COWARDICE, AMERICAN STYLE

NOVANEWS By Sherwood Ross Too little has been written about the cowardice of CIA and Pentagon torturers and even less about the stoic courage of their victims. Irrespective of what they might have done, there […]

PUT AWAY THE FLAGS

NOVANEWS http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/02-11 [Remembering Howard Zinn on July 4th] by Howard Zinn On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its […]

GRAND AYATOLLAH FADIALLAH HOSPITALISED

NOVANEWS BEIRUT — Lebanon’s top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, 75, was hospitalised in Beirut for internal bleeding on Friday, hospital officials said. “Doctors are monitoring him closely in the intensive care unit […]

ON THE MEDAL OF HONOR?

On the Medal of Honor in Iraq and Afghanistan July 2, 2010  by Michael Leon   By Joe ‘Ragman’ Tarnovsky It has been a point of contention that no living military personnel have been awarded the […]