Top Stories

WikiLeaks publishes entire hacking capacity of the CIA
WikiLeaks has published what it claims is the largest ever batch of confidential documents on the CIA, revealing the breadth of the agency’s ability to hack smartphones and popular social media messaging apps such as WhatsApp. ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the 1 Percent
While many of us are working to ensure that the Occupy movement will have a lasting impact, its worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of democracy and economic justice. Sweden ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
The US Empire, the CIA, and the NGOs
The CIA recruited the Muslim Brotherhood to fight a proxy war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, which led to the withdrawal of the Soviets from the Hindu Kush. Since then, the CIA used the mercenaries to fight more proxy wars in the Balkans, Chechn ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
Former Pink Floyd frontman sparks fury by comparing Israelis to Nazis
Inflammatory remarks by the musician Roger Waters, formerly of Pink Floyd, comparing the modern Israeli state to Nazi Germany have put him at the centre of a furious dispute. Performers and religious figures reacted angrily to the veteran rock star's argu ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
Kansas Is Punishing a Teacher for Following Her Church’s Guidance to Boycott Israel
ESTHER KOONTZ IS a long-time math teacher and curriculum coach at Horace Mann Dual Language Magnet School in Wichita, Kansas. She’s also a member of the Mennonite Church USA, which in July voted to divest itself from American companies that profit off o ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
US Media Attempt to Shape Russians Electoral Tastes
Recently Twitter has banned all ads from the accounts of Russian media outlets RT and Sputnik on its platform over alleged attempts to meddle in elections. US media outlets are permanently attempting to shape the electoral preferences of the Russian natio ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
Paris’s First Nude Restaurant Is Now Open
France already boasts hundreds of beaches, campsites, and spa centers meant to be enjoyed in the nude, and now, the famously clothing-optional country is breaking new ground in naturism. According to local newspaper Le Parisien, the first nude restaurant ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
F.C.C. Plans Net Neutrality Repeal in a Victory for Telecoms
The Federal Communications Commission released a plan on Tuesday to dismantle landmark regulations that ensure equal access to the internet, clearing the way for internet service companies to charge users more to see certain content and to curb access to ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
Ex-Agent Admits CIA Played Role in Nelson Mandela’s 1962 Arrest
The former CIA operative revealed he gave the tip leading to Mandela's arrest. The African National Congress says the CIA is still operating against them. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was involved in the 1962 arrested of anti-apartheid crusader an ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
Top .001% Making 636% More Since 1980, But GOP Tax Scam Will Turbocharge Inequality
A new report released Thursday finds that economic inequality has soared in nearly every country around the world, with the United States' income and wealth gaps widening to a particularly extreme degree compared to European and other countries. The World ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
Detained Palestinian teen in viral photo to be sentenced in a court with a 99.74 percent conviction rate
Fawzi al-Junaidi, 16, will be taken in for a hearing in Israel’s military court today, after being held for more than a week in Israeli detention. Junaidi was detained during clashes that erupted in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Dec. 7, the ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save