NOVANEWS Eric Garner A grand jury in New York declined Wednesday to indict white police Officer Daniel Pantaleo on criminal charges in the chokehold death of 43-year-old Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes […]
NOVANEWS Rumen Ovcharov, former Minister of Economy and Energy of Bulgaria (Reuters/Paul Yeung) The only country that could not resist US pressure over South Stream construction was Bulgaria, the former Bulgarian Economy Minister Rumen Ovcharov […]
NOVANEWS U.S. Senator John McCain (Reuters/Ruben Sprich) Hungary’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the US envoy after US Senator John McCain called Prime Minister Viktor Orban a “neo-fascist dictator.” Washington is incensed with Orban for seeking […]
NOVANEWS Bring the Murderers to Justice By JERALYNN BLUFORD After the Grand Jury decision in Ferguson, I couldn’t watch the news. I couldn’t bear to see Lesley McSpadden’s—Michael Brown’s mother’s—face. Her eyes were my eyes. […]
NOVANEWS By Carlos Miller Just over a week after a Missouri grand jury found no probable cause against a Ferguson cop who shot a teen to death, a New York grand jury found no probable […]
NOVANEWS By Dean Baker Wow, some things are really hard for elite media types to understand. In his column in the Washington Post, Richard Cohen struggles with how we should punish bankers who commit crimes like manipulating foreign […]
NOVANEWS A Syrian refugee child peers out from his tent in Baiseriyeh in southern Lebanon, July 23, 2013. Al-Akhbar Marwan Bou Haidar By Eva Shoufi | Al-Akhbar | December 3, 2014 This month Syrian refugees in four host countries, […]
NOVANEWS By Jason Hirthler | CounterPunch A recent article in FAIR reviewed the findings of its latest study on the quality of political “debate” being aired on the mainstream networks. It studied the run-up to the military interventions in both […]
NOVANEWS By Eric Sommer(China Daily USA) A UN anti-torture panel that is investigating the United States said on Friday it was deeply concerned by what it described as the high incidence of police brutality and […]
NOVANEWS Ziad Fadel The good news is the new Obama candidate for Secretary of Defense is not an artificially inseminated, unmarried black, Hispanic or Jewish lesbian Harvard Law School graduate fighting AIDS. The bad news […]