The Australian parliament has issued a harsh verdict on the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal currently being negotiated, calling it an “attack [on] internet freedoms” and seriously lacking in oversight, in a report released Monday. The “Blind Agreement” report by the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee, criticized the secrecy of the negotiations crafting... 

Whistleblower website WikiLeaks says the US National Security Agency (NSA) eavesdropped on two successive French finance ministers and the country’s high-stakes export contracts, trade and budget talks over a decade. According to new documents released by the transparency website on Monday, the NSA wiretapped the communications of two finance ministers Francois Baroin and Pierre Moscovici and three... 

The Hejhal family is in shock. After Pentecost they received the notice of termination of renting contract of their apartment. So called refugees will move into the family’s former home. Now, the family of eight has no choice but to quickly find a new home, as they unexpectedly and without sufficient time to react, received a termination notice. The city Niederkassel, as landlord of the family’s... 

Greece has announced the temporary closure of banks and stock market as leaders of the US and Germany weigh in on the country’s debt crisis. The Bank of Greece has recommended a “bank holiday and restriction of bank withdrawals” on Monday, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced in a statement on Sunday. Athens stock market would also stay closed and capital controls are to... 

Most of the 38 victims of a terror attack on a beach resort in Tunisia were white Europeans, most from Britain, the country’s Prime Minister Habib Essid has told a news conference. Mr Essid said victims of the shooting rampage at a resort in Sousse were also from Germany, Belgium and other countries. The British Prime Minister David Cameron warned that the public needs to be prepared for the fact... 

A poll conducted jointly by The University of Texas and The Texas Tribune has found that a majority of Texans believe that the federal government is likely to order a “domestic military intervention” to arrest political protesters and violate property rights. The poll was conducted primarily to discover whether Texans felt Governor Greg Abbott was correct in his actions to send the Texas State... 

With racial tensions at an all time high, it’s curious the corporate media has remained virtually silent on the death of an internet blogger suspected of brutally attacking several Asian women in Manhattan over the past month. The body of Tyrell Shaw, 25, the black man who ran a blog called “Mr. Talented,” was found Monday, dead from an apparent suicide. An apartment landlord said he found Shaw’s... 

Facial recognition is the automatic identification of a person from a digital image or a video frame. Churches around the world have started to secretly keep tabs on their congregants with facial recognition software. Around 30 churches from countries such as the US, Indonesia, India, and Portugal have started to use Churchix, a specialized program designed for religious institutions by an American-Israeli... 

A George Soros and State Department funded organization, the New America Foundation, has released a report that states white Americans represent the largest domestic terror threat. The organization claims the Charleston shooting, the murder of three police officers in Pittsburg by Robert Poplawski, Andrew Joseph Stack’s plane crash in Austin and other attacks constitute organized “right-wing”... 

The US Department of Defense has released a book of instructions on the rules of war, detailing acceptable ways of killing the enemy and says that journalists also can be terrorists. The “Department of Defense Law of War Manual” explains that shooting, exploding, bombing, stabbing, or cutting the enemy are acceptable ways of killing your enemy, but the use of poison or asphyxiating gases is not... 

The US National Security Agency (NSA) spied on the last three presidents of France from 2006 until 2012, according to newly released documents from the WikiLeaks whistleblower website. The NSA wiretapped former French presidents Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy as well the current leader Francois Hollande, WikiLeaks said in a press statement published on Tuesday, citing top secret intelligence reports... 

The team from the University of California, Berkeley based the robot (bottom) on the humble cockroach (top). It will send a chill down the spine of anyone who has watched a cockroach escape into a seemingly impossibly small gap. Researchers have created a robot that can use its body shape to move through a densely cluttered environment. The team from the University of California, Berkeley based the... 

US and British spy agencies worked to reverse-engineer antivirus software in order to “exploit such software and to prevent detection of our activities.” Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab was particularly targeted. Citing documents leaked by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden more than two years ago, The Intercept reported Monday that the US National Security Agency (NSA)... 

James Boulware launched an assault with explosives and automatic weapons against the Dallas police department just after midnight on Friday. Hours later he was killed by a police sniper. Boulware was in an armored van that he purchased the week before in Newnan, Georgia. He planted pipe bombs around the police station and had more inside his van. During a 9-1-1 call with police, which was placed by... 

US President George W. Bush awards former CIA director George Tenet the Presidential Medal of Freedom on December 14, 2004. The US Central Intelligence Agency had explicit guidelines for “human experimentation” on terrorism detainees as part of its controversial rendition, detention and interrogation program, according to a newly declassified document. The document containing the guidelines was...