NOVANEWS by Greg Mitchell NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander. (Screen grab)The sad decline and fall of 60 Minutes has been a long time coming, but now it is nearly complete. Just in recent months: the horrid hit on […]
NOVANEWS by Chris Hedges I began teaching a class of 28 prisoners at a maximum-security prison in New Jersey during the first week of September. My last class meeting was Friday. The course revolved around plays […]
NOVANEWS ‘We need intimate, small places like this that care about the books they pick’ – Jacob Chamberlain (Photo: Curtis Cron / Flickr / Creative Commons)Even in the era of Amazon.com and the e-book, which […]
NOVANEWS A twenty-year marketing campaign has made highly powerful stimulants into household names… and they’re just getting started – Jon Queally Having chemically-saturated the youth market, the drug marketeers for powerful stimulants like Adderall are […]
NOVANEWS Snowden: “Today, a secret program authorized by a secret court was, when exposed to the light of day, found to violate Americans’ rights.” – Sarah Lazare NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden (Photo: The Guardian)In the biggest […]
NOVANEWS “Dig” to take place in occupied Jerusalem on illegal park – Andrea Germanos An upcoming series on the USA Network, owned by NBC Universal, will “give legitimacy to Israel’s policies of apartheid, ethnic cleansing […]
NOVANEWS by Paul Buchheit What capitalism likes to keep quiet about itself would fill a book… or an evening news hour. (File)Tax-avoiding, consumer-exploiting big business leaders are largely responsible for these abuses. Congress just lets it […]
NOVANEWS Twenty years since its passage, NAFTA has displaced workers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, depressed wages, weakened unions, and set the terms of the neoliberal global economy. by Jeff Faux 20 years later […]
NOVANEWS JROTC and the Militarizing of America by Ann Jones Congress surely meant to do the right thing when, in the fall of 2008, it passed the Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA). The law was designed to protect […]
NOVANEWS ‘This stance in solidarity with Palestinian freedom is historic and signals a new era of engagement with colonized populations’ – Sarah Lazare Apartheid Wall near Bethlehem, Palestine (Photo: Delayed Gratification / Flickr / Creative […]