NOVANEWS Phyllis Bennis: ‘This puts the world at risk of another war’ – Sarah Lazare Powerful Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)In what critics are slamming as a […]
NOVANEWS President Obama’s NSA review is cast as a set of ‘policy recommendations’ as if this is all just a political debate by Marcy Wheeler President Obama’s NSA review panel only made ‘policy’ recommendations. (Photograph: Oliver […]
NOVANEWS by Dave Johnson There are numerous reports that the Obama administration is getting ready to push “Fast Track” legislation in Congress. It looks like there will be a major effort to get this through. We […]
NOVANEWS Death Sentences Remain Near Record Lows, Number of States Repealing Capital Punishment Grows, and Public Support for Death Penalty at 40-Year Low With 39 executions in 2013, this year marks only the second time […]
NOVANEWS For the second consecutive year, Turkey was the world’s leading jailer of journalists, followed closely by Iran and China. Together, the three countries accounted for more than half of all journalists imprisoned around […]
NOVANEWS Poll also finds majority thinks US troops should now withdraw more quickly – Sarah Lazare Members of Afghans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and allies lead a thousands-strong march against a NATO […]
NOVANEWS by Anthony D. Romero Edward Snowden deserves immunity from prosecution, says ACLU chief. (Credit: Laura Poitras)Edward Snowden is a patriot. As a whistleblower of illegal government activity that was sanctioned and kept secret by the […]
NOVANEWS by Bob Dreyfuss (Photo: ninjawil/ cc via flickr)Here’s the bottom line on the American drone strike that slaughtered as many as seventeen people in a wedding party in Yemen last week: the CIA, which carried […]
NOVANEWS To discuss the role of foreign powers fueling the ongoing conflict in Syria, Democracy Now! is joined by Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent. “It is clearly a proxy war. This might have started […]
NOVANEWS In August of this year, activists scored a victory when Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that the New York police department’s stop-and-frisk practices were unconstitutional and racially biased. In an effort to contest the ruling, […]