Two members of the FBI’s elite counterterrorism unit died Friday while practicing how to quickly drop from a helicopter to a ship using a rope, the FBI announced Monday in a statement. … Read More
In America, taxes are voluntary but if you choose to not pay, you’ll be forced to ‘voluntarily’ comply
Calling taxation voluntary in the United States is like calling a prison sentence voluntary: you can voluntarily go to prison, or you can be hunted down like a dog and physically forced to go to prison. … Read More
FSB: CIA crossed ‘red line’ with agent Fogle
“In case with Fogle, the CIA crossed the red line and we had no choice but to react observing official procedures,” a representative of the Russian Security Service, the FSB, said in an interview with RT. The spy story broke earlier this week after it was made public that Fogle – who had worked under the guise of a third secretary at the US Embassy in Moscow – was detained after being caught red-handed trying to recruit a Russian intelligence officer for the CIA. Following the incident he was expelled from Russia.As early as by autumn 2011, the FSB was aware that the CIA was pursuing a goal to get an informer within the Russian special services, the agent told RT.“Those were not one-off events, which caused our concern,” the operative pointed out. “Therefore, we decided to warn our American colleagues and ask them to stop these activities.”At a time, the FSB did not make public any information they knew about the CIA operations in Moscow, but held a meeting with the head of their station’s chief in Moscow, Stephen Holmes.“We hoped our American colleagues would hear us, given that we also presented to them precise information about CIA officers making recruitment attempts in Moscow and who exactly was doing that,” the source added. … Read More
From Capital Punishment to Guns, Old Fears Weigh Like a Nightmare on Today’s Debate
Stephen John Hartnett (author of Executing Democracy): The roots of today’s debate about capital punishment and prisons goes back to pre-civil war religious ideas that slaves must be terrorized and God must be appeased … Read More
Hawking and the Growing Israel Boycott Movement
BDS activists in Gaza (Boycott, Divestment and Sanction) consider renowned physicist Stephen Hawking’s decision to cancel his participation in an upcoming conference in Israel as part of an academic boycott “a huge victory for the BDS movement” … Read More
Hawking’s Boycott and Israeli Propaganda Tactics
Mike Cushman: Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott the Israeli Presidential Conference is of great significance in exposing Israel’s apartheid regime … Read More
Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel
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