Google Loon: Internet Access for Rural Areas via Balloon
By Victoria Nicks | Decoded Science Google’s latest far-out (and up) project involves the use of hot air balloons to provide Internet access to rural areas. As ‘flighty’ as the project may sound, Google’s combination of computing power, extensive testing, and a high equipment recovery rate means that Project Loon soars higher with every test. [...]
Read More →Staying Afloat: World’s Low-Lying Communities Plan for Rising Seas
From Bangkok to Miami, cities and coastal areas across the globe are already building or planning defenses to protect millions of people and key infrastructure from more powerful storm surges and other effects of global warming.
Read More →Britain prepared for war in Syria two years before the crisis flared up, France’s former FM says
By M. Ismael | SANA Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas said that Britain had been preparing gunmen to invade Syria two years before the crisis there flared up in 2011. During a TV show, Dumas said ”I was in Britain two years ago, and I met British officials, some my friends…they admitted that they were [...]
Read More →Iran to Send 4000 Troops to Support Syria’s Assad
RiaN Iran has decided to deploy 4,000 troops to Syria to aid Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces in war against rebels, The Independent reported on Sunday. The decision to send a contingent of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards to Syria was taken before the June 14 presidential election which brought reformist-backed cleric Hassan Rouhani to power. The [...]
Read More →Nigeria: Candidate for Political Destabilization and “Regime Change”?
By Adeyinka Makinde | Global Research It is worth reminding, if such reminder is at all necessary, how even in the contemporary circumstances of an omnipresent international security system represented by the United Nations which promotes the ideals of mutual security and co-existence, the conduct of the relations of nations continues to assuredly reflect the elementally [...]
Read More →No Evidence: ‘Obama does a Bush’ to get No-Fly Zone and war in Syria
21st Century Wire No evidence of WMDs… and still a call for war? Again? This sounds all too familiar. The Bush Administration did the exact same thing in Iraq. There was no evidence then, other than fabricated sexed-up intelligence. The same is true today. Obama’s famous ‘red line’ on chemical weapons was never red, it was always [...]
Read More →USA has to make friends with Taliban
By Sergei Vasilenkov | Pravda.ru In some countries, groups that have always been considered extremist have become a real force to be reckoned with. The Taliban is one of them. Even the U.S. government that is fighting against Taliban is forced to recognize it as a legal organization. This means that the existing issues should [...]
Read More →Hong Kong protesters urge govt. not to extradite US ‘snoopgate’ whistleblower Snowden
ANI Protestors in Hong Kong have urged the country’s government not to extradite National Security Agency (NSA)’s contractor Edward Snowden, who blew the lid on America’s internet spying programme popularly known as PRISM. The demonstrators also protested to pressurize their government on forcing the US into changing its surveillance policies, as Snowden had alleged that [...]
Read More →Italy hopes to develop ties with Iran under Rohani’s presidency: Minister
Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino says Rome hopes to promote bilateral relations with Tehran following the victory of Hassan Rohani in Iran’s 11th presidential election.
Read More →US Supreme Court: Human Genes Can’t Be Patented
By EJ Mundell | WebMD In a decision that could have far-reaching implications for medicine, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that human genes cannot be patented. The ruling could be a blow to drug companies such as Myriad Genetics, whose effort to patent an isolated form of a gene that might foretell cancer risk was [...]
Read More →Rohani becomes Iran’s new president
Hassan Rohani has won Iran’s 11th presidential election following a vote that saw a massive popular turnout on June 14.
Read More →How Schools Use Fear to Brainwash Students to Trust the System: A Parent’s Story

