NOVANEWS by DOUGLAS ALLEN Recently we marked the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X (February 21, 1965), and this occasion brought some media focus to his life and significance. This was in contrast to […]
NOVANEWS by HENRY GIROUX Introduction The forces of free-market fundamentalism are on the march ushering in a terrifying horizon of what Hannah Arendt once called “dark times.” Across the globe, the tension between democratic values and […]
NOVANEWS by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Washington’s IQ follows the Fed’s interest rate — it is negative. Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government deliberations. Washington’s failures are everywhere visible. […]
NOVANEWS by STEPHEN LENDMAN Muslim’s call Islam’s third holiest site the Noble Sanctuary/Al-Haram al-Sharif. Over 35 acres enclose fountains, gardens, buildings and domes. At one end is the Al-Aqsa Mosque. In the center is the Dome […]
NOVANEWS by YOAV LITVIN Separation Wall, Jerusalem. An approach designated as “evolutionary” can be employed in reference to two outlooks on global ethnic conflicts in general, and the Israeli/Palestinian one in particular. A Conservative and Neo-Liberal […]
NOVANEWS by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Today is the 70th anniversary of the UN. It is not clear how much good the UN has done. Some UN Blue Hemet peacekeeping operations had limited success. But mainly Washington […]
NOVANEWS by Dr: Richard Falk [Prefatory Note: This post modifies an article published in Middle East Eye on September 21, 2015, with title, “Yemen pays the price for Saudis’ sectarian paranoia.” Whether the Saudis are beingparanoid about political […]
NOVANEWS RUSSIA INCREASING ITS PRESENCE; ‘ALLOOSH CRUSHED Ziad Fadel image: http://defense-update.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/su34-top.jpg This is one of 6 Sukhoi 34 “Fullback” bomber-interceptors deployed to Syria. As of today, there are 28 new combat jets flying out of […]
NOVANEWS https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/09/17/on-duty-police-officers… The tally of people shot and killed by on-duty police officers passed 700 on Wednesday night — a fatal milestone that is almost double the highest number of police shootings ever reported by the […]
NOVANEWS http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/the-black-family-in-the-age-of-mass… From the mid-1970s to the mid-’80s, America’s incarceration rate doubled, from about 150 people per 100,000 to about 300 per 100,000. From the mid-’80s to the mid-’90s, it doubled again. By 2007, it […]