Category: USA
Comcast Assembles Massive Lobbyist Army to Push Mega-Merger
NOVANEWS Media justice advocates say deal would erode democracy, free speech, and access to vital services – Sarah Lazare This moving billboard accompanied a protest at a Comcast shareholders meeting in Philadelphia on May 21, […]
Putin: US Backed the 'Coup' That Now Threatens Civil War in Ukraine
NOVANEWS Russian president says he will honor outcome of weekend elections, but that dialogue must replace military operations and violence – Jon Queally Russian president Vladimir Putin at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum. (Photograph: […]
Revealed: Gov't Used Fusion Centers to Spy on Occupy
NOVANEWS New report exposes US government’s treatment of social movements as ‘criminal or terrorist enterprises’ – Sarah Lazare (Photo: David Shankbone / Wikimedia Creative Commons)U.S. government Fusion Centers, which operate as ill-defined “counter-terrorism” intelligence gathering […]
Most US Drone Strikes in Pakistan Attack Houses
NOVANEWS – Alice K Ross and Jack Serle Domestic buildings have been hit by drone strikes more than any other type of target in the CIA’s 10-year campaign in the tribal regions of northern Pakistan, […]
On the 'Criminalization of Journalism': A Response to Michael Kinsley (and the NYT)
NOVANEWS by Glenn Greenwald In 2006, Charlie Savage won the Pulitzer Prize for his series of articles in The Boston Globeexposing the Bush administration’s use of “signing statements” as a means of ignoring the law. In response to those […]
The Nuclear Zero Lawsuits: Who Will Speak for the People?
NOVANEWS by Jody Williams and Robert Dodge The Republic of the Marshall Islands knows firsthand the horror and consequences of living in a world with nuclear weapons. (Photo: nuclearzero.org)The U.N. just concluded the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Preparatory […]