A US National Security Agency employee has abused the US government’s spying tools in order to intercept phone calls of nine foreign women. According to internal files of the US spying agency, the NSA agent intercepted the calls from 1998 to 2003 and twice collected communications of an American without ever being noticed by his managers. The illegal abuse of the NSA’s spying tools was disclosed... 

US President Barack Obama will use his Tuesday’s address to the United Nations in New York to demand that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, according to US officials. White House spokesman Ben Rhodes told reporters on Friday that Obama’s speech will also focus on the need for a tough resolution demanding Syria turn over its chemical weapons or face a threat of force. Obama will... 

A parent trying to get answers regarding the curriculum his children are learning, was aggressively thrown out, arrested and charged with second-degree assault on a police officer during a school board meeting in Maryland last week. The father, Robert Small, challenged school officials arguing the Common Core curriculum is preparing kids for ‘community college, not Harvard.’ According to Michelle... 

Christians have staged protest rallies across Pakistan to show their anger at a twin bombing outside a church in the country’s northwestern city of Peshawar. Protesters took to the streets in several cities including the capital Islamabad as well as Karachi, Lahore and Multan, shouting slogans against the attackers, local media reported. In the southern port city of Karachi, protesters clashed with... 

Rethink911.org billboard in Dallas. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reportedly considering those Americans who harbor “conspiracy theories” about the September 11, 2001 attacks as a potential terrorist. The FBI has instructed local police departments about the case in a circular, Digital Journal reported. “The memo thus adds 9/11-official-story skeptics to a growing list of targets... 

At least 68 people have been killed and 200 others wounded by Al-Qaeda-linked militants in a Nairobi shopping mall, as the hostage crisis there has entered its second day. Foreigners are among the casualties. The Red Cross in Kenya said on Sunday that the death toll in the Westgate mall siege has risen to 68. 10 to 15 gunmen are still inside the shopping center, a Kenyan minister has reported. 30... 

The Canadian government has come under fire over a controversial series of regulations that allow spying on cell phone users, Press TV reports. Cell phone companies in Canada, bidding on new contracts, face rules that force them to allow Canadian authorities to spy on mobile phone users under an unpublicized accord. For almost 20 years, Canadian telecommunications companies have been told that one... 

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has won the so-called Ig Nobel Peace Prize – a parody of the Nobel Prize, which is awarded for “achievements that make one laugh, but then think.” Experts reminded the Belarus president of his ban on applause imposed in 2011. The award winners were announced at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Anti-Nobel, or Ig Nobel Prize, appeared... 

For years the National Security Agency has been violating restrictions and misusing the US domestic spying program that collected private data from US citizens, newly released declassified documents show. The new information from Intelligence Community Documents Regarding Collection under Section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) shows that the government on a daily basis spied... 

Attacked: Three people were punched in New York by a man who allegedly said he would attack the next white person to walk by More black-on-white violence largely ignored by the mainstream media. Another unprovoked black-on-white attack in the wake of the George Zimmerman trial has received little national media attention even though it is being investigated as a hate crime. In New York City last Wednesday,... 

It’s almost like an arms race right now in the US between the spies and the ordinary people, who just want to be private and pay their taxes and do their jobs, Chris Kitze, founder of Unseen encrypted secure server, told RT. RT: Reports have emerged claiming the NSA and GCHQ actually work to hack the codes protecting data like e-mail and bank records. Given the assistance of major service providers,... 

The growing surveillance industry complex is providing governments with increasingly sophisticated spying software to track and control their citizens, the latest documents obtained by the pro-transparency group, WikiLeaks reveal. A trove of documents, outlining the activities of dozens of companies operating in the ever-expanding electronic snooping industry, were made available by the pro-transparency... 

New Zealand’s police and intelligence services have direct access to US surveillance systems such as PRISM, to monitor email and capture various data traffic, according to police affidavits in connection with the raid on Kim Dotcom’s mansion. The news that the Organised and Financial Crime Agency New Zealand (OFCANZ) requested assistance from the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB)... 

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday that his administration has successfully carried out the largest gun seizure in the city’s history. At a Monday morning press conference, Mayor Bloomberg and Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly announced that authorities in New York have managed to indict and arrest 19 individuals believed responsible for running an illegal gun pipeline from... 

UK authorities reportedly raided the Guardian’s office in London to destroy hard drives in an effort to stop future publications of leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The action is unlikely to prevent new materials coming out. Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger revealed in a Monday article posted on the British newspaper’s website that intelligence officials from the Government...