Anti-Hillary: Across the Spectrum

NOVANEWS by ANDREW LEVINE For three decades or more, politicians and pundits have been proclaiming the end of the left-right spectrum. The terms left, right and center, they say, are irrelevant or are rapidly becoming so. […]

The Plague of American Authoritarianism

NOVANEWS by HENRY GIROUX Authoritarianism in the American collective psyche and in what might be called traditional narratives of historical memory is always viewed as existing elsewhere. Viewed as an alien and demagogic political system, it […]

The Red Line and the Rat Line

NOVANEWS Seymour M. Hersh on Obama, Erdoğan and the Syrian rebels In 2011 Barack Obama led an allied military intervention in Libya without consulting the US Congress. Last August, after the sarin attack on the Damascus […]

The Economic Crisis has a Family Reunion

NOVANEWS by ROB URIE Finance, Wall Street and the increasingly intrusive economy that by design is taking over ever-larger portions of the public space, should by rights have gone into decades-long hiding around 2007. As much […]

Palestine: a global rethink

NOVANEWS By Ruth Tenne The historic nuclear deal between Iran and the West is bound to have a major impact on the entrenched conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, especially at the time when the strong opposition of […]