The US at war with itself
NOVANEWS By Lawrence Davidson A cultural civil war: racism The United States is at war with itself. It is actually a function of the nation’s heritage – the past contesting specific aspects of a modern present. […]
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump: Bigots all around
NOVANEWS By Lawrence Davidson Bigotry and high office To find bigots in political office in the United States is not historically unusual. In fact, up until the 1960s and the Civil Rights Movement, publicly recognisable bigots […]
Donald Trump’s moment: Will it last?
NOVANEWS By Lawrence Davidson Systems failure On election day Hillary Clinton, with all her data specialists and poll gurus, came up short. The morning after, they didn’t know what hit them – that is, the unexpected […]
Trump’s degeneracy and America’s moral angst
NOVANEWS By Lawrence Davidson Evidence of moral degeneracy For all those who in 2016 closed their eyes, held their noses and took a leap into the unknown by voting for Donald Trump, it is time to […]
Truth vs Donald Trump
NOVANEWS By Lawrence Davidson Grandiose delusional disorder During the presidential campaign I often referred to Donald Trump as a congenital liar, but it is possible that in doing so I made a “category mistake”. By definition […]
What the Trump phenomenon means for 'Israel'
NOVANEWS By Lawrence Davidson Trump and Israel On 3 March 2016 Chemi Shaley, the US correspondent for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, wrote an interesting piece on what the Donald Trump phenomenon means for US-Israeli relations. Here are some of […]
Trump and Naziyahu undermining our future
NOVANEWS Trump and Netanyahu undermining our future By Lawrence Davidson Attacking the progressive past The election of Donald Trump in 2016 and the re-election of Binyamin Netanyahu in 2019 occurred under different circumstances, and yet they […]
Trump mimics Saudi king's accent
NOVANEWS Trump falsely claims babies are being legally executed, mimics Saudi king’s accent and calls former FBI officials ‘scum’ in wild rally speech President also labels media ‘sick people” and revels in anti-Hillary Clinton ‘lock her […]
Jared Kushner: 'Two-state solution didn’t work'
NOVANEWS Two-state solution didn’t work, Jared Kushner says, signaling possible support for Israeli annexation Philip Weiss Jared Kushner at Time Magazine forum, April 22, 2019. Screenshot. The Trump administration’s lead Middle East negotiator, Jared Kushner commented […]
Saud, 87 billion dollars to promote Wahhabi terrorism
NOVANEWS Iranian International Affairs and Security Officer Gholamhossein Dehghani said Saudi Arabia has invested $ 87 billion over the past 50 years to promote terrorism. The Director-General for Political and International Security Affairs at the […]