6/23/2013

Just when WikiLeaks seemed to be fading from the world of spilled secrets, Julian Assange’s group has become part of the story of another megaleaker: Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old whistleblower currently flying across the globe to escape an Espionage Act indictment for revealing the biggest National Security Agency…

June 23, 2013

Fallout surrounding the NSA leaks will likely shield Edward Snowden from extra-judicial capture in the short term. However, some analysts say Washington’s long memory almost guarantees the whistleblower will never again be secure.

On Sunday a spokesperson for the Hong Kong government confirmed that Snowden…

June 23, 2013 

The plane carrying whistleblower Edward Snowden has landed at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. The former CIA contractor, who left Hong Kong in a bid to elude US extradition on espionage charges, is on his way to a ‘third country’ via Russia.

Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino announced via twitter that…

June 23, 2013

US government has been hacking Chinese mobile operator networks to intercept millions of text messages, as well as the operator of region’s fibre optic cable network, South China Morning Post writes citing Edward Snowden.

More information on National Security Agency activity in China and Hong Kong has been…

June 22, 2013 

For the next two weeks Bitcoin users in the US will be unable to withdraw the virtual currency in dollars. Major exchange Mt. Gox cited an unusually high demand as the reason for the suspension, while customers worried the company has run out of cash.

Mt. Gox, based in Tokyo, Japan, handles approximately 80…

June 22, 2013

According to ‘The Hawk’ from Steve Quayle’s Survive2Thrive radio network and Hawks FEMA/DHS sources, FEMA called an emergency meeting this week in which it has notified the heads of all of its…

Jun 21, 2013

The United States Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Tuesday that 22,737 pounds of ground beef products are being recalled on fears that they may be contaminated with …

June 21, 2013

After stopping a woman for driving with a broken taillight, a Florida police officer subjected her to a humiliating drug search, ordering the young woman to lift her shirt and shake out her bra.

Zoe Brugger, a young mother and resident of Lakeland, was stopped by police on May 21. She had been…

June 20, 2013

A new Canadian law forbids people from wearing a mask or covering their face during a riot or so-called “unlawful assembly” in the country. The law carries a maximum ten-year sentence for anyone convicted of physically concealing their identity.

Current Canadian law already forbids covering the face during a…

June 20, 2013

Force-feeding people during a voluntary hunger strike is considered an abuse of the Hippocratic Oath, and medical personnel at Gitmo should not follow orders that violate their ethical principles, psychiatrist Terry Kupers told RT.

If the hunger strike continues in Guantanamo, inmates will most likely face…

June 19, 2013

The scandal over illegal data interception by US security services questions the correlation between the US and international law, and senior Russian officials are calling for an urgent update in Russian legislation in response.

Russia will not ignore the actions of the US authorities who had admitted leaks of…

JUNE 16, 2013

In a SouthMilwaukeeNow.com article dated June 14 and entitled, 'Italian Court Rules MMRVaccine Caused…

June 19, 2013

After receiving a letter from Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades asking to reconsider the bail-in, three senior eurozone officials confirmed they do not intend to change their course.

On Tuesday Anastasidades wrote to EU officials asking if the terms of the bailout could be changed: 

"It is my…

June 19, 2013 

US President Barack Obama has defended the actions of his government’s spying on Germany and its citizens on his Wednesday visit to the country, shortly after NSA revelations exposed that Germany was the US’s most spied upon European nation.

The codenamed ‘Prism’ operation instigated an outcry in a nation…

June 19, 2013

British banking bosses may end up in prison if a new law to jail top executives for "reckless misconduct" is passed. The recent ‘Changing Banking for Good’ report has called on Chancellor George Osborne to clamp down on the country’s banking system.

The authors of the 571-page report recommend the creation of a…

June 19, 2013

President Barack Obama will say on Wednesday he will pursue a new reduction in deployed nuclear weapons by up to a third below the level achieved…

June 18, 2013

Russians have transferred over $30 billion (around $1 trillion roubles) to Cyprus over the past twenty years, according to a study published by a group of economists from Russia, Finland and Canada.

“The dominance of Russian money in Cyprus bank deposits and in foreign investment from and into Russia is…

June 18, 2013 

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange took shelter in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London one year ago Wednesday, sparking a standoff with UK authorities that could leave the world-renowned whistleblower cooped up for years to come.

When Assange first made his asylum bid 365 days ago, the tense standoff that ensued…

June 19, 2013

Despite reports indicating the opposite US President Barack Obama has continued to perpetrate the vague assertion that the controversial NSA surveillance programs, primarily PRISM, are responsible for stopping a major terrorist attack in New York City.

American officials have maintained that the National…

June 18, 2013

For the first time since President Obama took office Washington has publicly disclosed the names of inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp classified as “indefinite detainees” - those who pose too great a threat to release but cannot be tried in court.

The 48 inmates were first identified in 2009 when the…