NOVANEWS by BEN SELWYN ‘‘By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been,” Bill Gates wrote last year. His sunny outlook might reflect his own good fortune as the world’s richest man but, […]
NOVANEWS Zionist Dennis Ross And, by the way, opening the International Criminal Court’s door will torpedo any chance of diplomacy and invite US financial countermeasures By Stuart Littlewood Dennis Ross, writing in theNew York Times, criticises Palestinian […]
NOVANEWS by NORMAN POLLACK Capitalism is a system founded on repression. The enclosure movement in 17th-century England, even the mercantilist pre-capitalist foundations paving the way, both transitional to capitalism in its modern form, necessitated force, […]
NOVANEWS Political Prisoners in the Sacrifice Zone of Empire by NOZOMI HAYASE Recently, two cases concerning the constitutional rights of people in prison came to public light. They involve two U.S. political prisoners: Mumia Abu-Jamal […]
NOVANEWS It may seem like an obvious step, after joining the International Criminal Court. But the legal and political barriers are formidable. Salma Karmi-Ayyoub Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File) On January […]
NOVANEWS by CHARLES PIERSON 2014 was a good year for US killer drones. In October, the US celebrated (if that is the word) its 400th drone strike on Pakistan. Unable to attend the festivities were […]
NOVANEWS by ELIZABETH LENNARD Paris. Everyone in Paris seems absolutely horrified, especially while the killers are still at large with their Kalishnikovs! (Though here in Ivry Sur Seine it’s calm as usual: the only movement is the giant […]
The Rise of Inverted Fascist Democracy by GARIKAI CHENGU Wednesday marks the anniversary of the first democratic election in America, held in 1789. Over the past half century, America has descended from a popular democracy into […]
NOVANEWS EU Showdown by ELLEN BROWN Greece and the troika (the International Monetary Fund, the EU, and the European Central Bank) are in a dangerous game of chicken. The Greeks have been threatened with a […]
NOVANEWS Time to Move Out by RAMZY BAROUD It was the moment many had been waiting for. On January 2, Palestine’s United Nations envoy, Riyad Mansour formally requested membership at the International Criminal Court (ICC). “We are […]