World - Part 48
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden told NBC News that although he 'would like to go home' to the United States, his first priority is to see that vast government espionage programs he helped expose are reformed. ...[Read more]
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Transparency group WikiLeaks blasted fellow secret-spillers The Intercept last week for censoring the name of a country targeted by United States surveillance. WikiLeaks alleges the nation to be Afghanistan, but the story might not stop right there. ...[Read more]
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At a secret base in Qatar, the US military is training rebels to raid Syrian government troops and vehicles, as well as to finish off the soldiers still alive after an ambush, first-hand interviews in a Frontline documentary have revealed. ...[Read more]
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A school and a kindergarten have been shelled in Slavyansk as the city becomes increasingly unsafe in the intensified Kiev military campaign. At least 9 civilians were injured in Wednesday's shelling incidents, including a child. ...[Read more]
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On May 11 a plane arrived at Kiev’s airport in strict secrecy; it was met by the airport’s military personnel rather than the civilian staff. NATO military uniforms, 500 packages of amphetamines, and containers marked as poisonous substances were unlo ...[Read more]
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(Translation via Google Translate. Thanks to Lucio Barbosa Silva Barbosa Silva - from french.ruvr.ru)
Berlin newspaper Bild presented this topic to the agenda yesterday, after being the first to reveal the participation of 400 mercenaries of American soci ...[Read more]
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At least two civilians have reportedly been killed and several wounded when the Ukrainian Army launched a mortar attack on the town of Slavyansk in eastern Ukraine. One of the shells fell near a local teachers college, according to Ridus news portal. ...[Read more]
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All across the state in Tennessee, USA police will be performing another round of highly-publicized "no refusal" blood-draw DUI checkpoints this weekend. With police armed with a 2012 law that allows them to forcibly extract blood from drivers, its a bad ...[Read more]
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On Sunday, Ukrainians go to the polls to elect a new president, three months after the previous one was deposed in an armed coup. There some are finer details to the poll, making it not something one expects while electing head of a state. ...[Read more]
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Boko Haram, a group which abducted about 300 Nigerian girls, was created by the CIA, says an analyst.
Boko Haram “is a CIA-created and funded group,” Short said, adding the group’s “weapons come from Libya. We know that the commander of the so-cal ...[Read more]
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Chicken and eggs from the occupied West Bank and the annexed east Jerusalem will no longer be seen on European plates, the EU has ruled, reportedly citing gaps in public health standards between the two Jewish zones and the state. ...[Read more]
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