NOVANEWS by: Amy Goodman This image of Frederick Douglass dates to the 1860s. (Wikimedia Commons) “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?” asked Frederick Douglass of the crowd gathered at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, […]
NOVANEWS It shouldn’t have taken 150 years and the deaths of nine innocent churchgoers for Southern states to renounce the Confederate flag. by: Olivia Alperstein (Photo: eyeliam/flickr/cc) I’ve spent my whole life in the Northeast, but I […]
NOVANEWS by: Tom Engelhardt (Image: Hawaii Independent) The rise and fall of great powers and their imperial domains has been a central fact of history for centuries. It’s been a sensible, repeatedly validated framework for thinking […]
NOVANEWS Greek Finance Minister says he will resign his post if Greeks vote in favor of accepting the latest austerity-laden bailout package from foreign creditors by: Jon Queally, staff writer Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis during […]
NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem, Sr UN official warns country of 26 million ‘one step’ from mass starvation by: Sarah Lazare Children fleeing Saudi coalition bombings in Sanaa, April 6, 2015. (Photo: Abdullah Ali/Reuters) With […]
NOVANEWS Adelina Marini, On July 1st Croatia marks the second anniversary of its accession to the EU. Hardly an occasion to celebrate in view of the surprising development of the Greek crisis. It is not so […]
NOVANEWS by PAUL STREET Democracy is among other things the rule of majority public opinion. Plutocracy is the rule of the wealthy few over and against the popular majority. To understand the different meanings of these […]
NOVANEWS by BORIS KAGARLITSKY For five years now Europe has been troubled by the problem of the Greek debt. It all began with a relatively modest sum estimated at 15-20 billion euros, though at the […]
NOVANEWS by RAMZY BAROUD It would be fair to assume that Gershon Baskin’s recent article in the Jerusalem Post – Encountering Peace: Obviously no peace now, so what then? (June 24) – is not a mere intellectual exercise […]
NOVANEWS by MEDEA BENJAMIN Israel Defense Forces violently intercepted the Swedish boat named Marianne in the early hours of June 29 to prevent it from landing in Gaza, using tasers against unarmed passengers. The 18 passengers, whose mission […]