NOVANEWS Despite their right to voice their dissent in peace, we know that law enforcement officials will likely employ an array of tactics designed to strip those rights away. by:Bill Quigley Despite their right to […]
NOVANEWS by: Alexis Agathocleous A section of the isolation unit at the Pelican Bay State Prison in California. (Photo: Amnesty International) George Ruiz is 72 years old. For the past 30 years, he has spent every […]
NOVANEWS by: Mark Jaycox (Image: Electronic Frontier Foundation/flickr/cc) The USA Freedom Act, the leading contender for NSA reform, is set for a vote this week. The bill has some problems, but is a major step forward for surveillance reform. That’s why […]
NOVANEWS By Patrick J. Buchanan Asserting a legal and constitutional authority he himself said he did not have, President Obama is going rogue, issuing an executive amnesty to 4 to 5 million illegal aliens. […]
NOVANEWS By Patrick J. Buchanan “How do you like the Journal’s war?” So boasted the headline of William Randolph Hearst’s New York flagship that week in 1898 that the United States declared war on […]
NOVANEWS With its powerful political-media apparatus, America’s right wing can create hysteria over pretty much anything, even something as innocuous as a U.N. agreement on the rights of children, leaving the U.S. as one of […]
NOVANEWS Exclusive: The 28-nation European Union was always a tenuous affair, pulling together historic enemies and nations with conflicting economic priorities, but now those stresses – a triple-dip recession and differences over Ukraine and immigration – […]
NOVANEWS Exclusive: Official Washington’s “group think” on Syria and Ukraine is so delusional that it is putting the whole world in danger, but – as with the Iraq War – the major U.S. news media is […]
NOVANEWS Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg discussed the threat of National Security Agency surveillance and the decline of American democracy in a late-night interview that he gave after a lecture at George State University in […]
NOVANEWS Truth-telling can be a dangerous undertaking, especially when done by government insiders trying to expose wrongdoing connected to war-making, as British intelligence official Katharine Gun discovered in blowing the whistle on a pre-Iraq War […]