NOVANEWS By Janet C. Phelan When Edward Snowden met with Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald to turn over documents revealing the extent of the NSA spying program, he did more than provide an education to the […]
NOVANEWS by Peter Van Buren In the 1960s, John Kerry was distinctly a man of his times. Kennedy-esque, he went from Yale to Vietnam to fight in a lost war. When popular sentiments on that war shifted, he […]
NOVANEWS by Mark Jaycox A Washington Post article reveals that the National Security Agency has been siphoning off data from the links between Yahoo and Google data centers, which include the fiber optic connections between company servers at […]
NOVANEWS Let government borrow for crisis bailouts, then insist cuts pay for them. Guess who loses. by Richard Wolff Barack Obama speaking in March 2013 about the sequester, the automatic spending cuts mandated by Congress. (Carolyn […]
NOVANEWS Former U.N. Ambassador says in interview that Israel ‘should have done this years ago’ – Andrea Germanos John Bolton is reiterating his calls for Israel to unleash a military strike against Iran, saying he […]
NOVANEWS In letter published in Der Spiegel, Snowden calls for global solution to dragnet surveillance – Jacob Chamberlain The ongoing revelations of the National Security Agency’s dragnet surveillance practices are “causing society to push for […]
NOVANEWS Experts say health professionals used to design and participate in cruel, inhumane, and degrading torture of military detainees – Jacob Chamberlain Tubes used for force-feeding at Guantánamo. (John Riley/EPA) According to a study published this […]
NOVANEWS Elizabeth Renter | Natural Society “We’re doing this for your own protection.” Protesters with the Australian group BurgerOff are hearing a similar phrase from McDonald’s. Photo: Wikimedia Commons The fast food giant is suing protestors who object […]
NOVANEWS “A large majority of Israelis, nearly four in five, believes Israel’s future is dependent on the country’s ties to American Jewry, a new poll of Israeli public opinion has found,”reports the Times of Israel. If […]
NOVANEWS By Julian Pecquet President Obama on Thursday warned against “ratcheting up” conflict with Iran, a swipe at lawmakers clamoring for more sanctions. In an interview with NBC, Obama said he’s ready to offer Iran “very […]