When Silencing Dissent Isn’t News

NOVANEWS Exclusive: The criminal case against ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern for “resisting arrest” when he was denied entry to a public speech by retired Gen. David Petraeus appears to be nearly over, but the image of […]

Net Neutrality, Back by Popular Demand

NOVANEWS by: Amy Goodman (Photo: Timothy Karr/Free Press/flickr/cc) In January 2011, thousands gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, threatening for the first time the 30-year dictatorship of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Decades of suppressed dissent was finding […]

War and Perpetual Adolescence

NOVANEWS by: Robert C. Koehler The urgency I feel isn’t any longer to stop a particular war but to interrupt endless war: to interrupt the narrowly focused geopolitical conversation, conveyed to us over and over by […]

The Lone-Wolf Terror Trap

NOVANEWS Why the cure will be worse than the disease by: Matthew Harwood Rezwan Ferdaus was repeatedly termed a lone wolf by law enforcement and the media. (Photo: WBZ-TV) The shadow of a new threat seems to […]