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US claims Chinese military is on new cyber offensive against America
Officials within the United States government say hackers from China have renewed their assault on US targets only three months after a highly-touted investigation linked the People’s Liberation Army to a series of cyberattacks waged at American entities.
According to the New York Times, computer security experts and US officials alike say the PLA’s sophisticated cyber squadron is attempting to...
US spy agencies threaten Latin America's sovereignty: WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks
The founder of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks says the US spy agencies pose a threat to the sovereignty of Latin American nations as the countries depend on US-based telecommunication technologies.
Julian Assange said speaking via videoconference at Uruguay’s University of the Republic that Latin America’s reliance on hardware...
Russian Med fleet returns, an unintended consequence
Russian sailors march near their Navy vessel in the bay of the Ukrainian city of Sevastopol, which is the main base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
There was a lot of distraction in the news last week, particularly the flank attack moves on Obama that obscured a huge development in the Mid East… the first return of the Russian Pacific Navy for Mediterranean deployment since 1992.
The first big part...
French President Hollande signs gay marriage bill into law
French President Francois Hollande
French President Francois Hollande has signed into law a bill legalizing gay marriages and child adoption by same-sex couples, making France the 14th country to legalize same-sex marriages.
Hollande signed the bill on Saturday, a day after the Constitutional Council approved the bill through a ruling, rejecting a challenge by the right-wing opposition.
“I will ensure...
Russia Issues “All-Out War” Alert Over Syria
A grim report issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on the just concluded Arctic Council meeting between Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his American counterpart US Secretary of State John Kerry is warning today that President Putin has ordered Russian military forces to “immediately move” from Local War to Regional War operational status and to be “fully prepared” to expand to...
Australia's WikiLeaks Party calls for journalism shield law
Julian Assange’s newly formed Australian WikiLeaks Party (WLP) announced that if elected, it will immediately introduce a national shield law to protect a reporter’s right not to reveal a source, as current state-based shield laws are “inadequate.”
“Only a uniform shield law covering the whole Commonwealth is acceptable,” WLP spokespersons Cassie Findlay and Sam Castro said. “Government...
Israel blames Chomsky for Stephen Hawking withdrawal from conference
U.S. linguist Noam Chomsky
Israeli regime’s media outlets are blaming U.S. linguist Noam Chomsky for British physicist Stephen Hawking’s withdrawal from Israel’s Presidential Conference in protest of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.
The regime’s outlets described Chomsky as “notoriously anti-Israel linguist and one of the world’s leading anti-Israel activists who joined...
US committing grave mistake on Venezuela, Maduro says
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a press conference in Caracas on May 9, 2013.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says the United States has made a ‘grave mistake’ in refusing to acknowledge his victory in the recent presidential election.
The statement came on Saturday after US President Barack Obama recently rejected to say whether Washington recognized Maduro as the new president...
Media Attacks Rand Paul for Saying Globalists Plotting Against Constitution
The Washington Post has attempted to write-off Kentucky Senator Rand Paul as a fringe kook for opposing the United Nations’ Small Arms Treaty.
Ezra Klein, who spends a lot of time over at MSNBC with Rachel Maddow and has also appeared with Bill Maher — who has called the Second Amendment “bullshit” — bases his claim on research conducted by Snopes.com, the website specializing in debunking...
Rand Paul accuses Obama of plotting with ‘anti-American globalists’ to grab guns
A global campaign to confiscate firearms is setting its sights on law-abiding gun owners in the United States, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) warned in a statement over the weekend.
Paul, a long-time Second Amendment supporter and strong opponent of gun control legislation, addressed subscribers of the National Association on Gun Rights’ email list on Saturday to demand they speak up about an alleged...
The Real Disgrace Of Athens: Homeless Epidemic Given No Attention
The Mayor of Athens referred to Golden Dawn as the “embarrassment” of Greece, yet the Mayor goes back to being absent when it’s time to address serious issues such as homelessness.
Because of the memorandum, Greece now is going through its worst period in modern history. Unemployment is through the roof, millions are impoverished, and yet new taxes are being levied by the system on those “lucky”...
North Korea fires general, US sends warships
North Korea has replaced its hawkish armed forces minister with a younger general. The move comes as the US and South Korea launch new naval war games, which Pyongyang decried as “blackmail” and a “provocation.”
General Kim Kyok-sik – who reportedly ordered the 2010 shelling of a South Korean island – was appointed to his post last November. In a Monday report, state news agency KCNA announced...
UK government plans for EU referendum criticized as wrong
Ed Miliband criticizes plans for EU referendum as “wrong” and damaging to economy.
British Labour leader Ed Miliband says Tory plans to hold an in/out referendum on European Union (EU) membership are “wrong” and damaging to the UK’s national interest.
Speaking to the Labour group Progress on Saturday, Miliband reiterated his opposition to the idea of an EU vote.
Referring to British Prime...
A Lost Generation: The need for a new system
Our wonderful economic model, you know, the one with endemic unemployment, ever-rising prices, frozen salaries, homelessness, worsening public services and increasing taxation, has failed the next generation (or three) miserably. The ILO’s latest report on employment reads like a social terrorist manual.
And these are the policies blindly followed by the drivers of the western economy, the FUKUS...
Canadian PM criticized over pro-Israeli foreign policy
A recent report says that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has come under harsh criticism over his pro-Israeli foreign policy, Press TV reports.
A freedom of information request in Canada shows that the majority of Canadian people, who wrote to Harper in December 2012, complained about his decision to oppose the Palestinian statehood in November.
About 82 percent of those who wrote to Harper...