US Vice President Joseph Biden listens as US President Barack Obama announces Ashton Carter as his new secretary of defense on Friday. The United States is “fabricating all sorts of facts” about Russia as a pretext to wage a devastating war with the nuclear-armed country, an American activist and journalist says. A resolution passed recently in the US House of Representatives condemning Russia,... 

“Climate change” polled at the very bottom of a long list of priorities. A global poll of more than 6.5million people has placed climate change at the very bottom of a long list of priorities, with the finding being consistent across both genders, almost all age ranges, all education levels and in most regions of the world. (h/t Watts Up With That). Conversely, every single demographic... 

Surveillance conducted by British intelligence agency GCHQ does not contravene human rights, a tribunal has heard, despite warnings from civil and internet liberties activists. The decision was made by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), after the case was brought to British courts by a collection of civil liberties groups including Privacy International, Amnesty International and Liberty earlier... 

Today the US House passed what I consider to be one of the worst pieces of legislation ever. H. Res. 758 was billed as a resolution “strongly condemning the actions of the Russian Federation, under President Vladimir Putin, which has carried out a policy of aggression against neighboring countries aimed at political and economic domination.” In fact, the bill was 16 pages of war propaganda that... 

A brand new television show that will be premiering on MTV titled “Growing Up Greek” has sparked outrage and protest within the Greek-American community. The “reality” show, follows the infamous “Jersey Shore” template. In this case it portrays a group of young “Greeks” in Tarpon Springs, Florida who get publicly intoxicated, partake in senseless violence, and debase actual Greek culture... 

“Would a moat, water, six feet around, be kind of attractive and effective?” Democratic Congressman Steve Cohen suggested building a moat around the White House Wednesday during a House Judiciary Committee meeting with the U.S. Secret Service. Speaking with acting U.S. Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy on the agency’s recent scandals, Cohen suggested that a large body of water surrounding... 

The US is working on a “dangerous” and “destabilizing” plan to “breakup” Russia and force it to submit to Western authority, says Bruce Gagnon. The US and NATO are working on a “dangerous” and “destabilizing” plan to “breakup” Russia and force it to submit to Western authority, which will lead to more instability and possibly a nuclear confrontation, an American anti-war activist... 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the Muslim faith was “widespread” in America before the arrival of Columbus in the 15th century, and insists that a massive mosque should be erected in Havana, despite the city’s refusal to grant a building permit. “The religion of Islam was widespread before Columbus,” the longtime Turkish leader told the audience at the first ever... 

Dutch experts work at Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 Amsterdam – Kuala Lumpur crash site. New radar data indicating that military aircraft were in the air near Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 when it crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17 has been released by a Russian air safety consultancy. The consultancy provided a snapshot representing the readings taken by a radar station located in Russia’s... 

Despite spending years claiming “climate change” would make the world hotter, not colder, climate activists are now blaming “global warming” for the arctic front pounding the U.S. As 44 states brace for snow in the coming week, multiple “climate change” articles have been published recently which attempt to attribute the record cold, or any change in climate for that matter, to “global... 

Homeland Security mouse pads tell football fans to report “unusual” activity. The Department of Homeland Security’s “See Something, Say Something” campaign is giving out free promotional mouse pads at NFL games that urge attendees to watch their fellow Americans for “unusual behavior.” Most recently handed out at a Baltimore Ravens game, the mouse pads, developed by Securetransit.org,... 

A new Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today chillingly states that orders have been issued to the Naval Surface Forces (NSF) for an “accelerated deployment” of the Pacific Fleet vessels, guided missile cruiser Varyag and destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov (along with their support ships), to international waters off the coast of Australia over fears an attempt to assassinate... 

Marcel-Lehel Lazar, the Romanian top hacker known as Guccifer who accessed private email accounts of numerous top government & military officials as well as the Bush & Rockefeller family, is quoted in the New York Times as predicting a nuclear attack on Chicago sometime in 2015. A potpourri of conspiracy theories about the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the 1997 death of Princess Diana... 

The German Foreign Ministry maintains the media interpretation of an October statement by the president of national intelligence agency alleging self-defense militia downed MH17 flight in Ukraine was incomplete and taken out of context. The Russian embassy in Berlin received an official response to note #3693 from October 27 regarding Germany’s Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND intelligence agency) President... 

Pharmacologist reveals how press has bowed to government demand to keep Americans in the dark. An eyebrow-raising admission at the end of a Forbes article written by pharmacologist David Kroll reveals that the media has agreed not to report on suspected Ebola cases in the United States. In a piece entitled Liberian Traveler At Duke Hospital Shows Preliminary Negative Result For Ebola, Kroll describes...