New Organization Hangs Sign: ‘Whistleblowers Welcome’
New Organization Hangs Sign: ‘Whistleblowers Welcome’
ExposeFacts.org aims to shed light on both government and corporate malfeasance
NSA collects facial images of hundreds of millions of people
The New York Times reported Sunday that the agency collects images of hundreds of millions of people by intercepting global telecommunications and Internet traffic.
There’s A Huge New Snowden Leak — And No One Knows Where It Came From
REVEALED: GCHQ’s BEYOND TOP SECRET Middle Eastern INTERNET SPY BASE
Above-top-secret details of Britain’s covert surveillance programme – including the location of a clandestine British base tapping undersea cables in the Middle East – have so far remained secret, despite being leaked by fugitive NSA sysadmin Edward Snowden. Government pressure has meant that some media organisations, despite being in possession of these facts, have declined to reveal them. Today, however, the Register publishes them in full.
Noam Chomsky: Edward Snowden, the World’s “Most Wanted Criminal”
In the past several months, we have been provided with instructive lessons on the nature of state power and the forces that drive state policy. And on a closely related matter: the subtle, differentiated concept of transparency.
As Snowden Leak Anniversary Approaches,
Intelligence Community Prepares to Declare Victory
Elections in Syria: The People Say No to Foreign Intervention
Defying threats of violence, tens of thousands of ordinary Syrians went to the polls to cast a vote that was more about Syrian dignity and self-determination than any of the candidates on the ballot. After three years of unimaginable atrocities fomented by a demented and dying U.S. empire, with the assistance of the royalist monarchies of the Middle East and the gangster states of NATO, the Syrian people demonstrated, by their participation, that they had not surrendered their national sovereignty to the geo-strategic interests of the U.S. and its colonial allies in Europe and Israel.
US Condemns Syria’s Election, Fine With Egypt’s
Slams Syria Vote as ‘Disgrace’ Despite Strong Similarities to Other US-Backed Votes
Fifteen babies poisoned by infected fluids from intravenous drip
Newborn dies and 14 others being treated after incidents in neonatal care units in six different hospitals around the UK
Qatar allowing freed Taliban men to move freely in country: Gulf official
Political Fight Over Release of US POW Bowe Bergdahl Continues to Grow
Freed US POW Bowe Bergdahl, Family Vilified by Hawks
Political Row Has Many Questioning Father’s Long Beard
Gold Star mom: ‘This guy was worth my son’s life?’
Ruppersberger Calls Taliban Prisoner Exchange ‘A Dangerous Precedent’
What Excuse Remains for Obama’s Failure to Close GITMO?
181 people killed, 293 injured in Kiev military op in eastern Ukraine
Confirmed: Ukrainian air force fired over 150 missiles at Lugansk, bombed admin HQ
Kiev’s ‘indiscriminate shelling of residential areas’ must be stopped – Russia
Moscow has submitted a draft resolution to the UN Security Council, its main point is an immediate end to violence in East Ukraine. RT’s Anastasia Churkina reports.
NATO agrees to ‘readiness action plan’ to counter Russia
Obama asks for $1B to boost US military in Europe
Making sense of Obama’s billion dollar hammer
You probably heard it by now: Obama has pledged a billion dollars to what my “beloved” BBC called “European security”. The official name for this initiative is the “European Reassurance Initiative”. You see, Obama and the BBC apparently believe that Europeans are really terrified and that they believe that the Russian tanks might roll into Warsaw, Athens, Rome or Lisbon at any time. The good news is that Uncle Sam is here to reassure them that he will let no such thing happen and that this additional 1 billion dollars will deter the Russian Bear. Have you ever read something more ridiculous?
Air attack on pro-Russian separatists in Luhansk kills 8, stuns residents
The Big Picture of the Geopolitical Chess Game:
Ukraine is A “Square on the Chessboard”
What Obama Told Us At West Point
At West Point Obama told us, to the applause of West Point cadets, that “American exceptionalism” is a doctrine that justifies whatever Washington does.
Russia, China Agree to Create Joint Ratings Agency
The Russian minister stressed the plan was to make the agency apolitical. The decision came after the US-based Standard and Poor’s downgraded Russia’s credit rating from BBB to BBB- in April, following Crimea’s accession to Russia.
It is now illegal in 33 U.S. cities to feed homeless people
N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images
N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images
The National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of people from communications that it intercepts through its global surveillance operations for use in sophisticated facial recognition programs, according to top-secret documents.
NSA contractors use LinkedIn profiles to cash in on national security
NSA spies need jobs, too. And that is why many covert programs could be hiding in plain sight. Job websites such as LinkedIn and Indeed.com contain hundreds of profiles that reference classified NSA efforts, posted by everyone from career government employees to low-level IT workers who served in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Why There Is No Russian Military Intervention In The Ukraine
Explosion hits Ukraine border city, killing at least two
Unveiling “Western” Hypocrisy Russia Connects Syria And Ukraine
With The National 9/11 Memorial And Museum Opening, It’s Time We Confront The Truth
Jackson Jr. gets time off projected prison term, pays $550,000
Imprisoned former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s projected release date from federal prison is now Sept. 20, 2015, more than three months earlier than the day he had been expected to be freed, federal officials confirmed today.
