President Donald Trump, flanked by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, left, and Vice President Mike Pence, meets with members of the media regarding the health care overhaul bill, March 24, 2017. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) President Donald Trump approaches his 100th day in office the most unpopular U.S. leader in modern history for a […]
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Trump Held 190 Private Meetings With Corporate CEOs Since Inauguration
Advertisment While most Americans – Trump supporters and detractors alike – have realized that the President’s campaign promise to “drain the swamp” is unlikely to happen, a new analysis from the watchdog group Public Citizen has made it official. According to the group’s new report, titled “Corporate Executives Swamp the […]
RT targeted by massive DDoS attack during attempted Turkey coup
The channel was able to resume streaming, but the servers were attacked again after some time. Biggest attack on RT.com: Website hit by 10 Gbps DDoS “We received a major DDoS attack when the Turkish coup started, second one from when we started streaming RT; this time HTTP headers were infested with some new code […]
Information Fixation and the True Breakaway Civilization
Zen Gardner, GuestWaking Times It’s been quite a concern for me for some time now watching the growing information fascination phenomenon metastasize. It’s become contagious and extremely toxic for those who should have transcended this energetic level some time ago. If we are aware of the fact that we are co-creators of […]
China-DPRK – volatility or convergence?
Konstantin Asmolov (NEO) : In our last article on China-DPRK relations we paid particular attention to the ambivalence of Chinese politics, thinking about how soon the hard tone toward their relations with Pyongyang may change to a rhetoric of convergence. Today, we talk about the events that could be considered the first steps in this direction. […]
Chilcot Report Far Short of Judgment Day for War Criminal Tony Blair
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Federal Court Overturns Northern Gateway Pipeline Approval
Print Friendly Above Photo: flickr/Chris Yakimov The Federal Court of Appeal has overturned approval of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline after finding that the federal government failed to consult with First Nations communities whose rights would have been affected by the proposed pipeline. “Canada failed to make reasonable efforts to inform and consult. It fell well short of […]
500,000 Petitions To Congress Demand Rejection Of TPP
Print Friendly Above Photo: From foe.org Today, June 29, Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club, Food and Water Watch and other environmental advocates delivered more than 500,000 petitions to Congress demanding the rejection of a Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal that promises to ramp up fossil fuel exports, accelerate climate change and encourage deregulation of environmental safeguards across the […]
Germany Worried that France, Netherlands, Austria, Finland and Hungary Could Also Seek to Leave EU
Germany Worried that France, Netherlands, Austria, Finland and Hungary Could Also Seek to Leave EU June 24th, 2016 Via: Reuters: Germany is worried that France, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland and Hungary could also seek to leave the European Union after Britain’s vote to quit […]
Florida cop charged with 29 counts of child pornography commits suicide
A Broward County Sheriff’s sergeant, who was charged with 29 counts of child pornography, killed himself Wednesday night about 8 hours after being released from jail on a $250,000 bail. According to the Sun Sentinel, Sergeant Kreg Costa, age 43 and from Sunrise, Fla., was released from jail under the condition that he not […]
Washington Post Unveils Interactive Police Shooting Database
The Washington Post has unveiled an investigatory tool that tracks police shootings. All sorts of information and statistics are available to anyone interested. The total amount of people killed by police, as well as a breakdown by age, gender, race, mental illness and other contributing factors. There is even an overview of police shootings by […]
Photos: Tehran’s Auction held Friday
US’s main objective in Middle East is to regain hegemony, not fight terror Unfortunately, Washington’s main objective in Syria isn’t fighting terrorism, helping refugees or easing Syrians’ suffering; it’s about regime change and the restoration… Source Article from http://theiranproject.com/blog/2016/05/28/photos-tehrans-auction-held-friday/ Views: 0
Iran insists on general Motevaselian’s incarceration in Israel
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran on Saturday reiterated that its four diplomats abducted in Lebanon in 1982 are still alive and imprisoned by Israel, including a former commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) General Ahmad Motevaselian who served as a military attaché. “We want our dear brother Mr. Ahmad Motevaselian from the Zionist regime since […]
Why you can never trust the pesticide industry’s own safety tests
(NaturalNews) Pesticide companies rigorously test their products before turning them loose on the public, right? Because if not, wouldn’t they stand a grand chance of being wiped out by a mass class-action suit if their products turned out to really be harmful? Not really, it turns out. As reported by the group GMWatch, […]
US-led France ignored reality in Syria, harmed itself with Russia sanctions – frmr French intel boss
Alain Juillet, former deputy director of intelligence at France’s General Directorate for External Security, accused French authorities of making a range of poor foreign policy choices, such as its pro-rebel stance in the Syrian crisis and anti-Russian response to the Ukrainian turmoil, which he says have proven detrimental to French citizens. ‘Non, merci!’ Protests in […]
Who’s Behind Unpaid Prison Labor In Texas?
Print Friendly Above Photo: Charles Dharapak/AP Several of the officials charged with regulating Texas’s prison labor program, wherein thousands of workers behind bars are compelled to produce goods and provide services for free, are connected to some of the richest and most powerful institutions and people in the state. The Texas Board of Criminal Justice, which […]
Brazilian judge orders nationwide ban on WhatsApp for 72 hrs
The court ruling made by Judge Marcel Montalvao in the small northeastern town of Lagarto, Sergipe state, applies to the five main carriers in Brazil and affects more than 100 million users throughout the country. If the order is not executed, the companies may face a daily fine of 500,000 reais (around $140,000). The reason […]
‘Lost, frustrated, suicidal youths’: Journalist infiltrated ISIS-linked cell plotting French attacks
The Canal+ journalist who used the pseudonym Said Ramzi (Ramzy) carried out his investigations over a six-month period. The complete documentary entitled ‘Allah’s Soldiers’ will be released later on Monday. The intrepid journalist gave interviews about his mission to the AFP news agency and Telerama magazine. Ramzi describes himself as a Muslim “of the same […]
American Jews Fighting To End Establishment Support for Israel
Michaela Whitton (AM) : A series of protests across the United States has resulted in the arrests of over twenty Jewish anti-occupation activists. Last week’s demonstrations in Boston, Washington D.C., Chicago, New York City, and Berkeley coincided with the Jewish festival of Passover and saw hundreds of young Jews demonstrating outside major institutions. Across the […]