By Elias Davidsson | Dissident Voice | August 2, 2015 A gross violation of human rights gives rise to a set of state obligations, including that of providing remedies to the victims. Among such remedies is the duty to establish the true circumstances surrounding the violation and ensuring the identification and punishment of those responsible […]
By Nathaniel J. Turner | ACLU | July 28, 2015 An impressive coalition has formed to oppose a new surveillance bill masquerading as cybersecurity legislation. Privacy and civil liberties organizations, free market groups, and others from across the political spectrum are joining this week in a common chorus call: Stop CISA. Proponents of CISA — […]
RT | July 21, 2015 NSA spying scandals are being discussed by the public now, said Elsa Rassbach, anti-war activist from Code Pink. And this is a positive step towards throwing out the remains of having been occupied, she added. WikiLeaks has published an intercept suggesting that the National Security Agency kept an eye on German […]
Press TV – July 8, 2015 A 2014 Turkish Foreign Ministry session, which featured high-level Turkish officials discussing how Turkey could start a war with Syria, was reportedly recorded and leaked by the US National Security Agency (NSA). German weekly magazine Focus attributed the leakage to the NSA, reporting on the security meeting among former […]
By John Steinbach | Global Research | March 2002 “Should war break out in the Middle East again,… or should any Arab nation fire missiles against Israel, as the Iraqis did, a nuclear escalation, once unthinkable except as a last resort, would now be a strong probability.” Seymour Hersh(1) “Arabs may have the oil, but […]
By Barrie Zwicker | Truth and Shadows | June 19, 2015 IF YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW how sausages are made, don’t start reading Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World by Michael Springmann. The sausages in this case: the string of too-easily-swallowed accounts of bloody events in the “global war on […]
Does Ed Snowden Really Trust Apple? By BILL BLUNDEN | CounterPunch | June 17, 2015 In the wake of Congress passing the USA Freedom Act Ed Snowden composed an editorial piece that appeared in the New York Times. There are aspects of this article that may surprise those who’ve followed events since Snowden first went […]
Press TV – June 9, 2015 Director of the US spy agency CIA John Brennan has reportedly made a secret visit to Israel to brief the regime’s officials over the ongoing nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 states. Brennan traveled to Israel on June 4 and met with high-ranking Israeli officials, including Prime Minister […]
By Dmitry MININ | Strategic Culture Foundation | 30.05.2015 Russian Foreign Chief Sergey Lavrov has made remarks on the situation in Macedonia stressing the involvement of outside actors. According to him, there was a connection between the events in Macedonia “unfolding against the background of the Macedonian government’s refusal to join sanctions against Russia and […]
By John W. Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute | May 26, 2015 “The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control.”—William Binney, NSA whistleblower We now have a fourth branch of government. As I document in my new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, this fourth branch came into being without […]