Sudan backtracks on pledge to free woman sentenced to death for apostasy
The foreign office said on Saturday that Meriam Ibrahim would be freed within days but now says only Sudan’s courts can decide on her fate
The bizarre tale of America’s last known POW
US soldier freed from captivity in Afghanistan
…Taliban releases soldier in exchange for 5 Gitmo detainees
British Government Coverup and Whitewash of Iraq War Crimes: The Chilcot Inquiry
The Chilcot inquiry’s focus on Bush-Blair secrets distracts us from disaster in plain sight
To have any relevance, the Chilcot inquiry should extend its brief to cover all UK military interventions since the alliance
Gist of Tony Blair’s talks with George Bush over Iraq war to be published
Agreement between the Chilcot inquiry and government to publish some secret material comes after months of deadlock
Tourist who took camera inside North Korea shocked by ‘ordinary’ lives of citizens
When a man from Singapore had his wish to visit North Korea granted, he braced himself for the scenes of ‘barren lands’ and ‘really, really sad people’ that he had seen via a BBC Panorama documentary. But what he found blew his mind – for all the right reasons.
U.S. Imperialism and Nigerian Schoolgirls
International kowtowing to Israel must end now
The Americans and Europeans have tried being the voice of reason and failed. Now they must speak to Israel in the language it understands best (hint: it’s not Hebrew.)
Maya Angelou, US poet and author, dies aged 86
Maya Angelou, US poet and author, dies aged 86
Angelou, who was also prominent in the civil rights movement, died at home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Manchester United owner Malcolm Glazer dies aged 86
Malcolm Glazer, the head of the family that own Manchester United, died on Wednesday morning aged 86, in his hometown of Tampa.
Snowden says would have much to tell German inquiry: magazine
Snowden, Greenwald, Appelbaum, WikiLeaks ‘blacklisted’ from Stockholm Internet Forum
Key digital rights activists – including Edward Snowden and hacker Jacob Appelbaum – have been blacklisted from the Stockholm Internet Forum (SIF) on internet openness and freedom. The move has caused a stir at the gathering and outraged Twitter users.
Nigeria Denies Formal Talks on Captive Schoolgirls
With reports swirling in the Nigerian media of a possible negotiation to free hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist extremists, and the country’s top armed forces commander ruling out force to do so, the government’s chief spokesman again denied Tuesday that any “formal, official” talks were underway with the extremist group Boko Haram.
54 killed in new attacks in Nigeria, say officials
Obama outlines foreign policy vision of ‘might and right’
President Barack Obama on Wednesday outlined a foreign policy vision of “might doing right,” arguing that modern pragmatism requires both a strong military and the diplomatic tools of alliances and sanctions to exert influence and provide global leadership.
Dozens dead, morgues overflowing after siege turns one of Ukraine’s largest airports into a war zone
High-calibre weapons fire echoed sporadically Tuesday through the eastern city of Donetsk and the mayor urged residents to stay home a day after fighting between Ukrainian troops and separatist rebels reportedly killed dozens.
Ukraine, Russia near deal to avoid gas cutoff
Dozens dead, morgues overflowing after siege turns one of Ukraine’s largest airports into a war zone
Ukraine accuses Kremlin of sending ‘terrorists’ over border
Russia Urges Ukraine to Stop Military Operation in Donetsk
Russia has urged the Ukrainian government to halt what it calls a military operation against its own people and called on the OSCE international monitoring mission to investigate clashes with pro-Russian separatists in the eastern city of Donetsk.
Farcical ‘Elections’ in Ukraine
Orwell and Kafka had a baby, and named it Petr Poroshenko!
Obama to authorize training of Syrian rebels: report
US President Barack Obama will authorize US troops to train selected Syrian rebels, in order to counter the rising power of Al-Qaeda-linked extremists, a US newspaper reported Tuesday.
Syrian rebels describe U.S.-backed training in Qatar in new documentary
Maliki Reportedly Claims Support of PUK, Gorran for Majority Government
While Kurdish parties decided this month to adopt a common stance in negotiations with Baghdad, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki reportedly claims that two major Kurdish parties have agreed to join him in a new majority government.
WH to probe outing of CIA station chief
US deploys warship carrying marines off Libya
Libyan Islamists to U.S.: Don’t interfere or face worse than Iraq
The leader of Islamist militant group Ansar al-Sharia in Libya’s Benghazi city warned the United States on Tuesday against interference or it would face worse than the conflicts in Somalia, Iraq, or Afghanistan.
U.S. State Department Warns No U.S. Citizen Safe “Throughout the World”
After the attack on Iraq a frequently heard comment from those with no interest in foreign affairs or much, from activists, journalists and political observers of all hues, was: “Soon no American or British citizen will be safe anywhere on earth, for decades to come.” It was repeated after Libya, at every sabre rattling at Iran. Throughout the meddling, funding and support for terrorists in Syria the phrase has resurfaced, as again after US Under Secretary Victoria Nuland boasted of her government’s $5 billion illegal coup in Ukraine. Guantanamo, renditions, secret prisons and US drone strikes are also cited. Abu Ghraib and other atrocities are unforgotten.