Government Accountability

Maduro Announces Electricity Rationing Plan as Protests Break Out

(VA) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has ordered the implementation of a national electricity rationing plan as rolling blackouts enter their sixth day in the South American country. “I’ve approved a 30-day plan for [electrical] charge administration [and] equilibrium in the process of generation, secure transmission of service, and usage throughout the country,” Maduro declared in a […]

New Zealand Police Interviewed Mosque Shooter Before Granting Gun License

(ZH) – New Zealand police revealed on Friday that they met with accused Christchurch mosque shooter Brenton Tarrant in October 2017 as part of a routine home inspection connected to his purchase of the guns used in the March 15 attacks that left 50 dead. Australian Brenton Tarrant, a self-avowed white supremacist, applied for the gun licence […]

Whistleblowers Claim Trump Trying to Transfer Nuke Technology to Saudi Arabia

(ZH) — The House Oversight committee now chaired by Democrat Elijah Cummings issued an interim staff report after several whistleblowers came forward “to warn about efforts inside the White House to rush the transfer of highly sensitive U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia in potential violation of the Atomic Energy Act,” spearheaded by Jared Kushner, according to a press release by […]

US Investigators Probing Years of WikiLeaks Activities

(ANTIWAR.COM) – Officially, the US government has barely conceded that there is an investigation into WikiLeaks at all. Yet after years of efforts to quietly vilify the whistleblower for its publications. The efforts to overtly criminalize the group are picking up pace. The government has accidentally admitted to charges against Assange, at least in secret, and WikiLeaks is […]

Bezos Pulls Out: Amazon Scraps Plan for HQ2 in New York City

(ZH) — As it turns out, those reports about Amazon reconsidering its plan to build one of its “HQ2s” in the Queens neighborhood of Long Island City weren’t just trial balloons intended as a warning to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to get his people in line. Because in a Thursday announcement that will undoubtedly be heralded […]

US Senate Seeks to Thwart Saudi Nuclear Ambitions

(MEMO) — The US Senate has proposed a resolution that would ban any deal to exchange US nuclear technology with Saudi Arabia that could assist the Kingdom in making a nuclear weapon. “Under the measure, any US civilian nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia would prevent enrichment of uranium or reprocessing of plutonium made in reactors […]

Netanyahu Launches His Own TV Channel to Bypass ‘Fake News’

(MEMO) – Benjamin Netanyahu has launched his own TV channel to bypass mainstream media and ensure positive coverage ahead of the upcoming General Election. “Likud TV” was launched yesterday on the Israeli Prime Minister’s official Facebook page and will air every evening at 19:00 local time (17:00 GMT) until the election on 9 April. Sporting the slogan “we’re throwing […]

Pressure Mounts on FBI Director to Quit Over Florida School Shooting Failures

(ZHE) — The White House is probably regretting its decision not to show FBI Director Christopher Wray the door when he reportedly threatened to resign last year over the administration’s push to oust now-former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe… In what the bureau has called a “failure of protocol,” Wray admitted that the bureau had failed to follow up on an […]