June 25, 2013

Amnesty International urges the US not to hunt down Edward Snowden since “no one should be prosecuted for disclosing human rights violations by the government.” They also said the NSA leaker cannot be extradited while his asylum bid is underway.

“No one should be charged under any law for disclosing…

June 25, 2013 

A trove of classified documents supplied to The Guardian newspaper by NSA leaker Edward Snowden has been copied and shared with several people around the globe, journalist Glenn Greenwald told The Daily Beast on Tuesday.

Greenwald, the Guardian reporter who first began publishing National Security Agency…

June 24, 2013

More than 400 US soldiers are preparing for their deployment to Egypt in anticipation of violent protests, riots, and the possibility of having to protect the country’s border with Israel.

Training at Fort Hood for a nine-month deployment in the “near future” concluded on June 20, KCEN-TV reports, noting that…

 June 24, 2013

In a frightening example of how the state is tightening its grip around the free Internet, it has emerged that You Tube is complying with thousands of requests from…

June 24, 2013

The Edward Snowden debate took a new turn over the weekend when reporters Glenn Greenwald and David Gregory got into a heated discussion about the journalism involved behind the scenes of the saga surrounding the NSA leaker.

Greenwald, the writer who interviewed Snowden for The Guardian newspaper earlier this…

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…