Repackaging Mass Incarceration

NOVANEWS The Rise of Carceral Humanism and Non-Alternative Alternatives by JAMES KILGORE Since my CounterPunch article last November which  assessed the state of the movement against mass incarceration, the rumblings of change in the criminal justice have […]

The Cost of War: a Rhetoric

NOVANEWS Home to Roost in the VA Affair by JERRY LEMBCKE Opposition to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the war that followed was infused with rhetoric about the cost of war. Critics said the […]

Frack, Rattle and Roll

NOVANEWS How Regulators Ignore Science and Cave to Oil & Gas Companies by JOSHUA FRANK When one thinks of earthquakes, what comes to mind is usually the vast fault line straddled lands of southern California […]

Empire of Prisons

NOVANEWS How the United States is Spreading Mass Incarceration around the World by JAMES P. JORDAN This article explains how the United States is exporting its model of mass incarceration and social and political control […]

America’s repugnant Republicans

NOVANEWS By Lawrence Davidson There is something disturbing about the Republican response to just about everything President Barack Obama does. It has a knee-jerk yet patterned nature. It displays a meanness that is acted out with […]

Cost of I$raHell to the US

NOVANEWS Our uniquely massive support for Israel has cost trillions of dollars and multitudes of lives. It has diminished our moral standing in the world, lessened our domestic freedoms, and exposed us to unnecessary and […]