database,’ says new report. – Jon Queally (Image: via Boing Boing)Internet users who use online privacy tools […]
NOVANEWS Nonprofit’s new project brings civil liberties lawsuits against four public universities. – Deirdre Fulton A free speech sign at George Mason University. (photo: flickr / cc / DCjohn)A Philadelphia-based nonprofit devoted to defending free […]
NOVANEWS by Cindy Cohn (Image: flickr / cc / AK Rockefeller)The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) issued a legally flawed and factually incomplete report late Tuesday that endorses Section 702 surveillance. Hiding behind the “complexity” of the technology, […]
NOVANEWS by Tom Engelhardt US soldiers participating in live fire drills during NATO training in Germany. (Photo: flickr/cc/MATEUS_27:24&25)It goes without saying that the honchos of the national security state weren’t exactly happy with Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations. […]
NOVANEWS Lawmakers and anti-war groups raise flags about additional troop deployments and calls for executive “flexibility” – Lauren McCauley On June 20, protesters staged a rally outside the White House calling for ‘no new war […]
NOVANEWS The FBI and the CIA admit they spied on countless emails and phone calls of private U.S. citizens. – Nadia Prupis (Photo: o.maloteau/Flickr/Creative Commons)The FBI and the CIA conducted an untold amount of warrantless […]