Russian troops have taken control of a military airport in Ukraine’s autonomous Crimea territory. The troops have surrounded a military airport near the port of Sevastopol, where the Russian Black Sea fleet has a base. According to reports, the Russian troops have not entered the military base so far but are backed by armored personnel carriers. Earlier on Friday, a group of armed men in military... 

British and American surveillance agencies teamed up to develop a system that collected millions of images from the webcams of unsuspecting and innocent internet users, new leaked documents reveal. This “Optic Nerve” program — administered by the UK’s GCHQ with the assistance of the National Security Agency — routinely intercepted and stored those webcam images in secret starting in... 

The question of how much the Ukrainian revolution was a grass roots effort versus being driven by external influences will be put to the test by a demand from some Ukrainian citizens that a right to bear arms be included in the country’s new constitution. Citing how riot police used force to crush dissent during the recent uprising, the Ukrainian Gun Owner’s Association has announced that it... 

The State of Connecticut is now demanding that gun owners across the state turn in all newly-banned, unregistered firearms and magazines or face felony arrest. The State Police Special Licensing & Firearms Unit began mailing out notices to gun owners who attempted to register their firearms and accessories with the state but did not do so in time for the Jan. 1 deadline of Connecticut’s newly... 

Russian-speaking Ukrainians in Crimea are resisting the western banker takeover of their country by installing a Russian Mayor in the town of Sevastopol as part of an emerging revolt against the US-backed coup d’état that saw the overthrow of democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych. “Sevastopol’s city council handed power to Aleksei Chaliy, a Russian citizen, during an extraordinary... 

A resident in a polluted city in northern China has become the first person in the country to launch a case against the local government over high levels of pollution. He is also seeking compensation for those affected by the smog. The local environmental authorities should “perform their duties to control air pollution according to the law,” believes Li Guixin, a resident in Shijiazhuang,... 

Footage capturing an aggressive arrest by Austin police of a non-violent jaywalker yesterday near the University of Texas campus is spurring outrage. Witnesses say a jogger wearing headphones ran past an officer and was quickly subdued for jaywalking. She was later arrested for failing to produce identification. “I was sitting at the Starbucks at 24th and San Antonio,” one witness told The Daily... 

Britain’s HS2 railway In what amounts to an abuse of democracy, lobbyists are being used to put the case for an absurd project few really want. The government’s project for a new high-speed railway from Birmingham to London Euston is entering a critical phase. This has nothing to do with trains but everything to do with tribes. Last week there were unconfirmed reports that the government... 

The Arizona state Senate approved legislation Wednesday permitting businesses in the state to refuse service to potential customers based on an owner’s religious beliefs, rather than being forced by law to collaborate with anyone even against their will. Equal rights advocates claim the bill legalizes LGBT discrimination. The bill, known officially as Senate Bill 1062, was approved by the Republican-controlled... 

A shocking new “urgent action” report prepared by the Federal Security Service (FSB) for President Putin says that the Obama regime has thrown into prison an 84-year-old Catholic nun and murdered her close nuclear scientist friend after the pair had uncovered a plot that was smuggling weapons grade atomic material out of the United States most secure nuclear facility. According to this report,... 

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has warned the Scottish people that a vote for independence from the United Kingdom would mean losing their state pensions. “You are expecting, quite rightly, that you will get a British pension – but if there is independence, the British pension stops, the national insurance fund that you’re paying into... 

The Indian embassy in Qatar says over 450 Indian migrant workers have died in the Persian Gulf state over the past two years. The embassy said on Monday the deaths occurred in 2012 and the first 11 months of 2013 but did not give details about the circumstances of the deaths or where they occurred, AFP reported. It said on average about 20 Indian migrants died in Qatar each month and the toll peaked... 

Shock investigation: Pentagon accelerates plan to confiscate guns, prosecute US conservatives. The federal government has been in a big hurry to build a 300 acre city in just 2 years at an expense of $96 million in taxpayer funds in order to train the military “for problems we don’t even know we have yet.” If you’ve been following Infowars, you’ve seen us document over and over again what... 

Martial law training? 300 acre town includes sports stadium, school, underground subway. The U.S. Army has built a 300 acre ‘fake city’ complete with a sports stadium, bank, school, and an underground subway in order to train for unspecified future combat scenarios. The recently opened site is located in Virginia and was built at a cost of $96 million dollars, taking just two years to complete. While... 

Brazilian campaigners have gathered outside the Foreign Ministry building in the capital Brasilia to demand the government grant asylum to US surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden. On Thursday, the campaigners walked to the Foreign Ministry building while chanting slogans and carrying symbolic boxes of data. They handed in a one million names-strong petition, asking asylum for Snowden. Reports...