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Leaked emails show an American private security company, SCG International has been helping the Syrian opposition in its efforts to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad at the request of US officials.
The whistleblower website, Wikileaks, released the em ...[Read more]
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The government of Iceland has forgiven the mortgage debt for much of its population. This nation chose a very different way of stopping the crisis from the rest of European countries. It decided to hear the requests of the population and to put politician ...[Read more]
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AT&T, Boeing, Citigroup, Duke Energy and Ford reported more than $20 billion of US pre-tax income last year, but didn't pay any federal income taxes. Here's why.
As American families rush to complete their annual tax returns, many will have paid more in ...[Read more]
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In a speech on Friday, Yuval Diskin, who retired as head of the Shin Bet, Israel's domestic intelligence service, last year, spoke out strongly against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak on the issue of Iran. Address ...[Read more]
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On Tuesday afternoon, Senate Republicans blocked a measure that would have prevented a big hike for student loan interest rates. The legislation would have kept ...[Read more]
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A 60-year-old Greek musician and his 91-year-old mother jumped to their deaths from their 5th floor apartment, driven to despair by financial woes. This double death is the latest in a rising epidemic of crisis-induced suicides in Greece.
Witness account ...[Read more]
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The developer, Nadim Kobeissi of Montreal, was detained at the US-Canada border on Wednesday, he tweeted.
PrivacySOS has posted the relevant tweets here. Here's what Kobeissi said about the ordeal:
Out of my 4 DHS interrogations in the past 3 weeks, it ...[Read more]
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A grand jury has indicted three men arrested in the run-up to the NATO Summit in Chicago on terrorism-related charges. The men now face decades in prison for purportedly planning to attack President Barack Obama ...[Read more]
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Ecuador said on Thursday that it had decided to grant political asylum to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Seeking asylum, Mr. Assange has been holed up for two months in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where the police scuffled with and arrest ...[Read more]
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