NOVANEWS by: Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (Photo: Flickr/PicturesofMoney) Mark Hanna used to say, “there are two things important in politics.The first is money and I forget the second.” The next president will take the oath of office in 2017, but […]
NOVANEWS Exclusive: Propaganda is the life-blood of life-destroying wars, and the U.S. government has reached new heights (or depths) in this art of perception management. A case in point is the media manipulation around last year’s Malaysia Airlines […]
NOVANEWS By Jason Ditz AntiWar.com— Tit-for-tat attacks in and around metro Damascus have picked up in recent days, and soared dramatically today with the Syrian military launching airstrikes against the marketplace in the rebel-held town of […]
NOVANEWS Almost two terms after he promised to close Guantanamo Bay, now the Obama administration is fighting to keep a 75-pound hunger striking prisoner imprisoned. By Kevin Gosztola A detainee is carried by military police after […]
NOVANEWS The 31-year-old Palestinian lawyer is one of a number of Palestinians held in Israeli jails who are taking action against abuses and mistreatment at the hands of Israeli authorities. By Sean Nevins WASHINGTON — On Friday, […]
NOVANEWS “It is time for all faiths to come together and say in one voice: ‘Not in our name!’” Dr. John Andrew Morrow, one of the forces behind a new interfaith movement to stand in […]
NOVANEWS by: Prof Richard Falk [Prefatory Note: I have been preoccupied for many years with the multiple challenges posed by nuclear weapons, initially from the perspective of international law and morality, later with regard to […]
NOVANEWS http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/movies/review-an-open-secret-spotlights-child… You may miss a few moments of “An Open Secret,” either while looking away during its unsettling stories or closing your eyes in frustration. The film centers on a handful of young men who […]
NOVANEWS http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/abdullah-alsenussi-execution-this… The secret agreements between our intelligence and Gaddafi’s will now remain safe for good. Gaddafi’s spymaster Abdullah al-Senussi will be shot in Libya before he has a chance to tell us about the […]
NOVANEWS http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/15/filming-police-violence-walter-scott… 18-year-old Michael Brown … was fatally shot by officer Darren Wilson. The final few minutes of Brown’s life had been captured by a small surveillance camera rolling inside a nearby grocery shop. As […]