Why is the US Honoring a Racist Rabbi?

NOVANEWS The Extremist Origins of Education and Sharing Day by ALISON WEIR If things proceed normally, President Barak Obama will soon proclaimApril 11, 2014 “Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A.” Despite the innocuous name, this day honors […]

Can Democracy Tame Plutocracy?

NOVANEWS by Robert Borosage We are headed into a national reckoning. To paraphrase the unlamented Donald Rumsfeld, there are the known knowns and the known unknowns. Photo: Pamela Drew/cc/flickrWe know that America is reaching new levels […]

The Rhetoric of Violence

NOVANEWS by Chris Hedges At least nine people were killed and at least 35 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On Thursday police announced that a man had been arrested on charges of firing […]