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The NSA Given a Free Hand to Operate in Germany By Peter Schwarz, July 11 2013

An interview with historian Josef Foschepoth published in the online edition of the Süddeutsche Zeitung makes clear that US intelligence agencies have a free hand to do what they like in Germany, with the knowledge and blessing of the federal

People Living in Caves as UK Homelessness Reaches Five-Year High By Dennis Moore, July 11 2013

Homeless men and women are living in a network of disused sandstone caves near the town centre of Stockport, Greater Manchester. There have been up to four people a night sleeping rough in the cave system perched on a 20-foot

Venezuela: U.S. and Opposition’s Private Sector Waging Economic War, Attacking Food Sovereignty By Correo del Orinoco, July 11 2013

The economic war by the opposition private sector against Venezuela continues apace. It actually began years ago as one of the prongs of Washington’s pitchfork for the overthrow of the constitutionally and democratically elected socialist government here. The most well …

Obama’s All-out Global War Against an American Asylum Seeker By Wayne Madsen, July 11 2013

President Barack Obama has met his unlikely match in a former Army Special Forces recruit-turned CIA technician-turned National Security Agency contractor. Obama has issued what amounts to an «all-points-bulletin» for Edward Snowden who, in May, left his job at NSA

In photos: Palestinian Workers’ Everyday Nightmare at Israeli Checkpoints By Daniel Tepper and Sam Gilbert, July 11 2013

The Eyal terminal at the city of Qalqiliya is one of forty fixed checkpoints located along the boundary between the occupied West Bank and Israel. The terminals are part of an elaborate system of physical and administrative obstacles that Palestinians

Government’s “Secret Interpretation” of Patriot Act: “EVERYTHING” Is Relevant … So Spy on EVERYONE By Washington's Blog, July 11 2013

Image: Surveillance 2010, artwork by Will Varner

Senators Wyden and Udall – both on the Senate Intelligence Committee, with full access to information on the spying program – have said that for at least 2 years that the government

Police State USA: Obama Gives Himself Control of all Communication Systems in America By RT, July 11 2013

US President Barack Obama quietly signed his name to an Executive Order on Friday, allowing the White House to control all private communications in the country in the name of national security.

President Obama released his latest Executive Order on

Made in Haiti, Dumped in Haiti: Slave Labor and the Garment Industry By Isabeau Doucet, July 11 2013

PORT-AU-PRINCE—In Haiti, people wear T-shirts bearing unlikely English messages: “We’re the 2% who don’t care,” says one; a respectable-looking grandmother dons a T-shirt emblazoned with “Crack is Whack!”; a little boy without shoes or pants wears a “Save Darfur”

Tribunal Issues Landmark Verdict against Israel for Genocide By Yoichi Shimatsu, July 11 2013

In the light of recent developments, it is important to establish to record regarding war crimes. Lest we forget, the State of Israel was condemned last November on charges of genocide by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal  (M.Ch, GR …

Egypt: Staging a “Democratic” Military Coup By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, July 10 2013

During the 2011 Egyptian uprisings, the military was jeered for cracking down on protestors and for the infamous virginity tests they conducted on detained female protestors.  In June 2012, when Mohamed Morsi won the presidential race with 51% of the

US Bankrolled Anti-Morsi Activists: US Money Trail to Egyptian Groups that Pressed for President’s Removal. By Emad Mekay, July 10 2013

President Barack Obama recently stated the United States was not taking sides as Egypt’s crisis came to a head with the military overthrow of the democratically elected president.

But a review of dozens of US federal government documents shows Washington

America and the Generals in Egypt moved against Morsi to prevent a Popular Revolution By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, July 10 2013

The Egyptian military’s removal of the Muslim Brotherhood government is seen as a military coup, or an acknowledgment of the people’s demands to remove Morsi, but it also could have been a move to pre-empt a civil war from taking …

Accession to the EU: Serbia should ‘’Icelandize’’ its European policy By Živadin Jovanović, July 10 2013

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Think Your Money is Safe in an Insured Bank Account? Think Again. By Ellen Brown, July 05 2013
EU finance ministers have agreed on a plan that shifts the responsibility for bank losses from governments to bank investors, creditors and uninsured depositors.
No Hope On The Jobs Front: Rising Unemployment in America By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, July 05 2013

Do you remember the promise of the New Economy that was going to replace the lost “dirty fingernail” manufacturing jobs with innovative highly paid New Economy jobs? Well, the promise was just another deception from the elites who have stolen …

“Planning 9/11”: The Five “High-Value” Guantanamo Detainees Improperly Presumed Guilty By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, July 05 2013

It is a bedrock principle of our system of justice that everyone who is charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. That includes “high-value detainees” awaiting trial in Guantánamo’s military commissions. Yet pre-trial hearings held

History: How the US Installed a Proxy “Brotherhood” Government in Egypt By Tony Cartalucci, July 05 2013
From Egypt to Syria, the Muslim Brotherhood does the West's bidding - now joined by overt State Department fronts.
Surveillance State USA: Government Scanning, Storing Billions of Pieces of Mail By Thomas Gaist, July 05 2013

According to an article in the New York Times on Thursday, …

American Teenager jailed as “Terrorist” for Facebook Post By Tom Carter, July 05 2013

Last week, the World Socialist Web Site published an interview with the mother of Justin Carter, a teenager from Austin, Texas who was jailed as a “terrorist” for a sarcastic comment he made on Facebook.

At the time of that …

Lawlessness Is The New Normal By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, July 05 2013

In various articles and in my latest book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism And Economic Dissolution Of The West, I have pointed out that the European sovereign debt crisis is being used to terminate the sovereignty of the

The “Tonkin Gulf War Pretext Incidents”: When the US Wants to Start a War, it Lies … By Kieran Kelly, July 04 2013

As the Obama administration maneouvres to get traction for more overt and deadly military intervention in Syria, it may be time to reflect on other times at which a US administration has tried to legitimise a military response. There were

Was Washington Behind Egypt’s Coup d’Etat? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, July 04 2013
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and US Chief of Staff General Martin Dempsey "were walking a fine line, expressing concern while attempting to avoid the impression that the U.S. was manipulating events behind the scenes.”
Forcing Down the Bolivian President’s Plane was an Act of Piracy By John Pilger, July 04 2013

Imagine the aircraft of the President of France being forced down in Latin America on “suspicion” that it was carrying a political refugee to safety – and not just any refugee but someone who has provided the people of the

Will Israel’s Gas Hopes Come True? Accused of Stealing Gas from the Gaza Strip By Dmitry Minin, July 04 2013

The 2nd leaders’ summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) has taken place in Moscow. Experts say there is a candidate to enter the elite club of 13 members once the rich East Mediterranean deposits start to be developed. …