Assistant Secretary of Defense Michael Sheehan told Congress yesterday that the AUMF authorized the US military to operate on a worldwide battlefield from Boston to Pakistan. … Read More
Google-Berg Merger Ushers in Planned-Opolis Future in the “Hybrid Age”
The secretive Bilderberg Group has had more exposure in the past several years than it has since its founding in 1954. This is due mostly to the alternative media pushing the issue to the forefront. … Read More
Russia ‘sends sophisticated weapons’ To Syria
Russia is one of Syria’s few remaining allies and its major arms suppliers. Over the years, in contracts worth billions of dollars, it has sold thousands of tanks, artillery units, aircraft, helicopters and defence systems to Damascus. … Read More
United States – Recommendations for a federal law protecting journalists’ sources
The U.S. Department of Justice’s seizure of Associated Press phone records has highlighted the urgency of the need for a shield law guaranteeing the protection of journalists’ sources at the federal level in the United States, a need that Reporters Without Borders has been emphasizing for years. Following reports that the White House is supporting the reintroduction of a proposed federal shield law in the Senate, Reporters Without Borders has drafted detailed recommendations for such a law. (…) … Read More
Scapegoat: IRS Commissioner Steven Miller Resigns Amid Targeting Scandal
Late Wednesday President Obama announced the resignation of acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller in a move many saw as the president taking action to correct mistakes made during the IRS targeting of conservative groups. … Read More
At least 6 dead in Kabul as suicide bomb hits NATO convoy
The explosion took place in the industrial zone of the capital at about 8 am local time (03:30 GMT). The suicide bomber attacked the convoy with a car packed with explosives, according to local officials. The blast was powerful enough to set a nearby building on fire.Six people died and 37 were wounded, according to the Afghan Health Ministry, which adds that some of the bodies are unidentifiable.NATO confirmed “an explosion occurred on a coalition convoy in Kabul”, according to spokesman Lt Quenton Roehricht, cited by AP. The Hezb-e-Islami insurgent group, with links to the Taliban, claimed responsibility for the blast.”We planned this attack for over a week, our target was American advisers,” Hezb-e-Islami spokesman Haroon Zarghoun told Reuters by telephone, adding that the bomb killed 12 Americans. Officials however warn that insurgents tend to exaggerate death tolls. The group carried out a suicide attack on a minibus in September 2012, killing 14 people. Russian and South African pilots were among casualties of the explosion, which Hezb-e-Islami claimed was in response to a film mocking the prophet Muhammad.Hezb-e-Islami means Islamic Party and is a radical militant group sharing much of the Taliban ideology.The last major suicide bombing took place in the capital in March, when a man blew himself up next to the Defense Ministry, leaving nine Afghans dead. It happened during the state visit by US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. … Read More
