President Barack Obama is an “opportunist” with “awful” policies, one of the world’s top intellectuals, American linguist Noam Chomsky, has said. He was extremely critical of Obama’s use of drones in the Middle East and the secretive TPP trade deals. “I’m not one of those who was disillusioned,” the 86-year old author and political activist said... 

European countries, international creditors and the Greek opposition have declared a war on Greece (resembling the one on Yugoslavia) but the government will stay true to its election promises, Labor Minister Panos Skourletis of Syriza said. “The months following the elections were extremely hard. Never before has the government, which received a clear popular mandate, faced such a war waged... 

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said he deeply regretted the loss of all lives during NATO’s bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which he described as “a tragedy,” Serbian media reported on Thursday. Speaking in Budva, Montenegro, after his meeting with Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic, Stoltenberg said that he was offering condolences to... 

The US is obstructing international efforts to eradicate biological weapons, seeking to involve other nations covertly in research on weaponized diseases, Moscow charged. America’s record of handling bioweapons is poor. The accusations of mishandling biological weapons voiced by the Russian Foreign Ministry refer to a recent report that the US military shipped live anthrax by mistake. Last week,... 

Ukrainian soldiers take part in exercises near the eastern Ukrainian city of Lysychansk, in the Lugansk region on March 27, 2015. A majority of people in the United States are supporting a military strike against Russia in response to an attack by Moscow on a NATO country, according to a new survey. The poll conducted by the Pew Research Center showed Wednesday that 56 percent of Americans back a military... 

Greek anti-austerity activists have occupied the Finance Ministry building in the capital, Athens, in protest of new austerity measures dictated by international creditors. The protesters took down the European Union (EU) flag waving over the building and put up a banner with portrays of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras alongside his predecessors, George Papandreou and Antonis Samaras, reading “We... 

US President Barack Obama has lashed out at his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, saying he is destroying the country’s economy in order to recreate the Soviet empire. During a speech to world leaders at the G7 summit in Germany, Obama attacked Putin over the Ukraine crisis. “Does he continue to wreck his country’s economy and continue Russia’s isolation in pursuit of a wrong-headed desire... 

In response to the false news story that a Pakistani had won the Joker (the Greek lottery), SYRIZA MP Maria Kanellopoulou took the opportunity to draw fire against the Greeks through a deeply anti-Greek, racist delirium! “Hahahahahahahaha….. What am I hearing??? What am I reading???? What am I learning???? A Pakistani won the Joker???????? There is a God after all!!!!” The SYRIZA MP concludes... 

Time exposure shot of testing of the LGM-118A Peacekeeper re-entry vehicles at the Kwajalein Atoll, all eight fired from one missile. The Peacekeeper is a US ballistic missile payload containing several warheads, each capable of being aimed to hit one of a group of targets. Moscow says it is closely watching a possible deployment of the United States nuclear missiles in Europe. Kremlin press secretary... 

US Army instructors train Ukrainian forces in Yavoriv, Ukraine, on May 27. Hundreds of US forces are reportedly located near Russia’s borders with Ukraine to train the country’s troops amid growing tensions between Washington and Moscow. NBC News reported on Sunday that 300 American paratroopers are involved in the direct training that could be seen as a “major provocation” by Russian President... 

On January 21, 1950, US Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, one of the greatest civil libertarians in the history of his country, warned of the impact of Cold War anti-Communist hysteria on American liberties in a speech to 500 delegates at a conference of the American Jewish Committee. His speech on this day was titled “Fear Obscures Reason.” And in one of his most famous opinions, Justice Black... 

Israeli jets struck several sites in northern Gaza on Sunday, as Israel blamed Hamas for launching a missile into Ashkelon and ordered all Gazan border crossings to be closed. The Palestinians say a pro-Islamic State group is trying to provoke a war. The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said the Air Force has hit a number of “terror infrastructure sites” in the northern Gaza Strip, the Jerusalem Post... 

The Ukrainian parliament has adopted amendments to state law allowing “admission of the armed forces of other states on the territory of Ukraine.” The possible hosting of foreign weapons of mass destruction is also mentioned in the documents. Amendments to Ukrainian law were adopted on Thursday by the Verkhovna Rada, receiving a majority of 240 votes (the required minimum being 226). The bill... 

A truly grim Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Putin today has authorized “full military force” to be used in the breaking of the illegal blockade imposed on the Federation protected state of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR) by Ukraine. The PMR, more commonly known to the West as Transnistria, is a Federation protected “republic”... 

Israeli regime’s Culture Minister Miri Regev An Israeli minister has asked the French government to dismiss the “anti-Semite” chief executive of the French telecommunications company Orange over its plans for severing business ties with Israeli mobile firm Partner. Amid the outrage in Israel over the company’s plan, the regime’s Culture Minister Miri Regev on Thursday issued an appeal...