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Germany expels CIA Berlin chief over NSA spying
German government has expelled the top US intelligence official in Berlin, amid undercover agent investigation.
“The representative of the US intelligence services at the embassy of the United States of America has been told to leave Germany,” German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement on Thursday.
According to Seibert the move was in response to two reported cases...
US Congress considers blocking GMO food labeling
A new bill introduced in Congress looks to ban states from implementing their own labeling laws when it comes to food containing genetically engineered ingredients.
According to Reuters, US Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) introduced the legislation on Wednesday, which is intended to head off bills in about 24 states that would require companies to inform customers when their food is produced using genetically...
Mystery viral paralysis hits California
A mystery virus has provoked reports in California, in what appears to be a cluster of cases of viral paralysis, caused possibly by Enterovirus, which appears to have effects similar to poliomyelitis, or Polio, namely paralysis, in some cases in all four limbs.
The Polio virus, or Paralytic Poliomyelitis virus, is one of several Enteroviruses, and these attack and infect up to 50 million people every...
Putin: ‘We Will Never Allow Military Superiority Over Russia’
The war of words between the United States and Russia over plans for a NATO missile defense system in Europe continued today, with Russian President Vladimir Putin vowing to never allow power to gain military superiority over Moscow.
“No one should entertain any illusions regarding their chances of asserting military superiority over Russia, we will never allow that to happen….thanks to our military...
US, China flexing muscles in Pacific
The Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning headed to the South China Sea on Tuesday.
The United States and China embark upon a new military-power showdown in the Pacific with Beijing sending its sole aircraft carrier to the South China Sea after American bombers defied a Chinese no-fly zone in the region.
The Chinese warship Liaoning, which left its home port of Qingdao on Tuesday, was accompanied by two...
Netanyahu, world's biggest hypocrite: former Louisiana Representative
Press TV has conducted an interview with David Duke, former member of the House of Representatives, about Iran’s deputy ambassador to the UN warning Netanyahu against any miscalculation by planning to attack Iran in response to Netanyahu’s threat of acting alone to stop Iran nuclear program.
What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.
Press TV: First of all, what do you...
Greece, Israel to hold joint aeronautical exercises
Greek and Israeli Air Forces are set to stage joint aeronautical drills in the coming days, Greek Hellenic Air Force says.
According to a statement released earlier this week, the drills, part of a Greece-Israel Military Cooperation Program, will kick off on October 9 in Athens’ flight information region (FIR).
The statement said a group of F-15 and F-16 fighter jets will participate in the exercises...
US, Israel miscalculated Syria power
A political analyst says the United States and the Israeli regime have been wrong in their calculation of the Syrian government’s ‘strength’ in the fight against foreign-backed Takfiris, Press TV reports.
Mark Weber, with the Institute for Historical Review, told Press TV on Thursday that the “United States and Israel miscalculated in underestimating the strength of the Syria government which...
US will bomb Syria with long-range bombers, official says
US stealth B-2 bomber
An American national security official has reportedly outlined Washington’s war strategies for Syria, saying the US administration is preparing to use B-2 and B-52 bombers for a potential military strike against the country.
President Barack Obama’s national security team is preparing for a “significantly larger military attack than most had anticipated,” ABC News reported.
The...
Obama says he has decided US should attack Syria
US President Barack Obama delivering a speech on Syria at the White House, August, 31, 2013
US President Barack Obama said Saturday that he has decided the United States should launch military strikes against Syria after the American intelligence community claimed Damascus used chemical weapons against foreign-backed militants.
The president, however, said he will seek authorization for an attack from...
DoD training manual suggests Founding Fathers followed 'extremist ideology'
A Department of Defense training manual obtained by a conservative watchdog group pointed to the original American colonists as examples of an extremist movement, comments that have sparked fear of a broader crackdown on dissent in America.
The training manual provides information that describes, among other things, “common themes in extremist ideologies.”
Now, if the Department of Defense...
The truth about the real size of the US national debt
Everyone got used to the largest officially announced U.S. national debt of 16 trillion dollars. Moreover, despite the dire predictions, the global economy seems to be more or less stable, and recently liberal media have been happily reporting GDP growth in the United States and the European Union. However, it is not all that great.
Let’s start with statistics. A number of researchers have conducted...
US, Germany to negotiate anti-spying pact
Germany and the United States will start negotiations this month on an agreement not to spy on each other, a senior German official has said.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff, Ronald Pofalla, said on Monday that such an agreement can set a framework for future activities of western spying agencies, the Associated Press reported.
Pofalla, who is responsible for coordinating the various...
World will no longer have confidence in US: Former CIA chief
Former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden
Former CIA director Michael Hayden said other countries will no longer have confidence in the United States after Edward Snowden’s revelations about the US government’s global surveillance programs.
In an interview with CNN on Friday, Hayden said other intelligence services around the world will no longer “have confidence in the United States that we’re...
Motorola X smartphone Flagship goes Patriotic with its first ad
Just a week ago (4th of July), the Google-owned company Motorola released its first ad announcing the hotly rumored Motorola X smartphone flagship which is said to revolutionize the smartphone industry, in Apple iPhone-style.
Not only that, but Google decided to build the highly expected Motorola X in the US, Texas, a former Nokia factory which was acquired by Google’s Motorola. This will be...