Category: USA
And the First US Commercial Drone License Goes To… BP
NOVANEWS Authorization comes as FAA moves to integrate commercial drones into American skies – Sarah Lazare BP test flies an Aeryon Scout drone over Prudhoe Bay, Alaska in December 2012. (Photo: Screen Shot / BP)The […]
Post-9/11 US Foreign Policy: A Record of Unparalleled Failure
NOVANEWS No matter how you define American-style war or its goals, it doesn’t work. Ever. by Tom Engelhardt The combined foreign policy legacies of the current and previous president exemplify the destructive and destabilizing role the U.S. […]
Human Rights Watch’s Revolving Door
NOVANEWS Group’s edicts and positions have often been suspiciously in line with US policy by Belén Fernández Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, speaks during the annual press conference of the non-governmental organization in […]
Kerry Indicates Drone Targeting of Freed Taliban Soldiers
NOVANEWS ‘We have proven what we are capable of doing,’ boasts Secretary of State as controversy over release of prisoners of war continues – Jon Queally US Secretary of State John Kerry. (Screenshot)Responding to questions […]
Zionist Traitors possible 2016 White House run
NOVANEWS HILLARY CONSIDERS DROPPING 2016 BID AFTER READING ONE-STAR REVIEWS ON AMAZON POSTED BY ANDY BOROWITZ Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today that she is “seriously considering” not running for President in 2016 after […]
Witness Against Torture Calls on Obama and Congress to Redouble Efforts to Transfer Detained Men and Close Guantánamo; Condemns Partisan Calls to Keep GTMO Open
NOVANEWS Activists from Witness Against Torture support the release of five men from Guantánamo to monitored residence in Qatar in exchange for the American POW Bowe Bergdahl. While freeing an American captive, the exchange advances […]
Warmonger Media Storm Against Saving Sgt. Bergdahl Shows Why We Have So Much War
NOVANEWS by Robert Naiman President Obama with the parents of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl at the White House earlier this week. (Screenshot)If you want to understand why it’s the case that on the one hand, the U.S. […]
US Culpability in the Failure of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks
NOVANEWS The failure of John Kerry’s Israeli-Palestinian peace talks showed just how extreme U.S. policy on the conflict has become. by Stephen Zunes In a sign of how absurd U.S. Middle East policy has become, the […]
A Civil War Myth That Hurts Us All
NOVANEWS by Ira Chernus A.R. Waud. From Harper’s Weekly, July 25, 1868.Why are so many Americans woefully ignorant of their nation’s history? That perennial question is raised yet again by Timothy Egan in his latest column on the New […]