NOVANEWS by: Richard Eskow For the bulk of Obama’s presidency, conventional Beltway wisdom has insisted that Democrats who endorse cuts to their party’s signature programs will be handsomely rewarded, with both the gratitude of voters and […]
NOVANEWS by: Robert Naiman The US House of Representatives in this 2013 file photo. In response to the U.S. bombing of Islamic State [“ISIS”] fighters in Iraq and Syria, which Congress has never explicitly approved, Members […]
NOVANEWS by: Marcy Wheeler As it raises questions about whether the Obama Administration has the “appetite” to prosecute another inside source for journalists, the lastest reporting on the so-called “second leaker” seems designed to generate pressure […]
NOVANEWS New York Times investigation finds government tracking of Americans’ mail ‘more extensive than previously disclosed’ by: Lauren McCauley In 2013, state and federal agencies submitted 50,000 requests to scrutinize and track American’s mail. Though over a […]
NOVANEWS Women currently have just 40 percent fewer economic opportunities that men have worldwide, says World Economic Forum by: Nadia Prupis Closing the gender pay gap may not happen for another 81 years on our current […]
NOVANEWS Oil giant asked Interior Department ‘to skirt rules,’ get more time after it spent fruitless $6 billion by: Andrea Germanos “We are, unfortunately, no longer capable of being surprised by either Shell’s efforts to skirt […]
NOVANEWS … from ITAR-TASS, Moscow General Haftar [ Editor’s note: Late in the day, one of the commanders for rebel General Khalifa Haftar reported that his air force was responsible for the surprise air strikes. The […]
NOVANEWS By Binoy Kampmark Global Research Does demagoguery have an inventive side? Only if you assume semi-literacy is virtuous, and that imagination lies in the name of the manipulative. The combination of both Ebola and […]
NOVANEWS Since 2008, child poverty has increased in a majority of the 41 most affluent nations, UNICEF report finds by: Sarah Lazare, staff writer UNICEF report finds erosion of social safety nets has fueled child poverty […]
NOVANEWS Sam Kliger, director of Russian Jewish community affairs at the American Jewish Committee, said this was the first Ukrainian election he could remember in which no political party had played the anti-Semitic card. Kliger, […]