By John R. Rose 13/06/2013 15:53
In a scandal that has yet to receive appropriate attention from the mainstream media, yet another impeachable offense hovers above the head of embattled US President Barack Obama and his comrades in Washington, D.C.Reliable sources are reporting that America faces a historic Pinocchio shortage brought on by a record influx of misrepresentations, denials, fabricated stories, exaggerations and out-and-out lies promulgated by President Obama, DOJ boss Eric Holder, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and a variety of unnamed co-conspirators, all Democrats, in Washington.
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By Clay Bennett 13/06/2013 15:50
An analyst believes that lawmakers’ call for review of Patriot Act after the NSA surveillance revelations is “hypocrisy.” The same Congress people who created the police state and the infrastructure of the current surveillance state are now the ones who are up in arms about the NSA,” Founder of stopimperialism.com Eric Draitser said in an interview with Press TV’s U.S. Desk on Tuesday.
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By Bob Englehart 13/06/2013 15:46
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has given a ‘last warning’ to thousands of anti-government protesters, saying his government will rid Istanbul’s Taksim Square of ‘troublemakers’ within the next 24 hours.
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By Nick Anderson 13/06/2013 15:42
Influential Iowa Republicans say they’re reluctant to offer legal status to immigrants living in the United States illegally, but one local expert says any pathway to citizenship is likely to be “very arduous.”
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By A.F.Branco 13/06/2013 15:36
Phone records obtained by the government through a secret surveillance program disclosed last week helped to prevent "dozens" of terrorist acts, the director of the National Security Agency told a Senate hearing on Wednesday.
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By Manos Symeonakis 12/06/2013 20:38
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has cautioned anti-Ankara protesters that his ‘patience has a limit,’ as he maintained his tough line against government opponents.
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By Fiestoforo 12/06/2013 20:34
A clandestine surveillance program operated by the US National Security Agency directed to electronic communications has been revealed.
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By Manos Symeonakis 12/06/2013 20:15
In the name of the 4 euros each household pays for our National TV Channel, the goverment that destroyed our property's value by 50%, cut our pay by law by 20% and taxes us beyond our ability to pay, switched off the Greek National Channels (ERT-NET-ERT3) to save us money(!), leaving the role of contemporary storiography to private hands... an unfortunate twist for a country still unhealed from the wounds of a civil war and a junta. Following the last election that saw a growth of the neo-nazis, everyday is a struggle to protect online data from deletion and "creative-storytelling"...
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By Alfredo Martirena 12/06/2013 19:57
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has defended the violent police crackdown on ongoing anti-government protests in the city of Istanbul..
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By sajjad Jafari 12/06/2013 19:38
Nationwide campaigns are in full swing in Iran ahead of the June 14 presidential election, with all of the candidates extensively using the Internet as the main means of campaigning.
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By Chip Bok 12/06/2013 19:07
The Republican transportation leader in the state Senate has prepared his own version of a gas-tax and fee-raising plan that could be taken up in the second special session that begins Wednesday.
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By Chan Lowe 12/06/2013 18:59
Edward Snowden, an American who has leaked details of top-secret U.S. spying programs, has said he is not a traitor to his country.The 29-year-old tech specialist took refuge in Hong Kong after he revealed to the news media that the U.S. National Security Agency has been collecting massive amounts of data on U.S. citizens and people around the world.Snowden told the South China Morning Post on Wednesday that he has not fled to Hong Kong to hide from justice but “I am here to reveal criminality.”
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By Vboqorad 12/06/2013 18:55
Mayor Sergei Sobyanin caught many by surprise when he resigned on June 5 and called for early elections.
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By Max Bode 12/06/2013 18:44
What’s wrong with the National Security Agency’s phone surveillance program? The answer, according to civil libertarians, is its scope.
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By Gary Varvell 12/06/2013 10:19
In its current form, the Gang of Eight's immigration bill grants permanent legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants without any guarantee of a secure border.
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By John R. Rose 12/06/2013 10:15
The revelations by Edward J. Snowden, the guy who leaked the existence of Prism and other government monitoring operations to The Guardian, is drawing attention to another important issue: the vast amount of money private contractors make from selling goods and services to the government.
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By 12/06/2013 10:11
In the fall of 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama signed a sweeping package of patent reforms into law. He promised they would improve patent quality, reduce excessive litigation, encourage innovation and create jobs. Last week, the president unveiled another round of sweeping patent reforms. He promised they would improve patent quality, reduce excessive litigation, encourage innovation and … you get the idea.
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By Niño Jose Heredia 12/06/2013 10:10
The opportunities for enhancing bilateral trade and cooperation are extensive, making both states ideal partners for each other The past few weeks have seen a number of senior-level meetings between Algerian and UAE officials.
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By Luis Vazquez 12/06/2013 09:28
Having top aides who tend to come down on opposite sides of momentous foreign policy issues fits Obama’s style and from that perspective, US stance on Middle East and Syria is likely to remain the same A few weeks ago, conventional wisdom held that Barack Obama’s second-term cabinet choices were evidence that he envisioned a less interventionist US.
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By svaldo Gutierrez Gomez 11/06/2013 19:07
After 21 years of uninterrupted economic growth, the risk of Australia's economy slipping into recession is growing, analysts say.A fall in commodity prices, expectations for an imminent peak in mining investment, a cutback in government spending and a relatively high Australian dollar are some of the reasons for the growing pessimism.
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