Media hyperventilates over murder of British soldier The murder of a serving British soldier in London is being treated as a major “terror attack,” with Prime Minister David Cameron set to attend an emergency Cobra meeting as the UK media hyperventilates over an incident that will be used to demonize anti-government rhetoric while serving as […]Continue Reading
Libya’s deputy prime minister says an investigation has indicated that a deadly explosion in Benghazi last week was an accident and not an attack. Awd el-Buraasi told reporters in Tripoli Sunday that military officials do not believe that the blast in a busy area of Benghazi was planned. Three people were killed in the incident. […]Continue Reading
Daniel Mandel Israel, having attained its 65th anniversary, resists easy definition. Sixty-five years ago, on May 14, 1948, David Ben Gurion, its first prime minister, declared independence, to which American and Soviet recognition was forthcoming the next day, following the expiration of British rule. Any reckoning on Israel, its successes and failures, is also inescapably […]Continue Reading
France will see its first gay weddings within days, after French President Francois Hollande signed a law Saturday authorizing marriage and adoption by same-sex couples and ending months of nationwide protests and wrenching debate. Hollande’s office said he signed the bill Saturday morning, a day after the Constitutional Council struck down a challenge to the […]Continue Reading
Netanyahu to hold talks with Russian President Putin, amid concerns of Moscow delivering advanced missiles to Damascus. PM Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin Reuters Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is to hold talks on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the conflict in Syria, the Kremlin said, amid concerns Moscow plans to deliver […]Continue Reading
Jurriaan Maessen The mayor of Watford, Dorothy Thornhill, told the local newspaper today she fears violent protests at the upcoming Bilderberg conference. The mayor would be wise to consider signing up for a crash-course on how not to escalate an event before it even takes place. “I have my concerns about it because it […]Continue Reading
An apparent homophobic killing has increased concerns among Russian activists about prejudice against gays, which they fear will be encouraged by a bill banning homosexual “propaganda”. The body of a 23-year-old man was found in the courtyard of an apartment building in the southern city of Volgograd early on Friday with multiple wounds including in […]Continue Reading
By Kim Zigfeld An unusually intense barrage of criticism was fired at Vladimir Putin’s Russia last week, which is saying something where he’s concerned. Three different highly respected international organizations condemned in the strongest terms his neo-Soviet crackdown on the press. The reason for Putin’s anti-press actions is simple: he’s failing, and he doesn’t want […]Continue Reading
Countless individuals will soon assemble in small and large groups around the nation and the globe alike in protest against Monsanto’s genetic manipulation of the food supply. Organized under the May 25th movement known as the ‘March on Monsanto’, the massive new rally reveals how the grassroots public has truly had enough of Monsanto’s monopoly […]Continue Reading
French health officials said Friday they are investigating three suspected cases of a deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS, in people who had close contact in the hospital with France’s only confirmed case. Beatrice Degrugillers, a spokeswoman for the regional health agency in France’s Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, said a nurse at the hospital where the […]Continue Reading
The Guardian reported Wednesday that the CIA’s Free Syrian Army is losing mercenaries to a better equipped, more disciplined and religiously motivated al-Nusra. “Fighters feel proud to join al-Nusra because that means power and influence,” Abu Ahmed, a former teacher from Deir Hafer who now commands an FSA brigade, told the newspaper. “Al-Nusra fighters rarely […]Continue Reading
Authorities will “facilitate peaceful protest” Hertfordshire Police have confirmed that the 2013 Bilderberg Group meeting will take place at the Grove luxury hotel in Watford, United Kingdom early next month as over 100 of the world’s most influential power brokers will meet clandestinely to discuss global policy behind closed doors. Image: The Grove, Watford Although […]Continue Reading