NOVANEWS Erica Bailey, daughter of Aaron Bailey, wipes a tear during a news conference announcing that the Indianapolis police officers who shot her father in the back 15 times, killing him, won’t face criminal charges. […]
NOVANEWS A U.S. soldier sits in an armored vehicle on a road leading to Manbij, northern Syria, April 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla). The growing discontent among Syrian civilians in areas under American control suggests […]
NOVANEWS Supporters of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro gather outside the National Electoral Council in Caracas, Venezuela, May 2, 2018. AP | Ricardo Mazalan. Thus far, Maduro and the Bolivarian leadership have been unable or unwilling […]
NOVANEWS Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega and first lady Rosario Murillo attend the opening of a national dialogue, in Managua, Nicaragua, May 16, 2018. AP | Alfredo Zuniga Since April 23, right-wing extremists in Nicaragua have […]
NOVANEWS By Martha Rosenberg | CounterPunch How high are Pharma’s prices? Novartis wants $475,000 a patient for its new cancer therapy. Hep C drugs cost $95,000 for a course of treatment. The immune drug, Actimmune, costs $52,321.80 a month. The parasite drug Daraprim […]
NOVANEWS By Dennis Morgan | CounterPunch In the age of globalization during the last quarter of the 20thcentury, the English language achieved global hegemony as the “lingua franca” for international communication. It is no small coincidence […]
NOVANEWS By Bryan MacDonald Facebook has engaged a think tank funded by weapons manufacturers, branches of the US military and Middle-Eastern monarchies to safeguard the democratic process. It’s akin to hiring arsonists to run the […]
NOVANEWS By Marion Kawas | Canada Palestine Association Six weeks after Israeli snipers started killing and maiming Palestinians, including children, journalists, and medical workers, Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau finally released a carefully worded statement regarding […]
NOVANEWS By Daniel Lazare | Consortium News The best evidence that Russia-gate is sinking beneath the waves is the way those pushing the pseudo-scandal are now busily covering their tracks. The Guardian complains that “as the inquiry has expanded […]
NOVANEWS Peter Ridd as a first year undergraduate science student at James Cook University back in 1978 – forty years ago. By Jennifer Marohasy BACK in 2016, when I asked Peter Ridd if he would […]