Internet repression on the rise since Arab Spring
Joseph Marks NextGov There’s been a ramp up in Internet blocking and what appears to be government-sponsored denial-of-service attacks across several repressive, non-Arab regimes since the Arab Spring uprisings, a State Department official told lawmakers Friday. It’s not clear, though, whether those countries are cracking down in response to uprisings in the Middle East and [...]
Read More →With Friends Like AFRICOM, Who Needs Enemies?
By Mark P. Fancher Uruknet Beware of Americans bearing gifts, guns, and an AFRICOM patch; their embrace can turn fatal. “One minute, Gadhafi was America’s best friend in northern Africa and in the next minute he was an evil menace.” The turnabout can be sudden. “Robert Mugabe too has been romanced by imperialism and then [...]
Read More →Ten Years Ago Portugal Legalized All Drugs — What Happened Next?
By Tony O’Neil Alternet When the nation legalized all drugs within its borders, most critics predicted disaster. But a decade later, drug use has plunged dramatically. The government in Portugal has no plans to back down. Although the Netherlands is the European country most associated with liberal drug laws, it has already been ten years [...]
Read More →Nude, bound woman found dead in Big Pharma CEO’s home; no criminal investigation yet
Madison Ruppert Activist Post If a dead woman was found naked, with her hands tied behind her back and her feet bound hanging from a balcony, most people would think it would become a criminal investigation from the outset. When the home in which the woman is discovered belongs to the Chief Executive Officer and [...]
Read More →Beyond Absurd: Obama Thinks 80% Of Americans Want More Taxes
By Madison Ruppert The Intel Hub With a tanking economy and average Americans struggling to pay the bills, our so-called President is under the impression that 80% of the people of the United States seek even more taxes. If Obama was only referring to taxing the extraordinarily wealthy, I would not have an issue with [...]
Read More →Ex-CIA officer: Israel likely to attack Iran in September
JPost.com Israel will probably attack Iran in September, a former CIA officer who spent 21 years in the Middle East, including in Lebanon and Syria, has told a Los Angeles radio show. While Robert Baer didn’t reveal the sources behind his prediction, he referred to former Mossad chief Meir Dagan’s warnings of an Israeli attack [...]
Read More →Your Share of Uncle Sam’s Debt: $534,000
Forrest Jones Newsmax The gap between the money Washington takes into its coffers to pay its IOUs and what it actually owes on those IOUs is taking on Grand-Canyonesque proportions, with unfunded liabilities hovering around $62 trillion, according to a USA Today analysis. Yes, trillions, and trillions. And that breaks down to a staggering $534,000 [...]
Read More →US is real enemy of Pakistan: Leader
PressTV Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the United States is the real enemy of the national unity of Pakistan. Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks during a meeting with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in Tehran on Saturday. The Leader stated that the West, and particularly the United States, is the [...]
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