The Big Heat
NOVANEWS A Short History of Escalating Police Violence by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Mark the date. On August 13th, America awoke to learn the horrid truth. Its police departments, from bucolic hamlets in the rural Midwest […]
The Climate Crisis and the Crisis in Western Economics
NOVANEWS Not an Isolated Problem by ROB URIE It is tempting to view resolution of environmental crises as a technocratic exercise: if global warming is an isolated problem that may some day in the distant […]
“Behind Every Worker is a Family”
NOVANEWS The Takeover of the RR Donnelley Factory by WENDY Z. GOLDMAN In late September, I was invited to Buenos Aires to speak about the recent Spanish translation of a book on the Bolshevik vision […]
The Origins of the Ebola Crisis
NOVANEWS Is Microsoft Medicine the Solution for Ebola? by TARIQ ALI and ALLYSON POLLOCK Tariq Ali: Today we are going to discuss medicine and what is going on in Africa but not just there, in other […]
A Bigger Pie Doesn’t Mean You are Getting a Slice
NOVANEWS Finance Capital is Both Whip and Parasite by PETE DOLACK The kerfuffle between executives and shareholders of The Coca-Cola Company seems to have been smoothed over, at least for now, but no matter how […]
The U.S. Versus ISIS
NOVANEWS Grounds for Deepening Dread by GARY LEUPP It’s hard not to feel a sense of deepening dread about what this country’s doing in the world, and the inevitable blowback. I did not feel this […]
Has Obama Changed His Mind About Syria?
NOVANEWS “Don’t Do Stupid Shit” by MIKE WHITNEY The ISIS siege of Kobane continued overnight while cities across Turkey were set ablaze by Kurdish protestors. At least 19 civilians were killed by Turkish riot police […]
Questioning Sweden’s ‘Bold’ Diplomatic Initiative
NOVANEWS by Dr. Richard Falk Swedish Prime Minister, Stefan Lofven It was a welcome move, but only in some respects. The new center-left Swedish Prime Minister, Stefan Lofven, in his inaugural speech to Parliament […]
Leader of the “war on terror” leads terrorism in the world
NOVANEWS Although America, based on the supposition of many scholars of political science and international studies, cherishes the biggest claim all over the world against terrorism, the footprints of American spy services and their accomplices […]
Why right-wing Christians are actively promoting genocide
NOVANEWS A leading Evangelical magazine is calling for the destruction of Islam. It’s not the outlier we might like to think ADAM LEE, Recently, Charisma magazine, a major media outlet for evangelical and Pentecostal Christians, published an […]