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(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, March 1, 2014
Limit surveillance to "terrorist communication," says outgoing NSA boss Alexander's testimony seemed to indicate that the scenario the administration is taking most seriously is leaving the trove metadata with the phone company, with the NSA only forcing the company to handover information about numbers thought to be involved in a web of terrorism.

SHARE        Thursday, February 27, 2014
New Mexico nuclear plant workers exposed to radiation Positive results for radiation exposure were found in 13 workers following a leak at the United States' first underground nuclear waste repository near Carlsbad, New Mexico. Nuclear Waste Partnership spokesman Donavan Mager said the number of people exposed to radiation could not be confirmed due to the privacy rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

SHARE        Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Good advice, wrong address: Russia responds to Susan Rice "no tanks to Ukraine" warning Russia sees merit in the advice against use of force in Ukraine which US National Security Adviser Susan Rice voiced, but believes it was wrongly directed towards Moscow. Washington would be a more appropriate recipient of the piece of wisdom. Washington justifies its interventions on humanitarian reasons and the obligation to depose repressive governments.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Sen Rand Paul sues President Obama over NSA call surveillance US Senator Rand Paul has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Obama administration and the National Security Agency seeking to halt the NSA's vast data-surveillance program. The suit challenges the constitutionality of the NSA program that collects metadata on US citizens' phone calls.

(4 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, February 11, 2014
"The day we fight back": 6,000 websites protest surveillance, honor Aaron Swartz More than 6,000 websites, including Reddit, Tumblr, Mozilla, are taking part in an online protest against government surveillance. The action marks two years since website blackouts against SOPA and PIPA and commemorates Aaron Swartz's death. Civil liberties advocates are now pushing for Congress to reform the anti-hacking law the government used to pursue Swartz.

SHARE        Saturday, February 8, 2014
The Snowden Files: How to turn another hero into a villain From newspapers to TV, internet, radio, and magazines and books, media in the West is becoming a commodity no different to sausages or killer drones, bought and sold for profit to the highest bidder, and he who pays the piper calls the tune. There is eventually no wriggle room left for criticism of the power elite these media barons are part of. The same criminal elite, perhaps, that Edward Snowden is blowing the whistle on?

SHARE        Wednesday, February 5, 2014
"Assange won’t come": Swedish MPs urge end to whistleblower case Swedish MPs are calling on the prosecutors in the Julian Assange sexual assault case to travel to London and question the WikiLeaks founder at the Ecuadorian embassy, where he has been taking refuge since June 2012. The operation to monitor the embassy in order to apprehend Assange should he emerge from it reportedly costs British taxpayers 6 million pounds a year.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Toxic carcinogens from tar sands oil production underestimated - report Production of crude oil in western Canada emits more harmful carcinogens into the environment than official estimates let on. The Keystone XL pipeline would move tar sands oil from Alberta through the US to Texas. A new study by the University of Toronto-Scarborough reported that Canadian officials may have underestimated emissions of harmful carcinogens known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)from Alberta tar sands.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, February 3, 2014
WikiLeaks, Greenwald blast Guardian journalist's book on "FSB prisoner" Snowden WikiLeaks has excoriated a new book by Guardian foreign correspondent Luke Harding, who claims former NSA contractor Edward Snowden is being kept hostage by the Russian security agency, the FSB. Harding says from the very start of Snowden's stay in Russia the former CIA employee has been surrounded by "minders" from the FSB, with even his trusted lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, being an FSB-handpicked "person of the system."

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, February 2, 2014
Israeli security minister slams Kerry over boycott threat, warns IDF may invade Gaza Kerry is hoping to create a framework for the establishment of a lasting peace between Israel and Palestine by the end of 2014. Martin Indyk, the State Department's lead envoy to the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, told Jewish leaders that the new framework will address controversial issues such as the settlements and Palestinian statehood.

SHARE        Friday, January 31, 2014
Bombshell? Ex-aide alleges Christie was behind NJ bridge closing scheme David Wildstein resigned from the Port Authority before news broke that he was the one who personally oversaw the September lane closing on George Washington bridge. A letter released by Wildstein's lawyer to the New York Times Friday now says the decision to shut down three lanes of the busiest bridge in the US, which is under New Jersey's domain, was "the Christie administration's order."

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Norwegian MPs nominate Snowden for Nobel Peace Prize Edward Snowden has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by two Norwegian lawmakers, who say the NSA whistleblower contributed to "transparency and global stability" by revealing the depth and sophistication of the global surveillance apparatus.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, January 29, 2014
NYT improperly redacted latest NSA leak doc, revealing name of agent and a target The Times published Monday the latest revelation stemming from leaks supplied by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, that US spy agency and its UK cohort, GCHQ, have the ability to harvest sensitive personal data from phone apps that transmit users' data across the web, such as the extremely popular Angry Birds game.

SHARE        Sunday, January 26, 2014
NSA is after industrial spying -- Snowden to German TV Edward Snowden disavowed participation in any future publications of the documents he withdrew from the NSA databanks, saying in the same interview that he no longer possesses any NSA data. The information has been distributed among a number of trustworthy journalists, who are going to decide for themselves what to make public and in what sequence.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, January 23, 2014
"No way I can come home and make my case to a jury" -- Snowden Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden said on Thursday that whistleblower protection laws in the United States are greatly flawed and in need of serious reform. Snowden, who fled the US last year after leaking classified documents taken from the National Security Agency, was answering questions from the public over the internet on Thursday when he made the remarks.

(4 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, January 22, 2014
I acted alone: Snowden trashes "absurd" Russian spy claim accusations NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden dismissed as "absurd" accusations from US lawmakers he might have spied on behalf of Russia when taking troves of classified US government documents, insisting he acted alone in a rare interview with the New Yorker. Snowden told the magazine via encrypted means from Moscow that he "clearly and unambiguously acted alone, with no assistance from anyone, much less a government."

SHARE        Monday, January 20, 2014
Iran invitation puts Syria peace talks at risk Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov supported the UN decision to invite Iran, saying that without the country the talks would be "profane." He said "Around 40 countries have been invited to the conference, including Australia, Mexico, Korea, Brazil, India and Indonesia. If Iran were not on the list, that would seem profane."

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 19, 2014
Industry powers with access to TPP plans lavish money on Congress Among the contentious issues in the TPP is that the agreement stipulates new powers for multinationals that would allow them to challenge country laws in privately run international courts. Washington has endorsed such powers in previous trade deals such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), but conditions in the TPP could grant multinational more powers to challenge a wider range of laws.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 18, 2014
Pope Francis shakes up Vatican Bank supervisory board Pope Francis has vowed to reform the bank or close it down completely after a series of scandals that tainted the reputation of the Holy See and the institution responsible for its charity around the globe. In October 2013, for the first time in its 125-year history, the Vatican bank disclosed its annual financial report to the public, showing a total of 4.98 billion euros in assets and 769 million euros in equity funds.

SHARE        Friday, January 17, 2014
Obama announces NSA programs overhaul Revelations that the NSA had tapped the personal phones of foreign leaders like German Chancellor Angela Merkel caused outrage around the world last year, but on Friday's speech Mr. Obama said that the US is the "world's only superpower" and must continue to conduct operations allies are not able to accomplish on their own.

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