Opening Gitmo to the World
NOVANEWS By Robert Koehler | CounterPunch To read Witnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in Guantanamo is to run your mind along the contours of hell. The next step, if you’re an American, is to embrace it. Claim […]
Attempt to prosecute Tony Blair over Iraq War blocked by High Court
NOVANEWS RT Britain’s High Court has blocked a bid by an Iraqi general to bring a private prosecution against Tony Blair over the war he launched in Iraq while prime minister. General Abdul Wahed Shannan […]
New Iran sanctions simply don’t add up
NOVANEWS By M.K. Bhadrakumar The new legislation by the venerable lawmakers in the United States, imposing sanctions against Iran (along with Russia and North Korea), has an air of inevitability. But what is inevitable doesn’t […]
PBS’: Anti – Russia Propaganda Series
NOVANEWS By Rick Sterling The U.S.-government-supported Public Broadcasting System (PBS) recently ran a five-part series dubbed “Inside Putin’s Russia”. With a different theme each night, it purports to give a realistic look at Russia today. […]
US govt spends $76bn to arm & equip Afghan forces
NOVANEWS The Pentagon has spent $76 billion on weapons and equipment for the Afghan army and police since 2001, the US Government Accountability Office said. The report comes as President Donald Trump says he is […]
Canada’s NDP backs American Empire
NOVANEWS By Yves Engler Does the NDP consistently support a foreign policy that benefits ordinary people around the world? Or does the social democratic party often simply fall in line with whatever the American Empire […]
Palestinians, B’nai Brith and Canada’s New Democratic Party
NOVANEWS Niki Ashton injects vital ideas and principles into the NDP leadership campaign Niki Ashton. Image credit: Matt Jiggins/ flickr By Prof. Tony Hall Like many NATO countries, Canada has suffered from an impoverishment of free and […]
Democratic Demagogues and ‘The Better Deal’
NOVANEWS By James Petras Introduction After 6 months of blaming Russia for the Democratic Party’s Presidential election debacle, the Party stalwarts have finally realized that the American electorate is not listening. Democratic Party investigators in […]
Free trade’ has come to mean powerful interests get whatever they want
NOVANEWS By Yves Engler “Free trade” has become a euphemism for “whatever power wants,” no matter how tangentially tied to transferring goods across international borders. In an extreme example, Ottawa recently said its Free Trade Agreement (FTA) […]
Richard Gage 2009 “The Architecture of Destruction” ‘Video’
NOVANEWS “The Architecture of Destruction” by Richard Gage is the companion video to “Science & Society” by Steven Jones. Presented in Sydney, Australia, November 14, 2009, it is a relaxed presentation by an animated, engaged […]